Dear GSW Council, We will be meeting in the Blue Marble Room at the AGU Conference Center at 2000 Florida Av NW. The building will have been open for only 3 days when we arrive, and there will certainly be vestiges of construction everywhere. So be careful, please. For those of you who can’t attend in person, you can join the meeting via Skype at +1 (646) 838-1534,,78377062# (Dial-in Number and Conference ID) Here is a tentative agenda: GSW Spring 2019 Council meeting 1) Call meeting to order at 2 PM 2) Reading and approval of minutes from the Fall 2018 GSW Council meeting (Council secretary Pat Carr) 3) Officer and Committee Reports Treasurer Report, Carl-Henry Geshwind Finance Committee Report, Karen Prestegaard Membership Committee report, Eric Hankin 4) Bradley lecture this year 5) AAPG delegates 6) Cosmos Club Host problem 7) # of meetings next year 8) GSW meeting venue (Brooks Hanson) Adjourn at 4 PM -- Michael E. Purucker. Faster, smaller, cheaper (not cheap) President Geol Soc Washington; Chief Laboratory of Planetary Magnetospheres, NASA GSFC 13420 Montvale Drive, Silver Spring 20904 +1 301-793-6535 (cell) https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/michael.e.purucker www.gswweb.org<http://www.gswweb.org>

Dear all, Thank you very much, and I look forward to seeing you at AGU next week. Best, Ester. Ester Sztein, PhD Assistant Director, Board on International Scientific Organizations Deputy Director, Board on Research Data and Information The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Phone: 202-334-3049 Email: esztein@nas.edu From: gsw-councilplus-l-bounces@minlists.org <gsw-councilplus-l-bounces@minlists.org> On Behalf Of Purucker, Michael Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 1:54 PM To: gsw-councilplus-l@minlists.org Cc: Brooks Hanson <bhanson@agu.org> Subject: [Gsw-councilplus-l] GSW Board Meeting next Wednesday from 2-4 PM on Wednesday, 3 April, at AGU Hq Dear GSW Council, We will be meeting in the Blue Marble Room at the AGU Conference Center at 2000 Florida Av NW. The building will have been open for only 3 days when we arrive, and there will certainly be vestiges of construction everywhere. So be careful, please. For those of you who can’t attend in person, you can join the meeting via Skype at +1 (646) 838-1534,,78377062# (Dial-in Number and Conference ID) Here is a tentative agenda: GSW Spring 2019 Council meeting 1) Call meeting to order at 2 PM 2) Reading and approval of minutes from the Fall 2018 GSW Council meeting (Council secretary Pat Carr) 3) Officer and Committee Reports Treasurer Report, Carl-Henry Geshwind Finance Committee Report, Karen Prestegaard Membership Committee report, Eric Hankin 4) Bradley lecture this year 5) AAPG delegates 6) Cosmos Club Host problem 7) # of meetings next year 8) GSW meeting venue (Brooks Hanson) Adjourn at 4 PM -- Michael E. Purucker. Faster, smaller, cheaper (not cheap) President Geol Soc Washington; Chief Laboratory of Planetary Magnetospheres, NASA GSFC 13420 Montvale Drive, Silver Spring 20904 +1 301-793-6535 (cell) https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/michael.e.purucker www.gswweb.org<http://www.gswweb.org>

Dear GSW Council members: Attached please find my Treasurer's report for consideration at Wednesday's meeting. Please note the action items near the bottom of this message. There are two pages to the attached report. The first lists our assets. As of today our invested funds are nearly $7,000 higher than they were last June 30 (and this despite a withdrawal of $2,000 in September to finish balancing the books for FY 2018). This means that our assets are still very healthy, and we have a large cushion in case the stock market should tank. The second page deals with inflows and outflows in the general fund, with three columns of numbers: the budget for the current fiscal year (from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019) that I presented to Council last October and to the membership at the annual meeting; my projection of how the current fiscal year will actually end up based upon the first nine months of the year; and my proposed budget for the next fiscal year (on the basis of 12 meetings). Several things to note for the current year: (1) Membership dues will likely be somewhat lower than budgeted, with overall receipts ending up about $150 less than budgeted (and about $600 less than last year). (2) On the outflows side, the big discrepancy is that payments to the Cosmos Club will be about $600 more than budgeted. Since the Cosmos Club has not raised its prices, this is entirely due to our members (and guests!) consuming more beverages per meeting than in the previous several years. (3) We were also supposed to get $340 from the AGU as a contribution for a field trip our member Dan Doctor led at the AGU's fall meeting. Dan's contact at the AGU is still working on getting the money to us. I did not budget for it, so once this actually comes in (if ever), it will provide an additional boost for this year. (4) Because our invested funds are continuing to grow, I will be able to take nearly $400 more out of them than budgeted (under our general rule that we can take up to 4% out of invested funds to pay for operating expenses). (5) The original budget showed that the amount we could transfer from the invested funds would be about $900 more than our operating deficit. I now expect we still will have an excess amount of about $700 (about $1,050 with the AGU money). Thus, we will be fine for this year. For next year, I anticipate that our dues revenue will go down a bit more, and expenses will increase somewhat (especially if we need to pay the full $1,000 for Bradley speaker travel). On this basis, it is entirely possible that, even with the full 4% transfer from invested funds, we might fall around $500 short. However, given that any deficit next year would likely be smaller than the surplus this year, I am not yet worried for fiscal year 2020 (that is, the year from July 2019 to June 2020). Beyond next year, of course, the outlook becomes much dimmer because of the continuing erosion in membership. _Items for the Board to consider_ 1) At this meeting the Board will need to decide whether to authorize our President to reserve 12 meeting dates at the Cosmos Club for calendar year 2020. I would recommend that we go ahead with this, with the provisos that (a) one meeting in fall 2020 (which would be in fiscal year 2021) might be cancelled if the budgetary picture worsens and that (b) we might move meetings to the AGU building if meetings there can be held at a lower cost (I have no idea yet what the AGU proposal for meetings will look like). 2) At the fall meeting the Board will need to decide whether or not to raise membership dues for calendar year 2020. An initial exchange of ideas on this at the spring meeting might be helpful, although I think this will be greatly influenced by what the AGU proposes for meetings. --Carl-Henry On Wed, Mar 27, 2019, at 1:54 PM, Purucker, Michael wrote: > Dear GSW Council, > > We will be meeting in the Blue Marble Room at the AGU Conference Center at 2000 Florida Av NW. The building will have been open for only 3 days when we arrive, and there will certainly be vestiges of construction everywhere. So be careful, please. > > For those of you who can’t attend in person, you can join the meeting via Skype at +1 (646) 838-1534,,78377062# (Dial-in Number and Conference ID) > > Here is a tentative agenda: GSW Spring 2019 Council meeting > 1) Call meeting to order at 2 PM > 2) Reading and approval of minutes from the Fall 2018 GSW Council meeting (Council secretary Pat Carr) > 3) Officer and Committee Reports > Treasurer Report, Carl-Henry Geshwind > Finance Committee Report, Karen Prestegaard > Membership Committee report, Eric Hankin > 4) Bradley lecture this year > 5) AAPG delegates > 6) Cosmos Club Host problem > 7) # of meetings next year > 8) GSW meeting venue (Brooks Hanson) > Adjourn at 4 PM > -- > Michael E. Purucker. Faster, smaller, cheaper (not cheap) > President Geol Soc Washington; Chief Laboratory of Planetary Magnetospheres, NASA GSFC > 13420 Montvale Drive, Silver Spring 20904 +1 301-793-6535 (cell) > https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/michael.e.purucker www.gswweb.org > > > > > _______________________________________________ > GSW-Councilplus-l mailing list > > The GSW Councilplus list serv intended for GSW Council members and GSW Committee Chairs to receive and post messages. > > GSW-Councilplus-l@minlists.org > http://lists.minlists.org/mailman/listinfo/gsw-councilplus-l

Attached are the draft minutes from the October meeting. Pat On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 1:54 PM Purucker, Michael <purucker@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote: > > Dear GSW Council, > > We will be meeting in the Blue Marble Room at the AGU Conference Center at 2000 Florida Av NW. The building will have been open for only 3 days when we arrive, and there will certainly be vestiges of construction everywhere. So be careful, please. > > For those of you who can’t attend in person, you can join the meeting via Skype at +1 (646) 838-1534,,78377062# (Dial-in Number and Conference ID) > > Here is a tentative agenda: GSW Spring 2019 Council meeting > 1) Call meeting to order at 2 PM > 2) Reading and approval of minutes from the Fall 2018 GSW Council meeting (Council secretary Pat Carr) > 3) Officer and Committee Reports > Treasurer Report, Carl-Henry Geshwind > Finance Committee Report, Karen Prestegaard > Membership Committee report, Eric Hankin > 4) Bradley lecture this year > 5) AAPG delegates > 6) Cosmos Club Host problem > 7) # of meetings next year > 8) GSW meeting venue (Brooks Hanson) > Adjourn at 4 PM > -- > Michael E. Purucker. Faster, smaller, cheaper (not cheap) > President Geol Soc Washington; Chief Laboratory of Planetary Magnetospheres, NASA GSFC > 13420 Montvale Drive, Silver Spring 20904 +1 301-793-6535 (cell) > https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/michael.e.purucker www.gswweb.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > GSW-Councilplus-l mailing list > > The GSW Councilplus list serv intended for GSW Council members and GSW Committee Chairs to receive and post messages. > > GSW-Councilplus-l@minlists.org > http://lists.minlists.org/mailman/listinfo/gsw-councilplus-l