Hi folks – an update as to the Council meeting location, from our contact at GSA:
the meeting will now take place on the 6th floor conference room - not the 4th
See you at 3pm sharp to get started!
C

Callan Bentley

Assistant Professor of Geology
Chancellor’s Commonwealth Professor 2015-2017
President, Geological Society of Washington
Vice President, Geo2YC division, National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Contributing Editor, EARTH Magazine

Geology Department
Northern Virginia Community College
Math, Science, & Engineering Division, Annandale Campus
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003

Office: CS # 248-A
Phone: 703.323.3276
Fax: 703.323.4250

http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/

From: Kasey White [mailto:kwhite@geosociety.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 10:08 AM
To: Bentley, Callan cbentley@nvcc.edu
Subject: Re: FW: GSW Council meeting

Thanks Callan. I just found out that the meeting will now take place on the 6th floor conference room - not the 4th.
Cheers,
Kasey

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Bentley, Callan <cbentley@nvcc.edumailto:cbentley@nvcc.edu> wrote:
Hi Kasey,
Here’s the list of those attending the GSW Council meeting scheduled for next Wednesday 3-5pm in the “Mantle” conference room.
Carl-Henry Geschwind
Callan Bentley
Larry Meinert
Alex Speer
A. Elizabeth Crafford
Jessica Rodysill
Karen Prestegaard
Michael Toomey
Odette James
Joshua Benton
Patrick M. Carr
Ben Mandler
Scott Burdick
Elizabeth “Libby” Stern
Thank you again for sharing this space with us,
Callan

Callan Bentley

Assistant Professor of Geology
Chancellor’s Commonwealth Professor 2015-2017
President, Geological Society of Washington
Vice President, Geo2YC division, National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Contributing Editor, EARTH Magazine

Geology Department
Northern Virginia Community College
Math, Science, & Engineering Division, Annandale Campus
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003

Office: CS # 248-A
Phone: 703.323.3276tel:(703)%20323-3276
Fax: 703.323.4250tel:(703)%20323-4250

http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/

From: Bentley, Callan
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 3:51 PM
To: 'Kasey White' <kwhite@geosociety.orgmailto:kwhite@geosociety.org>
Subject: RE: FW: GSW Council meeting

Thank you so much. I’m indebted to you.
I’ll forward a list of names.

Callan Bentley

Assistant Professor of Geology
Chancellor’s Commonwealth Professor 2015-2017
President, Geological Society of Washington
Vice President, Geo2YC division, National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Contributing Editor, EARTH Magazine

Geology Department
Northern Virginia Community College
Math, Science, & Engineering Division, Annandale Campus
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003

Office: CS # 248-A
Phone: 703.323.3276tel:(703)%20323-3276
Fax: 703.323.4250tel:(703)%20323-4250

http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/

From: Kasey White [mailto:kwhite@geosociety.org]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 3:48 PM
To: Bentley, Callan <cbentley@nvcc.edumailto:cbentley@nvcc.edu>
Cc: Craig Schiffries <cschiffries@ciw.edumailto:cschiffries@ciw.edu>
Subject: Re: FW: GSW Council meeting

Hi Callan and Craig,
I have reserved the large conference room (Mantle) for Wednesday, April 12 from 3-5. I'll need a list of attendees to give to the security guard in advance of the meeting.
Best,
Kasey

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Bentley, Callan <cbentley@nvcc.edumailto:cbentley@nvcc.edu> wrote:
Thanks Craig. Yes, I’m aware of the Geophysical Lab’s remoteness from the Metro. Linking me up with Kasey is just as good!

Hi Kasey –
If GSA would be willing, the Geological Society of Washington would be grateful if we could borrow a conference room for a couple of hours. Generally, we have about ten people attending Council meetings. Currently, the date we’ve selected is Wednesday, April 12 from 3pm to 5pm. Will that work?
Thanks for considering it,
Callan

PS – GSW meets tonight at the Powell Auditorium of the Cosmos Club. 7:30pm drinks and socializing; 8pm formal program. If you haven’t been yet, we invite you to join us! It’s free and open to everyone. http://www.gswweb.org/

Callan Bentley

Assistant Professor of Geology
Chancellor’s Commonwealth Professor 2015-2017
President, Geological Society of Washington
Vice President, Geo2YC division, National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Contributing Editor, EARTH Magazine

Geology Department
Northern Virginia Community College
Math, Science, & Engineering Division, Annandale Campus
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003

Office: CS # 248-A
Phone: 703.323.3276tel:(703)%20323-3276
Fax: 703.323.4250tel:(703)%20323-4250

http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/

From: Craig Schiffries [mailto:cschiffries@ciw.edumailto:cschiffries@ciw.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 3:01 PM
To: Bentley, Callan <cbentley@nvcc.edumailto:cbentley@nvcc.edu>
Cc: Kasey White <kwhite@geosociety.orgmailto:kwhite@geosociety.org>
Subject: Re: FW: GSW Council meeting will be

Dear Callan,

I am contacting Kasey White, GSA's Director of Geoscience Policy. If the GSA/IRIS conference room is not available for the GSW meeting, she may be able to recommend an nearby venue.

I can reserve a meeting room at the Geophysical Lab, but our campus is not near the Cosmos Club or a metro line. The Carnegie Headquarters building is at 16th and P Streets, NW (near Dupont Circle), but there may be a fee to use the facility, especially if the meeting extends beyond their normal business hours.

Best wishes,

Craig

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 5:09 PM, Bentley, Callan <cbentley@nvcc.edumailto:cbentley@nvcc.edu> wrote:
Hi Craig,
A quick favor, if you can help…
The GSW Council typically meets at AGU headquarters, but AGU’s going to be under renovation starting next month. I seem to recall way back several years ago, that you hosted the Council meeting at GSA’s office. Now that you’ve gone back to Carnegie, who’s the ideal point of contact to see if GSA is willing to give the Council a room again for a couple of hours?
Thanks,
Callan

Callan Bentley

Assistant Professor of Geology
Chancellor’s Commonwealth Professor 2015-2017
President, Geological Society of Washington
Vice President, Geo2YC division, National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Contributing Editor, EARTH Magazine

Geology Department
Northern Virginia Community College
Math, Science, & Engineering Division, Annandale Campus
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003

Office: CS # 248-A
Phone: 703.323.3276tel:(703)%20323-3276
Fax: 703.323.4250tel:(703)%20323-4250

http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/

From: gsw-councilplus-l-bounces@minlists.orgmailto:gsw-councilplus-l-bounces@minlists.org [mailto:gsw-councilplus-l-bounces@minlists.orgmailto:gsw-councilplus-l-bounces@minlists.org] On Behalf Of Bentley, Callan
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:56 PM
To: gsw-councilplus-l@minlists.orgmailto:gsw-councilplus-l@minlists.org
Subject: [Gsw-councilplus-l] GSW Council meeting will be

87.5% of you (N=16) said you could make Wednesday, April 12, before our regular GSW meeting. Only 2 were not able to make it then, so it looks like we’ll have a quorum.

Note that AGU headquarters will be under renovation at that time, and so we will not meet there but instead at an alternate location. I’ll email again when I have the location confirmed.

Thanks. Please mark your calendars.

Callan Bentley

Assistant Professor of Geology
Chancellor’s Commonwealth Professor 2015-2017
President, Geological Society of Washington
Vice President, Geo2YC division, National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Contributing Editor, EARTH Magazine

Geology Department
Northern Virginia Community College
Math, Science, & Engineering Division, Annandale Campus
8333 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, VA 22003

Office: CS # 248-A
Phone: 703.323.3276tel:(703)%20323-3276
Fax: 703.323.4250tel:(703)%20323-4250

http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/

--
Craig M. Schiffries, Ph.D.
Director, Deep Carbon Observatory
Geophysical Laboratory
Carnegie Institution of Washington
5251 Broad Branch Road, NW
Washington, DC 20015
Tel: 202-478-8819tel:202-478-8819
E-mail: cschiffries@ciw.edumailto:cschiffries@ciw.edu
deepcarbon.nethttp://deepcarbon.net/

--
Kasey White
Director for Geoscience Policy
Geological Society of America
1200 New York Avenue, NW Suite 400
Washington DC 20005
kwhite@geosociety.orgmailto:kwhite@geosociety.org
202.669.0466tel:(202)%20669-0466

--
Kasey White
Director for Geoscience Policy
Geological Society of America
1200 New York Avenue, NW Suite 400
Washington DC 20005
kwhite@geosociety.orgmailto:kwhite@geosociety.org
202.669.0466

Apologies to all, but I just received this morning an update on our
financials from MSA.  I've revised our spreadsheet accordingly (attached).
The differences are not great.  Our projected General Fund loss this fiscal
year has increased by $110, but we still do not need to transfer any money
from the invested Funds to meet the target balance in the General Fund at
the end of the FY.  Changes in values of our investments compared to the
previous spreadsheet sent out have been negligible (total +$77).

See you this afternoon.

Odette James

From: gsw-councilplus-l-bounces@minlists.org
[mailto:gsw-councilplus-l-bounces@minlists.org] On Behalf Of Bentley, Callan
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 11:06 AM
To: gsw-councilplus-l@minlists.org
Cc: Scott Burdick; Libby Stern
Subject: [Gsw-councilplus-l] FW: FW: GSW Council meeting

Hi folks - an update as to the Council meeting location, from our contact at
GSA:

the meeting will now take place on the 6th floor conference room - not the
4th

See you at 3pm sharp to get started!

C

Callan Bentley

Assistant Professor of Geology
Chancellor's Commonwealth Professor 2015-2017

President, Geological Society of Washington

Vice President, Geo2YC division, National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Contributing Editor, EARTH Magazine

Geology Department

Northern Virginia Community College

Math, Science, & Engineering Division, Annandale Campus

8333 Little River Turnpike

Annandale, VA 22003

Office: CS # 248-A

Phone: 703.323.3276

Fax: 703.323.4250

http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/

From: Kasey White [mailto:kwhite@geosociety.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 10:08 AM
To: Bentley, Callan cbentley@nvcc.edu
Subject: Re: FW: GSW Council meeting

Thanks Callan. I just found out that the meeting will now take place on the
6th floor conference room - not the 4th.

Cheers,

Kasey

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Bentley, Callan cbentley@nvcc.edu wrote:

Hi Kasey,

Here's the list of those attending the GSW Council meeting scheduled for
next Wednesday 3-5pm in the "Mantle" conference room.

Carl-Henry Geschwind

Callan Bentley

Larry Meinert

Alex Speer

A. Elizabeth Crafford

Jessica Rodysill

Karen Prestegaard

Michael Toomey

Odette James

Joshua Benton
Patrick M. Carr

Ben Mandler

Scott Burdick

Elizabeth "Libby" Stern

Thank you again for sharing this space with us,

Callan

Callan Bentley

Assistant Professor of Geology
Chancellor's Commonwealth Professor 2015-2017

President, Geological Society of Washington

Vice President, Geo2YC division, National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Contributing Editor, EARTH Magazine

Geology Department

Northern Virginia Community College

Math, Science, & Engineering Division, Annandale Campus

8333 Little River Turnpike

Annandale, VA 22003

Office: CS # 248-A

Phone: 703.323.3276 tel:(703)%20323-3276

Fax: 703.323.4250 tel:(703)%20323-4250

http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/ http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/

From: Bentley, Callan
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 3:51 PM
To: 'Kasey White' kwhite@geosociety.org
Subject: RE: FW: GSW Council meeting

Thank you so much. I'm indebted to you.

I'll forward a list of names.

Callan Bentley

Assistant Professor of Geology
Chancellor's Commonwealth Professor 2015-2017

President, Geological Society of Washington

Vice President, Geo2YC division, National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Contributing Editor, EARTH Magazine

Geology Department

Northern Virginia Community College

Math, Science, & Engineering Division, Annandale Campus

8333 Little River Turnpike

Annandale, VA 22003

Office: CS # 248-A

Phone: 703.323.3276 tel:(703)%20323-3276

Fax: 703.323.4250 tel:(703)%20323-4250

http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/ http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/

From: Kasey White [ mailto:kwhite@geosociety.org
mailto:kwhite@geosociety.org]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 3:48 PM
To: Bentley, Callan < mailto:cbentley@nvcc.edu cbentley@nvcc.edu>
Cc: Craig Schiffries < mailto:cschiffries@ciw.edu cschiffries@ciw.edu>
Subject: Re: FW: GSW Council meeting

Hi Callan and Craig,

I have reserved the large conference room (Mantle) for Wednesday, April 12
from 3-5. I'll need a list of attendees to give to the security guard in
advance of the meeting.

Best,

Kasey

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Bentley, Callan cbentley@nvcc.edu wrote:

Thanks Craig. Yes, I'm aware of the Geophysical Lab's remoteness from the
Metro. Linking me up with Kasey is just as good!

Hi Kasey -

If GSA would be willing, the Geological Society of Washington would be
grateful if we could borrow a conference room for a couple of hours.
Generally, we have about ten people attending Council meetings. Currently,
the date we've selected is Wednesday, April 12 from 3pm to 5pm. Will that
work?

Thanks for considering it,

Callan

PS - GSW meets tonight at the Powell Auditorium of the Cosmos Club. 7:30pm
drinks and socializing; 8pm formal program. If you haven't been yet, we
invite you to join us! It's free and open to everyone.
http://www.gswweb.org/ http://www.gswweb.org/

Callan Bentley

Assistant Professor of Geology
Chancellor's Commonwealth Professor 2015-2017

President, Geological Society of Washington

Vice President, Geo2YC division, National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Contributing Editor, EARTH Magazine

Geology Department

Northern Virginia Community College

Math, Science, & Engineering Division, Annandale Campus

8333 Little River Turnpike

Annandale, VA 22003

Office: CS # 248-A

Phone:  tel:(703)%20323-3276 703.323.3276

Fax:  tel:(703)%20323-4250 703.323.4250

http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/ http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/

From: Craig Schiffries [mailto: mailto:cschiffries@ciw.edu
cschiffries@ciw.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 3:01 PM
To: Bentley, Callan < mailto:cbentley@nvcc.edu cbentley@nvcc.edu>
Cc: Kasey White < mailto:kwhite@geosociety.org kwhite@geosociety.org>
Subject: Re: FW: GSW Council meeting will be

Dear Callan,

I am contacting Kasey White, GSA's Director of Geoscience Policy. If the
GSA/IRIS conference room is not available for the GSW meeting, she may be
able to recommend an nearby venue.

I can reserve a meeting room at the Geophysical Lab, but our campus is not
near the Cosmos Club or a metro line. The Carnegie Headquarters building is
at 16th and P Streets, NW (near Dupont Circle), but there may be a fee to
use the facility, especially if the meeting extends beyond their normal
business hours.

Best wishes,

Craig

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 5:09 PM, Bentley, Callan cbentley@nvcc.edu wrote:

Hi Craig,

A quick favor, if you can help.

The GSW Council typically meets at AGU headquarters, but AGU's going to be
under renovation starting next month. I seem to recall way back several
years ago, that you hosted the Council meeting at GSA's office. Now that
you've gone back to Carnegie, who's the ideal point of contact to see if GSA
is willing to give the Council a room again for a couple of hours?
Thanks,
Callan

Callan Bentley

Assistant Professor of Geology
Chancellor's Commonwealth Professor 2015-2017

President, Geological Society of Washington

Vice President, Geo2YC division, National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Contributing Editor, EARTH Magazine

Geology Department

Northern Virginia Community College

Math, Science, & Engineering Division, Annandale Campus

8333 Little River Turnpike

Annandale, VA 22003

Office: CS # 248-A

Phone: 703.323.3276 tel:(703)%20323-3276

Fax: 703.323.4250 tel:(703)%20323-4250

http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/

From: gsw-councilplus-l-bounces@minlists.org
[mailto:gsw-councilplus-l-bounces@minlists.org] On Behalf Of Bentley, Callan
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 4:56 PM
To: gsw-councilplus-l@minlists.org
Subject: [Gsw-councilplus-l] GSW Council meeting will be

87.5% of you (N=16) said you could make Wednesday, April 12, before our
regular GSW meeting. Only 2 were not able to make it then, so it looks like
we'll have a quorum.

Note that AGU headquarters will be under renovation at that time, and so we
will not meet there but instead at an alternate location. I'll email again
when I have the location confirmed.

Thanks. Please mark your calendars.

Callan Bentley

Assistant Professor of Geology
Chancellor's Commonwealth Professor 2015-2017

President, Geological Society of Washington

Vice President, Geo2YC division, National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Contributing Editor, EARTH Magazine

Geology Department

Northern Virginia Community College

Math, Science, & Engineering Division, Annandale Campus

8333 Little River Turnpike

Annandale, VA 22003

Office: CS # 248-A

Phone: 703.323.3276 tel:(703)%20323-3276

Fax: 703.323.4250 tel:(703)%20323-4250

http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/

--

Craig M. Schiffries, Ph.D.

Director, Deep Carbon Observatory
Geophysical Laboratory
Carnegie Institution of Washington
5251 Broad Branch Road, NW

Washington, DC 20015

Tel:  tel:202-478-8819 202-478-8819

E-mail:  mailto:cschiffries@ciw.edu cschiffries@ciw.edu

http://deepcarbon.net/ deepcarbon.net

--

Kasey White

Director for Geoscience Policy

Geological Society of America

1200 New York Avenue, NW Suite 400

Washington DC 20005

kwhite@geosociety.org

202.669.0466 tel:(202)%20669-0466

--

Kasey White

Director for Geoscience Policy

Geological Society of America

1200 New York Avenue, NW Suite 400

Washington DC 20005

kwhite@geosociety.org

202.669.0466

I don't seem to have a message in which the Finance Committee report was
sent to all council members, so I'm attaching it here.  Hope you did get
this previously.

Cheers

Odette

From: gsw-councilplus-l-bounces@minlists.org
[mailto:gsw-councilplus-l-bounces@minlists.org] On Behalf Of Bentley, Callan
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 11:06 AM
To: gsw-councilplus-l@minlists.org
Cc: Scott Burdick; Libby Stern
Subject: [Gsw-councilplus-l] FW: FW: GSW Council meeting

Hi folks - an update as to the Council meeting location, from our contact at
GSA:

the meeting will now take place on the 6th floor conference room - not the
4th

See you at 3pm sharp to get started!

C

Callan Bentley

Assistant Professor of Geology
Chancellor's Commonwealth Professor 2015-2017

President, Geological Society of Washington

Vice President, Geo2YC division, National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Contributing Editor, EARTH Magazine

Geology Department

Northern Virginia Community College

Math, Science, & Engineering Division, Annandale Campus

8333 Little River Turnpike

Annandale, VA 22003

Office: CS # 248-A

Phone: 703.323.3276

Fax: 703.323.4250

http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/

From: Kasey White [mailto:kwhite@geosociety.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 10:08 AM
To: Bentley, Callan cbentley@nvcc.edu
Subject: Re: FW: GSW Council meeting

Thanks Callan. I just found out that the meeting will now take place on the
6th floor conference room - not the 4th.

Cheers,

Kasey

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Bentley, Callan cbentley@nvcc.edu wrote:

Hi Kasey,

Here's the list of those attending the GSW Council meeting scheduled for
next Wednesday 3-5pm in the "Mantle" conference room.

Carl-Henry Geschwind

Callan Bentley

Larry Meinert

Alex Speer

A. Elizabeth Crafford

Jessica Rodysill

Karen Prestegaard

Michael Toomey

Odette James

Joshua Benton
Patrick M. Carr

Ben Mandler

Scott Burdick

Elizabeth "Libby" Stern

Thank you again for sharing this space with us,

Callan

Callan Bentley

Assistant Professor of Geology
Chancellor's Commonwealth Professor 2015-2017

President, Geological Society of Washington

Vice President, Geo2YC division, National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Contributing Editor, EARTH Magazine

Geology Department

Northern Virginia Community College

Math, Science, & Engineering Division, Annandale Campus

8333 Little River Turnpike

Annandale, VA 22003

Office: CS # 248-A

Phone: 703.323.3276 tel:(703)%20323-3276

Fax: 703.323.4250 tel:(703)%20323-4250

http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/ http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/

From: Bentley, Callan
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 3:51 PM
To: 'Kasey White' kwhite@geosociety.org
Subject: RE: FW: GSW Council meeting

Thank you so much. I'm indebted to you.

I'll forward a list of names.

Callan Bentley

Assistant Professor of Geology
Chancellor's Commonwealth Professor 2015-2017

President, Geological Society of Washington

Vice President, Geo2YC division, National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Contributing Editor, EARTH Magazine

Geology Department

Northern Virginia Community College

Math, Science, & Engineering Division, Annandale Campus

8333 Little River Turnpike

Annandale, VA 22003

Office: CS # 248-A

Phone: 703.323.3276 tel:(703)%20323-3276

Fax: 703.323.4250 tel:(703)%20323-4250

http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/ http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/

From: Kasey White [ mailto:kwhite@geosociety.org
mailto:kwhite@geosociety.org]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 3:48 PM
To: Bentley, Callan < mailto:cbentley@nvcc.edu cbentley@nvcc.edu>
Cc: Craig Schiffries < mailto:cschiffries@ciw.edu cschiffries@ciw.edu>
Subject: Re: FW: GSW Council meeting

Hi Callan and Craig,

I have reserved the large conference room (Mantle) for Wednesday, April 12
from 3-5. I'll need a list of attendees to give to the security guard in
advance of the meeting.

Best,

Kasey

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Bentley, Callan cbentley@nvcc.edu wrote:

Thanks Craig. Yes, I'm aware of the Geophysical Lab's remoteness from the
Metro. Linking me up with Kasey is just as good!

Hi Kasey -

If GSA would be willing, the Geological Society of Washington would be
grateful if we could borrow a conference room for a couple of hours.
Generally, we have about ten people attending Council meetings. Currently,
the date we've selected is Wednesday, April 12 from 3pm to 5pm. Will that
work?

Thanks for considering it,

Callan

PS - GSW meets tonight at the Powell Auditorium of the Cosmos Club. 7:30pm
drinks and socializing; 8pm formal program. If you haven't been yet, we
invite you to join us! It's free and open to everyone.
http://www.gswweb.org/ http://www.gswweb.org/

Callan Bentley

Assistant Professor of Geology
Chancellor's Commonwealth Professor 2015-2017

President, Geological Society of Washington

Vice President, Geo2YC division, National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Contributing Editor, EARTH Magazine

Geology Department

Northern Virginia Community College

Math, Science, & Engineering Division, Annandale Campus

8333 Little River Turnpike

Annandale, VA 22003

Office: CS # 248-A

Phone:  tel:(703)%20323-3276 703.323.3276

Fax:  tel:(703)%20323-4250 703.323.4250

http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/ http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/

From: Craig Schiffries [mailto: mailto:cschiffries@ciw.edu
cschiffries@ciw.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 3:01 PM
To: Bentley, Callan < mailto:cbentley@nvcc.edu cbentley@nvcc.edu>
Cc: Kasey White < mailto:kwhite@geosociety.org kwhite@geosociety.org>
Subject: Re: FW: GSW Council meeting will be

Dear Callan,

I am contacting Kasey White, GSA's Director of Geoscience Policy. If the
GSA/IRIS conference room is not available for the GSW meeting, she may be
able to recommend an nearby venue.

I can reserve a meeting room at the Geophysical Lab, but our campus is not
near the Cosmos Club or a metro line. The Carnegie Headquarters building is
at 16th and P Streets, NW (near Dupont Circle), but there may be a fee to
use the facility, especially if the meeting extends beyond their normal
business hours.

Best wishes,

Craig

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 5:09 PM, Bentley, Callan cbentley@nvcc.edu wrote:

Hi Craig,

A quick favor, if you can help.

The GSW Council typically meets at AGU headquarters, but AGU's going to be
under renovation starting next month. I seem to recall way back several
years ago, that you hosted the Council meeting at GSA's office. Now that
you've gone back to Carnegie, who's the ideal point of contact to see if GSA
is willing to give the Council a room again for a couple of hours?
Thanks,
Callan

Callan Bentley

Assistant Professor of Geology
Chancellor's Commonwealth Professor 2015-2017

President, Geological Society of Washington

Vice President, Geo2YC division, National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Contributing Editor, EARTH Magazine

Geology Department

Northern Virginia Community College

Math, Science, & Engineering Division, Annandale Campus

8333 Little River Turnpike

Annandale, VA 22003

Office: CS # 248-A

Phone: 703.323.3276 tel:(703)%20323-3276

Fax: 703.323.4250 tel:(703)%20323-4250

http://www.nvcc.edu/home/cbentley/

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87.5% of you (N=16) said you could make Wednesday, April 12, before our
regular GSW meeting. Only 2 were not able to make it then, so it looks like
we'll have a quorum.

Note that AGU headquarters will be under renovation at that time, and so we
will not meet there but instead at an alternate location. I'll email again
when I have the location confirmed.

Thanks. Please mark your calendars.

Callan Bentley

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I don't know why this didn't occur to me at yesterday's meeting.  Because we
are having so much trouble organizing a September meeting, and fiscal year
2018 is going to be an expensive one (the Bradley lecturer in November will
need travel money, we will have unusual expenses for our 125th anniversary
celebration, we will almost certainly soon be purchasing general liability
insurance, and there may be a second Bradley lecture in the spring of the
fiscal year), it makes most sense simply to cancel the September meeting.
We may be doing reasonably well overall financially, but that doesn't mean
we should have a real blowout year in terms of spending (especially if the
apparent membership decline continues).  If you wish, we can vote on this by
email, but if it is to be a council decision by email, it must be unanimous.
Alternatively, those who were planning to continue to investigate a venue
for the September meeting can simply stop doing so - without a venue, there
will be no meeting.  Our vote yesterday to have 12 meetings in the upcoming
fiscal year does not absolutely require us to do so, if it turns out that
doing so is financially irresponsible.  When the Finance Committee and I
proposed 12 meetings, we were not aware of the potential expenses associated
with the anniversary celebration, and yesterday we approved 12 meetings
before we had discussed potential costs of the anniversary celebration.

Opinions?

Odette James

Could you count a 125th Anniversary function as a 12th meeting?

Taking a lunch break while skiing at Copper Mt

Jamie

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 13, 2017, at 10:37 AM, "Odette B. James" <o.b.james@verizon.netmailto:o.b.james@verizon.net> wrote:

I don't know why this didn't occur to me at yesterday's meeting.  Because we are having so much trouble organizing a September meeting, and fiscal year 2018 is going to be an expensive one (the Bradley lecturer in November will need travel money, we will have unusual expenses for our 125th anniversary celebration, we will almost certainly soon be purchasing general liability insurance, and there may be a second Bradley lecture in the spring of the fiscal year), it makes most sense simply to cancel the September meeting.  We may be doing reasonably well overall financially, but that doesn't mean we should have a real blowout year in terms of spending (especially if the apparent membership decline continues).  If you wish, we can vote on this by email, but if it is to be a council decision by email, it must be unanimous.  Alternatively, those who were planning to continue to investigate a venue for the September meeting can simply stop doing so - without a venue, there will be no meeting.  Our vote yesterday to have 12 meetings in the upcoming fiscal year does not absolutely require us to do so, if it turns out that doing so is financially irresponsible.  When the Finance Committee and I proposed 12 meetings, we were not aware of the potential expenses associated with the anniversary celebration, and yesterday we approved 12 meetings before we had discussed potential costs of the anniversary celebration.

Opinions?
Odette James

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The question right now is whether we should cancel September.  But if 2018
Cosmos Club dates have not yet been reserved, how many events we will have
in winter and spring 2018 becomes relevant.  Canceling September would give
us 4 in this fall.  If we wanted 12 events total in the fiscal year, we
could reserve a date for the celebration dinner and dates for 7 regular
meetings in winter and spring.  If we wanted to economize, we could reserve
for only 6 regular meetings in addition to the celebration dinner.

Actually, on the date for the celebration dinner - I'm not that sure that
late January is the best time for it.  Spring might be a lot better.  Given
what the weather can do to us in January, we might find we had a fancy
dinner set up that we had to cancel or that no one would be able to get to
because of unpleasant weather.  The last meeting in spring would make a lot
more sense to me and would certainly be likely to have a much greater
attendance.

Sorry to keep extending yesterday's council meeting this way.  We did do
things very efficiently yesterday, perhaps too efficiently.

Cheers

Odette

From: Allan, James F. [mailto:jallan@nsf.gov]
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 1:30 PM
To: o.b.james@verizon.net
Cc: Bentley, Callan; gsw-councilplus-l@minlists.org; Scott Burdick; Libby
Stern
Subject: Re: [Gsw-councilplus-l] FW: FW: GSW Council meeting

Could you count a 125th Anniversary function as a 12th meeting?

Taking a lunch break while skiing at Copper Mt

Jamie

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 13, 2017, at 10:37 AM, "Odette B. James" o.b.james@verizon.net
wrote:

I don't know why this didn't occur to me at yesterday's meeting.  Because we
are having so much trouble organizing a September meeting, and fiscal year
2018 is going to be an expensive one (the Bradley lecturer in November will
need travel money, we will have unusual expenses for our 125th anniversary
celebration, we will almost certainly soon be purchasing general liability
insurance, and there may be a second Bradley lecture in the spring of the
fiscal year), it makes most sense simply to cancel the September meeting.
We may be doing reasonably well overall financially, but that doesn't mean
we should have a real blowout year in terms of spending (especially if the
apparent membership decline continues).  If you wish, we can vote on this by
email, but if it is to be a council decision by email, it must be unanimous.
Alternatively, those who were planning to continue to investigate a venue
for the September meeting can simply stop doing so - without a venue, there
will be no meeting.  Our vote yesterday to have 12 meetings in the upcoming
fiscal year does not absolutely require us to do so, if it turns out that
doing so is financially irresponsible.  When the Finance Committee and I
proposed 12 meetings, we were not aware of the potential expenses associated
with the anniversary celebration, and yesterday we approved 12 meetings
before we had discussed potential costs of the anniversary celebration.

Opinions?

Odette James

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Another point - I just looked again at the general liability policy, and it
covers only damages awarded by a court, court costs, and bonds.  It does not
cover legal expenses for those who are sued.  Alex is right, we would need
D&O insurance to cover those as well.

Odette

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The question right now is whether we should cancel September.  But if 2018
Cosmos Club dates have not yet been reserved, how many events we will have
in winter and spring 2018 becomes relevant.  Canceling September would give
us 4 in this fall.  If we wanted 12 events total in the fiscal year, we
could reserve a date for the celebration dinner and dates for 7 regular
meetings in winter and spring.  If we wanted to economize, we could reserve
for only 6 regular meetings in addition to the celebration dinner.

Actually, on the date for the celebration dinner - I'm not that sure that
late January is the best time for it.  Spring might be a lot better.  Given
what the weather can do to us in January, we might find we had a fancy
dinner set up that we had to cancel or that no one would be able to get to
because of unpleasant weather.  The last meeting in spring would make a lot
more sense to me and would certainly be likely to have a much greater
attendance.

Sorry to keep extending yesterday's council meeting this way.  We did do
things very efficiently yesterday, perhaps too efficiently.

Cheers

Odette

From: Allan, James F. [mailto:jallan@nsf.gov]
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 1:30 PM
To: o.b.james@verizon.net
Cc: Bentley, Callan; gsw-councilplus-l@minlists.org; Scott Burdick; Libby
Stern
Subject: Re: [Gsw-councilplus-l] FW: FW: GSW Council meeting

Could you count a 125th Anniversary function as a 12th meeting?

Taking a lunch break while skiing at Copper Mt

Jamie

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 13, 2017, at 10:37 AM, "Odette B. James" o.b.james@verizon.net
wrote:

I don't know why this didn't occur to me at yesterday's meeting.  Because we
are having so much trouble organizing a September meeting, and fiscal year
2018 is going to be an expensive one (the Bradley lecturer in November will
need travel money, we will have unusual expenses for our 125th anniversary
celebration, we will almost certainly soon be purchasing general liability
insurance, and there may be a second Bradley lecture in the spring of the
fiscal year), it makes most sense simply to cancel the September meeting.
We may be doing reasonably well overall financially, but that doesn't mean
we should have a real blowout year in terms of spending (especially if the
apparent membership decline continues).  If you wish, we can vote on this by
email, but if it is to be a council decision by email, it must be unanimous.
Alternatively, those who were planning to continue to investigate a venue
for the September meeting can simply stop doing so - without a venue, there
will be no meeting.  Our vote yesterday to have 12 meetings in the upcoming
fiscal year does not absolutely require us to do so, if it turns out that
doing so is financially irresponsible.  When the Finance Committee and I
proposed 12 meetings, we were not aware of the potential expenses associated
with the anniversary celebration, and yesterday we approved 12 meetings
before we had discussed potential costs of the anniversary celebration.

Opinions?

Odette James

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