GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON Meeting Number 1579 John Wesley Powell Auditorium, Cosmos Club, 2170 Florida Ave NW Washington, D.C. Wednesday, May 11, 2022; Refreshments 7:30 pm; Meeting: 8:00 pm. 1. GSW Meeting: ***THIS IS A HYBRID MEETING. PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR ZOOM LINK*** +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Matt Jones, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History – Voyage to the submarine Agulhas Plateau: a new 95-million-year geologic history from the southwest Indian Ocean. Munazza Alam, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science – Exotic Exoplanets and how to find them. Bryan Killingsworth, USGS – Triple Oxygen Isotopes of Sulfate and the Rise of Oxygen. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW If anyone has any announcements or informal communications they would like to share with the society, please let us or Larry Meinert know ahead of time. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Link to access GSW Meeting No. 1579: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87824736762?pwd=cEZJcXR1Z0V4RG5acklVQ1dhN3hLQT09 Meeting ID: 878 2473 6762 Passcode: mr5uDz +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Join by Telephone: +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) Passcode: 046334 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Meeting will be “locked” 15 min. after the formal program begins and new attendees will only be allowed in between talks. In-person attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination at the door. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Know someone who would enjoy GSW? Consider inviting a colleague or friend to the meeting. Minutes of the previous meeting are posted on the GSW website for review by members. GSW website: <http://www.gswweb.org<http://www.gswweb.org/>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2. GSW Fieldtrip: Bill Burton, Steve Schindler and Alan Pitts – USGS. Save the date: Saturday, May14, 2022 at 9 AM starting in Haymarket, VA. Proterozoic and Paleozoic evolution of the Blue Ridge geologic provence in northern Virginia. Please visit the GSW site <http://www.gswweb.org<http://www.gswweb.org/>> for full details.