GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON Meeting Number 1606 Wednesday, January 29th, 2025 Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, 5241 Broad Branch Rd NW Washington, D.C. Directions are here: https://carnegiescience.edu/epl/about/bbr/directions Parking is free on the campus, or on-street in the vicinity. Refreshments will be served at 7:30 p.m.; meeting starts at 8:00 p.m. ***This is a hybrid meeting*** If you wish to join the virtual Zoom webcast, please email geosocwash@gmail.com<mailto:geosocwash@gmail.com> by Tuesday, January 28 for the information to join. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Theme of the event: Ice Elizabeth Turtle, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) APL — Exploring the Ocean Worlds Europa and Titan with Europa Clipper and Dragonfly Sinead Farrell, University of Maryland (UMD) — Pole to Pole: Earth’s Declining Sea Ice Marc Neveu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / UMD — How Depressurization during Cryovolcanic Eruption Affects Relative Abundances of Amino and Fatty Acids Sought as Biosignatures on Ocean Worlds (Talks will be 20 minutes with questions to follow.) If anyone has any announcements or informal communications they would like to share with the society, please e-mail Vedran Lekic (ved@umd.edu<mailto:ved@umd.edu>) ahead of time. Upcoming 2025 Winter meetings: Feb 12: Cosmos Club, theme of the event: Moon, Mars, Mercury March 5: Cosmos Club, theme of the event: Science policy April 9: Cosmos Club, theme of the event: Rock deformation and tectonics Website: www.gswweb.org<http://www.gswweb.org/>