NWGS Scholarship Application Open
2024-04-10 08:00 - 2024-06-10 23:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Students at 2 and 4 year colleges are eligible for our Scholarship. Please see the scholarship page for full details. Apply between April 1 and June 1.

NWGS Student Scholarship

May Meeting, Will Hoover
2024-05-07 17:30 - 21:30 | Fauntleroy YMCA, 9140 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA, United States
Will Hoover, UW Postdoc
Earthquakes and baby powder: How chemical reactions influence Cascadia slow slip

Cougar Mountain & Coal Creek Field Trip
2024-08-24 08:30 - 16:00 | WA
When: August 24, 2024
Subject: Cougar Mountain
Leader: Tom Doe
Meeting place: Red Town Trailhead
Bring: Good walking shoes, lunch, water, recommended: sunscreen/hat/bug spray
Cost: $25.00

Register here: https://nwgs.org/aug-2024-coal-creek/

October Meeting
2024-10-08 17:30 - 21:00 | Fauntleroy YMCA, 9140 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA, United States
Carl L. Carlson, Carlson Brothers Jewelry, Tacoma
The Veins of Ellensburg Blue Agate

November Dinner Meeting
2024-11-12 17:30 - 20:30 | Fauntleroy YMCA, 9140 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA, United States
Brian F. Atwater, U.S. Geological Survey
Volcanic Ash in a Varved Record of Missoula Flood Periodicity
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Dinner Meeting with Jeff Tepper, University of Puget Sound
2024-12-10 17:30 - 20:30 | Fauntleroy YMCA, 9140 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA, United States
Our in-person meeting will include an optional social hour and dinner.
Speaker: Jeffrey H. Tepper, University of Puget Sound
Talk: Initiation of the Cascade Arc
Program Dinner Information:
5:30 pm – No-host Social Hour
6:30 pm – Buffet Dinner (reservation required)
7:30 pm – Speaker Program
8:45 pm – Adjourn
Registration link is updated about 2 weeks prior to the meeting.

January 14, 2025 In Person Meeting and Dinner
2025-01-14 17:30 - 20:30 | Fauntleroy YMCA, 9140 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA, United States
Speaker: Paula Burgi, USGS Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow
Talk: The role of satellite data in modeling and monitoring earthquake-induced building damage and ground failure
Our in-person meeting will include an optional social hour and dinner.
Program Dinner Information:
5:30 pm – No-host Social Hour
6:30 pm – Buffet Dinner (reservation required)
7:30 pm – Speaker Program
8:45 pm – Adjourn
Registration link is available starting about 2 weeks prior to the meeting.

February 11, NWGS Meeting and Dinner
2025-02-11 17:30 - 20:30 | Fauntleroy YMCA, 9140 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA, United States
Ken Petrie, Senior Geologist, Weyerhaeuser, Carbon Capture and Sequestration Overview

March 11, NWGS Meeting and Dinner
2025-03-11 17:30 - 20:30 | Fauntleroy YMCA, 9140 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA, United States
Trenton Cladouhos, Quaise Energy.
Super Hot Rocks and Geothermal Energy

April 8, NWGS Meeting and Dinner
2025-04-08 17:30 - 20:30 | Fauntleroy YMCA, 9140 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA, United States
Akshay Mehra, Assistant Professor UW.
Big data, deep time: combining field observations with computational analyses to reconstruct Earth history

Spring Field Trip 2025
2025-05-03 07:30 - 16:00 | Monroe Park and Ride, 17433 Stevens Pass Highway, monroe, WA, United States
Cascade Quarry and Proctor Creek Mines near Gold Bar, WA.
Leaders: George Bennett, Kurt Siegfried, and David Boyer
Field trip signup and details are on the Field Trip page.

May 13, NWGS Meeting and Dinner
2025-05-13 17:30 - 20:30 | Fauntleroy YMCA, 9140 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA, United States
Baptiste Journaux, Assistant Research Professor, UW
Is ice a mineral?

2025 Field Trip to Cornwall & Somerset, England
2025-09-20 08:00 - 2025-09-28 17:00 | WA
A few spots have opened up on this trip – Please send email to Kathleen Goodman if you are interested!

When: September 20-28, 2025
Subject: SE England, Cornwall and Somerset
Leader: Chris Darmon and Colin Schofield
Cost: $2750.00 (sharing in rtwin/double) or $3190.00 single (max 3)
Deposit of $750.00 per person by September 30th 2024, with the balance payable not later than June 30th, 2025.

More details and registration information here: https://nwgs.org/2025-somerset/

October Dinner Meeting
2025-10-14 17:30 - 21:00 | Fauntleroy YMCA, 9140 California Ave SW, Seattle, WA, United States
Speaker: Ralph Haugerud, USGS – retired
Talk: How Do Ice Sheets Die?

November Dinner Meeting
2025-11-11 17:30 - 21:00 | Hotel 116 Bellevue, 625 116th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
Speaker: Anna Ledeczi, PhD Candidate, UW Earth and Space Sciences
Title: Structure and Properties of the Cascadia Plate Interface: Evidence from a Newly-Described Exhumed Paleomegathrust in the Olympic Subduction Complex

December Dinner Meeting
2025-12-09 17:30 - 21:00 | Hotel 116 Bellevue, 625 116th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
Speaker: Kathleen Goodman
Title: Cypress Ophiolites

January Dinner Meeting
2026-01-13 17:00 - 21:00 | Hotel 116 Bellevue, 625 116th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
David Unruh, Department of Ecology
Talk Title: Historical geology at contaminated sites, Implications for fate and transport of chlorinated solvents
Register for the talk

February Dinner Meeting
2026-02-10 17:30 - 21:00 | Hotel 116 Bellevue, 625 116th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
Steve Angster, Research Geologist: U.S. Geological Survey; Earthquake Science Center
Talk Title: Unraveling the Seattle Fault Zone: Main and Secondary Fault Dynamics
Register for Dinner

March Dinner Meeting
2026-03-10 17:30 - 21:00 | Hotel 116 Bellevue, 625 116th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
Isabellah Von Trapp, Geosyntec

Spring Field Trip : Olympic Peninsula Landslides
2026-04-10 - 2026-04-12 | Edmonds Ferry, 199 Sunset Ave S, Edmonds, WA, 98020, United States
Field Trip to the Olympic Peninsula to see two major landslides on the Bogachiel River and remediation techniques being employed to manage them as well as a rapidly eroding terrace at Rialto Beach. Field Trip leaders are Kathy Troost, Jim Miller, Tom Badger, Elizabeth Davis, and Jessie Delight. We will send two nights at the University of Washington Olympic Natural Resources Center in Forks, WA and transportation will be included from the Ferry Terminal in Kingston. See the web page for the full description: https://nwgs.org/field-trips/

April Dinner Meeting
2026-04-14 17:30 - 21:00 | Hotel 116 Bellevue, 625 116th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
Colin Amos

May Dinner Meeting
2026-05-12 17:30 - 21:00 | Hotel 116 Bellevue, 625 116th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA, 98004, United States
Sean Mulcahy
