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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/

Carl L. Carlson, Carlson Brothers Jewelry, Tacoma The Veins of Ellensburg Blue Agate

Brian F. Atwater, U.S. Geological Survey Volcanic Ash in a Varved Record of Missoula Flood Periodicity Newsletter

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 […]

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 […]

Ken Petrie, Senior Geologist, Weyerhaeuser, Carbon Capture and Sequestration Overview

Trenton Cladouhos, Quaise Energy. Super Hot Rocks and Geothermal Energy

Akshay Mehra, Assistant Professor UW. Big data, deep time: combining field observations with computational analyses to reconstruct Earth history

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.

Baptiste Journaux, Assistant Research Professor, UW Is ice a mineral?

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 […]

Speaker: Ralph Haugerud, USGS - retired Talk: How Do Ice Sheets Die?

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

Speaker: Kathleen Goodman Title:  Cypress Ophiolites