Events

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. https://nwgs.org/scholarship/

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 – 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 […]

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 […]

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

David Unruh, Department of Ecology Talk Title: Historical geology at contaminated sites, Implications for fate and transport of chlorinated solvents Register for the talk

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  

Isabellah Von Trapp, Geosyntec

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 […]

Colin Amos