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Planning is underway for a chapter field trip toApe Caves on the south side of Mt. St Helens theweekend of . Participants willbe responsible for their own lodging/campingarrangements and for food. Watch for moreinformation in early August.

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Marcia Knadle (left) presenting Mavis Kent (right) with a small gift fromAWG. Photo by Megan Faust.

AWG-PNW Breakfast at the GSA Cordilleran SectionMeeting: Mavis Kent wins AWG Mid-Career Excellence

award, established in her honor

By Marcia Knadle, AWG Pacific Region Delegate

Over 40 people, mostly students, attended the AWG-PNW NetworkingBreakfast on Friday, May 17 during the Geological Society of AmericaCordilleran Section Meeting. The program featured the announcement of

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Needed: New Chapter LogoSubmit yours by Sept. 1, 2019!

Read more on p. 3

Upcoming Joint Meeting withNWGS: Nov. 12, 2019

Read more on p. 5

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Please consider becoming achapter officer to help usbetter serve our members.Chapter president HeatherNielsen will reach her three-year term limit under ourbylaws in September, so we’llneed to elect a new one thissummer. We have also beenfunctioning without a vice-president for the past year,which has significantlyincreased the work load of theother officers. Please contactHeather (president@awg-ps.org) if you’d like moreinformation about what’sinvolved in being chapterpresident, and contact MarciaKnadle (marciaawg@aol.com)if you’re curious about the vicepresident’s role. All our officermeetings are held viaconference call, so you don’tneed to live in Seattle orPortland to serve effectively.

Association for Women Geoscientists Foundation“The mission of the AWG Foundation is to attain equality of opportunity for women in thegeosciences and train new leaders by funding high impact programs for women in the geoscience.”Quoted from the AWG Foundation page on the AWG website.AWGF funds: 1. Scholarships and Travel Grants 2. Professional Development Programs 3. Awardsand Outreach ProgramsTo find out more about donating to AWGF, applying for AWGF funds, or just AWGF in general, visitthe AWG Foundation page at http://www.awg.org/Foundation.

Needed: New officers forthe AWG-PNW Chapter

By Marcia KnadleAWG-PNW Breakfast at the GSA Cordilleran Section

Meeting (Continued form page 1)

the new AWG Mid-Career Excellence award, established in honor of Dr.Mavis Kent. Normally, AWG would announce a new award at the AWGBreakfast at the Annual GSA meeting, but we took advantage of the factthat Mavis lives near Portland to make the announcement at thismeeting. Mavis is currently the owner and founder of PlateauGeoscience Group, a consulting firm in Battle Ground, WA but has had along and illustrious career as a geologist, mostly in Oregon. Besidesserving as one of the founding members of the Association for WomenGeoscientists and instrumental in expanding AWG from a local to anational organization, Mavis was also the first woman:

to be on the State of Oregon Board of Registered Geologists, to be a Registered Geologist in the Oregon Department of Environ-

mental Quality, to receive a PhD in Engineering Geology from Texas A&M University, to serve as President of the Association of Environmental and

Engineering Geologists, and to receive the AEG Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecturer Award.

Many thanks to Mavis’ husband Richard for managing to bring her withoutletting on to the fact that we’d be announcing this new award in her honorand and giving her a small gift. The criteria and nomination process for thisaward is still being developed, so if you’re interested in nominatingsomeone, please watch for more information in AWG E-news and Gaea.

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AWG-PNW Breakfast at the GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting (Continued form page 2)By Marcia Knadle

The second part of the program featured AWG-PNW chapter member Sheila Alfsen, who gave a short

presentation on AWG’s 2015 field trip to Puerto Rico focusing on how AWG uses field trips to mentor and

inspire student participants. Sheila teaches at Chemeketa and Linn-Benton Community Colleges as well as

Portland State University, and is also currently president of the Geological Society of the Oregon Country.

We’d like to thank our sponsors for this event, whose generous donations allowed us to offer a significant

discount on the student breakfasts. The AWG-PNW Chapter provided the bulk of the support, using profits

from last September’s Klamath Mts. field trip, but we also had the help of generous donations from an

anonymous donor and the Portland offices of , an environmental consulting firm with a focus on

sediments remediation.

By Marcia Knadle, AWG Pacific Regional Delegate

Our chapter has existed in one form or another since the mid-1980’s, but somehow we’ve never gotten

around to developing a real chapter

logo. AWG is now insisting that

chapters with any sort of online or

social media presence have an

chapter logo approved by the AWG

Board. We have a website, so we need to develop a logo and seek approval. If you have an artistic bent

and like to design things, please put on your thinking cap and submit your ideas. Here’s what we typically

put on flyer headings, a simple addition to AWG’s primary logo. (This newsletter uses something similar

in the header.)

Native copper! Iron ranges! Fossil reefs! Classic continental glacial features! There’sstill room for 2 more people on our 10-day field trip to the western Great Lakes region.This will actually be two trips back-to-back, starting and ending in Milwaukee,Wisconsin. The first four days will be led by Tom Fitz of Northland College and will takeus to Michigan’s scenic Upper Peninsula to see Proterozoic Midcontinent Rift rocks,some of the most interesting rocks in North America and a classic iron and coppermining region. The remainder of the trip will bring us back south to the area aroundDoor and Calumet Counties (the peninsula extending northeast into Lake Michiganfrom Green Bay) and the Milwaukee area. This second trip will focus mostly on lowerPaleozoic sedimentary rocks, and will be led by geologist Don Mikulic (Weis EarthScience Museum). This portion of the trip honors the work of paleontologist JoanneKluessendorf, who passed away last year and was Don’s wife. Joanne was very activein AWG, serving as Editor in the late 1990s and early 2000s, establishing AWG’sWinifred Goldring Award with the Paleontological Society, and managing AWG’s boothat GSA annual meetings for several years. She was also founding Director of the WeisEarth Science Museum, which we will tour. The price is $1900 for double occupancy,which will cover van transportation, lodging, and lunches. A discounted price is stillavailable for up to two students. Please go to the AWG website(www.awg.org/fieldtrips) for registration information.

Another note from the editor: If you are interested in the latest field trips, please go tothe AWG website or look at the links on the calendar. There are great field trips,lectures, and other items that are added by organizations all the time throughout thePacific Northwest. Many are added at the last minute.

For the record, this article was given to me in June and earlier this spring (by MarciaKnadle, who has provided numerous, very timely notices), but I haven’t had time to putout a newsletter. This is another reason to check the AWG website and the links in thecalendar provided in the back of the newsletter.

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On , Emily Cahoon will give a talk on at a

in Seattle. Dinner signup infor-mation will be available on the NWGS website (www.nwgs.org) in lateOctober. If you come just for the talk, NWGS requests a $5 donation.

For information aboutthe NWGS talk (fromthe NWGS Calendar):

5:30 No Host Cock-tails6:30 Dinner7:30 Program

Location: Silver CloudHotel - UniversityDistrict, 5036 25thAve NE, Seattle, WAFor more informationcontact Beth Tanneratnwgssecretary@gmail.com

Jurassic SeasIchthyosaurs huntwith armored eyes in thedepths,ammonites for lunch.

How to Break into a GeologyCareer

A Forum

Hi Everyone:

Theresa Burton had a great idea for adiscussion through the newsletter orotherwise: How to break into a geologycareer, or even just a job, withoutexperience… advice, notes, or articles sought onclasses or other avenues!

By Marcia Knadle

The simplest would probably be to adapt it into a more proper logo, perhaps

by putting the chapter name below AWG’s logo.

This is the approach that the San Diego State

University student chapter has recently taken,

adapting both of AWG’s current logos (although

they’ve changed the font and simplified the globe

below the “G”).

However, we might want to be more creative and choose a logo with a clearer connection to the

Pacific Northwest. Here’s one that Shawn Blaesing-Thompson developed for our chapter brochure

several years ago, which has a more local flavor

(that’s Mt. Rainier from Olympia, WA) and could

possibly be adapted a bit or improved. (For example,

I would put “Pacific Northwest Chapter” in white on

the tree background at the bottom and perhaps

make the picture narrower).

Alternatively, someone with artistic/design chops could come up with something completely

different. Here are a few other recently approved chapter logos to give you a range of ideas:

The most symbolic is the logo for the new Delware/Maryland/Virginia (DMV) Chapter:

And it has a whole story behind it:

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Here’s my personal favorite of the recently approved logos – the one for the Dalhousie University

student chapter in Halifax, Nova Scotia:

Another one that’s quite nice is the

new logo for the Cornhusker

Chapter in Nebraska

The one for the OSU Cowgirls

student chapter based out of

Okahoma State University is

perhaps a bit too busy to really be

considered a logo, but it’s nice art:

It’s clear that a wide variety of images are

acceptable as chapter logos. Please feel free to

get creative and submit a logo by

that reflects the geology and beauty of our

chapter area to me at marciaawg@aol.com. The

AWG-PNW Chapter Board will review the

submissions and choose one to submit to the

AWG Board of Directors for approval, hopefully

by the Fall Board meeting in late September.

Thank you!

Marcia Knadle, AWG Pacific Region Delegate

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FROM THE EDITOR:

Thank you to Marcia Knadle, Heather Neilson, Megan Faust, and Theresa Burton for yourcontributions. If I missed anyone or didn’t include your contribution, please let me know becauseit was not on purpose.

Interested in being the AWG-PNW newsletter editor? It’s pretty rewarding, and it’s pretty muchyour own publication. You can even update it and put it in a different format. This old dinosaurneeds to pass it to more modern hands. Let me know if you have questions! You can contact meat silv9579@yahoo.com. It will help if you put AWG-PNW newsletter in the email title.

Thanks again! Shari Maria Silverman, AWG-PNW Newsletter Editor

AWG - PNW2018-2019

Officers

∞ President: Heather Nielsen∞ Vice President: Open∞ Secretary: Megan Faust∞ Treasurer: Theresa Burton∞ Past President: Kathy Vanderwal Dubé∞ Scholarship Committee Chair: Sarah Dewey∞ Webmaster: Katie Brower∞ Newsletter Editor: Shari Silverman∞ Pacific Region Delegate: Karla Tucker∞ Pacific Region Delegate: Marcia Knadle∞ Pacific Region Alternate Delegate: Anne Fulton

AWG Membership

Not a member but want to be?Membership offersopportunities for field trips,networking, and interestingspeakers among otherbenefits.

SustainingProfessional:$100/year

Professional: $50/year

Early Career: $30/year

Student/Reduced Income:$20/year

For more options suchas rates forinternational countries,lifetime membershipsand institutions andcorporations, see:http://awg.org/membershiprates

CALENDAR

Western Oregon

Southern Oregon Community College Geology Lectures: https://www.socc.edu/geology● They haven’t started yet, but they occur periodically throughout the academic year

● Last year they started in October● Coos Bay, Oregon

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry: https://omsi.edu/● Scroll down for events (bottom), classes (top), and attractions (middle)● Mostly western Oregon, but also NE Oregon

Oregon State University Events: https://events.oregonstate.edu/calendar?event_types%5B%5D=115610● Includes PhD dissertations, science pubs, activities, etc.● Occurs in Corvallis, Newport, Portland and Bend

Geological Society of the Oregon Country: http://www.gsoc.org/● Field trips and lectures● Mostly Portland, but field trips can occur around the state

Ice Age Floods Institute, Lower Columbia Chapter● Lectures, Tualatin: http://www.tualatinhistoricalsociety.org/calendar.html● Everything, Portland area: https://iafi.org/local-chapters/lower-columbia-chapter/

Eastern Oregon

High Desert Museum: https://www.highdesertmuseum.org/calendar/● Bend

Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Museum: https://www.gorgediscovery.org/● The Dalles

Idaho Museum of Mining and Geology: http://www.idahomuseum.org/calendar-2/● Far-eastern Oregon and southern Idaho

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I’ve decided to change the calendar for two reasons:

1. It is getting huge, which is transforming the newsletter into a huge, email-crashing monster;and

2. Events and their links change over the months between newsletters.

So I’m putting the sponsor and their event page links, so you can have up to date information at yourfingertips!

Western Washington

Anacortes Science Cafe: Events announced on their Facebook pagehttps://www.facebook.com/AnacortesScienceCafe/?fb_dtsg_ag=AdyPZmuXGmVvRoRgUPRCEOcmJ5oH6juGYBGLd4B0xHkF3Q%3AAdyEGTXB4MxcF0maileTp5oMGW9TNT0e3AKr1Z5Dahxe2g

● They meet every third Thursday at 4 pm at Johnny Picasso’s (510 Commercial Ave.), Anacortes, WA

Nick Zentner Lectures: http://www.nickzentner.com/read-me/● Central Washington University geologist● Travels around the state, mostly eastern Washington, but also throughout Western Washington

Ice Age Floods Institute: https://iafi.org/● All over Washington (although I don’t know about the peninsula)

Burke Museum: https://www.burkemuseum.org/calendar● Seattle: mostly hands-on science with some lectures

Eastern Washington

Nick Zentner Lectures: http://www.nickzentner.com/read-me/● Central Washington University geologist● Travels around the state, mostly eastern Washington, but also throughout Western Washington

Ice Age Floods Institute: https://iafi.org/● All over Washington (although I don’t know about the peninsula)● Field trips and lectures

Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center: http://www.wenatcheevalleymuseum.org/our-events/● Wenatchee

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