The NCGS meets each last Wednesday of the month in Orinda at the Masonic Center, 9 Altarinda Rd. There is a social period at 6:30 p.m. At 7 p.m. a talk (no dinner). Cost is $5 per regular member; $1 per student member, and $1 per K – 12 teachers.
NCGS 2011-2012 Calendar
(Please click on the available links to view the abstract and speaker biographies; for previous yearly calendar of events see bottom of page)
MEETINGS
The Start of the NCGS Year!!
Wednesday September 28, 2011
Dr. William E. Motzer, Todd Engineers, Inc
California’s Gold: History, Geology, and Geochemistry
7:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge
Saturday, October 15, 2011
A Teacher’s Workshop - Earth Science Week Field Trip for K-12 Teachers
A Geological Walk in Downtown San Francisco
(For Application - See Below)
October 26, 2011
Dr. Richard Allen, University of California Berkeley
Delivering Earthquake Warning to California
7:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge
November 16, 2011
Michelle Newcomer, Student Manager, NASA Ames DEVELOP Program, San Francisco State University
7:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge
December 2011 – Our Usual Holiday Break
January 25, 2012
Dr. Kevin Padian, Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, Curator of Paleontology, University of California Museum of Paleontology and President of the National Center for Science Education
What Darwin Said (and Didn’t Say): Evolution, “Intelligent Design,” and Education
Additional Reading: Darwin, Dover, ‘Intelligent Design’ and textbooks
(Kevin Padianand Nicholas Matzke; Biochem. J.; 2009; 417, 29–42)
7:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge
February 29, 2012
TBA
7:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge
March 28, 2012
Dr. Gerhard Neuhuber, GallZeidler Consultants, LLC; Caldecott Tunnel Construction 4th Bore / NATM Tunnel in San Francisco SH 24 California; After Three Tunnel Constructions and Investigation Programs – Are There No Surprises Anymore?
7:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge
April 25, 2012
Dr. Ray Sullivan, Basin Floor to Shelf, The Lower Tertiary Sequences in the Sacramento Basin
7:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge
May 30, 2012 (Dinner Meeting! Note Early Time!)
Dr. Goeff Marcy, UC Berkeley
The Hunt for Another Earth
6:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge
June 27, 2012
TBA
7:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge
2010 - 2011 NCGS Events and Field Trips
(When available, click on the following links to download field trip applications)
Saturday October 15, 2011
Earth Science Field Trip For K - 12 Teachers
(Announcement & Application)
Do you have a place you’ve wanted to visit for the geology? Let us know. We’re definitely interested in ideas. For those suggestions, or for questions regarding, field trips, please contact our Field Trip Coordinator Tridib Guha (see About the NCGS page).
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2007 - 2008 Calendar of Events
2008 - 2009 Calendar of Events
2009 - 2010 Calendar of Events
2010 - 2011 Calendar of Events