Meeting Location

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 2009-2010 Calendar

(Please click on the available links to view the abstract and speaker biographies; for previous yearly calendar of events see bottom of page)

 

 

The Start of the NCGS Year!!

 

Wednesday September 30, 2009

Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region – Photos That Didn’t Make it Into the Book; Dr. John Karachewski, Dept. Toxic Substances Control

7:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Center

 

Thursday October 1, 2009        AAPG Distinguished Lecturer!

The Sedimentary Record of Human Evolution

Dr. Gail Ashley, Rutger University, New Brunswick, N.J.

7:00 pm at Lafayette Veteran’s Memorial Building, 3780 Mt. Diablo Blvd

 

Wednesday October 28, 2009

The Loma Prieta Earthquake Turns 20; What we Have Learned From Seismology, Engineering & Politics; Dr. Jack Boatwright, U.S.G.S, Menlo Park

7:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge

 

Wednesday November 18, 2009

EARLY DATE!!        Dr. Friedman Freund could not make it due to unforeseen circumstances)

Air Ionization at Rock Surfaces and Pre-Earthquake Signals

Dr. Robert Dahlgren, Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

 7:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge

 

December 2009 - As usual no meeting!

 

Wednesday January 27, 2010

The Earthquake of 1868 and the Birth of Seismically Resistant Architecture in California

Dr. Stephen Tobriner, Professor Emeritus of Architecture, UC-Berkeley

7:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge

 

Wednesday February 24, 2010

The Evolution of Eocene Highlands and the Climate of the Western U.S. Cordillera

Dr. C. Page Chamberlain, Professor, Geological & Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA

7:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge

 

Wednesday March 31, 2010

Structural Model for the Interpretation of the Central Basin and Range Province of Utah and Nevada

Dr. Mel Erskine, Consulting Geologist

7:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge

 

Wednesday April 28, 2010

Mars Dust and Ice: A Voyage to the Poles with Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Dr. Adrian Brown, SETI Institute & NASA Ames Research Center

7:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge

 

Wednesday May 26, 2010

SPECIAL DINNER MEETING!!   EARLY!!

The Haiti Earthquake of 12 January 2010: A Geologic Perspective

Dr. Carol Prentice, USGS, Menlo Park

6:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge (EARLY)

 

Wednesday June 30, 2010

Natural “Laboratories” of Southern California: Integrated Methodologies to Predict Coarse-Grained Sediment Flux to the Deep Sea

Dr. Jacob Covault; Chevron Clastic Stratigraphy R&D, San Ramon, CA

7:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge

 

Our usual summer break

 

 

NCGS 2010-2011 Calendar

Wednesday September 29, 2010

TBA

7:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge

 

Wednesday October 27, 2010

Dr. Geoffrey W. Marcy; Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley (Tentative)

TBA

7:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge

 

Wednesday November 17, 2010 (Early Date!)

TBA

7:00 pm at Orinda Masonic Lodge

 

 

 

2009 - 2010 NCGS Events and Field Trips

(When available, click on the following links to download field trip applications)

 

 

October 23, 2009

A Tour of New Bay Bridge Construction - The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Seismic Safety Projects

(Please contact Tridib Guha as there is no sign up form)

Caltrans Personnel

 

April 25, 2010

Mammoth Rocks and the Geology of the Sonoma Coast;

E. Breck Parkman, Senior State Archaeologist, California State Parks, and

Rolfe Erickson, Emeritus, Sonoma State University

 

 

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 John Christian (see About the NCGS page).

 

 

 

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Older Calendar of Events

 

 

2003 - 2004 Calendar of Events

 

 

 

2004 - 2005 Calendar of Events

 

 

 

2005 - 2006 Calendar of Events

 

 

 

2006 - 2007 Calendar of Events

 

 

2007 - 2008 Calendar of Events

 

 

2008 - 2009 Calendar of Events

 

 

(Including NCGS 1906 Earthquake Centennial Observance Events)
 

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