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 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

A comparison of groundwater storage using GRACE data, groundwater levels, and a hydrological model in California’s Central Valley

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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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

 

 

2009 - 2010 Calendar of Events

 

 

2010 - 2011 Calendar of Events

 

 

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