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Past Meetings

November 17, 2021

Dr. Carolyn Driedger, U.S. Geological Survey, Vancouver Station —
New information on lahars from the USGS task force

October 27, 2021

Dr. Donald G. Hill, University of Southern California –
Use and abuse of wireline measurements for potash exploration and reserves estimates

September 29, 2021

Prof. Stephen Self, UC Berkeley –
Long-term volcanism risk at the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository Site, Nevada

September 30, 2020

Dr. Roland Bürgmann — UC Berkeley
A close-up view of Bay Area natural hazards from outer space

October 28, 2020

Dr. Jared Gooley, U.S. Geological Survey —
From forearc to transform: Sedimentary record of changing tectonic setting in the California continental margin

November 18, 2020

Dr. Lori Dengler, Humboldt State University (emerita) —
Kaome: The extraordinary tsunami boat linking Japan and California communities

January 27, 2021

Dr. Christie Rowe, McGill University –
Insights into the dynamics of subduction from studies in the Franciscan Complex

February 24, 2021

Dr. Tiziano Vanorio, Stanford University –
Concrete and concrete-like rocks: The role of mineral cementitious fibers in controlling strength and mode of failure

March 31, 2021

Dr. John C. Eichelberger, GSA Distinguished Lecturer, University of Alaska Fairbanks –
Drilling to magma

April 28, 2021

Dr. Penelope Boston, NASA Ames Research Center –
Caves on Earth can address some of the most challenging questions facing astrobiologists today

May 26, 2021

Dr. Sarah Milkovich, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory –
Perseverance Rover and the search for life on Mars

June 30, 2021

David B. Williams –
Stories in Stone: Travels through Urban Geology

September 25, 2019

Dr. Douglas Dreger — UC Berkeley
Exotic Seismic Sources: Nuclear Explosions, Mining Events, Volcanic and Geothermal Seismicity, and a Landslide

October 30, 2019

Dr. Russell Graymer — USGS
Geologic and geophysical framework of Mt Diablo

November 20, 2019

Dr. David P. Schwartz — USGS
Earthquakes of the East Bay

January 29, 2020

Dr. Jeff Unruh — Lettis Consultants International, Inc
Deformation of the Ancestral California Forearc during Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary Blueschist Exhumation, Mt. Diablo Region

February 26, 2020

Dr. Donald Medwedeff — Independent Research Geologist
Tectonic Setting and Structural Analysis of Mt. Diablo and Vicinity

September 26, 2018

Dr. Artie Rodgers — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
High-performance computing ground motion simulations of large, damaging Hayward Fault scenario and moderate earthquakes in the USGS 3D model of the San Francisco Bay Area

October 31, 2018

Dr. Cristina M. Robins — UC Museum of Paleontology
Calaveras: The Most Significant Fossil Find in the Bay Area in Decades

November 28, 2018

Dr. Stephen Self — University of California, Berkeley
Anticipating future Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) 7 eruptions and their chilling impacts

January 30, 2019

Dr. William Motzer — Consultant
The Gold Rush and its Impact to the San Francisco Bay Area

February 27, 2019

Dr. Paul Renne — Berkeley Geochronology Center
Flood Basalts and Mass Extinctions: The Cretaceous/Paleogene Perspective

March 27, 2019

Dr. Sara Kelly Mcbride — United States Geological Survey
When science meets emergency management — and back again: the M7.8 Kaik?ura Earthquake case study

April 24, 2019

Dr. Owen Anfinson — Sonoma State University
To See the World in a Grain of Sand: Utilizing detrital heavy minerals to reconstruct California’s sedimentary history

May 29, 2019

Dr. Tanya Atwater, Prof. Emeritus — UC, Santa Barbara
The Wonderful, Frenetic Years of the Plate Tectonic Revolution: How It Was to Be in the Middle of It

June 26, 2019

Dr. Jonathan Lilien — Chevron
Environmental Aspects of Oil & Gas Production in California

September 27, 2017

Dr. Slawomir M. Tulaczyk, UC Santa Cruz
Glaciology and recent behavior of the West Antarctic ice sheet

October 25, 2017

Megan Nguyen, UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences
UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences –Research Summary

November 29, 2017

Dr. Marjorie Schulz, USGS
Marine Terraces of California: Landscapes from the Waves

January 31, 2018

Dr. Kurtis Burmeister, University of the Pacific
Welcome to Jurassic arc: resolving the pre-batholith history of the Sierra Nevada

February 28, 2018

John G. Parrish, Ph.D., CA State Geologist
The End of the ‘Permanent’ Drought

March 28, 2018

Dr. Tom MacKinnon
Early Accretionary History of the Franciscan Complex as inferred from the Yolla Bolly/Black Butte area of the Eastern Belt

April 25, 2018

Dr. Andrew Gunther
Talking Climate Change

May 30, 2018

Dr. Isabel Montanez, UC Davis and Geological Society of America
Reconstructing precipitation patterns in California during past warmings and coolings of the last 20,000 years

June 27, 2018

Dr. Suzanne Hecker, Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, CA
The Rodgers Creek Fault, Sonoma County: What recent advances in mapping reveal about its contribution to Bay Area earthquake hazards

September 28, 2016

Rick Wilson, California Geological Survey
Addressing California’s Tsunami Hazard

October 26, 2016

Dr. Brian Collins, US Geological Survey
Processes of exfoliation-induced rock falls: recent studies from California’s Sierra Nevada

November 16, 2016

Dr. Julia Sigwart, Associate Professor and UCMP Visiting Scholar
Two Miles Underwater: A Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

January 25, 2017

Rick Wilson, California Geological Survey
Addressing California’s Tsunami Hazard

February 22, 2017

Tom Williams, Williams GeoAdventures
The Geology and Landscapes of Iceland

March 29, 2017

Dr. Kim Blisniuk, San Jose State University
Tectonic Geomorphology of San Andreas Fault in Southern CA

April 26, 2017

Dr. Mark Richards, UC Berkeley
Triggering of the Largest Deccan Eruptions by the Chicxulub Impact
or What Really Killed the Dinosaurs

May 31, 2017

Dr. Greg Stock, National Park Service
The Rise and Fall of Sierra Nevada Glaciers

June 28, 2017

Dr. Matthew J. James, Sonoma State University
Collecting Evolution: The Galapagos Expedition that Vindicated Darwin

September 30, 2015

Dr. Gregory Beroza, Stanford University, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory – Lawson Lecture
Induced Earthquakes in the 21st Century

October 29, 2015

Dr. Anne M. Sanquini, recently of Department of Geological Sciences, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
Inspiring Earthquake-Resistant Construction in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

November 18, 2015

Dr. Andrea Foster, U.S. Geological Survey
The Environmental Legacy of California’s Gold Rush: Arsenic and Mercury Contamination from Historic Mining

January 27, 2016

Dr. Samuel Johnson, U.S. Geological Survey; Pacific Coastal & Marine Science Center
Exploring California’s Amazing Seafloor – the Visionary California Seafloor Mapping Program

February 24, 2016

Dr. John Karachewski, Department of Toxic Substance Control
Exploring California’s Hydroscapes

March 30, 2016

Dr Jeff Unruh, Lettis Consultants International Inc.
Geologic History of Mt. Diablo

April 27, 2016

Dr. Ronald Olowin, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Saint Mary’s College
Dark Matter and the Universe

May 25, 2016

Dr. Charles K. Paull, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Monterey canyon: Superhighway to the Deep-Sea
6:00 pm Social; 6:45 Dinner; 8:00 pm Talk at Orinda Masonic Lodge

June 22, 2016

Jerome V. De Graff, California State University Fresno
Richard H. Jahns Lecturer for 2016 by the Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists and the Geological Society of America
Fire, Earth, & Rain: Emergency response for wildfire-induced landslide hazards

September 24, 2014

Dr. Thomas Holzer, USGS
Catastrophic Earthquakes In a Crowded World

October 29, 2014

Marcus Trotta, Sonoma County Water Agency
Groundwater Basin Studies and Management in Sonoma County

November 19, 2014

Christopher Lewis
Tales of the Oil and Gas Fields and Thereabouts

January 28, 2015

Dr. Lisa White, Director of Education, UC Museum of Paleontology
Understanding Global Change: Increasing public engagement in science through a new web resource at the University of California Museum of Paleontology

February 25, 2015

Dr. Bradley Erskine, Kleinfelder, PG, CEG, CHG, Principal Geologist
Building a Dam out of Naturally Occurring Asbestos: Challenges and Solutions at the Calaveras Dam Replacement Project, Sunol, CA

March 25, 2015

Dr. Jake Lowenstern, USGS
The Yellowstone Volcano: Past, Present and Future – Monitoring the sleeping giant beneath Yellowstone National Park

April 29, 2015

Dr. Robert B. Miller, Professor and Chair of Geology, San Jose State University
Construction, Emplacement, and Structures of Plutons and Their Importance: Insights From the Sierra Nevada Batholith and North Cascades (Washington)

May 27, 2015

B. Lynn Ingram, UC Berkeley
The West Without Water

June 24, 2015

Dr. Will Schweller, NCGS President and Consultant
Injected Sands – Mother Nature’s Giant Frac Jobs?

September 25, 2013

Dr. William Motzer, PG, CHG, Senior Geologist, Todd Engineers
Mercury Deposits of the California Coast Ranges and Their Environmental Impacts

October 30, 2013

Dr. David A. Osleger, UC Davis
Paleo-precipitation records from Lake Tahoe cores

November 20, 2013

James J. Rytuba, Victoria E. Langenheim, and Daniel N. Goldstein, USGS, Menlo Park
Effects of the Paso Robles Geothermal System on water quality and availability in the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin, California

January 29, 2014

Dr. Barbara Romanowicz, UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory
Imag(in)ing the Earth’s Interior

February 26, 2014

Tess Menotti, PhD Candidate, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University
Moving Targets – Petroleum System Modeling in Central California

March 26, 2014

Tom MacKinnon, Consultant
Geology of the Monterey Formation of California With Comments on Recent Oilfield Developments

April 30, 2014

Stephen D. Reynolds, California Geological Survey
Reclamation of the abandoned Spenceville Copper Mine

May 28, 2014

Dr. Kevin Padian
Why don’t vertebrates care about mass extinctions?

June 25, 2014

Jason Utas, PhD Candidate at UCLA
Meteorites

September 26, 2012

Cindy Pridmore, California Geological Survey
California Tsunamis: State Inundation Maps and Lessons Learned from the Japan 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami

October 24, 2012

Dr. Ray Wells, US Geological Survey
“Revolutionary” Tectonics in the Pacific Northwest: The Role of Rotating Microplates and Mega-Blocks Along the Cascadia Convergent Margin

November 28, 2012

Dr. Patrick Muffler, US Geological Survey, Geologist Emeritus
Lassen Volcanic National Park — a wonderland of volcanoes and thermal features

January 30, 2013

Scott Bennett, PhD Candidate and NCGS Richard Chambers Memorial Scholarship Awardee, UC Davis
Testing the Role of Rift Obliquity in the Formation of the Gulf of California

February 27, 2013

Dr. John Karachewski, Geoscapes and Department of Toxics Substance Control
Geologic Landscapes of Mt. Diablo (no abstract available)

March 27, 2013

Dr. Greg Balco, Berkeley Geochronolgy Center
Applications of cosmogenic-nuclide geochemistry and low-temperaturethermochronometry to Earth surface processes

May 29, 2013

Dr. David F. Blake, Principal Investigator, Mars Science Laboratory Rover Curiosity, NASA Ames Research Center
Results from the Mars Science Laboratory Rover Curiosity’s Geological Investigations of the Surface of Mars

June 26, 2013

Dr. Lester McKee and Sarah Pearce, San Francisco Estuary Institute

Science support for improved management of sediment in Bay Area watersheds, creeks, and San Francisco Bay

September 28, 2011

Dr. William E. Motzer, Todd Engineers, Inc
California’s Gold: History, Geology, and Geochemistry

October 26, 2011

Dr. Richard Allen, University of California Berkeley
Delivering Earthquake Warning to California

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

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

February 29, 2012

Dr. John Karachewski, DTSC
An Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – “Free Software and Data for Recreational, Educational, and Geologic Investigations

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?

April 25, 2012

Dr. Ray Sullivan, Emeritus, San Francisco State University
Ocean Floor to Shelf, The Lower Tertiary Sequences in the Sacramento Basin

May 30, 2012

Dr. Goeff Marcy, UC Berkeley
The Hunt for Another Earth (and Reservation Form)

June 27, 2012

Dr. Donald L Gautier, US Geological Survey
Volumes, Uncertainty and Costs of Undiscovered Arctic Petroleum

September 29, 2010

Stephen Testa, Executive Officer, California State Mining & Geology Board
Geological Development in the Post-Gold Rush Era and the Fate of the First California Geological Survey

October 27, 2010

Dr. Geoffrey W. Marcy; Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Searching for Other Earths and Life in the Universe

November 17, 2010

Philip Johnson, Cotton Shires & Associates, Los Gatos
Concurrent growth of uplifts with dissimilar orientations in the southern Green River Basin, Wyoming: implications for Paleocene-Eocene patterns of foreland shortening

January 26, 2011

Dr. John Parrish, State Geologist, California Geological Survey;
California Geological Survey – Staying Relevant After 150 Years

February 23, 2011

Andre Brown, P.E., W. L. Gore & Associates
An Innovative Passive Detection Method for Site Screening of VOCs and SVOCs in Soil, Ground Water, and Indoor Air

March 30, 2011

Dr. James Moore, Retired, U.S. Geological Survey
Native American Granite Cisterns in the Sierra Nevada

April 27, 2011

Dr. Greg Croft, Croft Consultants
Coal and the Peak of World Carbon Emissions

May 25, 2011

Dr. Eldridge Moores, Distinguished Professor of Geology, University of California, Davis
Assembling California: an Update

June 29, 2011

Dr. John Wakabayahsi, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, California State University Fresno
Franciscan Mélanges: Evidence for Sedimentary Origins, Multiple Subduction-Exhumation Cycles, Subduction Accretion, Subduction Erosion and Non Accretion

September 30, 2009

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

October 28, 2009

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

November 18, 2009

Dr. Robert Dahlgren, Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Air Ionization at Rock Surfaces and Pre-Earthquake Signals

January 27, 2010

Dr. Stephen Tobriner, Professor Emeritus of Architecture, UC-Berkeley
The Earthquake of 1868 and the Birth of Seismically Resistant Architecture in California

February 24, 2010

Dr. C. Page Chamberlain, Professor, Geological & Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA
The Evolution of Eocene Highlands and the Climate of the Western U.S. Cordillera

March 31, 2010

Dr. Mel Erskine, Consulting Geologist
Structural Model for the Interpretation of the Central Basin and Range Province of Utah and Nevada

April 28, 2010

Dr. Adrian Brown, SETI Institute & NASA Ames Research Center
Mars Dust and Ice: A Voyage to the Poles with Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

May 26, 2010

Dr. Carol Prentice, USGS, Menlo Park
The Haiti Earthquake of 12 January 2010: A Geologic Perspective

June 30, 2010

Dr. Jacob Covault; Chevron Clastic Stratigraphy R&D, San Ramon, CA
Natural “Laboratories” of Southern California: Integrated Methodologies to Predict Coarse-Grained Sediment Flux to the Deep Sea

September 24, 2008

Dr. Rolfe Erickson, California State University, Sonoma
Granites in the Franciscan Formation at Cazadero, California

October 29, 2008

Dr. Laura Rademacher, Univ. of the Pacific, Stockton
The impact of wildfires on California landscapes

January 28, 2009

Dr. Victoria E. Langenheim, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park
Geophysical vignettes from the wine country: implications for the northward continuation of the East Bay fault system

February 25, 2009

Dr. Richard B. Firestone, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Mammoths, Meteorites, and Supernovae

March 25, 2009

Dr. Greg Stock; Geologist; Yosemite National Park
New Tools for Understanding and Mitigating Rockfall Hazards in Yosemite National Park

April 29, 2009

Dr. Thomas C. Hanks, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California
The Travels of Clyde Kluckhohn and the Photographs of James Hanks, 1927-1928: Repeat Photography, Virtual Repeat Photography, and Earth Surface Change in the Photographic Era

May 27, 2009

Dr. W. Gary Ernst, Emeritus Professor at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Mesozoic Transpression, Transtension, Subduction, and Metallogenesis in Northern and Central California

June 24, 2009

Dr. Dave Stonestrom, U.S. Geological Survey Research Hydrologist, Menlo Park, California
A Hydrogeological Perspective on Nuclear Waste — Tales from the Trenches

September 26, 2007

Dr. Eric Cowgill, U.C. Davis
Long-term slip on an orogen-scale fault system: Uplift history of the northwestern Himalayan Mountains

October 16, 2007

Dr. Kirk Johnson, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Crocodiles in Greenland and Hippos in London: A Fossil-Fueled Tour of Past and Future Climates

November 28, 2007

Dr. Kurt Burmeister, University of the Pacific, Stockton
Controls on structural architecture and strain partitioning within the Northern Appalachian fold-thrust belt in the Rosendale natural cement region

January 30, 2008

Dr. Jeffery Mount, University of California, Davis
Landscape Changes and California’s Water Supply Future

February 27, 2008

Dr. David Morrison, NASA Ames Research Laboratory
Impacts and Evolution: Astrobiology and Near-Earth Object Impacts

March 26, 2008

Dr. Gary Fuis, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park
The San Andreas Fault in Southern California is Almost Nowhere Vertical – Implications for Tectonics

April 30, 2008

Dr. Leonard Sklar, San Francisco State University, San Francisco
How Pebbles Destroy Mountains: The Role of Sediment in River Incision Into Bedrock

May 28, 2008

Dr. David Schwartz, Senior Earthquake Geologist, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park
Past and Future Earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay Area – Commemorating the 140th Anniversary of the 1868 Hayward Earthquake

June 25, 2008

Dr. John C. Tinsley, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park
Dark Holes in Muir’s “Range of Light”: Insights From Southern Sierra Nevada Caves and Karst

September 27, 2006

Dr. Doris Sloan, University of California, Berkeley; Dr. John Karachewski, Weiss Associates, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region – The Story Behind the Book

October 25, 2006

Dr. Richard Stanley & Dr. Russell Graymer, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park
Subsurface geology, basin evolution, tectonic development, and climatic cyclicity of the Santa Clara Valley area

November 15, 2006

Dylan Rood, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and U.C. Santa Barbara
Changing Rates and Styles of Crustal Deformation at Timescales of 10 My to 10 Ky

January 31, 2007

Dr. George Plafker, U.S. Geological Survey (Emeritus), Menlo Park, and Plafker Geohazard Consultants
New evidence for a secondary tectonic source for the cataclysmic tsunami of 12/26/2004 on NW Sumatra

February 28, 2007

Paul Belasky, Ohlone College, Fremont
The real “geopoetry,” and the “poets of the soil”: Geological school of 20th century poetry in St. Petersburg, Russia, explores why we are geologists

March 28, 2007

Dr Jeff Unruh, William Lettis and Associates and U.C. Davis,
Geologic History of Mt. Diablo

April 25, 2007

Dr. Isabel Montanez, U.C. Davis
CO2 – Forced Climate and Vegetation Instability During Late Paleozoic Deglaciation

May 30, 2007

Dr. James Moore, U.S. Geological Survey, Retired
The adventures of Clarence King (First USGS Director) and his survey of the 40th parallel

June 27, 2007

Dr. Jeffery P. Schaffer, Napa Valley College
Seeing the Elephant: How Perceived Evidence in the Sierra Nevada Biased Global Geomorphology

September 28, 2005

Christen Rowe, Doctorial Student, U.C. Santa Cruz
Searching for Subduction Zone Seismogenesis in the Rock Record

October 26, 2005

Todd Crampton, Geomatrix
Engineering Geology of the Proposed 4th Bore of the Caldecott Tunnel

November 16, 2005

Dr. Eldridge Moores, University of California, Davis
Earth & Space Sciences and California

January 25, 2006

Sarah Andrews, Author, Em Hansen Forensic Geology Novels
Art Meets Science on the Cold Continent

February 22, 2006

Dr. Richard Buffler, University of Texas, Austin
Geologic Setting of the Abdur Archaeological Site on the Red Sea Coast of Eritrea, Africa

March 29, 2006

Dr. Mary Lou Zoback, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park
The 1906 Earthquake – Lessons Learned, Lessons Forgotten, and Looking Forward

April 26, 2006

Kathleen Burnham, Consultant
Point Lobos and Point Reyes: Evidence of ~180 Km Offset on the San Gregorio/Northern San Andreas Fault

May 31, 2006

Dr. George Brimhall, UC Berkeley
A History of Field Geology at UC Berkeley, and Issues Facing Field Geology Training Programs Today

June 28, 2006

Dr. Mitchell Craig, California State University, East Bay
Near-Surface Geophysical Imaging Using Seismic and Radar Methods

September 29, 2004

Greg Croft, Consulting Geologist
Regional Trends in World Oil Production

October 27, 2004

Dr. Roland Burgmann, University of California, Berkeley
Slipping and Sliding on the Hayward Fault

November 17, 2004

Dr. Wayne Narr, ChevronTexaco Energy Technology Company, San Ramon
Understanding and Predicting Fractures at Tengiz – A Giant, Naturally Fractured Reservoir in the Caspian Basin of Kazakhstan

January 26, 2005

Cheryl Smith, President, Peninsula Geological Society
Geochemical Investigation of Distribution Habitat of Arabis macdonaldiana in the Josephine Ophiolite, Six Rivers National Forest, Del Norte County, California

February 23, 2005

Dr. Robert Tilling, U.S. Geological Survey
Confronting Volcanic Hazards

March 30, 2005

Dr. Barbara Bekins, U. S. Geological Survey
Hydrogeology and the Weak Nature of Plate Boundary Faults

April 27, 2005

Dr. Michael Manga, University of California, Berkeley
Why do Volcanoes (Only Sometimes) Erupt Explosively?

May 25, 2005

Dr. Paul M. (Mitch) Harris, Chevron, San Ramon
Geologic Framework and Reservoir Distribution, Tengiz Field, Kazakhstan

June 29, 2005

Dr. Monte Hampton, Emeritus, U.S. Geological Survey
Formation and Evolution of Coastal Cliffs (or the All-Time Shortest Coastal Cliffs Short Course)

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