Online Research Seminars – Solid Earth Section Annual General Meeting

Following last week’s CGU-wide poster session, we will be holding the Solid Earth Section Annual General Meeting for this Friday, August 14, 2020 starting at 2:30 pm eastern time.

The Biogeosciences student award presentations and AGM will follow next Friday, August 21. A full schedule of the summer series can be found here. We invite you to follow the series on our Facebook, Twitter and/or LinkedIn pages for the latest information.

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Agenda for Solid Earth AGM:

  1. Welcome to Solid Earth Section – Introductions
  2. Adoption of Agenda
  3. Acceptance of 2019 AGM Minutes
  4. Secretary report
    – Solid Earth Section current membership – breakdown and trends
  5. Treasurer report
    – Solid Earth Section current finances
  6. President report
    – Solid Earth Section current activities & future

    • Banff meeting was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic: we had a good set of Solid Earth sessions, including several sessions that were being run with the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG) and a session sponsored by the Geological Association of Canada (GAC).
    • SES and GAC Geophysics division co-sponsored a field trip “Transect of the Rockies, from the foreland to the trench”, which was to be held between the CGU meeting and GeoConvention; this was also cancelled due to the pandemic.
    • Over the summer, CGU has run a series of oral and poster presentations via Zoom, based on abstracts submitted to the Banff meeting.
    • We are not awarding the SES Best Student Presentation Award this year because of the limited number of students that are doing online presentations (award normally consists of a plaque + $750)
    • The union-level Chevron Canada Outstanding Student Paper in Seismology will be awarded ($500). The completion is being coordinated by SES. The award will be judged based on 5-page extended abstracts; deadline August 21, 2020.
  7. Sessions, other activities at upcoming meetings
    – Banff 2021; Saskatoon 2022; other meetings
  8. Other business
    – SES t-shirts – update from Phil McCausland
    – ideas for new Solid Earth Section initiatives
  9. Adjourn