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:
- Welcome to Solid Earth Section – Introductions
- Adoption of Agenda
- Acceptance of 2019 AGM Minutes
- Secretary report
– Solid Earth Section current membership – breakdown and trends - Treasurer report
– Solid Earth Section current finances - 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.
- Sessions, other activities at upcoming meetings
– Banff 2021; Saskatoon 2022; other meetings - Other business
– SES t-shirts – update from Phil McCausland
– ideas for new Solid Earth Section initiatives - Adjourn