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Thanks to Mark's generous donation, this month's meeting featured a curbside Rock hounding experience, Lots of happy faces and hands, bags full of various materials!

Thank you to our U Of O scholarship recipients for last night presentations. Maryn’s talk focused on the debris flows that take place during heavy rainstorms, commonly referred to as landslides. The talk focused on how they occur, what geologic conditions make them possible, and how forest fires and other natural disasters can worsen their effects, making them much more devastating. These studies can help us create temporary barriers along known debris paths in order to mitigate damage to the affected areas and send most of the debris away from urban developments. Asif’s talk focused on his studies looking into the elasticity of different large scale geological formations and those varying materials change the landscapes around us as well as how they ca impact earthquake behavior. The subduction zones on the Oregon Coast have a wide variety of elastic materials that allow us great insight into how tectonic pressures can be measured in a much broader way.

The turn out of our Thunderegg story time and Thunderegg birthday was a hit! We will still be handing out Thundereggs until we run out or 3pm. Thank you Springfield Public Library for having us today

Thank you Janice Van Cura for giving a wonderful presentation on Thundereggs at our January meeting!

We still have quite a few tote bags leftover from the Club show, so you're more than welcome to purchase one or more at most any meetings or community events. They make for great gifts and convenient shopping bags to show off to your friends you’re in one of the coolest clubs in the state