2020 Bretz Club Conference and Field Trip

Lordy, Lordy, Look Who’s 40: Mount St. Helens

11^th Annual Bretz Club Conference (Virtual) Schedule

Friday, April 24, 2020: 

9:45am      Log into meeting and pass through waiting room

10:00am    Orientation to Bretz Club

10:05am    Introductions

10:50am    Zoom etiquette 

11:00am    Keynote #1: Richard Waitt (USGS, CVO)

Dark Noon --- Eyewitness Chronicles of Mount St. Helens

12:30pm    Lunch Break with Mount St. Helens stories

1:15pm      Keynote #2: Jon Major (USGS, CVO)

Fluvial development, erosion, and deposition in upper North Fork Toutle valley

2:45pm      Short break

3:00pm      Pop-up presentations (3-minutes each) on whatever 

4:30pm      General announcements and farewell

*NEW* Supporting materials of interest:

• A short ‘perspective’ piece written by Jon Major for MSH 40^th anniversary has just come out in Science.  The link to the piece is:  https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6492/704

• Lessons from a Post-Eruption Landscape, Four decades of research into biophysical responses to the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens have vastly improved our understanding of how landscapes react to cataclysmic disturbances. https://eos.org/features/lessons-from-a-post-eruption-landscape

• Major, J.J., Grant, G.E., Sweeney, K., and Mosbrucker, A.R., 2020, A multidecade analysis of fluvial geomorphic evolution of the Spirit Lake blockage, Mount St. Helens, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2020-5027, 54 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20205027.