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View from collecting locality on Kiahera Hill of volcanoes of Rusinga Island

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The DPS will meet next at 7pm on Wednesday, April 8th … at your house!  Or wherever you have a good internet connection.  Due to the coronavirus, the DPS cannot have a face-to-face, physical meeting.  Instead we will hold an online meeting using software called Zoom.  One benefit of this inconvenience is that more people can attend, and none of us have to drive!

Before our meeting, create a free Zoom account at https://zoom.us (it will send a confirmation email before you can continue).  It will then install Zoom.us on your computer (Mac, PC, or Linux).  If you want to use a phone or tablet, you can get the Zoom app from the iOS or Android app store.  After Zoom is installed, click on this link a few minutes before 7pm Central Time on Wednesday, April 8th:

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/189160548?pwd=djE5QXoreHV0c285eWs2NTVyVnBwQT09

If that does not connect you to our meeting, you can join our meeting by entering the meeting ID of 189 160 548 and password of 034276.  During the meeting, you can choose to turn on or off the your video and microphone feeds, so you can be as quiet and invisible as you want to be.

Aly Baumgartner will speak on "What fossil leaves tell us about the paleoclimate and paleoenvironment of the early Miocene Hiwegi Formation, Rusinga Island, Kenya".  Aly is a PhD candidate, and the recipient of a DPS scholarship, at the Department of Geosciences at Baylor University.  She earned her BS from the University of Michigan and an MS in Biology from East Tennessee State University.  Rusinga Island is in the Kenya portion of Lake Victoria, and is a very important site for fossils of early man.

Fossil leaves from E Miocene Hiwegi Fm, Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya

Free Zoom meetings are normally limited to 40 minutes, so we have scheduled a second online meeting for 7:40pm.  Here is the link and information for that second Zoom meeting:

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/569869059?pwd=cTRwa1Jnbmh5VXhqaFgyeUlIdEV1QT09

The meeting ID is 569 869 059 and the password is 096814.  We will switch over to the second meeting ONLY if our time runs out in the first meeting.  In our tests, Zoom graciously extended our time past 40 minutes, so we will probably just continue with the first meeting.  In either case, our speaker can finish up, the audience can ask questions (using audio or online chat), and we will have announcements, news, and reports.

DPS meetings have always been free and open to the public.  Now more than ever.  We usually provide food and beverages at our meetings, but this one is strictly bring-your-own.  Perhaps another benefit to online meetings - you can drink!  We hope to see you there, virtually.