Geo-philately workshop; IGY and philately presentation

In the next couple of months, I am involved in two events relating to my stamp collecting interests. Of course, my main interest is in the IGY (duh) and related stamps and covers. More recently I have also been collecting covers related to U.S. earthquakes. I would include both of these under the rubric of "geo-philately," or stamp collecting related to the geosciences.

One of the major professional geoscience societies is the Geological Society of America, with some 20,000 members. There is an annual national meeting, and also annual regional meetings. This year the Northeastern Section meeting is here in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Several people associated with Franklin & Marshall College and Millersville University (and others) are on the organizing committee. I am in charge of workshops/short courses, and I'm also convening an online short course on geo-philately. Anyone, regardless of GSA membership, can participate. Since the workshop is online, you do not have to physically attend the meeting. I hope the workshop would have something to offer to established collectors, beginners, and people who are just curious. There will be two featured presenters, and short presentations from anyone else who would like to (time permitting). Here is a link with the current blurb for this workshop. Registration for the workshop can be done here.

Please contact me if you have interest or questions or suggestions for this workshop. You can leave me a comment via the blog, or send an email to rssternberg@gmail.com.

The second event is a presentation I will make on my IGY collection at a regular virtual meeting of the Philatelic Society of Lancaster County. I am scheduled for Wednesday, April 27, during the group's bimonthly meeting that lasts from 6:30-8:00 pm, Eastern time. The meeting is open to all, so see the web page for instructions on how you can join in to the Zoom meeting.

The description of the talk is as follows: 

A Thematic Collection on the International Geophysical Year, 1957-58, by Rob Sternberg. 

The International Geophysical Year (1957-1958) was an ambitious cooperative enterprise involving thousands of scientists from sixty-seven nations. A great variety of experiments and measurements were made on, above, and below the Earth's surface. The first artificial satellites were launched as part of the IGY, and there were coordinated and extensive scientific studies of Antarctica and the Arctic. Geophysicist Rob Sternberg will tell the story of the IGY through stamps, covers, and other related ephemera and memorabilia.