We all work hard at creating beautiful and informative illustrations.  Please share your creations and accomplishments with the group.  Just email me and I can pop it onto the website.  

Here you can see Véronique Robigou artistic rendering of Dr. Ian S.E. Charmichael's amazing academic legacy. This was published in the journal "Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology".
September 2013, Volume 166, Issue 3, pp 655-663.

We gained many new members in 2013.  I just want to say "welcome!"  I have created a few new profiles including Barbara Ierulli. If you want a page, email me your bio and a handful of images.  The images should be large enough to fill the space allotted on the screen.  Just about 9x9in.  

Learn more about February's workshop here.  

As I have announced before, I will be moving out of the area.  My new home will officially be Pittsburgh, PA in January.  Buurrrrrrr.  This is far far from the PNW.  

Therefore, an awesome opportunity to become president of GNSI NW will be available.  If you are interested, just email me at saraj@sarajcary.com for more details.  If you are intimated by the idea, so was I, but it was been great. 

****UPDATE to post!  Forms have been removed.  If you need them, please reference the email you were sent in regards to the forms or email Margaret Trent at mgtpnba@mgtrent.com.****

Attached to this e-mail, both the 'Call to Artists' and the 'Art and Inventory Registration Form' for the 2014 Miller Library Exhibit  

As you are likely aware members of GNSI are welcome to participate in this exhibit. There is a small entry fee of $10. 

Since the Miller Exhibit follows on almost immediately from the exhibit at the WSCC we will be arranging for artwork to be transferred.  If you are having your worked transferred from the WSCC Exhibit, you still need to fill out the forms attached. 
 
To request the 'Call to Artists' and 'Art and Inventory Registration Form', or if you have any questions, please e-mail Margaret Trent at mgtpnba@mgtrent.com.

Thanks! 

Presenter: Dennis Paulson

Registration from HERE!  Enrollment is limited to 15 students.   Note:  If you can not view form, try a different web browser or email me at saraj@sarajcary.com

Timeline

• December 5th, 2013 - Enrollment opens for GNSI Members 
• January 20th, 2014 - Enrollment opens for Non-GNSI Members
• February 10th, 2014 - Enrollment closes 
• February 15th, 2014 - Date of workshop 

Details

• Date: February 15th, 2014
  
• Time: 9:00-4:00
  
• Location number ONE: Slater Museum (Room 265) from 9:00-12:45 -University of Puget Sound 1500 N. Warner St. #1088 Tacoma, WA 98416-1088-
• Location number TWO: Titlow Beach after lunch. -8425 6th Ave, Tacoma, WA 98465-
• Supplies to bring:  Bring warm clothes, walking shoes and binoculars for our field trip and your preferred art supplies for the museum. If it rains hard or snows, that much more time for drawing or painting.
• Cost:  GNSI NW Members will pay $15.00 to enroll (Non-GNSI NW Members will pay $25 to enroll or $35 to enroll + become a member). This is payable to GNSI-NW, P.O. Box 95721, Seattle, WA 98145 or you can Syliva Portillo (206) 938-1668 to pay with a credit/debit card. Note: there will be a small fee (3.75% or  2.75%) if a card is used. 
• Members meeting at 12:00-12:45.  Open to all members, not just workshop attendees 
• Lunch from 12:00-12:45.  Bring a lunch.  Light snacks will be provided.  Note: lunch and members meeting time is an estimation. 
• CARPOOLING?!:  Thought it would be great if people could carpool.  If you are interested in giving or taking a ride, please leave a comment to on the post below.  Check back often to see if any rides are available. 

Topic: The workshop will present a variety of birds up close and personal, Slater Museum specimens that can be examined and rendered into art. The museum has skins, wings, skeletons, and eggs of just about all Pacific Northwest birds, so feel free to make requests. After lunch we will go out in the field to Titlow Beach to see what birds we can find. There should be a variety of waterfowl (wigeons, scoters, mergansers, Buffleheads), gulls and other seabirds (grebes, guillemots) and as many small land birds (sparrows, wrens, thrushes) as we can find in the woods there.

Presenter Bio: Dennis Paulson, recently retired from being Director of the Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound, has been a professional biologist and naturalist all of his adult life. He began studying natural history as a boy and is a world expert on dragonflies and shorebirds. He is the author of nine books, including Shorebirds of North America and Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West, and 90 scientific papers on birds and dragonflies.

Map of Slater Museum 

Map of Titlow Beach