2025 Pacific Cell Friends of the Pleistocene Field Conference
Ridgecrest, California
When: 24-26 October 2025
Save the Date Announcement
Save the Date! Friends of the Pleistocene: Searles Valley Field Trip Oct 24-26, 2025
Dear colleagues,
We’re excited to announce the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Pleistocene in Searles Valley, California happening October 24-26! This trip will revisit the 2019 Ridgecrest rupture zones and explore new data from paleoseismology, satellite mapping, shoreline chronologies, and deformation along the Garlock fault system.
Confirmed trip leaders include Steve Bacon, Ian Pierce, Sally McGill, Colin Chupik, Chris Madugo, Kathleen Rodrigues, Maggie Duncan, Fred Phillips, Chris Milliner, Ken Hudnut, and Zac Smith. We’re still recruiting additional leads—let us know if you’d like to contribute.
Our stops will include Searles Valley shorelines and lacustrine history, paleoseismic trenches, 6-year-old surface ruptures, and key Garlock fault offset sites. We have a plethora of new luminescence ages to share.
Guidebook contributions are due September 15. If you’d like to write up recent work, lead a stop, or help in any way, reply to this email or reach out to Ian or Steve.
Mark your calendars and get ready for a fantastic long weekend in the Mojave!
-Ian, Steve & the Searles Valley Beach Club
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