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2013 GSA Division primary Award Recipients

GSA Division   Award Name
GSA Awards
Division Awards
Section Awards

Awardees are honored each year at the GSA Presidential Address & Awards Ceremony at the GSA Annual Meeting.

  • Citations & responses will be posted to this page following the Annual Meeting in October.

To view Citations & Responses from past years, visit the links below.


Past Recipients

Archaeological Geology Rip Rapp Archaeological Geology Award
Coal Geology Gilbert H. Cady Award
Engineering Geology E.B. Burwell, Jr., Award
Geoinformatics Outstanding Contributions Award
Geophysics George P. Woollard Award
Geoscience Education Biggs Earth Science Teaching Award
History and Philosophy of Geology Mary C. Rabbitt History of Geology Award
Hydrogeology O. E. Meinzer Award
Limnogeology Israel C. Russell Award
Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Distinguished Geologic Career Award
Planetary Geology G. K. Gilbert Award
Quaternary Geology & Geomorphology Kirk Bryan Award for Research Excellence
Sedimentary Geology Laurence L. Sloss Award
Structural Geology & Tectonics Career Contribution Award

top2013 Rip Rapp Archaeological Geology Award

William I. Woods
William I. Woods
University of Kansas

About the Award | Past Recipients (click on "Awards")
Visit the Archaeological Geology Division Web site

top2013 Gilbert H. Cady Award

Fariborz Goodarzi
Fariborz Goodarzi
University of Calgary

About the Award | Past Recipients
Visit the Coal Geology Division Web site

top2013 E.B. Burwell, Jr., Award

Luis Gonzalez de Vallejo Mercedes Ferrer

for:
2011, Geological Engineering: Taylor & Francis Publishers, 700 p.

 

About the Award | Past Recipients   (click on Awards > E.B. Burwell)
Visit the Environmental and Engineering Geology Division Web site

 

 

Luis Gonzalez de Vallejo
Universidad Complutense
de Madrid

Mercedes Ferrer
Geological Survey of Spain

top2013 Outstanding Contributions in Geoinformatics

Clifford A. Jacobs
Clifford A. Jacobs
National Science Foundation

About the Award | Past Recipients
Visit the Geoinformatics Division Web site

top2013 George P. Woollard Award

Peter Bird
Peter Bird
University of California at Los Angeles (emeritus)

About the Award | Past Recipients
Visit the Geophysics Geology Division Web site

top2013 Biggs Award for Excellence in Earth Science Teaching

John G. Van Hoesen
John G. Van Hoesen
Green Mountain College

About the Award | Past Recipients
Visit the Geoscience Education Division Web site

top2013 Mary C. Rabbitt History and Philosophy of Geology Award

Leonard Gilchrist Wilson
Leonard Gilchrist Wilson
University of Minnesota (emeritus)

About the Award | Past Recipients
Visit the History and Philosophy of Geology Division Web site

top2013 O.E. Meinzer Award

Chunmiao Zheng
Chunmiao Zheng
University of Alabama

About the Award | Past Recipients
Visit the Hydrogeology Division Web site

top2013 Israel C. Russell Award

Kevin M. Bohacs
Kevin M. Bohacs
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co.

About the Award and How to Nominate
Visit the Limnogeology Division Web site

top2013 Distinguished Geologic Career Award (MGPV Division)

Gerhard Wörner
Gerhard Wörner
Georg August Universität Göttingen

About the Award | Past Recipients
Visit the Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology (MGPV) Division Web site

top2013 G. K. Gilbert Award

Alan D. Howard
Alan D. Howard
University of Virginia

About the Award | Past Recipients
Visit the Planetary Division Web site

top2013 Kirk Bryan Award

P.K. House P.A. Pearthree M.E. Perkins

P.K. House
Nevada Bureau of
Mines and Geology

P.A. Pearthree
Arizona
Geological Survey

M.E. Perkins
University of Utah

for:
2008, Stratigraphic evidence for the role of lake spillover in the inception of the lower Colorado River in southern Nevada and western Arizona, in Reheis, M.C., Hershler, R., and Miller, D.M., eds., Late Cenozoic Drainage History of the Southwestern Great Basin and Lower Colorado River Region: Geologic and Biotic Perspectives: GSA Special Paper 439, p. 335–354.

 

About the Award | Past Recipients
(click on Awards > Kirk Bryan > Past Recipients)
Visit the Quaternary Geology & Geomorphology Division Web site

top2013 Laurence L. Sloss Award

Fred Read
Fred Read
Virginia Tech (emeritus)

About the Award | Past Recipients
Visit the Sedimentary Geology Division Web site

top2013 Structural Geology & Tectonics Career Contribution Award

Peter J. Hudleston
Peter J. Hudleston
University of Minnesota

About the Award | Past Recipients
Visit the Structural Geology & Tectonics Division Web site

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