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GSA Member News
2012
May
- GSA student member Brendan Paddack, an undergrad at Indiana State University, earned the award for best undergraduate student poster at the Crossroads Geological Conference in Terre Haute, Indiana USA. He will present his paper "Benthic Foraminifera Living along the California Margin: A Transect Across the Oxygen Minimum Zone," at the GSA annual meeting this fall.
[ learn more ] - The career of GSA Fellow and GSA Bulletin editor Hope Jahren is highlighted in a 7 May Highly Allochthonous blog post "Hope Jahren, isotope detective."
April
- GSA Fellow Dennis Kent, a leading expert in the history of Earth's magnetic field, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Other members of the 2012 class include U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, playwright Neil Simon, and Hollywood director Clint Eastwood.
[ learn more ] - GSA Member Michael Mann has been awarded the European Geosciences Union's 2012 Oeschger Medal "for his significant contributions to understanding decadal–centennial scale climate change over the last two millennia and for pioneering techniques to synthesize patterns and northern hemispheric time series of past climate using proxy data reconstructions."
[ learn more ] - GSA Members Susan L. Brantley, Distinguished Professor of Geosciences in the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State, and Patricia Dove, C.P. Miles Professor of Science at Virginia Tech, have been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
[ learn more ] - GSA Fellow Sean C. Solomon, "a leading geophysicist whose research has combined studies of the deep earth with missions to the moon and the solar system’s inner planets," has been appointed as director of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
[ learn more ] - GSA Fellow David R. Lageson of Montana State University (MSU) is a climber on the current North Face/National Geographic/MSU Mount Everest expedition and will take on the mountain's Southeast Ridge.
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February
- Congratulate your fellow GSA members who were nominated as AAAS and AGU Fellows in 2011.
2011
October
- 4 Oct.: President Obama Honors Quake-Catcher Network Inventor Elizabeth Cochran (GSA Fellow).
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September
- 15 Sept.: GSA Fellow Paul Hsieh, a research hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, has earned the Federal Employee of the Year medal for providing critical scientific information during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
[ learn more ] - 14 Sept.: GSA Member Joan Kleypas, a marine ecologist and geologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, USA, has been named the 2011 recipient of the Heinz Awards for her work studying the effects of climate change on coral reefs. The Heinz Award recognizes excellence in "individuals creating and implementing workable solutions to the problems the world faces through invention, research, and education, while inspiring the next generation of modern thinkers."
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August
- 31 Aug.: GSA Fellow Philip Christensen, principal investigator for numerous instruments of Mars exploration carried on NASA spacecraft, has been named the 2011 Eugene Shoemaker Memorial Award recipient by Arizona State University in honor of his life's work on "Unlocking the Mysteries of the Red Planet."
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June
- 30 June: GSA member Alfred McEwen, professor of planetary science at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, has been awarded NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal for his work as principal investigator on the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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May
- GSA Fellow Naomi Oreskes has been named Climate Change Communicator of the Year (the “4C Award”) by the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication.
[ learn more ] - The American Geological Institute (AGI) has awarded GSA Fellow Robert H. Dott Jr., professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, its 2011 Marcus Milling Legendary Geoscientist Medal in recognition of his "long history of scientific achievement and exceptional service to the geoscience profession."
April
- 5 April: GSA Fellow and 1992 Penrose Medalist John Dewey has been honored by the Australian Academy of Science by being elected as a "Corresponding Member." Corresponding Members are "eminent scientists residing overseas who have developed links with scientific institutes in Australia and maintain strong ties with Australian scientists."
[ learn more ] - The Geochemical Society and The European Association of Geochemistry have bestowed the honorary title of Geochemistry Fellow to the following GSA Fellows, honoring them as outstanding scientists who have made major contributions to the field of geochemistry: GSA Fellow Samuel Bowring of MIT; GSA Fellow Katherine Freeman of Penn State; GSA Fellow Terry Plank of the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory; and GSA Fellow John W. Valley of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
February
- GSA Fellow and 2000 Day Medalist Stephen J. Sparks of Bristol University has been awarded the Geological Society's (London) highest honor: the Wollaston Medal, given to geologists who have had a significant influence by means of a substantial body of excellent research in "pure" and/or "applied" aspects of the science. Sparks will receive the award on the Society's on President's Day, 8 June 2011.
- GSA Fellow Christopher Paola of the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities has been awarded the Geological Society's (London) Murchison Medal, given to geoscientists who have made a significant contribution to the science by means of a substantial body of "hard rock" research. Paola will receive the award at the Society's President's Day celebrations, 8 June 2011.
- GSA Member Alexander Densmore of Durham University has been awarded the Geological Society's (London) Bigsby Medal, awarded to a geoscientist under 45 years of age who studies American geology. Densmore will receive the award at the Society's President's Day celebrations, 8 June 2011.
January
- GSA member Steven A.F. Smith has been awarded the Ramsay Medal for his paper "Interactions between low-angle normal faults and plutonism in the upper crust: Insights from the Island of Elba, Italy" (GSA Bulletin, v. 123 no. 1-2 p. 329-346, doi: 10.1130/B30200.1). The Ramsay Medal is awarded to the best paper published by a postgraduate based on his or her doctoral thesis work and is open to candidates worldwide. It is one of the premier postgraduate research awards in Europe.
- GSA Fellow Stan Totten has been honored with Hall of Fame award from the Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources for his many contributions toward understanding Ohio's geology.
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