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GSA Member News Archive
 2007
December 2007
- GSA Fellow and past President of the Society of Economic Geologists Siegfried Muessig has been appointed to the Yellowcake Mining Inc. board of directors.
- Dawn J. Wright, Professor of Geography and Oceanography at Oregon State University, was among the recipients of 2007's U.S. Professors of the Year Award, bestowed by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. According to the award's website (http://www.usprofessorsoftheyear.org), "winners are chosen on the basis of their extraordinary dedication to undergraduate teaching, determined by excellence in the following four areas: impact on and involvement with undergraduate students; scholarly approach to teaching and learning; contributions to undergraduate education in the institution, community and profession; and support from colleagues and current and former undergraduate students."
October 2007
- GSA Member Cynthia L. Dinwiddie, a senior research engineer in the Geosciences and Engineering Division at the Southwest Research Institute, has been selected to receive the 2007 Rossiter W. Raymond Memorial Award from the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) and the 2007 Alfred Noble Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
September 2007
- Pine Brook Road Partners today announced it has named Craig Jarchow as managing director. Jarchow has more than 15 years of experience in the energy business, in both operations and investing roles. He is a senior lecturer at the Sloan School, a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, and serves on the Stanford School of Earth Sciences.
- GSA Fellow Michael Hochella has been appointed University Distinguished Professor in the College of Science at Virginia Tech. A Virginia Tech press release notes that this rank is bestowed upon no more than 1% of its faculty for scholarly achievement that has attracted national and/or international recognition. Hochella's awards include the Geochemical Society's Distinguished Service Medal and the Alexander von Humboldt research award.
- GSA Field Guide 7, 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Centennial Field Guides; Field trips associated with the 100th Anniversary Conference, 18-23 April 2006, San Francisco, California, has received the Geoscience Information Society (GSIS) Best Guidebook Award for 2007. The field guide was edited by GSA Fellows Carol S. Prentice, Judith G. Scotchmoor, Eldridge M. Moores, and Jon P. Kiland. The book and its editors will be honored at the GSIS awards luncheon at the 2007 GSA Annual Meeting in Denver on Tuesday, 30 October, from noon to 2 p.m.
June 2007
- Recent award recipients at the Geoscience Information Society (GSIS) annual meeting included a few GSA Fellows: GSA Fellows Felix M. Gradstein, James G. Ogg, and Alan G. Smith received the Mary B. Ansari Best Reference Work Award for their text and wall chart, A Geologic Time Scale (2004). GSA Fellows Scott Southworth and William Burton, along with their collaborators at the U.S. Geological Survey, received the GSIS Best Guidebook Award for Geology of the National Capital Region (2004). The GSIS Best Paper Award went to GSA Fellow Cathy A. Manduca and colleagues for "Influencing user behavior through digital library design: An example from the geosciences" (2005).
- GSA Senior Fellow William L. Fisher is the recipient of the 2007 Marcus Milling Legendary Geoscientist Medal. This award was established by the American Geological Institute (AGI) in 1999 to honor geoscientists who have demonstrated a long history of scientific achievement and exceptional service to the geoscience profession.
- The William B. Heroy Jr. Award for Distinguished Service to AGI goes to another GSA Senior Fellow, Thomas D. Barrow. Recipients of this award are measured against the exemplary career of Heroy, who advanced the use of geophysics in petroleum exploration and in geologic research worldwide and provided outstanding service to AGI and to the geoscience profession as a whole.
March 2007
- Allison R. "Pete" Palmer, Institute for Cambrian Studies, received Boulder, Colorado's, 2006 Pacesetter Award for Science. The award recognizes Palmer's contributions to public understanding of geoscience.
- Eugene Domack, Hamilton College, was appointed to the newly created Joel W. Johnson Family Professorship in Environment Studies endowed chair. He will hold the position for five years.
- Christopher Paola, University of Minnesota, has been named a Founding Fellow of the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment.
- Victor Jaramillo, P.Geo., has been appointed Manager of Exploration and Development by Consolidated Spire Ventures Ltd. to oversee company projects in the Spences Bridge Gold Belt (Canada) and Campanario Gold-Silver Property (Mexico).
February 2007
- GSA Fellow and past president (2000) Mary Lou Zoback has been appointed vice president of Earthquake Risk Applications at Risk Management Solutions, a private, worldwide corporation founded at Stanford University in 1988. Zoback leaves the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) after 28 years of service, most recently as a senior research scientist with the USGS Earthquake Hazards Team in Menlo Park, California, and regional coordinator for the USGS Northern California Earthquake Hazard Program.
Zoback is a woman of accomplishment. She served as chair of the steering committee for the 1906 Earthquake Centennial Alliance, which helped coordinate the 100th Anniversary Earthquake Conference commemorating the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. She was awarded the American Geophysical Union's Macelwane Award in 1987 for "significant contributions to the geophysical sciences by a young scientist of outstanding ability" and currently serves on the Council of the National Academy of Sciences. Most recently, Zoback was named co-recipient of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute's Northern California Chapter's 2006 Award for Innovation and Exemplary Practice in Earthquake Risk Reduction.
- Jim Reynolds, Associate Professor, Brevard College has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research and teach a seminar at the Universidad Nacional de Salta, Argentina, during the 2007-2008 academic year. Reynolds will investigate the uplift history of the Andes, culminating an 18-year research project that began when he was a Fulbright grantee in Argentina in 1989.
- Owen White has been awarded the 2006 Robert F. Legget Medal by the Canadian Geotechnical Society. White, now retired, formerly held positions at the Ontario Geological Survey and University of Waterloo. The R.F. Legget Medal recognizes significant personal contribution to Canadian understanding of the relationship between civil engineering and engineering geology.
2006
September 2006
- GSA Member Eric J. Barron has been named dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Pennsylvania State University.
- GSA Senior Fellow and Foundation trustee Farouk El-Baz has been elected to the Academy Hassan II of Sciences and Technology of the Kingdom of Morocco.
July 2006
- Former GSA President, GSA Senior Fellow, and 1994 Penrose Medalist Luna B. Leopold has been posthumously awarded the 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth and Environmental Science along with former GSA President, GSA Senior Fellow, and 1999 Penrose Medalist M. Gordon Wolman. Both Leopold and Wolman are recognized for advancing the understanding of how natural and human activities influence landscapes.
- Robert J. Weimer, GSA Senior Fellow, is the recipient of AGI's 2006 Legendary Geoscience Award for his long history of scientific achievement and exceptional service to the geoscience profession. Weimer is professor emeritus at the Colorado School of Mines.
- GSA Senior Fellow Michael F. Sheridan has retired as The State University of New York-University at Buffalo distinguished professor and was honored at an 11–12 May 2006 symposium for his four decade-career dedicated to mitigating geologic catastrophes.
June 2006
- Cameron Davidson has been awarded tenure at Carleton College, where he is associate professor of geology.
- Mary P. Anderson, editor-in-chief of Ground Water and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for her leadership in ground water flow models. She is a former Councilor of GSA.
- Odin D. Christensen has been appointed Chief Geologist and Director of the Company for Dravco Mining Inc.
May 2006
- GSA Senior Fellow Walter Alvarez was awarded the Desert Research Institute's (DRI) 2006 Nevada Medal on 9 March 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Nevada Medal was established in 1988 to recognize outstanding national and international science, engineering, or science in industry. Alvarez is the 2002 GSA Penrose Medalist.
- Farouk El-Baz Elected to The Royal Academy of Sciences and Technology of Morocco
- University of Texas at Austin Names Eric Barron New Dean of Jackson School of Geosciences.
- Hamilton College Geologist Barbara Tewksbury to be Awarded Honorary Degree.
March 2006
- GSA Fellow Brian G. Katz has been awarded the John Hem Excellence in Science and Engineering Award. This award was bestowed at the National Ground Water Association Meeting on 15 December 2005 by the Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers. Katz was cited for his significant advances in the understanding of contaminant movement and groundwater flow patterns in complex karst aquifer systems.
January 2006
- Murray Hitzman, Charles Franklin Fogarty Professor of Economic Geology at the Colorado School of Mines and one of the world's foremost authorities on Iron Oxide Copper-Gold (IOCG) deposits, has joined the Cardero Resource Corporation board of directors. Hitzman is a past GSA Congressional Science Fellow.
- The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has named 376 new AAAS Fellows, recognized for their distinguished contributions to science. In the geology and geography category, the AAAS elected the following: GSA Senior Fellows Bruce A. Bolt, Roger L. Kaesler, and Erle G. Kauffman; GSA Fellows Richard Marston, Peter Molnar, and Youzue Zhang; and GSA Members J. David R. Applegate, Richard M. Forester, and Claude Hillaire-Marcel. These and the other AAAS Fellows will be recognized at the AAAS Annual Meeting in St. Louis on 18 Feb. 2006.
- GSA Senior Fellow Don L. Anderson was inducted into Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Rensselaer Alumni Hall of Fame in September 2006. Anderson, now professor Emeritus of geophysics at California Institute of Technology, is a member of Rensselaer’s class of 1955.
2005
December 2005
- The Antarctic geological drilling program (ANDRILL), led in the U.S. by GSA Fellow Ross Powell and GSA Member David Harwood, has received nearly $12 million in funding from the National Science Foundation. Harwood is the director of the ANDRILL Science Management Office; Powell serves as co-chief scientist for ANDRILL and fellow U.S. co-leader with Harwood.
- GSA Fellow Molly F. Miller has been awarded the 2005 Association for Women Geoscientists Foundation Outstanding Educator Award. The award was bestowed at the AWG breakfast on 17 Oct. 2005 at the GSA Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- GSA Senior Fellow Gerald M. Friedman is the recipient of the American Geological Institute's 2005 Legendary Geoscientist Award. This award is presented to scientists who demonstrate a long history of scientific achievement and exceptional service to the geoscience profession. Friedman is also GSA's 2005 Mary C. Rabbitt History of Geology Awardee.
- GSA Honorary Fellow Sir Nicholas Shackleton has been awarded the Founders Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (London, UK) for advancing international understanding of paleoceanographic and Quaternary environmental change.
September 2005
- Don L. Anderson, Senior Fellow Medalist, was inducted into the Rensselaer Alumni Hall of Fame on 9 September. According to the press release received at GSA Headquarters, "As one of the world's most prominent researchers in the geosciences, Don Anderson epitomizes a tradition of outstanding geologists associated with Rensselaer. He is acknowledged as a fundamental contributor to our understanding of the structures and processes in the interior of the Earth." [ read press release ]
August 2005
- GSA Fellow Eileen Poeter of the Colorado School of Mines has been selected to present the 2006 Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecture Series. As the Darcy lecturer, Poeter will present the talk, "All Models Are Wrong: How Do We Know Which Are Useful?," at colleges and universities throughout the world. The series is sponsored by the National Ground Water Research and Educational Foundation and honors outstanding groundwater professionals.
- Margaret C. Brewer of LaPorta and Associates, L.L.C., Geological Consultants in Warwick, New York, was awarded an Adjunct Professorship in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the State University of New York at Purchase. Dr. Brewer will maintain her Senior Research Scientist status at LaPorta and Associates while she commences her academic career at SUNY Purchase.
July 2005
- GSA Fellow Brian F. Atwater was named to Time magazine's "Time 100," their annual list of "the world's most influential people," published 10 April 2005. Atwater, who is with the U.S. Geological Survey, was recognized for his study of past tsunamis in the Cascadia subduction zone. Atwater is an invited Pardee Keynote Symposia speaker at the 2005 GSA Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, where he will present the 2004 South Asian Tsunami Pardee Symposium (P1) along with GSA Fellow Joanne Bourgeois of the University of Washington.
- The Geological Society (London) presented its 2005 awards at its annual President's Day Meeting on the 18th of May. Among the award recipients were several GSA members. GSA Senior Fellow Ursula Bailey Marvin received the Sue Tyler Friedman award for her distinguished contribution to the recording of the history of geology. Marvin was recognized with GSA's History of Geology Award in 1986. GSL awarded GSA Member Peter Dominic Clift with the Murchison Fund, which rewards noteworthy published research in the earth sciences. GSA member David Gwyn Roberts and GSA Fellow Michael Brown each received GSL's Major Coke Award for significant contributions to the science of geology as well as service to the geoscience community.
- GSA Senior Fellow Samuel S. Adams was presented with the American Institute of Professional Geologists' 2004 Outstanding Achievement Award. Along with his service to other societies (AGI, SEG, and AAPG among others) Adams has served on numerous GSA committees and on Council, and received the GSA Distinguished Service Award in 2002.
June 2005
- GSA Senior Fellow A. Hope Jahren will be awarded the James B. Macelwane Medal on 7 Dec. 2005 at the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting in San Francisco. In 2001, she also was awarded the Geological Society of America's Donath Medal, making her one of only four young scientists ever to have received both prestigious medals, and the only woman.
- GSA Senior Fellow Randolph W. Bromery has been reappointed by President Bush to a three-year term on the President's Committee on the National Medal of Science. Bromery, who was originally appointed in 2003 to fill the remainder of an unexpired term, will now serve through 31 Dec. 2007. Bromery was awarded the GSA Distinguished Service Award in 1999.
- The American Institute of Hydrology's Past President Dr. Pat Leahy, PHG Named Acting Director of the U.S. Geological Survey [ view press release ] .
- Elmo Rawling III, Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, has received the Gladys W. Cole Memorial Research Award for 2004, one of the nation's top geology awards.
May 2005
- Kip Solomon, vice chair of GSA's Hydrogeology Division and NGWA's 2005 Darcy Lecturer, gave a talk on "Inert Gas Tracers in Ground Water" at Baylor University on 22 April 2005. Solomon is at the University of Utah Department of Geology and Geophysics, where he is also director of the Noble Gas Laboratory.
April 2005
- Zeshan Ismat, Assistant Profession of Earth and Environment at Franklin and Marshall College, won a $30,000 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. She was one of 20 chosen from candidates across the nation. She plans to research fold-thrust belt evolution in an internal thrust sheet in the Moroccan Anti-Atlas region.
- Barbara Tewksbury, the William R. Kenan Professor of Geoscience at Hamilton College, gave a free public lecture, “Field Work on an Alien Planet: the Stunning Success of the Mars Exploration Rover Program,” on 1 April at Hamilton. Tewksbury is a former GSA Councilor and past president of AGI. She currently serves as chair of GSA’s Annual Program Committee.
- GSA Member Harry Jol of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and GSA Fellow John F. (Jack) Shroder, Jr., along with several other geomorphologists and geophysicists, were featured in the recent NOVA production "Ancient Refuge in the Holy Land." The exploration of the "Cave of Letters" involved the use of ground-penetrating radar, operated by Jol and University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire graduate Christopher Morton. The program was originally broadcast on PBS on 23 Nov. 2004.
- GSA Member Patricia Bobeck received the inaugural S. Edmund Berger Prize for Excellence in Scientific and Technical Translation from the American Foundation for Translation and Interpretation at the 2004 meeting of the American Translators Association. She received the prize for her English translation of Henry Darcy's 1856 The Public Fountains of the City of Dijon. Darcy's account of the planning and construction of Dijon's water distribution system in 1840 includes a detailed description of the experiments that led to the formulation of Darcy's Law.
March 2005
- Long-time GSA member (and former Colorado state survey director) John Rold, was on the Channel 4 News (March 2), talking about a state project in Silver Plume to evaluate and contain the tumbling of a large boulder onto the town of Silver Plume. The rock is apparently endangering the town fire station and other property — as well as lives. Karlon said Rold is a staunch supporter of the Rocky Mountain section meetings and a volunteer in GSA mentor programs.
February 2005
- A. Hope Jahren, an associate professor in The Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University, will be awarded the James B. Macelwane Medal …
2004
December 2004
August 2004
- Cahit Coruh, was conferred with the title "professor emeritus" in the College of Science at Virginia Tech.
- GSA Members elected to IGC office: Peter T. Bobrowsky, secretary general; Eldridge Moores, co-vice president. Ryo Matsumoto, councilor.
- GSA Members elected to Geological Association of Canada office: David Piper, vice president, Geological Association of Canada. Jim Ryan, Councilor.
July 2004
- GSA Members elected to Association of American State Geologists office: Robert G. Marvinney, president; Peter A. Scholle, president-elect; Scott W. Tinker, vice president; Edmond G. Deal, secretary; Berry H. (Nick) Tew Jr., treasurer.
June 2004
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