W. Storrs Cole Memorial Research Award
The W. Storrs Cole Memorial Research Award was established to support research in invertebrate micropaleontology. It will be given each year to a GSA Member or Fellow between 30 and 65 years of age who has published one or more significant papers on micropaleontology. Funds cannot be used for work already accomplished, but recipients of a previous award may reapply if additional support is needed to complete their work.
W. Storrs Cole passed away on June 14, 1989, at the age of 86. Dr. Cole had been a Fellow of GSA for 58 years and was one of the Society's leading benefactors. The first presentation of this award was in 1991.
The 2018 recipient, Dorothy Pak, UCSB, Marine Science Institute, is the 2018 recipient of the W. Storrs Cole Fund for research in benthic foraminiferal assemblage changes across previously identified sea surface temperature transitions. She was awarded $6,500 from the W. Storrs Cole Fund for her work, "Reconstructing North Pacific ecosystem response to climate transitions of the past 2000 years using foraminiferal proxies."
Past Recipients:
- 2017 - Jessica Pilarczyk, University of Southern Mississippi
- 2016 - Phoebe A. Cohen, Williams College
- 2015 - Soma Baranwal, CAGE, University of Tromso
- 2014 - Miriam E. Katz, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- 2013 - Susannah M. Porter, University of California Santa Barbara
- 2012 - Eduardo Leorri, East Carolina University
- 2011 - Atsushi Ando, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
- 2010 - Richard H. Fluegeman, Ball State University
- 2009 - Michael A. Kaminski, University College London
- 2008 - Lance L. Lambert , University of Texas, San Antonio
- 2007 - Benjamin P. Horton, University of Pennsylvania
- 2006 - Amelia E. Shevenell, University of Washington
- 2005 - Daniela Natalie Schmidt, Bristol University
- 2004 - Catherine E. Stickley, Cardiff University
- 2003 - Joan M. Bernhard, University of South Carolina
- 2002 - John R. Groves, University of Northern Iowa
- 2001 - No Award Given
- 2000 - No Award Given
- 1999 - T. Markham Puckett, University of Alabama
- 1998 - Susan T. Goldstein, University of Georgia
- 1997 - Charles A. Ross, Bellingham, Washington
- 1996 - Ellen Thomas, Wesleyan University
- 1995 - Barun Kumar Sen Gupta, Louisiana State University
- 1994 - Pamela Hallock Muller, University of South Florida
- 1993 - Jere H. Lipps, University of California, Berkeley
- 1992 - William A. Berggren, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- 1991 - Robert C. Thunell, University of South Carolina