Gladys W. Cole Memorial Research Award
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The Gladys W. Cole Memorial Research Award is restricted to investigation of the geomorphology of semiarid and arid terrains in the United States and Mexico. 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 in geomorphology. 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.
The Gladys W. Cole Memorial Research Fund was established in 1980 by Dr. W. Storrs Cole in memory of his wife. The first award was presented in 1982. Dr. Cole passed away in 1989. He had been a fellow of GSA for 58 years and was one of the Society's leading benefactors.
The 2020 recipient, Judson Finley, Utah State University, was awarded $6,500 from the Gladys W. Cole Fund for research documenting cosmogenic radionuclide exposure chronology, for his work on, "Late Holocene Arroyo Dynamics and the Evolution of an Early Dryland Agricultural Community in Dinosaur National Monument, Utah."
Past Recipients:
- 2019 - Glenn Thackray, Idaho State University
- 2018 - Joan Florsheim, University of California, Santa Barbara
- 2017 - No award given.
- 2016 - Sara L. Rathburn, Colorado State University
- 2015 - Lyman P. Persico, Mercyhurst University
- 2014 - Kyle Nichols, Skidmore College
- 2013 - Thad A. Wasklewicz, East Carolina University
- 2012 - Vance T. Holliday, University of Arizona
- 2011 - David W. Marchetti, Western State College of Colorado
- 2010 - Kathleen Nicoll, University of Utah
- 2009 - Mark R. Sweeney, University of South Dakota
- 2008 - Benjamin J.C. Laabs, SUNY Geneseo
- 2007 - Martha Cary Eppes, University of North Carolina Charlotte
- 2006 - Elizabeth B. Safran, Lewis and Clark College
- 2005 - Kenneth Errol Lepper, North Dakota State University
- 2004 - J Elmo Rawling, 3rd, University of Wisconsin, Platteville
- 2003 - David E. Wilkins, Boise State University
- 2002 - Cassandra Rose Fenton, University of Utah
- 2001 - Dorothy Sack, Ohio University
- 2000 - Joel L. Pederson, Utah State University
- 1999 - Grant A. Meyer, Middlebury College
- 1998 - Steven L. Forman, University of Illinois
- 1997 - Peter U. Clark, Oregon State University
- 1996 - Vance Terrell Holliday, University of Wisconsin
- 1995 - Robert S. Anderson, University of California, Santa Cruz
- 1994 - Ellen Eva Wohl, Colorado State University
- 1993 - Nicholas Lancaster, Desert Research Institute
- 1992 - R. Craig Kochel, Bucknell University
- 1991 - Stephen Gene Wells, University of New Mexico
- 1990 - No Award Given
- 1989 - No Award Given
- 1988 - Richard A. Young, SUNY Geneseo
- 1987 - No Award Given
- 1986 - Peter W. Birkeland, University of Colorado
- 1985 - Athol D. Abrahams, SUNY at Buffalo
- 1984 - William L. Graf, Arizona State University
- 1983 - No Award Given
- 1982 - William J. Breed, Flagstaff, Arizona