Honors & Awards

2009 Award & Medal Recipients

GSA Awards	Division and Other Awards
Penrose Medal Day Medal Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal) GSA Public Service Award GSA President's Medal Bromery Award for Minorities GSA Distinguished Service Award Subaru Outstanding Woman in Science Award Honorary Fellows AGI Medal in Memory of Ian Campbell    [ About the Awards  |  Past Recipients ]	GSA Divisions - Named Awards John C. Frye Memorial Award in Environmental Geology Michel T. Halbouty Distinguished Lecturer Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecturer National Awards
	Teacher Awards
	Biggs Award for Excellence in Earth Science Teaching Outstanding Earth Science Teacher Awards (OEST)
Citations & Responses view individually (link beside photo), download GSA Awards [812 KB PDF] also see Division Awards	Awardees were honored at the GSA Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon USA (17 Oct. 2009). View Citations & Responses from past years. Available texts are names with links.

2009 Penrose Medal

How to nominate Nominations Deadline: 1 February
Past Medalists	About the Award

B. Clark Burchfiel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Citation by Gregory A. Davis
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See Updated Response [12/9/09]

2009 Arthur L. Day Medal

How to nominate Nominations Deadline: 1 February
Past Medalists	About the Award

T. Mark Harrison
University of California at Los Angeles

Citation by Frederick J. Ryerson
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2009 Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal)

How to nominate Nominations Deadline: 1 February
Past Medalists	About the Award

Cin-Ty A. Lee
Rice University

Citation by Roberta L. Rudnick
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2009 GSA Public Service Award

How to nominate Nominations Deadline: 1 February
Past Recipients	About the Award

Bruce F. Molnia
U.S. Geological Survey–Reston

Citation by John F. Shroder Jr.
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2009 GSA President's Medal

Nominated only by GSA President.
Past Recipients	About the Award

Judge John E. Jones III
Federal Judge, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Citation by Judith Totman Parrish
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2009 Bromery Award for Minorities

How to nominate Nominations Deadline: 1 February
Past Recipients	About the Award

John T. Leftwich
Halliburton Company

Citation by Terry Engelder
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2009 GSA Distinguished Service Award

How to nominate Nominations Deadline: 1 February
Past Recipients	About the Award

Karl E. Karlstrom
University of New Mexico

Citation by Brendan Murphy
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2009 Subaru Outstanding Woman in Science Award

How to nominate Nominations Deadline: 1 February
Past Recipients	About the Award
This award sponsored by Subaru of America, Inc.

Jaime D. Barnes
University of Texas at Austin

Citation by
Zachary D. Sharp and Jane Selverstone
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2009 Honorary Fellow

GSA is no longer accepting nominations for Honorary Fellows
Past Recipients	About the Award

Xavier Le Pichon
Collège de France, Aix-en-Provence

2009 AGI Medal in Memory of Ian Campbell

To make a nomination, please visit www.agiweb.org.

Jonathan G. Price
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Citation by James M. Robertson
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