Honors & Awards

2013 GSA Division primary Award Recipients

GSA Division   Award Name
Current
GSA Awards
Division and
Section Awards

Citations & Responses

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Past Recipients
Archaeological Geology Rip Rapp Archaeological Geology Award
Coal Geology Gilbert H. Cady Award
Engineering Geology E.B. Burwell, Jr., Award
Geoinformatics Outstanding Contributions Award
Geophysics George P. Woollard Award
Geoscience Education Biggs Earth Science Teaching Award
History and Philosophy of Geology Mary C. Rabbitt History of Geology Award
Hydrogeology O. E. Meinzer Award
International Section Distinguished Career Award
Limnogeology Israel C. Russell Award
Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Distinguished Geologic Career Award
Planetary Geology G. K. Gilbert Award
Quaternary Geology & Geomorphology Kirk Bryan Award for Research Excellence
Sedimentary Geology Laurence L. Sloss Award
Structural Geology & Tectonics Career Contribution Award

top2013 Rip Rapp Archaeological Geology Award

William I. Woods William I. Woods
University of Kansas

Citation by William Doolittle
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Visit the Archaeological Geology Division Web site

top2013 Gilbert H. Cady Award

Fariborz Goodarzi Fariborz Goodarzi
University of Calgary

Citation by Thomas Gentzis
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Visit the Coal Geology Division Web site

top2013 E.B. Burwell, Jr., Award

Luis Gonzalez de Vallejo Mercedes Ferrer

for:
2011, Geological Engineering: Taylor & Francis Publishers, 700 p.

 

Citation by Paul M. Santi
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About the Award | Past Recipients   (click on Awards > E.B. Burwell)
Visit the Environmental and Engineering Geology Division Web site

Luis Gonzalez de Vallejo
Universidad Complutense
de Madrid

Mercedes Ferrer
Geological Survey
of Spain

top2013 Outstanding Contributions in Geoinformatics

Clifford A. Jacobs Clifford A. Jacobs
National Science Foundation

Citation by Tim Killeen and Lee Allison
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top2013 George P. Woollard Award

Peter Bird Peter Bird
University of California at Los Angeles (emeritus)

Citation by Eugene D. Humphries
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top2013 Biggs Award for Excellence in Earth Science Teaching

John G. Van Hoesen John G. Van Hoesen
Green Mountain College

Citation by James Harding
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top2013 Mary C. Rabbitt History and Philosophy of Geology Award

Leonard Gilchrist Wilson Leonard Gilchrist Wilson
University of Minnesota (emeritus)

Citation by Robert H. Dott
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top2013 O.E. Meinzer Award

Chunmiao Zheng Chunmiao Zheng
University of Alabama

Citation by Mary P. Anderson
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top2013 International Section Distinguished Career Award

B. Clark Burchfiel B. Clark Burchfiel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Citation by An Yin
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top2013 Israel C. Russell Award

Kevin M. Bohacs Kevin M. Bohacs
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co.

Citation by Elizabeth H. Gierlowski-Kordesch
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About the Award and How to Nominate
Visit the Limnogeology Division Web site

top2013 Distinguished Geologic Career Award (MGPV Division)

Gerhard Wörner Gerhard Wörner
Georg August Universität Göttingen

Citation by Russell S. Harmon
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top2013 G. K. Gilbert Award

Alan D. Howard Alan D. Howard
University of Virginia

Citation by William E. Dietrich
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top2013 Kirk Bryan Award

P.K. House P.A. Pearthree M.E. Perkins

for:
2008, Stratigraphic evidence for the role of lake spillover in the inception of the lower Colorado River in southern Nevada and western Arizona, in Reheis, M.C., Hershler, R., and Miller, D.M., eds., Late Cenozoic Drainage History of the Southwestern Great Basin and Lower Colorado River Region: Geologic and Biotic Perspectives: GSA Special Paper 439, p. 335–354.

 

Citation by Gordon E. Grant and Jim O’Connor
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P.K. House
Nevada Bureau of
Mines and Geology

P.A. Pearthree
Arizona
Geological Survey

M.E. Perkins
University of Utah

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(click on Awards > Kirk Bryan > Past Recipients)
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top2013 Laurence L. Sloss Award

Fred Read J. Fred Read
Virginia Tech (emeritus)

Citation by John P. Grotzinger and Isabel P. Montanez
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top2013 Structural Geology & Tectonics Career Contribution Award

Peter J. Hudleston Peter J. Hudleston
University of Minnesota

Citation by Basil Tikoff
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