Honors & Awards
2015 GSA Division and Section primary Award Recipients
| GSA Division | Award Name |
Citations & Responses
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| 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 | ||||
| GSA International | 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 |
2015 Rip Rapp Archaeological Geology Award
Francis (Frank) H. Brown
University of Utah
Citation by Thure Cerling and Richard Klein
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2015 Gilbert H. Cady Award
Claus F.K. Diessel
University of Newcastle, Australia
Citation by Colin R. Ward
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2015 E.B. Burwell, Jr., Award
George R. Priest
William H. Schulz
William L. Ellis
Jonathan A. Allan
Alan R. Niem
Wendy A. Niem
for: Landslide stability: Role of rainfall-induced, laterally propagating, pore-pressure waves: Environmental & Engineering Geoscience,
2011, v. XVII, no. 4, p. 315–335, doi: 10.2113/gseegeosci.17.4.315.
Citation by Abdul Shakoor
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2015 Outstanding Contributions in Geoinformatics
Lesley Wyborn
Australian National University
Citation by Lee Allison
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2015 George P. Woollard Award
David Evans
Yale University
Citation by Samantha Hansen and Joseph L. Kirschvink
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2015 Biggs Award for Excellence in Earth Science Teaching
Kyle Gray
University of Northern Iowa
Citation by James C. Walters
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2015 Mary C. Rabbitt History and Philosophy of Geology Award
Léo F. Laporte
University of California, Santa Cruz
Citation by Stephen M. Rowland
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2015 O.E. Meinzer Award
Brian Berkowitz
Weizmann Institute of Science
Citation by Leonard F. Konikow
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2015 GSA International Distinguished Career Award
No award this year
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2015 Israel C. Russell Award
Andrew S. Cohen
The University of Arizona
Citation by Lisa Park Boush
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2015 Distinguished Geologic Career Award (MGPV Division)
David A. Clague
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Citation by Wendy Bohrson and Jackie Dixon
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2015 G. K. Gilbert Award
Matthew P. Golombek
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Citation by Hap McSween
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2015 Kirk Bryan Award
Daniel R. Muhs
Kathleen R. Simmons
R. Randall Schumann
Lindsey T. Groves
Jerry X. Mitrovica
DeAnna Laurel
for: Sea-level history during the Last Interglacial complex on San Nicolas Island, California: implications for glacial isostatic adjustment processes, paleozoogeography and tectonics. 2012. Quaternary Science Reviews 37, 1-25. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.01.010
Citation by Margaret E. Berry
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2015 Laurence L. Sloss Award
Jody Bourgeois
University of Washington
Citation by Charlotte Schreiber, Brian Atwater, and Lonnie Leithold
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2015 Structural Geology & Tectonics Career Contribution Award
Tanya Atwater
University of California, Santa Barbara
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