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Section Officers
2025–2026
Terms: Chair—1 year; Vice-Chair—1 year; Secretary—4 years
Dr. Stacia M. Gordon
Chair
University of Nevada
Devon A. Orme
Vice-Chair
Dr. Elisa Fitz-Díaz
Past Chair
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Prof. Joshua J. Schwartz
Secretary
California State University Northridge
Ellan M. Nelson
Student Representative
Management Board
Includes the Section officers, the Section chair for the preceding year, and two voting members of GSA, and a Student Representative.
Dr. John Wakabayashi
Past Chair
California State University
Starla Toto
Student Representative
University of Texas
Cordilleran Region
In the United States:
The states of Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and that part of Arizona south of 35 degrees North Latitude.
In Canada:
The Province of British Columbia, the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories, and the Nunavut Territory.
In Mexico:
The Distrito Federal and the states of Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chiapas, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tlaxcala, and Zacatecas.
Membership:
4,295 voting members of the Section as of 31 December 2025.
Background
The Cordilleran Section is the oldest of GSA's sections. It was formally approved on 26 August 1901, when the Society itself was only 13 years old. The first organizational meeting of the Section, held in Berkeley, California, in 1899, included the presentation of 11 scientific papers.
