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Susan C. Eriksson (Eriksson Associates LLC): Susan Eriksson internationally regarded research on fossil bryozoans with impor-
deserves GSA fellowship for almost 40 years of service to the tant implications for evolution, paleoecology, and sedimentology;
geologic profession through a career in industry and academia dedicated teaching and mentoring of geology students with
as a research scientist, faculty, administrator, and independent impacts beyond his institution; and service to the profession,
consultant. The hallmark of her career is selfless leadership in particularly as editor of Journal of Paleontology. —Patricia Kelley
broadening participation through increasing equity and access
particularly for underrepresented groups. —Shanaka de Silva James W. Handschy (Indiana University): Jim is recognized
for superb applied research in tectonics and sedimentation in
Carol Denison Frost (University of Wyoming): Carol Frost, over 100 basins and all tectonic environments in every conti-
a professor at the University of Wyoming, has served GSA nent except Antarctica while rising to the rank of Global Chief
through many capacities. She has been the director for earth Geoscientist at ConocoPhillips; in addition, he has made
sciences at NSF and has held a range of administrative positions important contributions to service and geoscience education,
at Wyoming. She has mentored many students, received several particularly field camps. —Virginia Sisson
teaching awards, and coauthored a popular petrology textbook.
—James Anderson Matthew T. Heizler (New Mexico Bureau of Geology): Dr.
Matt Heizler has made significant research and educational
Robert R. Gaines (Pomona College): Dr. Robert Gaines contributions to earth science and our understanding of Earth’s
helped revolutionize the study of Lagerstätten (exceptionally history through advancing argon geochronology, providing
preserved fauna) through innovative integration of process- intercalibrations for multiple geochronological methods, advanc-
oriented sedimentology, geochemistry, taphonomy, and diagen- ing technological innovations in related dating methodology,
esis. His work sheds light on the manner in which soft-bodied and training to new generations of students in geochronological
fauna are preserved and how these remarkable fossil sites investigations. —Stephen Wells
have radically changed our understanding of early biological
evolution. —Paul Myrow Ingrid Hendy (University of Michigan): For outstanding research
on rapid climate change of the past 60 ky along the Pacific coasts
Eduardo Garzanti (University of Milano–Bicocca): Elected to of North America, detailing complex relationships between ocean
fellowship as a 2018 Honorary Fellow. chemistry, sea surface temperature, precipitation, and sediment
delivery. The first researcher to identify Dansgaard/Oeschger cycles
Daniel Goldman (University of Dayton): Dr. Goldman is a lead- in the Pacific, correlating them with the Greenland ice core record.
ing expert on graptolites and Paleozoic stratigraphy. His contri- —John Barron
butions span biogeography, biodiversity, and systematics of
graptolites, modeling graptolite macroevolution, improving Mary S. Hubbard (Montana State University): Mary Hubbard
Ordovician time-scale resolution by integrating graptolite, con- pioneered the combined application of structural geology, meta-
odont, and chitinozoan zonal schemes from clastic to carbonate morphic petrology, and thermochronology both to the Himalaya
systems, training geologists, and professional service to IUGS and to the deeply exhumed Norumbega strike-slip fault in
and GSA. —Stephen Leslie Maine, and she has been a leader in helping geologists in devel-
oping countries escape the isolation intrinsic to their workplaces.
Carlos M. González-León (Universidad Nacional Autónoma —Peter Molnar
de México): The attainment of fellowship by Dr. Carlos M.
González-León recognizes his important contributions to the Gary Huckleberry: Elected to fellowship as the 2018 Rip Rapp
fields of regional geology, stratigraphy, and tectonics of Sonora, Archaeological Geology awardee.
Mexico, and adjoining regions, his training of Mexican geolo-
gists, and his service to the geological community of Sonora Robert B. Jacobson (U.S. Geological Survey): Robert Jacobson
and all of Mexico. —Timothy Lawton is nominated for publication of the results of his basic geologic
research in geomorphology and his applied research that uses geo-
Karen B. Gran (University of Minnesota Duluth): Elected to morphology toward policy and management of fluvial systems.
fellowship as the 2018 Kirk Bryan awardee for research excellence. —Joan Florsheim

Russell W. Graymer (U.S. Geological Survey): Russell W. Allan James (University of South Carolina): An active GSA mem-
Graymer is nominated for GSA fellowship for his fundamental ber for 35 years, Dr. James published research on floodplain sedi-
contributions to the geology and tectonic evolution of the west- mentation, sediment budgets, Sierra Nevada Quaternary glaciation,
ern Cordilleran margin in studies spanning the late Paleozoic to water resources, urban flooding, and GIScience. His work on
present, application of geology to earthquake and landslide haz- Gilbert’s sediment wave, hydraulic mining, and legacy sediment
ard analysis, and effective science management and communica- has been widely read. He taught geomorphology and watershed
tion of geology to the public. —Robert McLaughlin science over three decades. —Anne Chin and Mary Ann Madej

Steven J. Hageman (Appalachian State University): Steven J. Claudia C. Johnson (Indiana University): For her contributions
Hageman merits GSA fellowship based on publication of his to the understanding of past paleoenvironments and the links

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