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We are pleased to submit this report of GSA’s fiscal year 2020 operations, including program activities, accomplishments, challenges,
and innovations. Our mission is to provide the best service possible for you and your profession.

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Letter from the Letter from the Sponsors Focusing on Student Advisory
GSA President GSA Executive Ethics, Diversity, Council
Director and Inclusion

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Thanks to These 2019 GSA Meetings Geographic GSA International
Outgoing Officers Medal & Award Sections
and Councilors Recipients

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Scientific 2019 GSA Media Relations GSA’s Online Website
Divisions Scientific Division Community
Primary Awards

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Government Publications Outreach and GSA Foundation GSA’s Associated
Affairs and Education Societies
Public Policy

Cover: Painted Desert, Arizona, USA. Photo by
USGS on Unsplash. Our Mission
In the American Southwest, transitions from one
ecosystem to another can be dramatic and abrupt. To advance geoscience research and discovery, service to society, stewardship of
This certainly is true in northern Arizona, USA,
Earth, and the geosciences profession.
FY2020 where the parched Painted Desert, shown here in a Our Vision
palette of purples, adjoins Sitgreaves National
Forest (shades of green), a realm of pine wood-
lands with abundant wildlife. Within the Painted
To be the premier geological society supporting the global community in scientific
Desert lie the Hopi Buttes, a field of ancient vol-
canic cones, seen here as a scattering of dark, discovery, communication, and application of geoscience knowledge.
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circular shapes near the top of the image.
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