GSA Member News

March 2008

• GSA Fellow Igor Effimoff has been elected to the Board of Directors of Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. Effimoff provides geological, geophysical, and engineering consulting services for investment and business development opportunities with U.S. and international clients. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer of Teton Petroleum Company and President of Pennzoil Caspian Corporation.

February 2008

• Senior Fellow Clay Conway has been appointed Consultant to Kent Exploration Inc. Conway specializes in mineral exploration on dissseminated and vein-style gold deposits in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia and has expertise in structural geology and interpreting geospatial data and remote sensing imagery.

January 2008

• Lee Rice has been appointed to the board of directors of International Beryllium Corporation. Rice is a founding partner of Rare Earths Limited LLC, a private, Colorado-based company that provides satellite imagery, mapping, deposit evaluation, and other technological, geological, and consulting services with a special focus on the rare earths sector.
• Daniel J. Bain, University of Pittsburgh, and Brian A. Pellerin, U.S. Geological Survey, are two of six winners of the 2007 Early Career Fellowships awarded by the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI). They will join the Hydrologic Synthesis team at the University of New Hampshire.
• GSA Fellow and former Treasurer John E. Costa retired from the U.S. Geological Survey effective 3 January after 25 years of federal service. He mostly recently served as National Flood Science Coordinator in the Office of Surface Water and will continue on as a scientist emeritus.

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