Page 10 - gt1501

GSA Today Science Editor Changes

R. Damian Nance completed his term of Incoming science editor Gerald (Jerry) Steven J. Whitmeyer, associate professor
service as GSA Today science editor in Dickens is a professor in the Department of structural geology and tectonics at
December 2014. Nance is Distinguished of Earth Science at Rice University. His James Madison University, remains
Professor of Geological Sciences at Ohio research interests range from Cenozoic onboard through December 2018. He is
University, where he has taught since climate change to marine methane primarily interested in tectonic evolution
1980. In 1982, Nance, along with fellow cycling, mixed siliciclastic-carbonate through time and uses structural and
department member Tom Worsley, margins, and sediment-hosted ore geospatial analyses to develop and visu-
proposed the supercontinent cycle, the deposits. He previously was chief editor alize tectonic reconstructions. He has
now-substantiated theory that Earth’s of AGU’s Paleoceanography. co-edited two GSA Special Papers (Google
geologic, climatic, and biological evolu- Earth and Virtual Visualizations in
tion has been dominated by the episodic Geoscience Education and Research and
assembly and breakup of supercontinents. Field Geology Education: Historical
Perspectives and Modern Approaches) and
one GSA Field Guide (The Mid-Atlantic
Shore to the Appalachian Highlands: Field
Trip Guidebook for the 2010 Joint Meeting
of the Northeastern and Southeastern GSA
Sections). Learn more at www.jmu.edu/
geology/people/whitmesj.html.

GSA Today: The Choice is Yours

GSA TODAY | JANUARY 2015 Print, online, both, or neither? GSA is pleased to PRINT. This is your default option. If you do nothing, you will
announce that you may now select your delivery prefer- continue to receive your copy of GSA Today in print. Note: If
ence for GSA Today. A complimentary print copy is one of you are subscribed to e-alerts as well, you need take no action;
your member benefits (excepting members who reside in this will not affect your print subscription.
countries with a reduced-dues benefit), and of course,
GSA Today is always open access online. • ONLINE-ONLY WITH E-ALERTS. Select this option if you
would like to stop receiving a print copy. Everyone who opts
Beginning with your 2015 membership, you may out of print will automatically receive an e-mail when the latest
change your delivery method by visiting www.geosociety issue goes live online. Note: You will need to select this option
.org/gsatoday/ and selecting “delivery preferences” on the even if you are already subscribed to e-alerts.
right-hand side.
• NO DELIVERY. Check this option if you would like to stop
receiving a print copy AND you do not want to be notified
when GSA Today is posted online. Access to GSA Today and its
archive is available at your convenience at www.geosociety.org/
gsatoday/. You may also link to the latest issue from your
monthly GSA Connection e-newsletter.

Easy access to your member news magazine when and where you want it:
Go green or preserve tradition—the choice is yours!

10