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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

2016 GSA Awards & Medals ®

John C. Frye Environmental Each nominated paper will be judged on its uniqueness or
Geology Award significance as a model of its type of work and its overall worthi-
ness for the award. The paper must (1) establish an environmental
Deadline: 31 March 2016 problem or need; (2) provide substantive information on the basic
geology or geologic process pertinent to the problem; (3) relate the
In cooperation with the Association of American State geology to the problem or need; (4) suggest solutions or provide
Geologists (AASG), GSA makes an annual award for the best appropriate land-use recommendations based on the geology;
paper on environmental geology published either by GSA or by (5) present the information in a manner that is understandable
one of the state geological surveys. and directly usable by geologists; and (6) address the environ-
mental need or resolve the problem. It is preferred that the paper
Anyone can nominate a paper as long as it is selected from a be directly applicable to informed laypersons (e.g., planners,
GSA or state geological survey publication and published during engineers).
the preceding three full calendar years. The nomination letter
must include a paragraph stating the importance of the paper. Up Please send your nominations to GSA Grants and Awards, P.O.
to three letters from users of the publication can be included to Box 9140, Boulder, CO 80301-9140, USA. For more information,
support the nomination. please visit www.stategeologists.org/awards_honors.php.

In Memoriam

The Society notes with regret the deaths of the following members (notifications received between 1 May 2015 and 31 July 2015).

Theodore Arnow George L. Freeland William N. Laval
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Key Biscayne, Florida, USA Clarkston, Washington, USA
Date of death: 18 Dec. 2014 Date of death: 17 Apr. 2014 Date of death: 22 Apr. 2015

Frank M. Byers Jr. Donn S. Gorsline Janis D. Treworgy
Longmont, Colorado, USA Los Angeles, California, USA Grafton, Illinois, USA
Date of death: 12 July 2015 Date of death: 27 May 2015 Date of death: 7 Apr. 2015

William A. Cobban Ralph C. Heath GSA would also like to recognize the
Canon City, Colorado, USA Raleigh, North Carolina, USA passing of the following individual who
Date of death: 21 Apr. 2015 Date of death: 12 Jan. 2015 has impacted our science:

GSA TODAY | OCTOBER 2015 John C. Crowell Edward Jonas David M. Raup
Santa Barbara, California, USA Austin, Texas, USA First president of the Paleontological Society
Date of death: 13 May 2015 Date of death: 1 Jan. 2014 Date of death: 9 July 2015

William Richard Dickinson Darryl Edwards Kuhns To honor a friend or colleague with a GSA memorial,
Past GSA President, 1994 Reno, Nevada, USA please go to www.geosociety.org/pubs/memorials/
Tucson, Arizona, USA GSA notified: 6 May 2015 mmlGuid.htm to learn how. Contact the GSA
Date of death: 20 July 2015 Foundation, www.gsafweb.org, if you would like to
Fred H. Kulhawy contribute to the memorial fund.
William C. Edmund Ithaca, New York, USA
Houston, Texas, USA Date of death: 12 May 2015
Date of death: 19 Sept. 2014
Hans Peter Laubscher
Mary Anne Fillipone Riehen, Switzerland
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Date of death: 2 July 2015
Date of death: 12 Dec. 2014
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