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Upcoming
Award, Recognition & Grant Deadlines
Please go to https://rock.geosociety.org/forms/Awardform 2016 Student Research Grants
.asp to submit a nomination form. For detailed information on
nomination processes, see the October 2015 issue of GSA Today or GSA is proud to offer research grants to its highly qualified
go to www.geosociety.org/awards/aboutAwards.htm. To nomi- student members. Students may receive a total of two GSA
nate a member for GSA Fellowship, go to www.geosociety graduate student grants in their entire academic career,
.org/members/fellow.htm. Information can also be obtained regardless of what program currently enrolled in. The
from GSA Grants and Awards at awards@geosociety.org, maximum award per grant is US$2,500. Students may also
+1-303-357-1060. qualify for specialized awards; if so, the total awarded could
be more than US$2,500.
2016 GSA Medals and Awards
The GSA student research grant application process is
• Penrose Medal online only at www.geosociety.org/grants/gradgrants.htm.
• Day Medal No paper applications or letters will be accepted. Apply
• Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal) starting Dec. 2015. Submissions must be completed by
• GSA Public Service Award Monday, 1 Feb. 2016, at 5 p.m. MST.
• Randolph W. “Bill” and Cecile T. Bromery Award for Minorities
• GSA Distinguished Service Award For further information on this program, go to
• Doris M. Curtis Outstanding Woman in Science Award www.geosociety.org/grants/gradgrants.htm,
• Geologic Mapping Award in Honor of Florence Bascom call +1-303-357-1060, or e-mail awards@geosociety.org.
• Honorary Fellow
Nomination deadline: 1 Feb. 2016 2016 Post-Doctoral Research Awards
GSA Fellowship The following post-doc research awards are available. Learn
more at www.geosociety.org/grants/postdoc.htm.
Elevation to GSA Fellowship is an honor bestowed on the best
of our profession at each spring GSA Council meeting. GSA • The Gladys W. Cole Memorial Research Award for research on
Fellows may support two nominees each year but only one as a the geomorphology of semiarid and arid terrains in the United
primary nominator; GSA members who are not Fellows may be States and Mexico is awarded annually to a GSA member or
secondary nominators for up to two nominees. Nomination Fellow between 30 and 65 years of age who has published one or
deadline: 1 Feb. 2016. more significant papers on geomorphology.
John C. Frye Environmental Geology • The W. Storrs Cole Memorial Research Award for research on
Award invertebrate micropaleontology is awarded annually to a GSA
member or Fellow between 30 and 65 years of age who has
In cooperation with the Association of American State published one or more significant papers on micropaleontology.
Geologists and supported by endowment income from the GSA
Foundation’s John C. Frye Memorial Fund, GSA makes an annual Application deadline: 1 Feb. 2016.
award for the best paper on environmental geology published either
by GSA or by a state geological survey. Nomination deadline:
31 Mar. 2016.
GSA TODAY | NOVEMBER 2015 Other Awards Call for Nominations: National Awards
Call for Nominations: AGI Awards • William T. Pecora Award: http://remotesensing.usgs.
gov/pecora.php.
AGI Medal in Memory of Ian Campbell
• National Medal of Science: www.nsf.gov/od/nms/
AGI Marcus Milling Legendary Geoscientist Medal medal.jsp.
Go to www.agiweb.org/direct/awards.html to submit your • Alan T. Waterman Award: www.nsf.gov/od/waterman/
nominations. Nomination deadline: 1 Feb. 2016. waterman.jsp.
Nomination deadlines vary.
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