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GSA Honorary Fellow: Manfred R. Strecker

Manfred Strecker’s research This work has been carried out in various mountain belts,
including the Andes, the Himalaya, Central Asia, and the ranges
activities link studies of tectonics, bordering the Turko-Iranian Plateau. He and his team also focus
climate, and landscape evolution on stress-field histories in the context of the structural develop-
with the goal to better understand ment of linked fault systems and their impact on the evolution of
tectonic and climatic forcing mecha- sedimentary basins in the East African Rift.
nisms of surface processes and their
conspiring activity in sculpting the Strecker did his undergraduate work at Göttingen University
surface of our planet. In particular, (Germany) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
he and his team have worked to He received his M.Sc. degree at Cornell University in 1983 and his
better understand how the Ph.D. from the same university in 1987. After postdoc appoint-
morphology of landscapes can be ments at University of Karlsruhe (Germany) and Stanford
used to reconstruct crustal deforma- University, he joined the University of Potsdam (Germany) in
tion processes and to bridge the 1995. Since then, he and his colleagues have been responsible for
temporal gap between long-term geologic manifestations of establishing a geoscience program with a strong research-based
deformation and short-term observations and instrumental curriculum. Strecker was Visiting Professor at Vienna University,
measurements. By joint application of morphometric analyses, IPG Paris, and Stanford University. Since 2009 he has also been
neotectonic observations, paleoseismology, surface exposure Adjunct Professor at Cornell University. He is a member of
dating, and thermochronological methods, they have success- Leopoldina, the German Academy of Sciences.
fully deciphered tectonic and climatic signals within sedimento-
logic archives and within the context of landscape evolution.

GSA TODAY | DECEMBER 2015 Travel Grants and Mentor Program for Early Career
Scientists and Students

35th International Geological Congress (IGC)

Cape Town, South Africa ✸ 27 August–4 September 2016

The Geological Society of America is accepting applications for the 35th International
Geological Congress (IGC) Students and Early Career Scientists Travel Grant and
Mentoring Program. This program is organized in collaboration with the GSA Foundation
and the U.S. National Committee for Geological Sciences of the National Academy of
Sciences. To be eligible, the applicant must be a resident or citizen of the United States
and be enrolled in, or employed at, a U.S. institution. Early career scientists are defined as
those within seven years of receiving their Ph.D. Each award is anticipated to be a
maximum of US$3,500.

In addition to the online form and résumé, the following supplemental information will be
required: A cover letter addressing your reasons for attending the meeting and a priori-
tized budget of expenses, proof of abstract submission, a copy of the submitted abstract,
and two letters of reference.

Applications will be available in mid- to late December. The online application and
supplemental material must be received electronically no later than 20 February 2016.
Applicants will be notified of the results by 30 April 2016.

Questions? Please contact Jennifer Nocerino at jnocerino@geosociety.org.

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