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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

GSA DIVISION AWARDS

■ STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY AND TECTONICS ■ MINERALOGY, GEOCHEMISTRY, PETROLOGY,
AND VOLCANOLOGY (MGPV)
Stephen E. Laubach Structural Diagenesis Award
MGPV Distinguished Geologic Career Award
Proposals due 10 June
Nominations due 15 July
The Stephen E. Laubach Structural Diagenesis Research
Award Fund promotes research combining structural geology This award goes to an individual who, throughout his or her
and diagenesis, and curriculum development in structural career, has made distinguished contributions in one or more of
diagenesis. The donors believe multidisciplinary approaches the following fields of research: mineralogy, geochemistry,
often reveal new insights into long-standing problems and petrology, volcanology, with emphasis on multidisciplinary,
expose productive avenues for enquiry. To help promote the field-based contributions. Submit nominations to J. Alex Speer,
cross-disciplinary emphasis of this annual award, the Mineralogical Society of America, 3635 Concorde Pkwy,
Sedimentary Geology and Structural Geology & Tectonics Ste 500, Chantilly, VA 20151-1110, USA; jaspeer@minsocam.org.
Divisions have been designated to jointly select the recipient. For more information, go to www.geosociety.org/divisions/
Graduate students, postgraduate and faculty-level researchers mgpv/awards.htm.
are eligible. For more information, go to http://rock.geosociety
.org/sgt/Laubach.htm. MGPV Early Career Award

■ HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF GEOLOGY Nominations due 15 July

History and Philosophy of Geology Student Award This award will go to an individual near the beginning of his
or her professional career who has made distinguished contribu-
Nominations due 15 June tions in one or more of the following fields of research: miner-
alogy, geochemistry, petrology, and/or volcanology, with
This award in the amount of US$1,000 recognizes excellence emphasis on multidisciplinary, field-based contributions.
in a student paper to be given at the national GSA meeting; oral Nominations are restricted to those who are within eight years
presentations are preferred. Students should submit an abstract past the award of their final degree. Extensions of up to two
of their proposed talk and a 1,500–2,000-word prospectus for years will be made for nominees who have taken career breaks
consideration. The proposed paper may be for family reasons or because of serious illness. Submit
(1) on the history or philosophy of geology; or (2) a literature nominations to J. Alex Speer, Mineralogical Society of America,
review of ideas for a technical work or thesis/dissertation; or 3635 Concorde Pkwy, Ste 500, Chantilly, VA 20151-1110, USA;
(3) some imaginative aspect of the history or philosophy of jaspeer@minsocam.org. For more information, go to
geology we have not thought of before. Submit nominations to www.geosociety.org/divisions/mgpv/awards.htm.
Kathleen Lohff at kathylohff.msn.com. For more information,
go to www.gsahist.org/hapg_award/awards.htm.

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