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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

2017 GSA Awards & Medals ®

Honorary Fellowship GSA Fellowship

Established by the GSA Council in 1909, Honorary Fellowship Fellowship is an honor that is bestowed on the best of our
may be bestowed on individuals who have made outstanding and profession once per year at the spring GSA Council meeting and is
internationally recognized contributions to geoscience, or in rare recognized at GSA’s Annual Meeting. GSA members are elected to
circumstances, provided notable service to the Society. In prac- Fellowship in recognition of distinguished contributions to the
tice, nearly all candidates are non–North Americans who live and geosciences. A GSA Fellow may support only two nominees per
work outside of North America. The awardee does not need to be election cycle and only one as a primary nominator. A GSA
a GSA member to receive the award. No more than two Honorary member who is not a Fellow may not be a primary nominator but
Fellows will be awarded annually. Honorary Fellows will be recog- may be a secondary nominator for no more than two nominees
nized during the GSA Annual Meeting and will receive compli- per election cycle.
mentary lifetime membership to the Society.
The primary nominator is responsible for collecting the entire
How to Nominate nomination packet (including letters of support) and must submit
the nomination as one e-mail (with supporting documents as
1. Nomination form: Please go to https://rock.geosociety.org/ attachments). Letters of support sent separately will not be
forms/Awardform.asp to submit the form online. accepted.

2. Supporting documents, to be submitted as e-mail attachments How to Nominate
or via post:
• Curriculum vitae; 1. Nomination form: Please go to www.geosociety.org/
• Letter of nomination (300 words or fewer) that clearly members/fellow.htm to submit the form online.
demonstrates the applicability of the selection criteria;
• Letters of support from three scientists with at least two 2. Supporting documents, to be collected by the primary nomi-
from GSA Fellows and one from a GSA Fellow or a person nator and submitted as one package as e-mail attachments or
of equivalent international stature; and via post:
• Selected bibliography of no more than 20 titles. • Curriculum vitae;
• Letter of nomination, including a summary of the nomi-
nee’s significant contributions supporting the selected
criteria for election (up to two pages);
• Supporting letter of nomination from each of the
secondary nominators—at least one should be from an
organization other than that of the nominee.

2017 GSA AWARDS & MEDALS Award Notes

Candidates whose names are submitted by the respective award committees to GSA Council but who do
not receive an award will remain under consideration by those committees for three years. For those still
under consideration, it is recommended that an updated nomination letter be sent to GSA.

All nomination forms and submission instructions can be found online at www.geosociety.org/awards/.
Nomination forms and instructions may also be obtained from GSA Grants and Awards, P.O. Box 9140,
3300 Penrose Place, Boulder, CO 80301-9140, USA, awards@geosociety.org.

The deadline for receipt of all GSA medal, award, and recognition nominations is 1 Feb. 2017.

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