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Congratulations to
All the 2016 GSA Division Award Recipients

GSA’s primary Division awards were announced in the July 2016 issue of GSA Today;
they are included again below along with other Division awards presented at this year’s annual meeting.

Learn more about GSA’s specialty Divisions at www.geosociety.org/divisions.
Read the citations and responses (named awards only) at www.geosociety.org/awards/divisions.htm.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL GEOLOGY DIVISION Roy J. Shlemon Scholarship Awards
Rip Rapp Archaeological Geology Award Julia Howe, University of Utah
Daniel H. Sandweiss, University of Maine Rachael Delaney, Kent State University
Marzieh (Mari) Foroutan, University of Calgary
Claude C. Albritton, Jr., Memorial Student Research Award
Justin A. Holcomb, Boston University GEOBIOLOGY & GEOMICROBIOLOGY DIVISION
Outstanding Contributions in Geobiosciences Award—Pre-Tenure
Richard Hay Student Paper/Poster Award Erik A. Sperling, Stanford University
Michael Aiuvalasit, Southern Methodist University
Outstanding Contributions in Geobiosciences Award—Post-Tenure
ENERGY GEOLOGY DIVISION Tanja Bosak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gilbert H. Cady Award
Robert A. Gastaldo, Colby College Outstanding Contributions in Geobiosciences Award—
Distinguished Career
Dawn Y. Sumner, University of California Davis

GSA TODAY | NOVEMBER 2016 Antoinette Lierman Medlin Research Award GEOINFORMATICS DIVISION
Qiang Wei, China University of Mining and Technology Outstanding Contributions Award
Betty M. Adrian, U.S. Geological Survey
Best Paper Award (for papers presented at the 2015 GSA Annual
Meeting) GEOLOGY AND SOCIETY DIVISION
Christina L. Lopano, U.S. Dept. of Energy Best Student Paper Award
John M. Hill, The University of Texas at Austin Hayley Joyell Smith, North Carolina State University
Alyssa Apryasz, William Paterson University
ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY DIVISION Randall Sanders, William Paterson University
E.B. Burwell, Jr., Award
Keaton, J.R., Wartman, J., Anderson, S., Benoît, J., deLaChapelle, GEOPHYSICS DIVISION
J., Gilbert, R., and Montgomery, D.R., 2014, The 22 March 2014 George P. Woollard Award
Oso Landslide, Snohomish County, Washington: Geotechnical William J. Hinze, Professor Emeritus, Purdue University
Extreme Events Reconnaissance Sponsored by the National
Science Foundation, July 22, 2014, 186 p. Allan V. Cox Student Research Award
Rebekah F. Lee, Boise State University
Distinguished Practice Award
Lynn Highland, U.S. Geological Survey Geophysics Division Student Research Award
Samuel Johnson, The University of Texas at Dallas
Meritorious Service Award
William J. Burns, Oregon Dept. of Geology and Mineral
Industries

Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecturer (2015–2016)
Jerome V. De Graff, California State University Fresno

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