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Mentoring Tomorrow’s Geoscience
Leaders at the 2016 Section Meetings

GSA is proud to provide mentoring and career pathway events result of the events, new friendships were made and professional
at all its meetings. At Section Meetings, students are invited to contacts were established that will last well into the future.
participate in the Roy J. Shlemon Mentor Program in Applied
Geology and the John Mann Mentors in Applied Hydrogeology In addition to mentoring, GSA also provided three career
Program. These popular events, supported by the GSA workshops for students designed to help them plan and prepare
Foundation through gifts from Roy J. Shlemon and John Mann, for their job search. The workshops covered career planning and
with additional financial assistance from GSA’s Northeastern informational interviewing, career exploration, and cover letters,
Section, are designed to extend the mentoring reach of indi- résumés, and CVs. Working professionals from academia,
vidual professionals. Together, mentor volunteers and students government, and industry were invited to answer questions and
meet in a relaxing, informal setting, to discuss careers in geology help students maneuver the career exploration process.
over lunch.
GSA gratefully acknowledges the following mentors for their
This past spring, 444 students and 56 mentors participated in individual gifts of time and for sharing their insight with
the Shlemon Program and 195 students and 25 mentors attended students. To learn more about these programs, or to be a mentor
the Mann Program. Mentors and students left the events at a future Section Meeting, please contact Jennifer Nocerino,
expressing feelings of personal and professional growth. As a jnocerino@geosociety.org.

The John Mann Mentors in Applied Hydrogeology Program

Helping Mentor Students Since 2004

SOUTH-CENTRAL SECTION SOUTHEASTERN SECTION NORTH-CENTRAL SECTION GSA TODAY | www.geosociety.org/gsatoday

Cas Bridge, Chevron Environmental Devendra Amatya, Center for Forested Kenneth Bradbury, Wisconsin Geological
Management Company Wetlands Research and Natural History Survey
Katherine Knierim,
U.S. Geological Survey Charlie Kaufman, South Carolina David Kulczycki, Geosyntec Consultants
Emergency Management Division Diane Lamb, Independent Contractor
NORTHEASTERN SECTION Eric Plankell, Illinois State Geological
C. Alex Pellett, South Carolina Survey Prairie Research Institute
Elizabeth Blaise, Griggs-Lang Consulting Department of Natural Resources
Geologists Inc. Ronald Wallace, Georgia Environmental Erica Toledo, Fehr Graham – Engineering
& Environmental
Doug Burns, U.S. Geological Survey Protection Division
Susan Hagar, ARCADIS U.S. Inc. ROCKY MOUNTAIN SECTION
Corporate CORDILLERAN SECTION
Kevin Brackney, Nez Perce Tribe
Richard Hisert, H2H Associates LLC Kerry Cato, Cato Geoscience Inc. David Kelley, Kelley & Associates
Jean Neubeck, Alpha Geoscience Elizabeth Goldbaum, Geological Society
Environmental Sciences
Doug Reed, Hudson Basin River Watch of America John Welhan, Idaho Geological Survey
Joe Kingsbury, GEOSCIENCE Support Jen Woody, Oregon Water Resources

Services Inc. Department
Lindsay Swain, GEOSCIENCE Support

Services Inc.

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