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GSA Today Science Editor Changes

Steven J. Whitmeyer, professor of struc- Incoming science editor Mihai N. Ducea Gerald (Jerry) Dickens continues his
tural geology and tectonics at James is a professor of geology at the University term through December 2018. He is a
Madison University, rotates off as GSA of Arizona and also holds a courtesy professor in the Department of Earth
Today science editor at the end of this appointment at the University of Science at Rice University. His research
month. He is primarily interested in tec- Bucharest. He received a Ph.D. at the interests range from Cenozoic cycling,
tonic evolution through time and uses California Institute of Technology. mixed siliciclastic-carbonate margins,
structural and geospatial analyses to Ducea’s research is aimed at understand- and sediment-hosted ore deposits. He
develop and visualize tectonic recon- ing the links between igneous and meta- previously was chief editor of AGU’s
structions. He has co-edited two GSA morphic petrologic processes and the Paleoceanography.
Special Papers and one GSA Field Guide. tectonic evolution of continents. He is
interested in continental margin pro-
cesses and conducts fieldwork at various
locations in the western North American
Cordillera, the central Andes, the
Carpathians, and southern Tibet. He runs
a geochemical and radiogenic isotope
laboratory at the University of Arizona.
Ducea is a GSA Fellow who has pub-
lished 31 papers in GSA journals
(Geology, GSA Today, GSA Bulletin,
Geosphere, and Lithosphere) over the
past 16 years and has co-edited a GSA
Memoir (2015) and a GSA Special Paper
(2005).

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