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GSA 2017 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION

GSA Awards Ceremony

Sun., 22 Oct., noon–1:30 p.m.,
Washington State Convention Center, Ballroom 6A

Please join GSA President Isabel P. Montañez and GSA President-Elect
Robbie Rice Gries to honor and greet the 2017 GSA Medals & Awards

recipients at the Presidential Address & Awards Ceremony.
You will also have the privilege of hearing Montañez give her Presidential

Address, “ ‘Mind the Gap’: GSA’s Role in an Evolving Global Society.”

PRESIDENT PRESIDENT-ELECT
Isabel P. Montañez Robbie Rice Gries

2017 GSA Medal & Awards Recipients

George Plafker Neal R. Iverson Sterling J. Nesbitt Thure E. Cerling Alexander E. Gates

Aradhna Tripati Jean Bahr Sonia M. Tikoo Ray E. Wells

PENROSE MEDAL RANDOLPH W. “BILL” AND CECILE T. BROMERY
George Plafker, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park AWARD FOR MINORITIES

ARTHUR L. DAY MEDAL Aradhna Tripati, University of California at Los Angeles
Neal R. Iverson, Iowa State University
GSA DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD (DONATH MEDAL) Jean Bahr, University of
Sterling J. Nesbitt, Virginia Tech Wisconsin–Madison

PRESIDENT’S MEDAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL DORIS M. CURTIS OUTSTANDING WOMAN IN
SOCIETY OF AMERICA SCIENCE AWARD

Thure E. Cerling, University of Utah Sonia M. Tikoo, Rutgers University

GSA PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD GEOLOGIC MAPPING AWARD IN HONOR OF
Alexander E. Gates, Rutgers FLORENCE BASCOM
University–Newark
Ray E. Wells, U.S. Geological Survey, Portland

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