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Call for GSA Committee Service
Help Shape the Future of Geoscience
—Serve on a GSA Committee!
Deadline: 15 June 2018
Terms begin 1 July 2019 (unless otherwise indicated).
If you are looking for the opportunity to work toward a com-
mon goal, give back to GSA, network, and make a difference, then
we invite you to volunteer (or nominate a fellow GSA member) to
serve on a Society committee or as a GSA representative to
another organization.
View open positions and access the nomination form at www
.geosociety.org/nominate. GSA Headquarters Contact:
Dominique Olvera, GSA, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, CO 80301-9140,
USA; fax: +1-303-357-1060; dolvera@geosociety.org.
B—Meets in Boulder or elsewhere; E—Communicates by
phone or electronically; M—Meets at the Annual Meeting;
T—Extensive time commitment required during application
review period.
ANNUAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Two vacancies: one Member-at-Large (4-year term; B, E, M);
one Member-at-Large student (2-year term; B, E, M)
This committee is charged with developing a plan for increas-
ing the quality of the annual and other society-sponsored meetings
in terms of science, education, and outreach; evaluate the techni- uate candidates for the Geologic Mapping Award. This award
cal and scientific programs annually to identify modifications
necessary for accomplishing the Societies long-range goals; con-
duct short and long-range planning for the society meetings as a
whole; and develop a long-term logistical plan/strategy for the
technical programs of all GSA meetings and other society-spon-
sored meetings. One member-at-large should have previous meet-
ing experience.
ARTHUR L. DAY MEDAL AWARD
Two Member-at-Large vacancies (3-year term; E, T)
This committee selects candidates for the Arthur L. Day Medal.
Qualifications: Members should have knowledge of those who
have made “distinct contributions to geologic knowledge through
the application of physics and chemistry to the solution of geo-
logic problems.” All of the committee’s work will be accom-
plished during the months of February/March. All committee
decisions must be made by 1 April.
DIVERSITY IN THE GEOSCIENCES COMMITTEE
Two Member-at-Large vacancies (3-year term; E, M)
This committee provides advice and support to GSA Council
and initiates activities and programs that will increase opportu-
nities for people of an ethnic minority, women, and persons with
disabilities and raise awareness in the geosciences community of
the positive role these groups play within the geosciences. The
committee is also charged with stimulating recruitment and
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promoting positive career development for these groups.
Qualifications: Members of this committee must be familiar
with the employment issues these groups face; expertise and
leadership experience in such areas as human resources and
education is also desired.
EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Three vacancies: One Four-Year College Faculty
Representative (4-year term; B, E, M), one Member-at-Large
(4-year term; B, E, M), one Graduate Student Representative
(2-year term; B, E, M)
This committee works with GSA members representing a wide
range of education sectors to develop informal, pre-college
(K–12), undergraduate, and graduate earth-science education and
outreach objectives and initiatives. Qualifications: Members of
this committee must have the ability to work with other interested
scientific organizations and science teachers’ groups.
GEOLOGIC MAPPING AWARD COMMITTEE
Two vacancies: One Member-at-Large (3-year term; E); one
Student Member-at-Large (3-year term; E)
The purpose of this committee is to generate, receive, and eval-
acknowledges contributions in published, high-quality geologic
mapping that led the recipient to publish significant new scientific
or economic-resource discoveries and to contribute greater under-
standing of fundamental geologic processes and concepts. The
objective is to encourage training and support toward the produc-
tion of excellent, accurate, detailed, purposeful geologic maps and
cross sections. With respect to size or scale, there are no restric-
tions on map products. GSA’s Geologic Mapping Award will be
made on an annual basis, leaving the option open for multiple
awards to be given under unusual circumstance in any given year;
or to make no award in any given year.
GEOLOGY AND PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE
One vacancy: Member-at-Large (3-year term; B, E, M)
This committee provides advice on public policy matters to
Council and GSA leadership by monitoring and assessing
international, national, and regional science policy; formulating
and recommending position statements; and sponsoring topical
white papers. This committee also encourages the active
engagement in geoscience policy by GSA members.
Qualifications: Members should have experience with public-
policy issues involving the science of geology; ability to develop,
disseminate, and translate information from the geologic sci-
ences into useful forms for the general public and for GSA
members; and familiarity with appropriate techniques for the
dissemination of information.
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