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GSA Today Science Editor Changes

Incoming science editor Peter Copeland Mihai Ducea remains on board
is a professor in the Dept. of Earth and through 2021. He is a professor of geol-
Atmospheric Sciences at the University of ogy at the University of Arizona and also
Houston. His research has focused holds a courtesy appointment at the
primarily on thermochronology and its University of Bucharest. He received a
application to continental tectonics. He is Ph.D. at the California Institute of
the author of Communicating Rocks: Technology. Ducea’s research is aimed at
Writing, Speaking, and Thinking about understanding the links between igneous
Geology (2012, Pearson). From 2001– and metamorphic petrologic processes
Peter Copeland 2004, he was the co-editor of the Mihai Ducea and the tectonic evolution of continents.
Geological Society of America Bulletin. He is interested in continental margin
processes and conducts fieldwork at various locations in the
Jerry Dickens rotates off as science western North American Cordillera, the central Andes, the
editor at the end of the month. He is a Carpathians, and southern Tibet. He runs a geochemical and
professor of oceanography in the Dept. radiogenic isotope laboratory at the University of Arizona. Ducea
of Earth, Environmental and Planetary is a GSA Fellow who has published 31 papers in GSA journals
Science at Rice University. His research (Geology, GSA Today, GSA Bulletin, Geosphere, and Lithosphere)
interests range from past changes in over the past 16 years and has co-edited a GSA Memoir (2015)
climate and carbon cycling to marine and a GSA Special Paper (2005).
methane systems, mixed siliciclastic-
carbonate margins, and sediment-hosted
ore deposits. He previously was editor
Jerry Dickens for Paleoceanography and is a Fellow
of both GSA and AGU.

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