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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.
Use the online form at www.geosociety.org/nominate to make
a nomination or self-nomination. Committee open positions and
qualifications are also listed there. 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 Member-at-Large vacancies (4-year term; B, E, M); one
Student Member-at-Large (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; evaluating the tech-
nical and scientific programs annually to identify modifications
necessary for accomplishing the Society’s long-range goals; con-
ducting short- and long-range planning for the Society meetings
as a whole; and developing a long-term logistical plan/strategy for made on an annual basis, leaving the option open for multiple
the technical programs of all GSA meetings and other Society-
sponsored meetings. One member-at-large should have previous
meeting 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 and 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 opportuni-
ties for people of ethnic minority, women, and persons with dis-
abilities 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 pro-
moting positive career development for these groups.
Qualifications: Members of this committee must be familiar with
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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: 4-Year College Faculty Representative
(4-year term; B, E, M), Member-at-Large (4-year term; B, E,
M), 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: Member-at-Large (3-year term; E), Student
Member-at-Large (3-year term; E)
The purpose of this committee is to generate, receive, and eval-
uate candidates for the Geologic Mapping Award. This award
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 Geological Mapping Award will be
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 interna-
tional, national, and regional science policy; formulating and rec-
ommending 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 sciences into useful forms for the
general public and for GSA members; and familiarity with appro-
priate techniques for the dissemination of information.
GSA INTERNATIONAL
Four vacancies: Member-at-Large, Secretary, IIG Chair, and
Chair (4-year terms; E, M)
Serve as GSA’s coordination and communication resource seek-
ing to promote, create, and enhance opportunities for international
cooperation related to the scientific, educational, and outreach