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• Authorship of technical publications that have significantly Honorary Fellows will be awarded annually. Honorary Fellows
advanced scientific concepts or techniques applicable to will be recognized during the GSA Annual Meeting and will
the resolution of earth-resource or environmental issues of receive complimentary lifetime membership in the Society.
public concern; and/or
• Other individual accomplishments that have advanced the How to Nominate
earth sciences in the public interest. 1. Go to https://rock.geosociety.org/forms/Awardform.asp for
The award will normally go to a GSA member from any the online form.
nation, with exceptions approved by Council, and may be 2. Supporting documents (submitted as email attachments or
presented posthumously to a descendant of the awardee. via post):
• Curriculum vitae;
How to Nominate • Letter of nomination (300 words or fewer) that clearly
1. Go to https://rock.geosociety.org/forms/Awardform.asp for demonstrates the applicability of the selection criteria;
the online form. • Letters of support from three scientists with at least two
2. Supporting documents (submitted as email attachments or from GSA Fellows and one from a GSA Fellow or a person
via post): of equivalent international stature; and
• Curriculum vitae; • Selected bibliography of no more than 20 titles.
• Letter of nomination (300 words or fewer);
• Brief biographical sketch that clearly demonstrates the
applicability of the selection criteria; and
• Selected bibliography of no more than 10 titles. Candidates whose names are submitted by the respec-
tive award committees to GSA Council but who do not
Honorary Fellow receive an award will remain under consideration by those
committees for three years. For those still under consider-
Established by the GSA Council in 1909, Honorary Fellowship ation, it is recommended that an updated nomination letter
may be bestowed on individuals who have made outstanding and be sent to GSA.
internationally recognized contributions to geoscience, or in rare Nomination forms and submission instructions are
circumstances, provided notable service to the Society. In prac- online via link at www.geosociety.org/awards. Forms and
tice, nearly all candidates are non–North Americans who live instructions can also be obtained from GSA Grants and
and work outside of North America. The most noteworthy Awards, P.O. Box 9140, Boulder, CO 80301-9140, USA,
exceptions were astronauts. The awardee does not have to be a +1-303-357-1028, awards@geosociety.org.
member of the Society to receive the award. No more than two

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