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Why GSA Membership

Is Important to Me

GSA has afforded me many opportunities, including research funding, leadership
experience, and the ability to network with outstanding professionals in my
research areas.
I became a GSA member when I started graduate school and initially attended
the conference to give presentations about my research. Everyone I met was
extremely supportive and it was especially exciting for me to meet the geoscience
education research community that is thriving within GSA. The ability to meet the
faculty doing the type of research I wanted to pursue was very inspiring and moti-
vated me to join the Geoscience Education Division board as a graduate student
representative. This experience drew me further into the GSA community and has
helped me overcome the incessant feelings of imposter syndrome as I now have “GSA has also been a place where
faculty members from all over the country within my personal support network! the many geoscientists I have met
GSA has also been a place where the many geoscientists I have met from around from around the world regularly
the world regularly gather to share our science. It’s very exciting to know that we
are part of a much larger community, and it is gratifying to find the connections gather to share our science. It’s very
between our different disciplines as well as to see the value in each other’s work. exciting to know that we are part of a
much larger community.”
Darryl Reano –Darryl Reano, GSA member since 2006
Postdoctoral Associate
STEM Transformation Institute
Florida International University

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