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Susan C. Eriksson (Eriksson Associates LLC): Susan Eriksson   internationally regarded research on fossil bryozoans with impor-
          deserves GSA fellowship for almost 40 years of service to the   tant implications for evolution, paleoecology, and sedimentology;
          geologic profession through a career in industry and academia    dedicated teaching and mentoring of geology students with
          as a research scientist, faculty, administrator, and independent   impacts beyond his institution; and service to the profession,
          consultant. The hallmark of her career is selfless leadership in   particularly as editor of Journal of Paleontology. —Patricia Kelley
          broadening participation through increasing equity and access
          particularly for underrepresented groups. —Shanaka de Silva  James W. Handschy (Indiana University): Jim is recognized
                                                               for superb applied research in tectonics and sedimentation in
          Carol Denison Frost (University of Wyoming): Carol Frost,    over 100 basins and all tectonic environments in every conti-
          a professor at the University of Wyoming, has served GSA   nent except Antarctica while rising to the rank of Global Chief
          through many capacities. She has been the director for earth    Geoscientist at ConocoPhillips; in addition, he has made
          sciences at NSF and has held a range of administrative positions   important contributions to service and geoscience education,
          at Wyoming. She has mentored many students, received several   particularly field camps. —Virginia Sisson
          teaching awards, and coauthored a popular petrology textbook.
          —James Anderson                                      Matthew T. Heizler (New Mexico Bureau of Geology): Dr.
                                                               Matt Heizler has made significant research and educational
          Robert R. Gaines (Pomona College): Dr. Robert Gaines   contributions to earth science and our understanding of Earth’s
          helped revolutionize the study of Lagerstätten (exceptionally   history through advancing argon geochronology, providing
          preserved fauna) through innovative integration of process-  intercalibrations for multiple geochronological methods, advanc-
          oriented sedimentology, geochemistry, taphonomy, and diagen-  ing technological innovations in related dating methodology,
          esis. His work sheds light on the manner in which soft-bodied   and training to new generations of students in geochronological
          fauna are preserved and how these remarkable fossil sites    investigations. —Stephen Wells
          have radically changed our understanding of early biological
          evolution. —Paul Myrow                               Ingrid Hendy (University of Michigan): For outstanding research
                                                               on rapid climate change of the past 60 ky along the Pacific coasts
          Eduardo Garzanti (University of Milano–Bicocca): Elected to   of North America, detailing complex relationships between ocean
          fellowship as a 2018 Honorary Fellow.                chemistry, sea surface temperature, precipitation, and sediment
                                                               delivery. The first researcher to identify Dansgaard/Oeschger cycles
          Daniel Goldman (University of Dayton): Dr. Goldman is a lead-  in the Pacific, correlating them with the Greenland ice core record.
          ing expert on graptolites and Paleozoic stratigraphy. His contri-  —John Barron
          butions span biogeography, biodiversity, and systematics of
          graptolites, modeling graptolite macroevolution, improving   Mary S. Hubbard (Montana State University): Mary Hubbard
          Ordovician time-scale resolution by integrating graptolite, con-  pioneered the combined application of structural geology, meta-
          odont, and chitinozoan zonal schemes from clastic to carbonate   morphic petrology, and thermochronology both to the Himalaya
          systems, training geologists, and professional service to IUGS   and to the deeply exhumed Norumbega strike-slip fault in
          and GSA. —Stephen Leslie                             Maine, and she has been a leader in helping geologists in devel-
                                                               oping countries escape the isolation intrinsic to their workplaces.
          Carlos M. González-León (Universidad Nacional Autónoma    —Peter Molnar
          de México): The attainment of fellowship by Dr. Carlos M.
          González-León recognizes his important contributions to the   Gary Huckleberry: Elected to fellowship as the 2018 Rip Rapp
          fields of regional geology, stratigraphy, and tectonics of Sonora,   Archaeological Geology awardee.
          Mexico, and adjoining regions, his training of Mexican geolo-
          gists, and his service to the geological community of Sonora    Robert B. Jacobson (U.S. Geological Survey): Robert Jacobson
          and all of Mexico. —Timothy Lawton                   is nominated for publication of the results of his basic geologic
                                                               research in geomorphology and his applied research that uses geo-
          Karen B. Gran (University of Minnesota Duluth): Elected to    morphology toward policy and management of fluvial systems.
          fellowship as the 2018 Kirk Bryan awardee for research excellence.  —Joan Florsheim

          Russell W. Graymer (U.S. Geological Survey): Russell W.   Allan James (University of South Carolina): An active GSA mem-
          Graymer is nominated for GSA fellowship for his fundamental   ber for 35 years, Dr. James published research on floodplain sedi-
          contributions to the geology and tectonic evolution of the west-  mentation, sediment budgets, Sierra Nevada Quaternary glaciation,
          ern Cordilleran margin in studies spanning the late Paleozoic to   water resources, urban flooding, and GIScience. His work on
          present, application of geology to earthquake and landslide haz-  Gilbert’s sediment wave, hydraulic mining, and legacy sediment
          ard analysis, and effective science management and communica-  has been widely read. He taught geomorphology and watershed
          tion of geology to the public. —Robert McLaughlin    science over three decades. —Anne Chin and Mary Ann Madej

          Steven J. Hageman (Appalachian State University): Steven J.   Claudia C. Johnson (Indiana University): For her contributions
          Hageman merits GSA fellowship based on publication of his   to the understanding of past paleoenvironments and the links

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