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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
GSA Scientific Division Awards

ENERGY GEOLOGY DIVISION GEOARCHAEOLOGY DIVISION
Gilbert H. Cady Award Richard Hay Student Paper/Poster Award
Nominations due 1 Mar. Nominations due 1 Sept.
Submit nominations to the Cady Award chair (the past Division Submit nominations to gsa.agd@gmail.com.
chair). Richard Hay was a long-standing member of the Division and had
This award recognizes outstanding contributions in the field of a long and distinguished career in sedimentary geology, mineral-
coal geology that advance the science both within and outside of ogy, and archaeological geology. He is particularly well known for
North America. https://community.geosociety.org/energydivision/ his work on the Olduvai Gorge and Laetoli Hominid-bearing sites
awards/cady and was awarded the Division’s Rip Rapp Award in 2000. The
Division is proud to have our student travel award bear his name.
Curtis-Hedberg Award The award is a travel grant for a student (undergraduate or graduate)
Nominations due 1 May. presenting a paper or poster at GSA’s annual meeting. The grant is
Submit nominations to the Curtis-Hedberg Award chair (the past competitive and will be awarded based on the evaluation of the sci-
Division chair). entific merit of the research topic and the clarity of an expanded
The inaugural Curtis-Hedberg Award will be made for abstract for the paper or poster prepared by a student for presenta-
outstanding contributions in the field of petroleum geology. tion in the Division’s technical session at the meeting. https://
https://community.geosociety.org/energydivision/awards/ community.geosociety.org/geoarchdivision/awards/student/hay
curtishedberg
Claude C. Albritton, Jr., Award
ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENGINEERING GEOLOGY Nominations due 15 Mar.
DIVISION Submit nominations to gsa.agd@gmail.com.
The Albritton Award Fund provides research scholarships and
E.B. Burwell, Jr., Award fellowships for graduate students in the earth sciences or archaeol-
Nominations due 1 Feb. ogy. Recipients are students who have (1) an interest in achieving
Submit nominations to Jim McCalpin at mccalpin@geohaz.com. a master’s or Ph.D. in earth science or archaeology; (2) an interest
This award honors the memory of one of the founding members in applying earth-science methods to archaeological research;
of the Division and the first chief geologist of the U.S. Army and (3) an interest in a career in teaching and academic research.
Corps of Engineers. It is made to the author or authors of a pub- Awards in the amount of US$650 are given in support of thesis or
lished paper of distinction that advances knowledge concerning dissertation research, with emphasis on the field and/or laboratory
principles or practice of engineering geology, or of related fields aspects of the research. https://community.geosociety.org/
of applied soil or rock mechanics where the role of geology is geoarchdivision/awards/student/albritton
emphasized. The paper that receives the award must: (1) deal with
engineering geology or a closely related field, and (2) have been Rip Rapp Award
published no more than five years prior to its selection. There are Nominations due 15 Feb.
no restrictions on the publisher or publishing agency of the paper. Submit nominations to gsa.agd@gmail.com.
https://community.geosociety.org/eegdivision/awards/burwell George “Rip” Rapp Jr. was one of the primary individuals
responsible for establishment of the Division and generously
Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecturer established an award fund with the GSA Foundation. Nominations
Nominations due 31 Jan. should include a biographical sketch, a statement of outstanding
Submit email nominations or questions to the EEGD chair. achievements, and a selected bibliography of the nominee. https://
This lectureship was established in 1988 by the Environmental community.geosociety.org/geoarchdivision/awards/riprapp
and Engineering Geology Division and the Association of
Environmental & Engineering Geologists to commemorate Jahns GEOINFORMATICS DIVISION
and to promote student awareness of engineering geology through
an annual series of lectures at academic institutions. The award is Outstanding Contributions in Geoinformatics Award
given to an individual who through research or practice has made Nominations due 15 Feb.
outstanding contributions to the advancement of environmental This award will be made to an individual who has contributed
and/or engineering geology. The awardee will speak on topics of in an outstanding manner to geology through the application of the
earth processes and the consequences of human interaction with principles of geoinformatics. The individual should be a member of
these processes, or the application of geology to environmental GSA. https://community.geosociety.org/geoinformaticsdivision/
and/or engineering works. Award funds are administered by the awards
GSA Foundation. https://community.geosociety.org/eegdivision/
awards/jahns

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