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GSA Today Science Editor Changes

Outgoing science editor Mihai N. Ducea Incoming science editor Jim Schmitt is
is a professor of geology at the University professor emeritus of geology at Montana
of Arizona and also holds a courtesy State University. His research has focused
appointment at the University of Bucharest. primarily on tectonic controls on sedimenta-
He received a Ph.D. at the California tion, depositional systems, and paleontology.
Institute of Technology. Ducea’s research is He is a GSA Fellow who has served as sci-
aimed at understanding the links between ence editor of Geology (2016–2020), associate
igneous and metamorphic petrologic pro- editor of GSA Bulletin (2006–2009). and
cesses and the tectonic evolution of conti- co-author of a GSA Special Paper (2017).
nents. He is interested in continental mar- He has also served on the GSA Publications
gin processes and conducts fieldwork at various locations in the Committee and the Research Grants Committee and is a member of
western North American Cordillera, the central Andes, the the Federal Advisory Committee for the National Cooperative
Carpathians, and southern Tibet. He runs a geochemical and Geological Mapping Program (NCGMP).
radiogenic isotope laboratory at the University of Arizona.
Ducea is a GSA Fellow who has published 50 papers in GSA Peter Copeland continues his work at sci-
journals (Geology, GSA Today, GSA Bulletin, Geosphere, and ence editor through Dec. 2022. He is a profes-
Lithosphere) over the past 20 years and has co-edited a GSA sor in the Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric
Memoir (2015) and a GSA Special Paper (2005). Sciences at the University of Houston. His
research has focused primarily on thermochro-
nology and its application to continental tec-
tonics. He is the author of Communicating
Rocks: Writing, Speaking, and Thinking about
Geology (2012, Pearson). From 2001–2004, he
was the co-editor of the GSA Bulletin.

2022 GSA Science Editors

GSA depends on the volunteer efforts of many science editors, associate editors, and editorial board members to ensure the
timeliness and quality of our publications.
GSA thanks the editors whose terms ended 31 December 2021 for their service to the Society and to the science:
Rob Strachan, GSA Bulletin; Chris Clark, Geology; Shanaka de Silva, Geosphere; and Mihai N. Ducea, GSA Today.

Thank you to our continuing editors: Geology, Gerald Dickens, Trinity Please join us in welcoming the science
College Dublin editors beginning terms this month:
GSA books, Joan Florsheim,
University of California, Santa Barbara Geology, Marc D. Norman, Australian GSA Bulletin, Mihai Ducea, University
GSA books, Christian Koeberl, National University of Arizona
University of Vienna and Natural History Geology, Urs Schaltegger, University Geology, Rob Strachan, University of
Museum, Vienna of Geneva Portsmouth
GSA books, Nancy Riggs, Northern Geosphere, David E. Fastovsky, Geosphere, Chris Spencer, Queen’s
Arizona University University of Rhode Island (appointed University
GSA Bulletin, Brad Singer, University to a second term) GSA Today, Jim Schmitt, Montana
of Wisconsin–Madison Geosphere, Andrea Hampel, Leibniz State University
University Hannover
GSA Bulletin, Wenjiao Xiao, Chinese
Academy of Sciences GSA Today, Peter Copeland,
Geology, Kathleen C. Benison, West University of Houston
Virginia University Environmental & Engineering
Geoscience, Eric Peterson,
Geology, William Clyde, University of
New Hampshire Illinois State University

Find the current list of editors at www.geosociety.org/editors.

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