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Kerry Kelts Research Award members of the management board who have provided exceptional
Nominations due 30 June service to the PGD. Nominations, which should include a descrip-
Nominations should be forwarded electronically to the Division tion of what the nominee has given to the PGD community, may
chair. be made by any PGD member to the management board. https://
This award is for undergraduate or graduate student research community.geosociety.org/pgd/awards/greeley
related to limnogeology, limnology, or paleolimnology.https://
community.geosociety.org/limnogeologydivision/awards/ QUATERNARY GEOLOGY AND
kerrykelts GEOMORPHOLOGY DIVISION

MINERALOGY, GEOCHEMISTRY, PETROLOGY, Farouk El-Baz Award for Desert Research
AND VOLCANOLOGY DIVISION (MGPV) Nominations due 1 Apr.
Submit nominations to Anne Chin (anne.chin@ucdenver.edu).
MGPV Distinguished Geologic Career Award This award recognizes excellence in desert geomorphology
Nominations due 31 Mar. research worldwide. It is intended to stimulate research in desert
This award will go to an individual who, throughout his or her environments by recognizing an individual whose research has
career, has made distinguished contributions in one or more of the significantly advanced the understanding of the Quaternary geol-
following fields of research: mineralogy, geochemistry, petrology, ogy and geomorphology of deserts. Although the award primarily
volcanology, with emphasis on multidisciplinary, field-based recognizes achievement in desert research, the funds that accom-
contributions. Nominees need not be citizens or residents of the pany it may be used for further research. The award is normally
United States, and membership in GSA is not required. The award given to one person but may be shared by two people if the recog-
will not be given posthumously. https://community.geosociety.org/ nized research was the result of a coequal partnership. Any scien-
mgpvdivision/awards/dgca tist from any country may be nominated. Because the award
recognizes research excellence, self-nomination is not permitted.
MGPV Early Career Award Neither nominators nor nominees need be GSA members.
Nominations due 31 Mar. Nominations should include (1) a statement of the significance of
This award will go to an individual near the beginning of his or the nominee’s research; (2) a curriculum vitae; (3) letters of sup-
her professional career who has made distinguished contributions port; and (4) copies of no more than five of the nominee’s most
in one or more of the following fields of research: mineralogy, significant publications related to desert research. Please submit
geochemistry, petrology, volcanology, with emphasis on multidisci- electronically unless hardcopy previously approved. Monies for
plinary, field-based contributions. Nominations are restricted to the award are derived from the annual interest income of the
those who are within eight years past the receipt of their final Farouk El-Baz Fund, administered by the GSA Foundation.
degree. Extensions of up to two years will be made for nominees https://community.geosociety.org/qggdivision/awards/el-baz
who have taken career breaks for family reasons or caused by seri-
ous illness. Nominees need not be citizens or residents of the United Distinguished Career Award
States, and membership in GSA is not a requirement. The award Nominations due 1 Apr.
will not be given posthumously. https://community.geosociety.org/ Submit nominations to the Division secretary.
mgpvdivision/awards/earlycareer This award is presented annually to a Quaternary geologist or
geomorphologist who has demonstrated excellence in their contri-
PLANETARY GEOLOGY DIVISION (PGD) butions to science. Because the award recognizes research excel-
lence, self-nomination is not permitted. Neither nominators nor
The Eugene M. Shoemaker Impact Cratering Award nominees need be GSA members. Nominations should include (1) a
Nominations due 19 Aug. brief biographical sketch; (2) a statement of no more than 200 words
This award is for undergraduate or graduate students, of any describing the candidate’s scientific contributions to Quaternary
nationality, working in any country, in the disciplines of geology, geology and geomorphology; (3) a selected bibliography of no more
geophysics, geochemistry, astronomy, or biology. The award, than 20 titles; and (4) a minimum of four letters from colleagues
which will include US$2500, is to be applied to the study of supporting the nomination. Please submit electronically unless
impact craters, either on Earth or on the other solid bodies in the hardcopy previously approved. https://community.geosociety.org/
solar system. Areas of study may include, but are not limited to, qggdivision/awards/distinguished-career
impact cratering processes; the bodies (asteroidal or cometary)
that make the impacts; or the geological, chemical, or biological SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY DIVISION
results of impact cratering. https://community.geosociety.org/
pgd/awards/shoemaker Sedimentary Geology Division and Structural
Geology and Tectonic Division Joint Award: Stephen
Ronald Greeley Award for Distinguished Service E. Laubach Structural Diagenesis Research Award
Nominations due 30 June Nominations due 1 Apr.
This award is given to members of the PGD, and those outside This award promotes research that combines structural geology
of the Division and GSA, who have rendered exceptional service and diagenesis and curriculum development in structural diagen-
to the PGD for a multi-year period. The award is not open to serv- esis. It addresses the rapidly growing recognition that fracturing,
ing members of the management board but may be awarded to past cement precipitation and dissolution, evolving rock mechanical

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