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Karen Viskupic, Past-President Michael A. Phillips, Secretary-Treasurer and Advocacy
Anne E. Egger, Executive Director and GSA Fellow Committee chair, GSA Fellow, and former member of GSA’s
Leilani Arthurs, Geoscience Education Research Division Geology & Public Policy Committee
President Katherine Ryker, Councilor-at-Large, Past-President Geoscience
Kimberly A. Hannula, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Geoscience Education Research Division, GSA Fellow, and GSA Education
Education, former member of GSA’s Education Committee and Committee member
Public Service Award Committee

Response from GSA Executive Committee

to the National Association of Geoscience

Teachers (NAGT) Letter to GSA Today Editors

GSA Today has been designed as the Society’s versatile and of the earth sciences on education, policy, planning, and funding.”
multipurpose communication magazine. The goals are to provide There is no doubt that at times the subject of a manuscript could
its readers with stimulating and relevant information that can satisfy both those calls and perhaps only be limited by the size
increase their geoscience knowledge base and, at the same time, of the submission. In the future, such size limitations may be
keep them abreast of GSA activities and benefits. It is also used to removed. We also thank NAGT for offering its assistance to our
highlight educational and job opportunities. These many-pronged GSA Today editors with locating experienced peer reviewers for
objectives can sometimes be difficult to keep separate but focused. multidisciplinary-themed manuscripts and for those that may fall
We, the GSA Executive Committee, thank the National into areas of NAGT expertise. Experience from all of our
Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) for its concern that Associated Societies is needed to build and maintain a strong
GSA gave the impression of limiting the breadth of manuscript communication and scientific platform.
submissions. The officers and members of the Executive In discussions with the GSA Today editors, they have expressed
Committee support the call that manuscripts to GSA Today are the same opinion and they are open to considering a wide variety
“timely, high-quality, appealing to a broad geoscience audience” of manuscript submissions that may fit our present categories.
and “innovative and focused on current topics and discoveries in This conversation has also re-opened the internal discussion about
geoscience.” In addition, Groundwork articles are typically “short, the format of GSA Today and our ultimate needs. Please stay tuned
hot-topic or issue-driven articles” that “promote greater influence for additional updates.

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