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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
GSA Scientific Division Awards

GEOARCHAEOLOGY DIVISION students are eligible as are those who received their degrees at the
end of the fall or spring terms immediately preceding the national
Richard Hay Student Paper/Poster Award GSA meeting. The award is made possible by a bequest from the
Nominations due 1 Sept. estate of Mary C. Rabbitt. Monies for the award are administered
Submit nominations to gsa.agd@gmail.com. by the GSA Foundation. https://community.geosociety.org/
Richard Hay was a long-standing member of the Division and had histphildiv/awards/student
a long and distinguished career in sedimentary geology, mineralogy,
and archaeological geology. The award is a travel grant for a student LIMNOGEOLOGY DIVISION
(undergraduate or graduate) presenting a paper or poster at GSA’s
annual meeting. The grant is competitive and will be awarded based Kerry Kelts Research Award
on the evaluation of the scientific merit of the research topic and the Nominations due 30 June
clarity of an expanded abstract for the paper or poster prepared by a Nominations should be forwarded electronically to the Division chair.
student for presentation in the Division’s technical session. https:// This award is for undergraduate or graduate student research
community.geosociety.org/geoarchdivision/awards/student/hay related to limnogeology, limnology, or paleolimnology.https://
community.geosociety.org/limnogeologydivision/awards/
GEOLOGY AND HEALTH kerrykelts

Geology and Health Scientific Division Meritorious PLANETARY GEOLOGY DIVISION (PGD)
Service Award
Nominations due 15 July The Eugene M. Shoemaker Impact Cratering Award
Submit nominations to lsruhl@ualr.edu. Nominations due 19 Aug.
The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the mission of This award is for undergraduate or graduate students, of any
the Geology and Health scientific Division. The awardee must be a nationality, working in any country, in the disciplines of geology,
member of the Geology and Health Division and will be recognized geophysics, geochemistry, astronomy, or biology. The award,
at the annual Division business meeting during GSA Connects which will include US$2500, is to be applied to the study of
2022. https://community.geosociety.org/geologyhealthdivision/ impact craters, either on Earth or on the other solid bodies in the
events32/upcoming-awards solar system. Areas of study may include, but are not limited to,
impact cratering processes; the bodies (asteroidal or cometary)
HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF GEOLOGY that make the impacts; or the geological, chemical, or biological
DIVISION results of impact cratering. https://community.geosociety.org/
pgd/awards/shoemaker
History and Philosophy of Geology Student Award
Nominations due 15 June Ronald Greeley Award for Distinguished Service
Submit nominations to the Division’s secretary/treasurer. Nominations due 30 June
This award provides US$1000 for a paper to be given at the This award is given to members of the PGD, and those outside
national GSA meeting. Awards may also be given for second place. of the Division and GSA, who have rendered exceptional service
Oral presentations are preferred. Faculty advisors may be listed as to the PGD for a multi-year period. The award is not open to serv-
second author, but not as the lead author of the paper. The proposed ing members of the management board but may be awarded to past
paper may be (1) a paper in the history or philosophy of geology; members of the management board who have provided exceptional
(2) a literature review of ideas for a technical work or thesis/disser- service to the PGD. Nominations, which should include a descrip-
tation; or (3) some imaginative aspect of the history or philosophy tion of what the nominee has given to the PGD community, may
of geology we have not thought of before. Students should submit an be made by any PGD member to the management board. https://
abstract of their proposed talk and a 1,500–2,000-word prospectus community.geosociety.org/pgd/awards/greeley
for consideration. Currently enrolled undergraduates and graduate

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