Greetings!
If you're attending the Pittsburgh GSA meeting, please join us at the Structural Geology and Tectonics Division Awards Ceremony on Tue. Oct. 17, 6-8 PM in room 301/302 of the convention center to celebrate our 2023 Division Awardees:
Career Contribution Award
Recipient: John Platt, University of Southern California
Citationists: Darrel Cowan, University of Washington; Peter Hudleston, University of Minnesota
Selection Committee: David Foster, University of Florida; Mary Hubbard, Montana State University; Ramon Arrowsmith, Arizona State University
Outstanding Publication Award
Recipients: Elena Miranda, California State University Northridge; Greg Hirth, Brown University; Barbara John, University of Wyoming
Paper: Miranda, E.A., Hirth, G., John, B.E., 2016, Microstructural evidence for the transition from dislocation creep to dislocation-accommodated grain boundary sliding in naturally deformed plagioclase, Journal of Structural Geology, 92, p. 30-45, doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2016.09.002.
Citationists: Cailey Condit, University of Washington; Rachel Bernard, Amherst College; Zachary Michels, University of Arizona; Andrew Zuza, University of Nevada, Reno; Margaret Odlum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Andrew Cross, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Joel DesOrmeau, University of Nevada, Reno
Selection Committee: Alexis Ault (Chair), Utah State University; Kevin Mahan, University of Colorado, Boulder; Phil Resor, Wesleyan University
Laubach Award (Presented by Sedimentary Geology Division this year)
Recipient: Sarah Giles, PhD student, Columbia University
Project: The impacts of salt-related fluids on cementation at the Onion Creek Salt Diapir, UT and the Beltana Diapir, South Australia: Implications for fluid flow, carbon storage, and hydrocarbon exploration in regions influenced by salt tectonics
SGTD Representatives on the Selection Committee: Juliet Crider, University of Washington; Owen Callahan, Texas State University
Outstanding SGTD Student Awards:
Abdullah Ibrahim, Western Michigan University
Chloë Weeks, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Sierra Rack, University of California, Davis
Kaitlyn Crouch, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Kyrsten Johnston, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Adelie Ionescu, Washington State University
Jacqueline Giblin, Arizona State University
Anna Ledeczi, University of Washington
Omar Ghamedi, Colorado School of Mines
Christina Bakowsky, University of Ottawa