Board-current

OFFICERS & MANAGEMENT BOARD (2026)
Officers: 5 Members; Chair, 1 year; First Vice-Chair, 1 year; Second Vice-Chair, 1 year; Secretary-Treasurer, 2 years; immediate Past Chair, 1 year
Management Board: 6 Members; consists of the Division officers and Student Representative.  The Management Board of the MGPV Division also includes representatives of the Adhering Societies.  (Any Associated Society of the Geological Society of America which is in good standing may become an adhering Associated Society member of the Division.)
*Chair Jade Star Lackey (2026)
Pomona College
Geology Department
185 East 6th St
Claremont CA 91711-4421 USA
+1-909-621-8675
JadeStar.Lackey at pomona.edu
*First Vice-Chair

Gary Michelfelder (2026)
School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability
Missouri State University
945 E. Grand St.
Springfield, MO 65897 USA

garymichelfelder

at missouristate.edu

  *Second Vice-Chair

Chris Yakymchuk
Dept Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave W
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
Canada

cyakymch

at uwaterloo.ca

 **Secretary-Treasurer J. Alex Speer (2026-2027)
Mineralogical Society of America
3635 Concorde Pkwy Ste 500
Chantilly, VA 20151-1110  USA
+1-703-652-9950
jaspeer at minsocam.org
*Past Chair Elisabeth Widom (2026)
Department of Geology &
Environmental Earth Science
Miami University
122 Shideler Hall
250 S. Patterson Ave.
Oxford, OH 45056.  USA
+1-513-529-5048
widome at MiamiOH.edu



***Student Representatives

Madeline Murchland (2023-26)
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID
USA

Claire Alley (2023-25)
Towson University
Towson, Maryland
USA

Emily Fischer (2023-26)
Brown University

Providence, RI
USA

madeline_murchland at mines.edu



calley3 at students.towson.edu


emily_fischer at brown.edu

Communications Coordinator
(previously 
Newsletter Editor / Webmaster)

J. Alex Speer
Mineralogical Society of America
3635 Concorde Pkwy Ste 500
Chantilly, VA 20151-1110  USA

+1-703-652-9950
jaspeer at minsocam.org

Representatives of the Adhering Societies.
****Clay Minerals Society (CMS):

Katerina M. Dontsova
University of Arizona
Dept Environ Sci and Biosphere 2
1177 E 4th St
PO Box 210038
Tucson, AZ 85721-0158 USA

+1-601-868-0279

dontsova at arizona.edu



****Geochemical Society (GS): Frank C. Ramos

New Mexico State University
Dept. Geological Sciences
1255 N. Horseshoe Dr. MSC3AB
Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA

+1-575-646-2511
framos at nmsu.edu

****International Association of Geochemistry (IAGC) : Elisabeth Widom (2025)
Department of Geology &
Environmental Earth Science
Miami University
122 Shideler Hall
250 S. Patterson Ave.
Oxford, OH 45056.  USA

+1-513-529-5048
widome at MiamiOH.edu

****Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC): David A. Fowle
University of Kansas
Department of Geology
1475 Jayhawk Blvd. Room 120
Lawrence KS 66045-7594 USA
+1-785-864-1955

fowle at ku.edu

****Mineralogical Society of America (MSA): Ann Benbow
Mineralogical Society of America
3635 Concorde Pkwy Ste 500
Chantilly, VA 20151-1110 USA
+1 703 652 9950
+1-541-737-1200 (fax)

abenbow at minsocam.org

****Mineralogical Society of the United Kingdom & Ireland (MSUKI): Kevin Murphy
Mineralogical Society
12 Baylis Mews, Amyand Park Road
Twickenham TW1 3HQ
United Kingdom
+353-(0)23-8845401

kevin at minersoc.org

GSA Council/Division Liaison 

Carol D. Frost
University of Wyoming
Dept of Geology and Geophysics
1000 E University Ave
Laramie, WY 82071

+1 301-363-1628
Frost  at uwyo.edu

* A one-year term of office which shall begin immediately following the annual business meeting at which their election is announced and extend through the next annual business meeting.
** Second year of a fourth two-year term.
*** first year of a two-year term.
**** indefinite term.