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RIP RAPP Clovis site in northeast Texas is especially Hassan and Don Henry. In 1973, a seminar worthy of recognition. It is a great example on soils, taught by Dave Pheasant, a student ARCHAEOLOGICAL of integrating archaeological, geological, of Pete Birkeland, left me convinced that GEOLOGY AWARD and paleoenvironmental data into a treatise Karl Butzer was right: I needed to know that sheds new light on the peopling of the more about geology. Fortunately, my “need Presented to C. Reid Ferring southern Great Plains. Although he is well geology” evolved into “want geology”, and known for his research on the archaeology, in 1980 I enrolled in the geosciences program geomorphology, Quaternary geology, and at the University of Texas at Dallas. There, an paleoenvironments of the Southern Plains, outstanding faculty revealed for me the fabric one of the more remarkable aspects of of geology and also taught me how to do it. Reidʼs work is his global approach. Reid We are all indebted to the founders of has enthusiastically applied his talents in this division, notably Rip Rapp, for their the Near East, Portugal, Russia, and the essential contribution to the now firmly Republic of Georgia. However, it is his recent established place of archaeological geology geoarchaeological research at the Dmanisi Site within the sciences. The founding of this in the Republic of Georgia, the oldest human division was followed by a second essential occupation outside of Africa, that has gained contribution, and that was the creation of the him well-deserved international recognition. International Journal of Geoarchaeology by Reid has long been an active participant Jack Donahue. Under the tireless work of in the Archaeological Geology Division of the Jack and all subsequent editors, this journal GSA. He has served as Secretary-Treasurer, has matured in partnership with our division Vice-Chair and Chair of the Division Also, and is now a signal venue for communicating C. Reid Ferring Reid has been the major driving force and the results of interdisciplinary research. A University of North Texas supporter of the Claude Albritton Student third essential contribution was realized from Award. We thank him for this effort. the efforts of Rolfe Mandel, who created the The Rip Rapp Award is given bridge between our division and the SAA. An for outstanding contributions to the astute organization man, Rolfe became the Citation by interdisciplinary field of archaeological keeper of both ends of this bridge, and ensured Paul Goldberg and Rolfe D. Mandel geology. It is difficult to think of anyone more its success by creation of the SAA-embedded Geoarchaeology is truly an interdisci- suited and qualified than Reid to receive such partisan group known as the Geoarchaeology plinary endeavor. In order to succeed and to recognition. He is an international scholar Interest Group. make advances in the field, one must be at of the highest caliber known throughout the But essential contributions are not least competent in one discipline and have a Worldʼs geoarchaeological community and like endowments. They are formalized working knowledge of the other. Otherwise, it much of its anthropological and geological commitments to sustain the discipline of is possible to generate potentially significant community for his considerable talents archaeology geology. I am indebted with and important data, but not know how to and contributions. He is a first rate scholar all of you to the efforts of the many people, integrate them. and teacher, and an energetic promoter of who have over these years fulfilled that Reid Ferring is one of those rare the Archaeological Geology Division of commitment. My gratitude extends well persons who excel in both disciplines, as GSA. Many of us should strive to be so beyond that I have for the officers and the doctorates in geology and archaeology accomplished. other volunteers who make our meetings, attest. Way back, in graduate school days, scholarships and field trips happen each year. I am even more grateful to the many colleagues when he was working in the Negev Desert Response by C. Reid Ferring of southern Israel, it was evident that Reid who have not just helped me so many times, had geoarchaeological blood in his veins. He I am extremely grateful to have been but who have also enriched my life by their would unleash a succession of questions about selected this year to receive the Rip Rapp friendship. the types of sediments, the presence or not of Award. I offer my sincere thanks to all of Over the last 30 years, Iʼve had paleosols, and the nature of past climates and you for this extending me this honor, and the opportunity to learn more about environments. In those days, such questions especially to Paul and Rolfe for their citation. archaeological geology as I worked on were rarely posed by archaeologists. Perhaps I am humbled by this award, especially in exciting problems in many places and with it was this early mindset that prompted him light of the outstanding accomplishments many colleagues. For this award, and for the to pursue a doctorate in geology a decade of past recipients. They and many others in collaboration and friendships I have enjoyed after completing his Ph.D. in anthropology. this division include people I am glad to call with you all, I am most grateful. We often wondered why Reid would punish friends, mentors, role models, colleagues, or himself twice. It is clear to us now. He was combinations of these. determined to wear two hats and to wear them My archaeological education and training well. was done formally at Southern Methodist Over the past 25 years, Reid has University, where I had the fortune to study thrived on interdisciplinary research and with Tony Marks, Fred Wendorf, Garth collaborated with individuals in many related Sampson, Jim Sciscenti and Vance Haynes, fields of study. His research at the Aubrey and to study near students including Fekri
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GILBERT H. CADY Art has also contributed in a significant and paleobotany, and showed me, by example, way to the education of scientists and non- how to be a good teacher. If I get credit for AWARD scientists on coal-related subjects. He has running a good field trip, it is only because Presented to Arthur D. Cohen taught popular courses at all levels, ranging Bill Spackman taught me how to do it. He is from the oil, gas, and coal industry to large without a doubt the best teacher I have ever introductory geology courses. He has directed had, and I have continued to copy his teaching nine Ph. D. dissertations and twenty-three style to this day. I often find myself saying: Master students. Aspects of Cohenʼs coal “Now how would Bill Spackman do this?” research are interwoven into all of these I would also like to say a few words courses. He is perhaps, best known for his about Gilbert H. Cady, for whom this award is legendary field trips to the swamps of the named. When I was a young professor at SIU, Okefenokee and the Everglades, which are starting up the first coal research program widely agreed to be some of the best ever there, I had a chance to visit briefly with “Doc in their scope, planning, execution, and Cady” (as everyone called him) at the Illinois instructional value. State Geological Survey in Champaign. In summary, Art Cohen has greatly I stayed at his home, and, after some increased our knowledge and understanding discussions about my goals and aspirations, of peat and its relationship to coal formation he asked if I would like to have a set of thin and has worked to disseminate these sections of coal. He thought I might some day ideas throughout the scientific community have some use for them. Little did I know that Arthur D. Cohen worldwide. For these reasons, he is a worthy I would use these sections in my courses for University of South Carolina recipient of the 2005 Gilbert H. Cady Award. the next thirty years. And, each time I do, I explain to my students who he was and make sure that they read one of his papers – a great Response by Arthur D. Cohen legacy. Citation by John C. Crelling I was honored and surprised when I I also want to thank my past and present learned that I was to receive the Gilbert H. students, whose enthusiasm and constant This yearʼs recipient of the Gilbert Cady Award from the Coal Division of the questioning have enriched my life by helping H. Cady Award is Arthur D. Cohen, in Geological Society of America. Looking down me to be observant and forever open to new recognition of his outstanding achievements the list of past recipients, I see the names ideas. Sorry, there is not space here to single- in coal and peat petrology. Art has been of persons whose work I have admired and out any of you. conducting coal research for nearly forty years studied for many years, and I am awed that And last, but not least, I want to thank and is internationally known for his studies my colleagues would place me in this same my wife, Mary Jo, who has made my life of modern environments of coal formation. category. more meaningful in many ways, and my kids, He has authored or edited ten books, over Throughout the years, I have looked upon Ben and Jon, who went on many swamp trips 135 refereed papers, and hundreds of reports my research not merely as an attempt to test with their dad and had to put up with the same and abstracts. He essentially established new hypotheses, but as voyage of discovery. swamp lectures “ad infinitum”. peat petrology as a discipline and developed Each new discovery has encouraged me to Thanks again to the Coal Division for many of the techniques used today to study proceed ahead and explore new pathways. this honor and I hope to continue to see many peat, including atomic force microscopy. To me, viewing a new thin section of peat or of you at these meetings in the years to come. His investigations in the Everglades were coal is like taking a step on the moon. I have among the first to use oriented microtome the opportunity to be the first to observe this sections to investigate peat formation. His new world and each new step is a wonderful studies in the Okefenokee and Snuggedy adventure. Swamps led to many papers on depositional As I proceed through the latter stages models for shoreline-related coals. He of my career, I want to thank all of the established the only peat sample bank in the wonderful professors and colleagues who world and has made essential contributions have awakened these interests in me and to utilization of peat for remediation of have generously spent their time to educate hazardous wastes in the environment. His me. I cannot thank all of them in this short studies on the origin of fusinite macerals speech, so I do apologize ahead of time for have been widely cited, and he was among that. But special thanks go to Dr. H. J. Sawin, the first to combine micropetrography with who acted in a mentoring capacity during my palynology and palynofacies to reconstruct the early undergraduate days at the University of paleoecology of peat deposits. He has studied Delaware, and to Dr. Edward Stanley, who the occurrence of mineral matter in peats and introduced me to the field of palynology. developed models to predict its distribution But, most of all, I want to thank Dr. William in coals. He has utilized unique experimental Spackman, who so enthusiastically introduced coalification techniques to investigate the me to the wonders of the Everglades and origin of coal macerals. Okefenokee Swamps, taught me about coals
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E.B. BURWELL, JR. Geology: the Ground Water Atlas of Colorado, publication has been successful in enhancing Colorado Geological Survey (CGS) Special public awareness of ground water issues, and AWARD Publication 53, by Ralf Topper, Karen L. it has been adopted as an essential resource Presented to Ralf Topper Spray, William H. Bellis, Judith L. Hamilton, document for anyone in Colorado who works For the Publication and Peter E. Barkmann. with such issues. Ground Water Atlas of Colorado The importance of water in the western Finally, I would like to say a word Colorado Geological Survey (CGS) United States cannot be overemphasized. It or two about the authors, all of whom are Special Publication 53 supports our natural resources, agricultural and experienced hydrogeologists. Ralf Topper by Ralf Topper, Karen L. Spray, industrial activities, and human population. and Peter Barkmann work for the Colorado William H. Bellis, Judith L. Hamilton, Ground water resources are becoming Geological Survey, while Karen Spray, and Peter E. Barkmann. increasingly important as a consequence of Bill Bellis, and Judy Hamilton practice in population growth, drought, and the need the private sector. While all of the authors for reliable water sources and their wise use. contributed to the writing, Ralf Topper, as the In Colorado, the need for comprehensive, senior author, did an admirable job in pulling understandable information concerning the the piece together and giving it a voice. The stateʼs ground water resources has resulted in tone of the Atlas, from cover to cover, is one the publication of the Ground Water Atlas of of careful scientific consideration coupled Colorado. with patient and focused explanation. The This 210-page atlas was compiled and writing is not too wordy, nor is it too spare. It created by the authors and CGS, working in is just right. cooperation with several state and federal As someone who watched this agencies and professional organizations. There publication take shape, and a former Burwell are three introductory chapters that explain Award recipient, I am duly impressed by ground water in its geological, hydrological, the quality and focus of the completed and legal context, and an extensive glossary product. I consider this to be the end-all book at the end. The main part of the publication for its intended topic, the one-stop, must- summarizes the location, geography, geology, have resource for all who are interested in Ralf Topper water quality, and hydrologic characteristics Coloradoʼs ground water and its geologic Colorado Geological Survey of the stateʼs major aquifers. This includes aspects. As Phillip LaMoreaux, editor-in- a systematic and straight-forward text; chief of the journal Environmental Geology maps of structural basin boundaries and has said, “It could be a guide for any agency aquifer, water well locations, aquifer in the world with the responsibility of Citation by David C. Noe thickness, potentiometric surfaces, hydraulic communicating with the general public as well conductivity, water well depths, and chemical as the scientific community in an area.” One of the many pleasures of working concentrations; cross-sections; hydrologic In meeting the requirements and vision as a scientist is that of encountering a stratigraphic sections; data tables, graphs of the Burwell Award, this is certainly a comprehensive, end-all publication. Iʼm sure of well depths and well yields; numerous publication of distinction that advances the you know what I mean—an expert work photographs, and extensive bibliographies for knowledge and practice of Engineering and that covers many levels of a subject, from each aquifer. Environmental Geology to a high degree beginning concepts to expert application; In spite of this robust compilation of among a variety of interdisciplinary users. I something thatʼs accessible, well stated, data and other information, the Atlas has an am pleased that the Award Committee felt the scientifically sound, and, if youʼre lucky, easy-to-read 11˝ x 17˝ format and is lavishly same and considers the Ground Water Atlas profusely illustrated. Nearly all of us can think illustrated, making it accessible for both of Colorado to be worthy of the 2005 E.B. about one, two, or several of such publications technical and non-technical readers. As such, Burwell, Jr., Memorial Award. and how theyʼve affected our understanding of it serves as a tool for water conservancy their respective topics. managers and planners, policy makers, On the other hand, Iʼm sure that we all and water engineers, and as an educational 1 Information from the Atlas is being used by share, to some degree, the frustration of not resource for water users, legislators, and the the Colorado Water Conservation Board having an end-all publication available when general public. and its contractors in the compilation of we start into something new. After all, much Since its publication in 2003, over 1,300 the South Platte Decision Support System, of science is discovery, and if everything has copies of the Ground Water Atlas of Colorado an integrated ground water/surface water already been done, we should all go home and have been sold to a variety of users. While it data access system allowing data based turn out the lights. does not suggest solutions or provide land- decisions on water supply and use in the Therefore, we should celebrate the use recommendations, the basic information South Platte River basin in Colorado. publishing of any work that greatly elevates contained therein is being used to address the understanding of a topic in the eyes aquifer-related land use issues through a 2 Colorado Supreme Court Decision in of its users. And so, it is my pleasure to watershed decision support system1, and as Case No. 02SA216: Colorado Ground introduce this yearʼs winner of the E.B. an authoritative source for judicial decisions2. Water Commission v. North Kiowa-Bijou Burwell, Jr. Memorial Award, in recognition Maps and other data from the Atlas have been Groundwater Management District, of distinguished contribution to Engineering used in major Denver newspaper articles. This September 8, 2003.
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Response by Ralf Topper whose dedication, management, and direction This became a greater challenge when behind the scenes brought this publication to we attempted to categorize and define the On behalf of my co-authors, Karen fruition. various aquifers in Colorado due to the Spray, William Bellis, Judith Hamilton, and The inspiration for compiling a large stateʼs varied and complex geology. That Peter Barkmann, we are deeply honored to format, heavily illustrated atlas came from task was accomplished by formulation of a receive the 2005 Edward Burwell, Jr. Award the Ground Water Atlas of the United States detailed conceptual plan, adherence to a well- for authoring Colorado Geological Survey segments published by the USGS. The Ground defined outline for content, and a lengthy and Special Publication 53: Ground Water Atlas Water Atlas of Colorado presents the research comprehensive review and editing process. of Colorado. I would like to give you a brief and results of many other scientists from In closing, I would like to borrow from history on how this publication came to be. both the public and private sector, and draws an article written by Allen Hatheway, a Surface water currently supplies heavily on the water well permit database consulting geological engineer from Montana, approximately 80 percent of Coloradoʼs water established and maintained by the Colorado in the October issue of The Professional supply needs. The limitations on this resource, Division of Water Resources. Geologist. Allen was asked, in part, “What is however, have been evident for decades as all As you may imagine, an investigation, it that engineers need to know to practice in of Coloradoʼs major river systems are over- compilation, and production of a publication the applied geosciences”? Allen suggests that appropriated. With a 30 percent growth in of this magnitude requires the dedication an engineer needs some sense of what it is population in the past decade, Colorado water and contribution of many individuals and they require of geoscience specification input. managers and politicians are struggling to agencies. Karen Spray, William Bellis, and Consequently, he concludes that the engineer provide long-range sustainable water supplies. Judith Hamilton, all experienced consulting should know enough about geology to wisely It is in this environment that the Colorado hydrogeologists in metro-Denver, were acquire qualified geologic support, formulate Water Buffalos recognized the need for contracted to help with this unique project. a scope of work for a qualified geologist, additional and comprehensive ground-water This project took two years to complete, and and evaluate the worth of the geological information. One of these in particular, we were fortunate to have Peter Barkmann work product. It is my sincere hope that the Mr. Tom Cech of the Central Colorado join the CGS during that time and contribute Ground Water Atlas of Colorado will be used Water Conservancy District, promoted the to this publication. The GIS and graphic as a reference for factual information on compilation of a ground-water atlas as a services personnel within the CGS put a Coloradoʼs ground water hydrology, allowing tool for water managers and an educational face to our data and visions by creating the less experienced practicing engineer to resource for water users, legislators, and illustrations, maps, and figures and designing formulate the specification input required the public. Mr. Cech brought the idea to the the layout. for their project, or at least recognize the Colorado Water Conservation Board, where I am very pleased that David Noe need for additional, site-specific hydrologic deputy director Dan McAuliffe realized the recognized and appreciated the voice and information. benefits of such a compendium and solicited tone of the atlas. It is very difficult to convey We are very grateful to the Award and funded the Colorado Geological Survey technical information to a non-technical Committee for bestowing the 2005 Edward to create an atlas of Coloradoʼs ground-water audience, while still providing factual Burwell, Jr. Memorial Award upon our work. resources. information and holding the attention of It is truly an honor to be recognized in such a And so, the project came to me under the scientific and engineering professionals. fashion. supervision of our section chief, Matt Sares,
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GEORGE P. was the first to observe directly the flexure of much enjoyed working at the boundaries the lithosphere beneath the Hawaiian islands of geophysics and geology, something WOOLLARD AWARD with multichannel seismic data and to image which Martin Bott, my Ph.D thesis advisor, Presented to Anthony B. Watts apparent ponding of magmatic material encouraged. I remember, as a young under- beneath the crust, termed “underplating”. graduate, reading Martinʼs papers that showed He then connected the long-term how you could use gravity anomalies to mechanical strength of the lithosphere to address the granite problem and thinking results from laboratory studies of rock defor- that this was exactly how geophysics should mation, building on an idea first suggested be used—as a tool to address geological by Goetze and Evans. Tony and his students problems. John Bodine and Mike Steckler combined Most of my working career has been rock mechanical studies showing brittle failure spent in the US, which I think provides the in the upper crust and creep at greater depths most exciting environment to do research. to define a ʻyield stress envelopeʼ that was My first opportunity was a post-doctoral temperature, and thus age, dependent. They fellowship at Columbiaʼs Lamont-Doherty successfully showed that mechanical loading Geological Observatory. When I arrived there of this rheologic structure would imitate the in the early 70s Lamont was running 5 ships simple idealized elastic plate flexure. and in its heyday of ocean exploration. Doc Tony recognized the potential for flexural Ewing sent me to work in the gravity group isostasy to explain a common pattern of and I remember Manik Talwani asking me Anthony B. (Tony) Watts coastal on-lap sequences observed in a variety which ocean I wanted to work in. I answered University of Oxford of sedimentary basins in seismic reflection the Atlantic because it was the only ocean profiles. Other scientists had proposed that that I knew anything about. My reward was sea level rise was required to explain the to be sent to the Barents Sea with Captain global distribution of on-lap events. Tonyʼs Kohler on R/V Vema for 2 very cold (and Citation by Marcia McNutt work showed that this onlap sequence was a dark) months! When I returned, Manik told natural consequence of the increasing flexural me that he already had people working on the The Woollard Award recognizes rigidity of cooling, subsiding lithosphere, Atlantic and Indian oceans and that I should “outstanding contributions to geology avoid the need for sea level changes. Tony work in the Pacific. It was a decision I have through the application of the principals and expanded these ideas with his students Garry never regretted. Lamont had amassed a huge techniques of geophysics.” Tony Watts is a Karner, Mike Steckler and Julian Thorne and geophysical database in the Pacific, which most worthy recipient, having applied gravity, their Lamont colleague Bill Ryan, developing we were able to use to test the earlier ideas seismic, bathymetric, and stratigraphic data the ʻback-strippingʼ technique to study the of Dick Walcott and Tom Hanks that the to the quantitative solution of problems in thermo-mechanical evolution of sedimentary crust might be flexed seaward of trenches. tectonics, geodynamics, geomorphology, basins. This led to a new understanding of the The trench work led to Hawaii, two chance and sedimentology. He has mentored dozens geologic forces that create source, reservoir, meetings with George Woollard, and a career of post-docs and students, participated in and trap rocks, and produce the thermal long interest in plate flexure. Although I more than 15 sea-going expeditions, and regime required to mature hydrocarbons. It returned to the UK in the early 90s (where I authored nearly 150 papers. His book, even allowed a rough guess at the resource finally got to work in the Atlantic!), I have Isostasy and Flexure of the Lithosphere, is a potential of a basin from its gravity anomaly able to maintain my US contacts, thanks to tour de force, showing isostasy, modulated alone, especially valuable when satellite sabbaticals first at MIT and then at Scripps. by the mechanical resistance to flexure, is altimetry furnished global marine gravity There are many people who I feel should the common cause shaping the structure of anomalies over previously unexplored areas. share this award. First, are my graduate the crust in geological environments ranging Tonyʼs singular vision and greatest students whose friendship, advice, and never- from mid-ocean ridges to trenches, and from achievement has been to show the universality ending enthusiasm has been an inspiration continental rifts to mountain belts. of isostasy and flexure of the lithosphere as to me. Marcia has already mentioned some Following in the footsteps of Woollard, common mechanisms shaping the architecture of them by name. I would like to add though Tonyʼs first major breakthrough came of the Earthʼs crust across all geologic a special thanks to Pål Wessel and Walter from constraining the deformation of the environments. Tony Watts, the intellectual Smith who, in addition to completing very lithosphere beneath the load of the Hawaiian heir to Woollard, is a particularly appropriate good theses, developed GMT which I, and volcanoes using gravity data. Expressing the recipient of the 2005 Woollard Award. many other scientists around the world, have strength estimates in terms of the effective greatly benefited from. Second, are my close thickness of an elastic plate, he proposed working colleagues. Again, there are too many the thickness increased as the square root of Response by Anthony B. (Tony) Watts to mention. However, I would like to say a the age of the lithosphere at the time it was special thanks to Peter Buhl, Evgenii Burov, loaded by volcanism, and then remained Thank you Marcia for your kind words Jim Cochran, Christine Peirce, Jeff Weissel frozen at that value as the load aged. Using and the rest of the committee for nominating and Shijie Zhong. You have all helped to make this concept, he estimated ages of seamounts me for the George P. Woollard award. this journey an enjoyable one and my passion remotely from gravity anomalies, without It is a great honour to receive this for geology is as strong now as it was when I recourse to geochemical analyses of rock award from the Geophysics Division of the first started. samples. With his student Uri ten Brink, he Geological Society of America. I have very
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MARY C. RABBITT also has received honorary degrees from the of Earth Sciences History, Gerryʼs editorial University of London, where he was hooded work was critical in producing a journal that HISTORY OF by the Queen Mother, and the University would gain international stature. The fledging GEOLOGY AWARD of Heidelberg, which only deigns to give journal succeeded in attracting members awards every 50 years (John Wesley Powell worldwide, and it served as an important Presented to Gerald M. Friedman in 1886, Reginald A. Daly in 1936, and Gerry forum for expanding interest in the history in 1986). His own educational pathway, after of geology. To this day, Gerry continues to leaving his native Germany, included the provide articles, editorials, and helpful lists B.Sc. degree from the University of London of interesting publications. His numerous (1945), and Masters (1950) and Ph.D. (1952) contributions to HESS were applauded with degrees from Columbia University. Gerryʼs the rare recognition (2001) as an Honorary full employment history is too rich to recount Lifetime Member. Service to our GSA History here, but it includes teaching at the University of Geology Division included two years as of Cincinnati (1950–1954), research with Vice Chair (1998–ʼ99) and two years as Chair Amoco (1956–1964), and faculty positions at (1999–2000). Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1964–1984) While HESS and its journal were gaining and Brooklyn College, City University of New adherents on the global scene, Gerry was York (1984–1988; Distinguished Professor, using his base in Troy, New York, to organize Emeritus, 1988 to the present.) If some of you and host a number of valuable symposia. cannot be impressed by academic credentials, Troy is the home of Rensselaer Polytechnic be forewarned that Dr. Friedman also holds a Institute, where Gerry taught for two decades, third-degree black belt in judo, so please pay and of the Northeastern Science Foundation, Gerald M. Friedman attention to this citation. over which he presides. It is also where he Brooklyn College and Any temptation to dwell on Gerryʼs established the Rensselaer Center for Applied Northeastern Science Foundation exceptional contributions to a rather Geology, site of many noteworthy meetings. astounding range of fields, from mineralogy For example, in August 2000, the Friedmans to sedimentology, and from petroleum to convened the “Conference on the History of uranium, must be reined in, as we turn our Geologic Pioneers.” Gerry did a fine job of Citation by Ken Bork focus to the history of geology. When one convincing us that the Troy region really had thinks of the evolution of the history of a claim to being the “Birthplace of American Does Gerry Friedman really need yet geology, there are a few names in the first Geology.” Amos Eaton (1776–1842) taught at another award?!? The positive answer is that wave, from the 1960s onward, that still RPI, as did Ebenezer Emmons (1800–1863). he definitely deserves to be the recipient of the resonate. George White, Cecil Schneer, Ursula James Hall (1811–1898) was a student of History of Geology Divisionʼs highest award. Marvin, and Martin Rudwick come to mind. Eaton and Emmons. And they have their It is an honor to bestow on Dr. Friedman the A second key era in our discipline was the permanent resting place in the general “The Mary C. Rabbitt History of Geology founding, in 1982, of the History of the Earth area, as you will find if you accompany Award” for 2005, the first time the Divisionʼs Sciences Society (HESS) and the concurrent Gerry on one of his famous cemetery tours. award has carried the name of its third inception of its journal, Earth Sciences Once the formal meetings and trips were awardee. History. I recall our discussions at the time, concluded, one learned of yet another The opening query was offered in a when it was agreed that a worldwide society dimension of Gerryʼs interests and talents. light manner, but it carries a heavy message. to foster geoscience history would be of great He is an ardent bibliophile and superb host. Few people have had, and deserved, the wide value, but the real need was to have a journal A visit to the Friedmansʼ home involves not recognition that Gerry Friedman has earned devoted to our discipline. Truth be told, it is only a pleasant social evening but also an over an exceptionally productive lifetime. difficult to imagine the evolution of HESS and amazing introduction to treasures of their We are here to honor his contributions to the Earth Sciences History without the Societyʼs personal library. The New York geologists are history of geology, but many of us realize that co-founder and the journalʼs founding editor, represented, but so is Darwin and many of the his broad and deep impact on sedimentology Gerald Friedman. The editor of a new journal great names of the history of geology. Gerry is non-pareil. It is difficult to imagine that one must have many talents, along with the truly is invested in the history of geology, person would be honored with presentation phenomenal energy and patience required from research to editing to collecting key of the Twenhofel Medal (SEPM, 1997), to deal with a flood of important decisions works in the discipline. the Sidney Powers Medal (AAPG, 2000), and production details. This is an opportune It is a pleasure to recognize our and a veritable treasure-chest of other moment to introduce Sue Friedman and Divisionʼs 2005 honoree and all-in-one medals and awards relating to his work in acknowledge her tireless collaborative work sedimentologist, editor, educator, organizer- sedimentology, geochemistry, and petroleum with Gerry. Sueʼs efforts have paid many extraordinaire, bibliophile, and tireless geology. In addition to holding numerous dividends to the history of geology, as well supporter of the history of geology -- Gerald offices in professional societies dealing with as to many other professional endeavors. M. Friedman. mineralogy, education, history of geology, Visible acknowledgment of the Friedmansʼ petroleum geology, and sedimentology, Gerry contributions is the Sue Tyler Friedman Award has also won plaudits for his important papers of the Geological Society (London). They and textbooks. A Fulbright scholar in 1964, truly are a dynamic duo. In the early days at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Gerry
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Response by Gerald M. Friedman B. Bork (1997), whom I consider close of New York and Professor Emeritus at friends, became early History of Geology Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. My past Achieving this great honor surprises and Award recipients. Robert H. Dott, Jr. (1995), students hold to positions or are retired flatters me. I am delighted and grateful. dates to my Amoco days when he came to from Esso (Exxon) and Shell and served In 1981 I established the Sue T. Friedman visit me in my research labs in Oklahoma. as president of GSA, vice president of the Medal in the Geological Society of London, Hatten S. Yoder, Jr. (1998) spent time with American Association of Petroleum Geologists and nominated Mary Rabbit for this award, me in the Canadian Shield when I was still (AAPG), and President of the Houston which she received from Geological Society a hard-rock geologist before I drifted into Geological Society (the worldʼs largest of America (GSA) in 1984, and now I am sedimentary geology. Hugh Torrens (2000) regional geological society). In worldwide the first recipient to receive the Mary Rabbit and I became friends in North Wales and continuing education programs I have taught History of Geology Award. Two years later Lancashire, England. Ellis Yochelson (2003) more than 10,500 professional scientists. Ursula B. Marvin received the History of overlapped with me at Columbia University, Recognition of my efforts has resulted Geology Award and in 2005 she received the and he was co-founder with me of HESS, in other medals and awards, but my favorites Sue T. Friedman Medal in London. One of the and I appreciated that in his award citation are the honorary fellowships or memberships first recipients of the Sue T. Friedman Medal he noted “that Gerald and Sue Friedman in the AAPG, Geological Society of London in London was Martin J.S. Rudwick (1981) made Earth Sciences History both evolve and (England), Society for Sedimentary Geology who beat me in the election for president of progress”. Last yearʼs History of Geology (SEPM), International Association of the History of Earth Sciences Society (HESS). Award recipient was Stephen G. Brush Sedimentologists (IAS), GSA, HESS, being I checked the list of previous recipients of (2004) whose “personal hero in the history of hooded by Queen Elizabeth—the Queen the History of Geology Award, which is now geology is Thomas Chrowder Chamberlain” mother of England and honorary doctorate of known as the Mary Rabbit Award and that of (1843-1928). Chamberlain was a student of the University of Heidelberg (Germany). Last the Geological Society of Londonʼs Sue T. Henry B. Nason (1831-1895), who was my but not least, I must extend thanks to Larry Friedman Medal and discovered what follows. distinguished predecessor, of Rensselaer Woodfork who helped in the efforts to make The first recipient was George W. White Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. me a Kentucky Colonel (and have a plaque to (1982), a distinguished geologist who became I was most fortunate and made the best prove it). the first member of the editorial board of move in my life when I married my beautiful Thank you for your most generous Earth Sciences History (HESS). William A.S. wife Sue. Thereafter I became a geologist and recognition. Sarjeant (1991), historian and bibliographer professor and have worked on every continent of geology, was also a recipient of the Sue T. except Antarctica. My work gives me great Friedman Medal of the Geological Society of pleasure. I hold the fancy title of Distinguished London. Michele Aldrich (1992) and Kennard Professor Emeritus in the City University
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O.E. MEINZER AWARD groundwater flow systems, and the body of resistivity deflections in a well log penetrating work on boreal peatland hydrology and hydro- the I donʼt remember what oil-bearing Presented to Donald I. Siegel geochemistry. formation in Oklahoma, and then hung up. What kind of a nut is this, I thought. He later Pertinentia ad professionem explained that his supervisor was walking Quaestiones, Opera et Scripta: Siegelʼs by and he didnʼt want him to know he was diverse interests, work and publications cover intending to leave for graduate school. more than the two areas mentioned above, and Studia: Siegel extends his range of include: carbon cycling; isotope hydrology interest to epistemology and ethics of in systems ranging from crustal boundaries the profession by giving advice to young to shallow springs;fate and transport of geologists aspiring to academe. He makes hydrocarbons, solvents, landfill and fly ash time for interests other than those narrowly leachates; environmental policy; geological defined professionally. He plays a mean game education; well-head protection, and most of chess; but his son Micah beats him. His recently, hyporheic interactions. culinary interests range from eggs Benedict Res gestae: Achievements and to his new cookbook: ” From Lokshen to Lo contributions not necessarily prominently Mein, the Jewish Love Affair with Chinese listed above that also influenced hydrogeology Food,” which clearly derives from his and hydrogeochemistry are the first discovery Donald I. Siegel hydrogeochemical background. that organic acids and bacteria weather Syracuse University Hospitalitas: Known for the legendary silicates - work done in cooperation with Phil parties at his house, these flow directly from Bennett (my nepos academicus), and studies his interest in food and food preparation on the interaction of peatland vegetation with and his love for people. But we cannot pass hydrology and geochemistry with Paul Glaser, without mentioning Bette, his wife, who is as Citation by Olaf Pfannkuch who covers the eco-biologic aspects of the much part of the hospitality as he is. subject. Amicitia: I must take notice that Don Praesentatio ad Sigelium Praemium Of great satisfaction to Don is his guiding has accomplished the rare feat of remaining Meinzerianum. of two score graduate theses and advising in longtime contact with his advisees, Prohoemium: Donald Ira Siegel, seven score and ten undergraduate students at collaborators and co-authors. The authors on this yearʼs recipient of the O.E. Meinzer SU. his publication list are essentially a list of his Award can look back to a long pedigree Praemia accepta: Siegel is not new to friends. He is loyal to old colleagues and new of academic ancestors. According to the distinguished awards (of course none as alike, makes friends easily, and keeps them European academic tradition, thesis advisors prestigious as the OEMA). He holds Syracuse for life. and advisees are viewed in a relationship Universityʼs Wasserstrom Graduate Mentoring Hilaritas: One of the most striking of pater academicus and filius academicus. Award, the Distinguished Service Award of observations to be made about Siegel in his The lineage of my pater academicus, the late the Hydrogeologic Division, the Birdsall laboratory (and in field work, if you will) is E.A. Brun of the Sorbonne (and Donʼs avus Distinguished Lectureship in Hydrogeology, the laughter that emanates from it. It is not academicus), can be traced back to Pierre and is a Fellow, Geological Society of the laughter from a jocus, nor the risus of a Simon de Laplace. Hence Laplace is Donaldʼs America. sneer, nor the mindless laughter on sound academic great-great ancestor. In Laplaceʼs Labores inter colleges: Siegelʼs tracks of even more ridiculous TV shows. It time academic citations would be delivered professional advice and help is sought is the shared laughter with his professional in Latin. I will spare you my rusty Latin, but by many and gladly given. Among other and student colleagues that comes with the the headings of my citation at least will follow contributions, he is a Councilor of the “aha” moment of having found new insights, this venerable tradition. Geological Society of America, has served of having completed an experiment, or solved on six committees of the National Research Laudatio ad Siegelium, accipientis a problem in common. It is the true laughter Council, National Academy of Science, praemium Meinzerianum. of cheerfulness, hilaria or laetitia that follows actively participates in professional societies Radicis: Donald Ira Siegel has his successful intellectual inquiry. It is also the as a member or chair of committees, and is academic roots in Rhode Island, Penn State laughter of someone who loves his work and also on editorial boards. and Minnesota. Professionally he had a foot approaches it with rigor, but who does not in the oil industry, state agencies and the Pertinentia ad Morem et Vitam take himself too seriously. May this laughter United States Geological Survey before re- Ingenium et ars: continue in aeternum. entering academe in Syracuse. This gave him One of Donʼs innate gifts is presence of Perorem: With this I shall bring the a broad scientific background from which mind. In my first telephone contact with Siegel citation to a close: Gratulemur igitur collegae came his scientific interests and achievements, I had no idea that I was talking to future O.E. quem summa laus consecuta est, discipulus, and on which the choice of publications that Meinzer material, but rather the contrary. scholasticus, doctus in res hydraulica, were the basis of his nomination for this While carrying on a fairly normal conversation professor, amicus, filius academicus, prestigious award are based. Cited in his about the hydrogeology graduate program Siegelius. nomination for this award was Donʼs work at the UMN, he suddenly asked me out of in paleohydrogeology, specifically aquifer the blue, to what degree open hole drill stem recharge under ice sheets and their hydrologic tests could be correlated to normal spaced Footnote: faber DIV adjuvit and hydrogeochemical imprint on present THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2005 MEDALS & AWARDS
Response from Donald I. Siegel Olaf showed me how to be a professorial aware. My eight years with WRD made it mensch, a guy who tries to do the right thing my disciplinary home, a place of intellectual Wow. What can I say to this citation? without looking for personal gain. I look for sanctuary for me even today. ), I would not be Latin is a subtle and beautiful language, yes? menschlicheit in every person I work with, up here today without colleagues ranging from But it isnʼt exactly in my cultural background. student or established professional. I even look Mark Hult, formerly of the Minnesota district, But I can say in Yiddish, when I got the for it in lawyers with whom I work—a longer to Mary Jo Baedecker (former director of the call from Janet Herman about the Meinzer, search at times. Without being surrounded NRP. And there are many more and you know I became quite farblondzhet, confused and by menschlicheit, I would spend inordinate who you are. Thank you so very much! bewildered, while almost hetsken zich, emotional time covering my back. I donʼt like Finally, to close, Iʼd like to say a short dancing with joy. covering my back. Iʼm not Wild Bill Hickok, word on the process of science for the younger No accomplishment comes without although I have been accused by scientific scientists here—something to take away significant support and mentoring. To this end, detractors of sometimes shooting from the hip. from this boring awards meeting. We have no Iʼd like to briefly thank a few people. Olaf and his wife Georgette also dancers and music, so Iʼd like to leave you at First, there is Bette, my wife, sitting showed me there is nothing better to foster least this. next to me here. Through fully 30 years of menschlicheit than hosting dinners and parties Here it is. Iʼm told we are hard-pressed to marriage, Bette has stuck with me as my best to celebrate individual and group academic find citations more than 10 years old in most friend and confidante, and always puts me on achievements and other milestones. And it papers published today. Iʼm grateful that at emotional track when I become mashugganah, doesnʼt hurt the process if you like to cook and least some of my papers have lasted longer in crazy, from multitasking and campus politics. entertain—hence Betteʼs and my parties. the collective scientific memory; but I hold no Without Bette, Iʼd not be here. Iʼd probably Third, I must acknowledge how much illusions. Science is a process. Even papers in still be in the Oil Patch somewhere in the Paul Glaser has been instrumental to my Nature and Geology constitute but basement Deep South. career. He and I work so closely on wetland bricks for the larger edifice of knowledge to Second, I have to thank my Latin hydrology and biogeochemistry, that part of be built on top. mentor, Olaf Pfannkuch. Please come to the this Meinzer Award, de facto (thatʼs latin), It gives me great satisfaction knowing symposium in his honor tomorrow morning. goes to Paul too. We even look more and that Iʼve contributed some bricks to my I am flattered indeed by the academic lineage more alike, as our beards become the color of subdisciplinary basement, which is where that Olaf derived for me. Now I know why he distinction and the hair on our heads migrates I like to do my science—more in the dark forced me to learn the Laplace Equation so elsewhere. than the light. But all science, be it digging well. Del squared H = 0. Olaf taught me how My final acknowledgment goes to dozens in the basement or crafting the filigree on the important it is to couple sound conceptual and of people—no, I wonʼt say all their names— wood interiors, has merit in the doing. And all theoretical models to hydrogeologic practice, the incredible folks in the USGS Water science paves the way for the next generation and I do this by cartooning my ideas on Resources Division (WRD), particularly those to modify and change with technology and napkins when I first discuss a possible thesis in the Reston and Denver National Research understanding, again and again. So I charge topic with a new student, usually at a local Program. I worked for WRD before coming you to continue the building and enjoy it every tavern. Iʼm told my students sometimes save to SU 24 years ago. If you look at my cited moment of the way. Prove my science wrong. these food stained napkins or scan them to papers, youʼll notice that the work in them was Confirm it is right; but do it as a mensch! remember the moment. mostly done when I was with the USGS or Academic lineage not only intellectually shortly thereafter. passes from generation to generation but The congenial, collegial and caring also passes with respect to personal styles, professional culture throughout the WRD something that people forget. As the song then and now is something unheard of in from South Pacific says, ”You have to be any university or other setting of which I am taught.”
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G. K. GILBERT AWARD gravity, thermal structure, density structure, read physics and maths for my first degree as presence or absence of an atmosphere, a basic science foundation. I even managed Presented to Lionel Wilson and characteristics of the atmosphere to select electrical engineering instead of (composition, temperature, pressure, etc.) geology as a minor course! on the basic processes of magma ascent and But hearing a talk by Gilbert Fielder, eruption. His contributions in this area literally the only UK scientist at the time very defined the new discipline of comparative much interested in the lunar surface, got planetary volcanology. He has treated me focussed, and I started graduate work magmas ranging from water to komatiitic in with him in London aimed at trying to composition, and environments ranging from decide if the Moonʼs surface consisted of asteroids to outer planet satellites. Typically, volcanic rocks that would be strong enough his planetary work has found application to support a landed spacecraft—the Apollo back on Earth, as the emerging increased programme was imminent at the time. It was understanding of planetary variables has only when the Orbiter spacecraft showed been applied to submarine eruptions, dike evidence for lava flows in Mare Imbrium emplacement at mid-ocean ridges, plinian that I started thinking about the geology of eruptions on continents, and mantle-derived rocks rather than their engineering properties, kimberlitic eruptions. and contacts with John Guest and George Lionel Wilson Indeed, as attested to by over 100 Walker in London got me focussed on what Lancaster University, UK publications in prestigious journals, Professor I regard as the main theme of my research Wilson has contributed fundamentally to since then, applying physical principles to the following major areas: Earth explosive understanding how volcanic eruptions work, eruptions, subaerial basaltic eruptions, and making simple mathematical models of Citation by James W. Head, III submarine eruptions; planetary volcanism these processes that attempt to capture the on Earth-like planets and icy satellites; and most important aspects of the physics. I hardly Lionel Wilsonʼs scientific contributions volcanism on asteroids. imagined, in the late 1960ʼs, that I would have have been in the field of Earth and In summary, Professor Wilsonʼs work the chance to apply these concepts to so many planetary volcanology. In the area of has formed the foundation of the relatively Solar System objects! terrestrial volcanology, his body of work new field of quantitative physical volcanology, In 1970 I got married, and I cannot over- has substantially altered the fundamental and his work has applications throughout state the support that my wife Dorothy has perceptions and approaches in the field, the Solar System. No research in this field is given me. That year I also moved to Lancaster transforming volcanology from a largely undertaken without reference to the foundation University, which has been my base since descriptive and qualitative science to a represented by his publications. Lionel then, and began a long series of collaborations rigorous and quantitative one. Using this Wilsonʼs contributions are characterized by with US scientists. The longest-lasting and background as a basis, Lionel then went on their originality, rigor, comprehensiveness, most prolific of these has been with Jim to define the emerging new field of planetary and their fundamental nature. Lionel sees Head at Brown University, but I have also volcanology. Lionel was one of the first to volcanism through eyes that are different from had the pleasure of working with numerous appreciate that the basic principles of physics those of most other scientists, and he has the other scientists, especially at the University could be brought to bear on these complex and laser-like perception to define and describe the of Hawaiʼi. I have also had the very great diverse features and processes. Interestingly, key elements of the process, and to translate stimulus of interacting with my colleagues at his early work focused on some of the more his findings into a language that can be Lancaster, not least the 38 graduate students complex interactions in explosive eruptions, shared by scientists with a wide diversity of whose work I have helped supervise. My but gradually turned to treating volcanism backgrounds. These abilities, and the resulting only words of advice to young scientists as an end-to-end system. He successfully contributions to the field and literature, more are to develop and make the most of inter- used basic physical principles to treat the than qualify him to be the recipient of the disciplinary collaborations. My only regret generation, ascent and eruption of magma, G. K. Gilbert award. from the last 35 years is seeing the extent and to show that many of the individual to which standards in the use of the English deposits and landforms, while appearing language have declined, both in the US and strikingly different from an observational Response by Lionel Wilson the UK. Languages evolve, but that does not standpoint, were actually points along a I would like to express my sincere thanks mean that they have to degrade, and it is we, physical continuum. In the true spirit of G. K. to the Planetary Geology Division of GSA for the science community, that need to be the Gilbert, Lionel Wilsonʼs treatments spanned this award, and to my good friend and valued guardians of clarity of written communication. the disciplines of field geology, petrology, colleague Jim Head for his excessively kind geophysics and volcanology. words of citation. I must say that I feel a little Lionel soon realized that the Solar strange about being honoured in this way by a System, and the planets and satellites within geological society, because I rather blundered it, offered a natural laboratory for the analysis into this field. 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KIRK BRYAN AWARD Presented to John C. Gosse and Fred M. Phillips
Citation by Ed Evenson John Gosse and Fred Phillips have been awarded the 2005 Kirk Bryan award for their seminal paper entitled “Terrestrial in situ cosmogenic nuclides: theory and application” (Quaternary Science Reviews, 20, 1475-1560). This comprehensive review paper provides a remarkable, in-depth summary of all aspects of terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide (TCN) research from both theoretical and applied perspectives. Don Easterbrook and I nominated the Gosse and Phillips paper because we thought any team that could write a paper that is almost universally referred to as “the bible” is deserving of the Kirk Bryan award. But John C. Gosse Fred M. Phillips we may be a bit biased—John was my student (M.S. and Ph.D.) and Dalhousie University New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology the four of us are research collaborators and close friends. So perhaps we should see what others have had to say about the winning paper? Twelve pre-eminent scientists wrote letters of support and I would like when, and where cosmogenic techniques can be used to solve geologic to quote from just a few. David Bowen calls the article “not only a state problems.” Susan Ivy-Ochs says “This paper is a generous gift of of the art paper … but one of the major papers of the new century”. the years of experience of both John Gosse and Fred Phillips” while Don Rodbell says, “This paper, which could easily have been a book Richard Alley simply calls the paper “monumental”. (at 85 journal pages), is remarkable”. Pete Knuepfer says Gosse and Anyone who reads “the bible” will be similarly impressed. In Phillips “have written a paper that is monumental, not because of its this invaluable paper John and Fred guide us through everything from length, but because of the breadth and depth of its coverage”. Steve hadron flux to how to read a “banana diagram”—and everything in Wells states that the paper “highlights the accomplishments of two of between. These two leaders in the field of surface exposure dating are the nationʼs top scientists.” Frank Pazzaglia asserts “The Gosse and outstanding geologists richly deserving of our divisions highest award. Phillips paper is akin to a rudder that steadies a ship during a storm. It is a great pleasure to present the 2005 Kirk Bryan award to John It is both a solid reference on the subject, as well as a guide in how, Gosse and Fred Phillips.
Response by John C. Gosse Response by Fred M. Phillips I will never forget this day when I stand in front of so many It is with deep gratitude, and awareness of the honor being friends to be honoured by the Kirk Bryan Award. It is with sincere conferred, that John and I accept the Kirk Bryan Award. We both appreciation to the Division and the Society that I accept it with Fred recognize that through this award the community that has worked Phillips, a scholar and my advisor, co-author, and friend for 13 years. to make cosmogenic nuclides a routine tool for the sciences of Thank you Ed and Don for nominating our paper which pales in geomorphology and Quaternary geology is being honored. I must comparison with the 46 others before it. Our article simply integrated acknowledge my debt to numerous individuals who have contributed the accomplishments of physicists and earth scientists over the past to this goal. First is my co-awardee, John C. Gosse, whose enthusiasm century. The cosmogenic nuclide method could have an impact on just and accomplishments in applying cosmogenic nuclides I have about every field of earth sciences, and I like to think that Kirk Bryan always admired and who is one of the few persons I know with the would have applied the technique to help solve some of his many perseverance and work ethic to actually complete a methods paper geomorphology and archeology questions. of the scope of the one cited for this award. Other individuals who The honour of this award should rightfully be shared with several have helped me greatly toward this accomplishment include my Ph.D. others who are not co-authors of the paper, but who helped direct my advisor, Stanley N. Davis, Devendra Lal, Harold Bentley, David research and inspire my work in cosmogenic isotopes. At Memorial Elmore, Marek Zreda, Mitchell Plummer, John Hawley, William D. University of Newfoundland I was enticed into geology when Martin Stone, David Q. Bowen, and June Fabryka-Martin. Finally, I thank my Batterson convinced me that a great glacier, not my shovel, had made wife, Lois Phillips, whose steadfast love and support have sustained me the striations in central Labrador. Rod A. Klassen of the GSC hired throughout all of my endeavors. me for three more summers of Labrador field work and instilled in I would like to take a moment to reflect on our journey as a me the excitement of pursuit of knowledge—any knowledge. Ed scientific field. I remember vividly one day 25 years ago when I Evenson, my Ph.D. supervisor and close friend, honed my field skills was a brand-new assistant professor at New Mexico Tech. I was in glacial geology and provided the opportunity to delve into the world standing in the department office scanning the contents of the journal of exposure dating. The integrity of these mentors motivated me to “Geomorphology”. One of the senior professors in the department (he co-author this paper. I owe a great deal to Jeffrey Klein at U. Penn. for happened to be an economic geologist) took me aside and warned me his impact on my career and life. His ability to reduce complexities to “I hope you donʼt do that kind of thing. Back at Cal Tech, we never simple physics and then explain it to a field geologist is a beautiful gift. considered geomorphology to be a real science.” This incident might My contributions to the paper are too often incomplete echoes of Jeffʼs be dismissed as no more than the prejudice of a crotchety old man, distillations. Chuck Harrington at Los Alamos and Eric McDonald at but let us remember that upon Kirk Bryanʼs death in 1950, Harvard the Desert Research Institute lured me from glacial geology and into did not replace him with another geomorphologist, but instead
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Response by John C. Gosse (continued) Response by Fred M. Phillips (continued) arid region surface processes. The breadth of the paper would not have completely abandoned that discipline. By the time of Bryanʼs death, been possible without their contagious love for desert landscapes and geomorphology had evolved from being a centerpiece of geology to soils. Frank Pazzaglia at Lehigh had just begun to teach me classical being shunted to its fringes. What had happened? The answer is that geomorphology and the intricate balances of nature when the revisions other geological fields had developed quantitative conceptual models of the paper were due. I hope that advances in cosmogenic nuclide and experimental or observational methods that yielded data to test techniques might help spawn more collaborations with these geologists those models. Geomorphology, for the most part, had neither. It was and others of their calibre. drifting into a descriptive backwater. Although Annette Murphy, a hydrogeologist, may understand why Most fortunately, the situation of that day no longer pertains. I leave for the field or laboratory so often, our three children probably Geomorphology and Quaternary geology are vibrant fields with cannot. The paper was written during two years of many that my growing numbers of scientists and a palpable level of excitement. selfless wife and kids provided me the luxury of working on landscapes Publications in our specialty are expanding into the pages of journals and papers of my choice. such as Journal of Geophysical Research and Water Resources Research. Part of the reason for this transformation is that we now have a much more rigorous theoretical framework, and computer programs to apply that theory to real landscapes. But the complementary key development is that we can now go out into real landscapes and quantify erosion rates and ages of landscape events. John and I are gratified that cosmogenic nuclides have contributed greatly to our ability to quantify the dynamic landscape. Knowing rates and knowing dates makes all the difference. Today is the new golden age of geomorphology and Quaternary geology. Letʼs go out and enjoy it.
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LAURENCE L. SLOSS reviews. She has played a special role in outrageous field plans into successes, like the strengthening collaboration and interaction most skilled laboratory manager. AWARD between North and South American scientists. Cornell, especially our Andes Project, Presented to Teresa E. Jordan Today, she leads new growth as Chair of is a wonderful intellectual home. Bryan Cornellʼs Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Isacks, seismologist turned geomorphologist, Department. Terry has an uncanny ability to illustrated that there is fertile ground for wait patiently for the very best, which she research across disciplinary boundaries. knows is in every one of us, to surface. If Among my graduate students, all of whom you know Terry, you donʼt want to let her were inspirations, I especially acknowledge down. By her example and more importantly, my first and most recent groups of students. her support, she makes our field more The first, Carol Lee Roark, Peter Flemings, collaborative and more supportive, and all of Jim Beer, and John Damanti, earned me us are better for it. I am honored to present to tenure. The most recent, Greg Hoke, Brian you Terry Jordan. Ruskin, Pete Nester, and Katie Tamulonis, have kept me feeling like a respectable researcher while being in administrative Response by Teresa E. Jordan positions for 4 years. In addition to a enormous gratitude that Lastly, I thank another Cornell colleague, my colleagues would consider me deserving my husband Rick Allmendinger. If I have of an award, a very special sense of honor succeeded, it is to a large degree because I Teresa E. Jordan have had Rick to draw upon. It is a joy to Cornell University comes from the fact that I was acquainted with Larry Sloss, who was a dear person share life with him and our daughter, Carrie. who always challenged me while making Enormous challenges face our society. me laugh. Iʼm only allowed space to thank For the well being of our communities, a few among many wonderful collaborators. sedimentary geologists must describe the Citation by Peter B. Flemings From Bill Dickinson, my graduate advisor, environmental states of which the planet is capable and we must participate in securing In 1984, Terry Jordan was at the start and Max Crittenden (USGS), I learned that adequate supplies of two vital natural of her faculty position at Cornell and I was a one can be simultaneously detail oriented, a resources: fresh water and fossil fuels. Beyond graduate student struggling towards a thesis field geologist, and enthusiastic about many- quality research in itself, we have to better topic. Every graduate student knows that one thousand-meter-thick basins. Noye Johnson insure that the public and those who make way to get ahead is to read your advisorʼs illustrated that we must think critically about decisions are really well informed. I look papers. The one that struck me was her 1981 time, the completeness of preservation of forward to tackling these challenges with you paper “Thrust loads and Foreland Basin time, and rates. Tim Cross got me into the and your students. Evolution.” This seminal paper links crustal- field to look at stratigraphic sequences, and loading in the Idaho-Wyoming thrust belt posed questions that connected sequences to with subsidence and infill of the bounding measures of time. Tim Lowenstein taught me Cretaceous foreland through a quantitative to make sense of evaporites and transformed basin model. Only a field geologist who both my long-term paleoclimate interest into action. sees stratigraphy at the grain- and the basin- I am deeply indebted to South American scale, and who has the courage to describe colleagues. Ricardo Alonso taught me to this vision quantitatively could write this look at evaporite history in the framework paper. Terryʼs work led a renaissance that of the system of volcanoes, groundwater, focused on linking quantitative descriptions of drainages, and climate. Victor Ramos started erosion and deposition over long times scales us in Andean field work, forced us realize to understand how stratigraphy formed. This the necessity of learning Spanish, and was a renaissance continues today. Her special gift is fountain of geologic knowledge. Constantino her ability to envision how modern processes Mpodozis inspired me to seek answers to integrate over time and space, to capture regional tectonic problems through study these processes with quantitative models, of Chileʼs basins. Nicolás Blanco, who and to marshal the data to show how theory demonstrates daily that sedimentary geology and observation intersect. It is appropriate applies to exploration for copper and gold that Terry has received the Sloss award: her deposits, collaborates in most of my current contributions have illuminated and enriched studies. Apolo Ortiz, and other petroleum the work of Sloss, Wheeler, Grabau and geologists with YPF-Repsol in Argentina others. and ENAP-SIPETROL in Chile, provided Terry will claim that she is only a small subsurface data, asked questions of a scale part of a big community. It is a community and nature that surface geologists did not, and that she has helped to build. Students and opened the door to study of basins and non- colleagues are all familiar with Terryʼs marine sequence stratigraphy. Antonio Díaz, exhaustive, polite, and painfully constructive like other professional drivers, converts our
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STRUCTURAL idle curiosity that leads Jan into the lab, Response by Jan Tullis but rather an effort to answer fundamental Thank you Jane for your warm and GEOLOGY & questions about processes active at depth in generous words. I am honored and deeply the earth. Second, although Jan professes to TECTONICS humbled by this amazing award, and it has know no chemistry—deferring to Dick Yund occasioned much reflection. Overall I feel DIVISION CAREER for chemical expertise—her experiments are so very fortunate: lucky to have discovered carefully designed to elucidate the influence geology at Carleton after almost flunking CONTRIBUTION of chemical parameters on the mechanical freshman math, physics and chemistry; lucky properties of rocks. Each of Janʼs papers AWARD that Terry urged me to go to grad school and has made sense out of chaos by asking key supported me through many crises of self- Presented to Jan Tullis questions, carrying out cleverly designed confidence; lucky to have done research in experiments, and then tying the results Griggsʼ and Christieʼs lab with an amazing together in such a way that new doorways are group of fellow grad students and post-docs; opened in our science. Janʼs publications have and ever so lucky to have become part of the been cited more than 2000 times, testament Geology Department at Brown University. to their importance across a wide swath of the I got into experimental work at UCLA earth sciences. accidentally, after it became clear that I was I first met Jan at a short course in 1979, quite incompetent at field work. I think the where she made an indelible impression on experimental approach better suited my me as the only “big name” scientist to ask nature (as an impatient person and a control what I, a lowly MS student, was working on. freak): there is the illusion that one can pose She seemed genuinely interested in my work a question, do an experiment and get ʻthe and was full of gentle suggestions about new answerʼ. Of course, it is not quite so simple; directions to pursue and questions to ask. More most often you discover the question was than 20 years later, I was fortunate to spend not well-posed, or the starting material or a sabbatical with Jan and experienced first- experimental conditions were inappropriate. hand her legendary energy and enthusiasm Jan Tullis However, it is an addictive pursuit, and I am Brown University for her work. Most impressive, though, still just as excited to see the thin section from were her scientific generosity and open- my latest experiment as I was almost 40 years mindedness. In the course of my sabbatical, ago. we realized that some “well-established” My initial research was on crystallo- interpretations of quartz deformation behavior Citation by Jane Selverstone graphic preferred orientations in quartzites, were flawed because one of the key quartz and I shudder to remember the tens of It is truly a pleasure to cite Professor standards contained carbonic fluid inclusions thousands of U-stage measurements I made, Jan Tullis of Brown University for the that significantly affected its strength. I can but my research broadened over the years at Structural Geology and Tectonics Divisionʼs imagine many scientists wanting to sweep Brown thanks to a series of amazing students Career Contribution Award. One experiment such results under the rug in order to preserve and collaborators. My long collaboration with at a time, Janʼs work over the last 35 years a long legacy of prior work. Not so with Jan. Dick Yund was key: his expertise in kinetics, has quantified relationships between stress, She immediately became excited about new feldspar mineralogy and TEM allowed us strain rate, pressure, temperature, chemical ways to interpret old experiments, and about to document the processes responsible for environment, deformation mechanisms, flow new experiments that could be run. I have optical scale microstructures and for different laws, and deformation microstructures in never known so prominent a scientist with so mechanical behaviors, and to elucidate the common crustal materials. Water weakening little ego invested in her work. Jan seems to effects of chemical environment and phase in quartz; the brittle-ductile transition; be motivated entirely by learning whatʼs right, changes on deformation. development of mylonites; development of and not by advancing her own reputation. We Also of enormous importance over lattice-preferred orientations; documentation could all learn some lessons from her. the years have been my education by and of dislocation creep and diffusion creep In addition to influencing the field collaborations with so many of you in SG&T regimes; causes of ductile strain localization; through her own work, Jan has played an who are field-based geologists. Griggs was chemical influences on deformation invaluable role as a mentor to many young a physicist who never went in the field to mechanisms; the list goes on and on. Taken scientists from the U.S. and abroad, and look at real rocks. When I got to Brown together, this body of work is astonishing as a dedicated advisor to legions of Brown Bill Chapple was a wonderful role model: a in its significance—much of what we know University undergraduates. Her former theoretical structural geologist who went into today about crustal rheology and fabric students all comment on the importance the field at every opportunity. I remember an development is built on a foundation of Janʼs that her “mothering” had on their scientific early trip with him to Pennsylvania, where experiments. development. Her ability to ask important I collected samples of folded Tuscarora In my mind, there are two aspects of questions, along with her passion for her work, sandstone and made thin sections, expecting Janʼs work that set her apart from the crowd. scientific rigor, and deep concern for others to find microstructures like those I had First is that all of her experimental studies are guarantee that her legacy will be a lasting one. produced experimentally—but they were motivated by—and aimed at explaining—field I can think of no more fitting person to be the totally different! That experience began to observations on natural samples. It is not first woman to receive this prestigious award.
THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2005 MEDALS & AWARDS open my eyes to the variety and complexity of students—after all the world does not need I was dubious, but fortunately said yes—and deformation mechanisms in the crust. too many rock squeezers!—but all of them thus for the first time in my life had the Another important experience came have been exceptional: Glen Shelton, Andy opportunity to interact with other professional when Art Snoke called me in the late 70ʼs to Kronenberg, Lisa DellʼAngelo, Greg Hirth, women, including Weecha Crawford. The ask if I would like to help organize a Penrose Gayle Gleason, Alice Post, and Caleb Holyoke experience made me aware of things I didnʼt Conference on mylonites. I learned so much (who is here). All of them went well beyond know I had been missing. Our committee from the participants, and still remember my own knowledge and expertise, and I didnʼt just chat: we worked hard, in a very the spirited discussions on the outcrop about learned just as much from them as they did personal and grassroots way, to encourage brittle vs ductile; pure shear vs simple shear. from me. young women interested in geology and to try That conference stimulated me to undertake I also want to mention the joy of teaching to make a more welcoming environment for many new experiments on polyphase and learning from undergraduates. At Brown them. I could tell you lots of stories about the aggregates. we are fortunate to have no distribution bad old days—when I was one of 2 women Today I feel that we have made enormous requirements; students in my introductory Ph.D. students out of 78; when there were progress in bridging the gap of some 8 orders course are there because they want to be, and no other women in the smoke-filled meeting of magnitude of strain rate between the lab I delight in having music as well as physics rooms at AGU; when the ʻjokesʼ were far and nature. But whenever I start feeling a bit majors. We are also fortunate to have a strong from funny. However, it is much better to complacent about this progress, I have only tradition of very talented geology majors, and focus on the present. Recently at Brown and to look at a few more thin sections of natural I am so happy that a number of them are here probably many other places, more than half rocks to be humbled again. For example at this evening. the undergrad and grad students in geology a recent short course Jane showed me a thin In a related vein I would like to celebrate are women, and it pleases me greatly that even section of a quartzite deformed at over 500 °C the increased attention in our community my male colleagues tell me how much they that was brittle! Borrowing the phrasing of this to improvements in teaching. I have always enjoy the shift from a more competitive to a morningʼs symposium, we have turned that appreciated the opportunity at GSA meetings more collaborative atmosphere, from just loud challenge into an opportunity and are currently to talk to colleagues about teaching as well as talking to actual listening. collaborating to seek some explanations. research, but that is rather inefficient. I would The climate has definitely warmed, but it As John Bartley commented this like to thank people who have played major is important to continue to work for positive morning, the big increase in interdisciplinary roles in providing teaching resources to our change, so that women (and men) will not feel collaborations in recent years is very smart entire community, including Mike Mayhew at they have to choose between career or family, science, but it also makes for increased fun NSF; the Cutting Edge group of Cathy, Dave, and so that other under-represented groups and friendships. I have benefitted enormously Barb and Heather; and all the amazing techno- are truly welcomed into our science. One from recent and on-going collaborations savvy people who are making incredible lesson that comes when an impatient person with Holger Stunitz and Renee Heilbronner visualizations of geological phenomena and like myself looks back is that each of us does of Basel University. They have brought new processes on all scales available to all of us— play a role; the choices we make every day do expertise and perspectives, new questions as illustrated for example in this morningʼs influence the world around us. as well as new approaches. And Renee has symposium. Let me close with my heartfelt thanks brought me back to preferred orientations I do want to mention another to the SG&T community—working together in quartzites, but this time with greater transformative experience for me, which is over all these years to try to interpret the grand applications to the real world (and much also related to a big change in our community experiments that the Earth has done has been greater esthetics!). over the years, and that started with another tremendously exciting and satisfying, and the Probably the most important component phone call, in the early ʼ70s, from Terry future is bound to be even better! of my research has come from my grad Schwarzer of Exxon, asking if I would join the students. I have had relatively few Ph.D. just-formed Women Geoscientists Committee.
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