Past Award & Medal Recipients

GSA Awards	Other GSA Awards
• Penrose Medal • Day Medal • Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal) • GSA Distinguished Service Award • GSA Public Service Award • Subaru Outstanding Woman in Science Award • Honorary Fellows About the Awards \| Current Recipients	• Division Awards • John C. Frye Environmental Geology Award • Michel T. Halbouty Distinguished Lecturer • Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer • Richard H. Jahns Distinguished Lecturer
	Teacher Awards
	• Biggs Award for Excellence in Earth Science Teaching • Outstanding Earth Science Teacher Awards (OEST)

Penrose Medalists

2007	Kevin C. A. Burke
2006	Robert D. Hatcher, Jr.
2005	Minze Stuiver
2004	W. Gary Ernst
2003	Peter R. Vail
2002	Walter Alvarez
2001	Kenneth Jinghwa Hsu
2000	Robert L. Folk
1999	M. Gordon Wolman
1998	Jack E. Oliver
1997	John D. Bredehoeft
1996	John R. L. Allen
1995	John C. Crowell
1994	Luna B. Leopold
1993	Alfred G. Fischer
1992	John Frederick Dewey
1991	William R. Dickinson
1990	Norman D. Newell
1989	Warren Bell Hamilton
1988	Robert S. Dietz
1987	Marland P. Billings
1986	Laurence L. Sloss
1985	Rudolf Trümpy
1984	Donald E. White
1983	G. Arthur Cooper
1982	Aaron C. Waters
1981	John Rodgers
1980	Hollis D. Hedberg
1979	J Harlen Bretz
1978	Robert M. Garrels
1977	Robert P. Sharp
1976	Preston Cloud
1975	Francis J. Pettijohn
1974	William Maurice Ewing
1973	M. King Hubbert
1972	Wilmot H. Bradley
1971	Marshall Kay
1970	Ralph Alger Bagnold
1969	Francis Birch
1968	J. Tuzo Wilson
1967	Herbert Harold Read

1966	Harry H. Hess
1965	Philip Burke King
1964	Donnel Foster Hewett
1963	William Walden Rubey
1962	Alfred Sherwood Romer
1961	Philip Henry Kuenen
1960	Walter Herman Bucher
1959	Adolph Knopf
1958	James Gilluly
1957	Bruno Sander
1956	Arthur Holmes
1955	Maurice Gignoux
1954	Arthur Francis Buddington
1953	Esper S. Larsen, Jr.
1952	George Gaylord Simpson
1951	Pentti Eskola
1950	Morley Evans Wilson
1949	Wendell P. Woodring
1948	Hans Cloos
1947	Arthur Louis Day
1946	T. Wayland Vaughan
1945	Felix Andries Vening-Meinesz
1944	Bailey Willis
1943	No award given
1942	Charles Kenneth Leith
1941	Norman Levi Bowen
1940	Nelson Horatio Darton
1939	William Berryman Scott
1938	Andrew Cowper Lawson
1937	No award given
1936	Arthur Philemon Coleman
1935	Reginald Aldworth Daly
1934	Charles Schuchert
1933	Waldemar Lindgren
1932	Edward Oscar Ulrich
1931	William Morris Davis
1930	François Alfred Antoine Lacroix
1929	No award given
1928	Jakob Johannes Sederholm
1927	Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin

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Arthur L. Day Medal

2007	Mary Lou Zoback
2006	Frank M. Richter
2005	Donald W. Forsyth
2004	Edward M. Stolper
2003	Dennis V. Kent
2002	Richard G. Gordon
2001	Richard J. O'Connell
2000	Stephen John Sparks
1999	Donald J. DePaolo
1998	E. Bruce Watson
1997	Edward Irving
1996	Robert A. Berner
1995	Thomas J. Ahrens
1994	David Walker
1993	Hugh P. Taylor, Jr.
1992	Susan Werner Kieffer
1991	Ian Carmichael
1990	William S. Fyfe
1989	Dan McKenzie
1988	Claude J. Allègre
1987	Don L. Anderson
1986	E-an Zen
1985	Freeman Gilbert
1984	Wallace S. Broecker
1983	Harmon Craig
1982	Eugene M. Shoemaker
1981	Donald L. Turcotte
1980	Henry G. Thode
1979	Walter M. Elsasser
1978	Samuel Epstein

1977	Akiho Miyashiro
1976	Hans Ramberg
1975	Allan Cox
1974	A. E. Ringwood
1973	David T. Griggs
1972	Frank Press
1971	Hans P. Eugster
1970	Gerald J. Wasserburg
1969	Harold C. Urey
1968	Frederick J. Vine
1967	O. Frank Tuttle
1966	Robert M. Garrels
1965	Walter H. Munk
1964	James Burleigh Thompson, Jr.
1963	Keith Edward Bullen
1962	Hatten Schuyler Yoder
1961	Willard F. Libby
1960	Konrad B. Krauskopf
1959	Sir Edward C. Bullard
1958	John Verhoogen
1957	Hugo Benioff
1956	Alfred O.C. Nier
1955	Earl Ingerson
1954	Marion King Hubbert
1953	John F. Schairer
1952	Sterling Hendricks
1951	Martin J. Buerger
1950	Francis Birch
1949	William Maurice Ewing
1948	George W. Morey

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Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal)

2007	Carmala N. Garzione
2006	Elizabeth J. Catlos
2005	Demian M. Saffer
2004	Brian K. Horton
2003	Michael Manga
2002	Ariel David Anbar
2001	A. Hope Jahren
2000	Basil Tikoff
1999	Peter C. Burns
1998	Terry Plank

1997	Edouard G. Bard
1996	Paul R. Bierman
1995	Ward Earl Sanford
1994	An Yin
1993	Michael Gurnis
1992	John Peter Grotzinger
1991	Brian Philip Wernicke
1990	Leigh Handy Royden
1989	Mark Cloos

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GSA Distinguished Service Award

2007	Nancy L. Carlson, Yildirim Dilek, Robert C. Thomas
2006	Abhijit Basu, David E. Fastovsky, Roger L. Kaesler
2005	Ben A. van der Pluijm
2004	Peter W. Lipman, Donna L. Russell
2003	Sharon Mosher
2002	David E. Dunn, John W. Geissman, Samuel S. Adams
2001	Craig H. Jones
2000	Suzanne Mahlburg Kay, Lee R. Kump, Bruce F. Molnia
1999	Sue S. Beggs, Randolph W.Bromery, Lynn M. Walter
1998	June R. Forstrom, George R. Hallberg, Charles J. Mankin

1997	Robert L. Fuchs, Richard A. Hoppin, Faith E. Rogers, Bennie W. Troxel
1996	David M. Fountain, Royann (Gardner) Cygan, Louis C. Pakiser, Jr., Anthony Reso
1995	John E. Costa, Henry T. Mullins, Arthur G. Sylvester
1994	F. Michael Wahl
1993	Michel T. Halbouty
1992	A. R. (Pete) Palmer
1991	Dorothy M. Palmer
1990	William B. Heroy, Jr.
1989	No award given
1988	Campbell Craddock, Robert D. Hatcher, Jr., Eldridge M. Moores, William A. Thomas

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GSA Public Service Award

2007	Mary Lou Zoback
2006	Richard A. Kerr
2005	J. David R. Applegate
2004	Robert D. Ballard
2003	Julia A. Jackson

2002	John A. McPhee
2001	G. Brent Dalrymple, Eugenie C. Scott
2000	Orrin H. Pilkey
1999	Stephen Jay Gould

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Subaru Outstanding Woman in Science Award

2007	Tanja Bosak, California Institute of Technology, 2004 Ph.D. Thesis,"Laboratory models of microbial biosignatures in carbonate rocks"
2006	Elizabeth S. Cochran, University of California, Los Angeles "Earthquake Rupture Initiation and Fault Structure"
2005	Michelle Walvoord, New Mexico Tech "A Unifying Conceptual Model to Describe Water, Vapor, and Solute Transport in Deep Arid Vadose Zones"
2004	Costanza Bonadonna, University of Bristol, UK "Models of Tephra Dispersal"
2003	Marin K. Clark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Late Cenozoic Uplift in Southeastern Tibet”
2002	Miriam E. Katz, Rutgers State University “Uncorking the Bottle: Causes and Effects of the Latest Paleocene Methane Hydrate Release”
2001	Ingrid Hendy, University of California, Santa Barbara “Rapid Climate Change Recorded in the North Pacific; Triggers, Processes and Effects”
2001	Emily E. Brodsky, California Institute of Technology “Studies in Fluid Dynamics as Applied to Seismology and Volcanology” (Honorable Mention)
2001	Carrie E. Schweitzer, Kent State University “Systematics and Paleobiogeography of Fossil Decapod Crustaceans of the North Pacific Ocean” (Honorable Mention)

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Honorary Fellows

* Indicates 2007

Buzz Aldrin
John R. L. Allen
Shigeo Aramaki
Neil Armstrong
Jean A. Aubouin
Juan Luis Benedetto
Daniel Bernoulli
Nicolas J. Beukes
Krzysztof Ludwik Birkenmajer
Alfonso Bosellini
Roland Brinkmann
George M. Brown
Valentin S. Burtman
S. Warren Carey
Cheng-Fa Chang *
Maria Bianca Cita
Sierd A. Cloetingh
Michael Collins
William Compston
Douglas Saxon Coombs
P. G. Cooray
Umberto G. Cordani
Bruno d'Argenio
Gabriel Dengo
Maarten J. de Wit *
Kingsley C. Dunham
Stanislaw Dzulynski
Gerhard Einsele
François Ellenberger
Erik Flügel
Cornelis (Nok) Frick

Hans Füchtbauer
William S. Fyfe
Augusto Gansser
David H. Green
Francisco Hervé
Dorothy Hill
Albrecht W. Hofmann
Ferenc Horvath
Kenneth J. Hsü
Shunso Ishihara
Valdar Jaanusson
Emilie Jager
Ihsan Ketin
Victor E. Khain
Teiichi Kobayashi
Alfred Kröner
Hans Laubscher
John F. Lovering
Henno Martin
Michael W. McElhinny
Dan P. McKenzie
Constantino Mpodozis
German K. Müller
Mervyn Silas Paterson
Leo Y. Picard
Wallace S. Pitcher
Jean Piveteau
Isabella Premoli-Silva
Desmond A. Pretorius
B. P. Radhakrishna
Hans Ramberg

Victor A. Ramos
John G. Ramsay
Alberto Carlos Riccardi
Alfred Rittmann
David G. Roberts
Antonio Carlos Rocha-Campos
Alexander B. Ronov
Rupert W. R. Rutland
Kristján Sæmundsson
Rushdi Said
Hitoshi Sakai
Mircea Sandulescu
Harrison Hagan Schmitt
Werner-Friedrich Schreyer
Eugen Seibold
Ali Mehmet Celâl Şengör
Nicholas J. Shackleton
Boris Sergeevich Sokolov
Richard L. Stanton
Rashid A. Khan Tahirkheli
Paul Tapponier
Bernard P. Tissot
Livio Trevisan
Rudolf Trümpy
Guangzhi Tu
K. S. Valdiya
John Veevers
Harry B. Whittington
Alwyn Williams
Yang Zun-yi

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