GSA Presidential Addresses

These papers are presented by the GSA President at each GSA annual meeting and later published in GSA Today.

Presidential address articles not listed here were published in GSA Bulletin and are listed on the GSA Past Leaders page.

Title Format Presented Published
Life on an Active Margin: Swimming Pools and Movie Stars
Christopher (Chuck) Bailey
PDF   Video 2024
Anaheim
Jan. 2025
Geoscience at the Confluence
Christopher (Chuck) Bailey
PDF   Video 2023
Pittsburgh
Jan. 2024
The Past, Power, and Our Future with the Earth
Mark Gabriel Little
PDF   Video 2022
Denver
Jan. 2023
Minerals Matter: Science, Technology, and Society
Barbara L. Dutrow
PDF   2021
Portland
Feb. 2022
Geology in an Online World
J. Douglas Walker
PDF   2020
Online
Feb. 2021
The Future for Geoscience in the Context of Emerging Climate Disruption
Donald I. Siegel
PDF   Video 2019
Phoenix
Feb. 2020
Navigating "Me, too" in the Geosciences
Robbie Gries
PDF Web   2018
Indianapolis
Feb. 2019
“Mind the Gap”: GSA’s Role in an Evolving Global Society
Isabel Patricia Montañez
PDF Web   2017
Seattle
March 2018
The world is changing
Jonathan G. Price
PDF Web   2015
Baltimore
Jan. 2016
Mapping the Planets—Geology Stakes Its Claim
Harry Y. McSween Jr.
PDF Web Video 2014
Vancouver
Jan. 2015
125th anniversary of The Geological Society of America: Looking at the past and into the future of science at GSA
Suzanne Mahlburg Kay
PDF Web 2013
Denver
March 2014
Where Our Deepest Passions Intersect the World’s Compelling Needs
George H. Davis
PDF Web Video 2012
Charlotte
Jan. 2013
The Importance of the Global Professoriate in the Geosciences — The Students We Are Teaching, and Learn from, Today May Represent the Last Great Hope
John Geissman
PDF Web   2011
Minneapolis
Jan. 2012
From the Core of the Earth to the Top of the Mountains: A Renaissance in Earth Sciences
Joaquin Ruiz
PDF slides
only
2010
Denver
not printed
O brave new world: Geoscientists in an emerging green economy
Jean M. Bahr
PDF Web   2009
Portland
Jan. 2010
A Field Geologist Looks at a Digital World
Judith Totman Parrish
PDF Web Video 2008
Houston
Jan. 2009
There's Adventure in Geology
John M. Sharp Jr.
PDF     2007
Denver
Jan. 2008
Tectonic Inheritance at a Continental Margin
William A. Thomas
PDF   2005
Salt Lake City
Feb. 2006
Paleomagnetism, Oroclines, and Growth of the Continental Crust
Rob Van der Voo
PDF   2004
Denver
Dec. 2004
New Technology; New Geological Challenges
B. Clark Burchfiel
PDF   2003
Seattle
Feb. 2004
From Impact to Riches: Evolution of Geological Understanding as Seen at Sudbury, Canada
Anthony J. Naldrett
PDF   2002
Denver
Feb. 2003
Plate Boundaries to Politics: Pursuing Passions in Science
Sharon Mosher
PDF   2001
Boston
Feb. 2002
Grand Challenges in Earth and Environmental Sciences: Science, Stewardship, and Service for the Twenty-First Century
Mary Lou Zoback
PDF     2000
Reno
Dec. 2001
Geologists Probe Hominid Environments
Gail M. Ashley
PDF     1999
Denver
Feb. 2000
Geosemiosis
Victor R. Baker
PDF Web   1998
Toronto
May 1999
GSA Bulletin
Deep Mantle Plumes and Geoscience Vision
George A. Thompson
PDF     1997
Salt Lake City
Apr. 1998
Geology and Culture: A Call for Action
Eldridge M. Moores
PDF     1996
Denver
Jan. 1997
If Geoscientists Went on Strike, Would Anybody Notice?
David A. Stephenson
PDF     1995
New Orleans
Jan. 1996
The Times Are Always Changing: The Holocene Saga
William R. Dickinson
PDF Web   1994
Seattle
Jan. 1995
GSA Bulletin
1993 Presidential Address (no title)
Robert D. Hatcher Jr.
PDF     1993
Boston
Mar. 1994
The Citizen-Geologist
E-an Zen
PDF     1992
Cincinnati
Jan. 1993
Geology as an Agent in Human Welfare
R.A.F. Penrose Jr.
PDF Web   1930
Toronto
Mar. 1931
Our Society
J.J. Stevenson
PDF Web   1898
New York, NY
Feb. 1899
GSA Bulletin
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