Call for Nominations--GSA MGPV Early Geological Career Award

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From: Amanda Clarke <amanda.clarke@xxxxxxx>


Please consider nominating an early-career scientist for the Early
Geological Career Award of the Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and
Volcanology Division of the Geological Society of America.  A summary of
the award and nomination process is pasted below along with a link to the
relevant page.  Contact me at Amanda.Clarke@xxxxxxx if you have questions.
The nomination deadline is March 31st at midnight (EDT).  Nominees need not
be members of the GSA, nor US citizens.  They must with within 8 years of
receiving their final degree.



*Call for Nominations:*

Nominations Deadline for the *2022* Award: midnight (EDT) *31 March 2021* [
instructions
<https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/GEOSOCIETY/c9c1bba8-9509-479d-b977-65890e54bda3/UploadedImages/MGPV%20Early%20Career%20Award%20citations/MGPV_ECA_nominating.pdf>
]

A nomination comprises: (1) a cover letter from an MGPV Division member, no
longer than three pages, summarizing the nomineeâ??s most important
accomplishments in geologic approaches to mineralogy, geochemistry,
petrology, and/or volcanology. Special attention should be paid to
describing how the nomineeâ??s published work demonstrates field-based
multidisciplinary geologic accomplishments of a ground-breaking nature. The
letter should include the name, address, and contact information of
nominator as well as from whom letters of support can be expected; (2) a
curriculum vitae of the nominee; and (3) three letters of support that can
be either from members or non-members of GSA or the MGPV Division.



*The MGPV Early Geological Career Award will go to an individual near the
beginning of his or her professional career who has made distinguished
contributions in one or more of the following fields of research:
mineralogy, geochemistry, petrology, and/or volcanology, with emphasis on
multidisciplinary, field-based contributions.*

*This award  was generously endowed by the estate of James B. Thompson Jr.*,
who believed in the importance to geology of understanding minerals - both
their internal characteristics, and their external "social lives" (his term
for their relations with each other).  Thus this award emphasizes a
geologic and multidisciplinary approach. Geologic work is by nature
generalistic and has an important field component, with Earth as the
natural laboratory.  J. B. Thompsonâ??s work, regardless of subject, was
always based on solid field observations.  In his acceptance speech for the
Day Medal in 1964 he said, â??*True success in the laboratory should
stimulate field investigations rather than discourage them.  It would be
embarrassing indeed if we were to construct an internally consistent
geology, chemically and physically sound, perfect in fact but for one flaw:
the lack of a planet to fit it.*â??


Jim Thompson always exemplified scientific integrity, modesty, and
consideration for others.  Although he made significant contributions to
each studentâ??s thesis, when the work was complete he generously stepped
back quietly, allowing the student the sole credit.  As he remarked in his
acceptance of the Roebling Medal, â??*There is no better stimulus to the
sharpening and honing of an idea than that provided by an able student who
wishes to share it.  In this I have been blessed.*â??  This Early Geological
Career Award is fitting.


Nominations are restricted to those who are within eight years of receiving
their final degree. For example, awards decided before 31 Dec. 2021 will
include all candidates whose final degree was awarded no earlier than 1
Jan. 2014. Extensions of up to two years will be made for nominees who have
taken career breaks for family reasons or caused by serious illness.

Nominees need not be citizens or residents of the United States, and
membership in the Geological Society of America or the Division is not
required.  Awards are not given posthumously unless the decision to give
the award is made before the death of the awardee.



https://community.geosociety.org/mgpvdivision/awards/earlycareer




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