Claudia Mora, past–GSA President, former GSA Councilor, former member of GSA’s Diversity in the Geosciences Committee, current On To the Future mentor, and Deputy Division Leader, Chemistry Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, shares how serving as a mentor helps…
Larry Davis, long-time GSA member and professor emeritus at University of New Haven, shares how an early mentor and role model inspired him to become an OTF mentor to share his enthusiasm and excitement with new and future geologists. 1….
Continuing our Halloween tradition, the GSA Foundation staff gets into the holiday spirit again this year with “Star Wars”–themed costumes, following up on last year’s “Wizard of Oz” theme. Trick or treat and may the GSA Foundation force be with…
Jenny Nakai, a 2013 On to the Future participant, and later both an OTF mentor and member of GSA’s Diversity in the Geosciences Committee, talks about how she first discovered the OTF program, and how her participation in the program…
Joseph Nolan, a Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, shares with us his experiences as a participant and mentor for On To the Future, and how the program has deepened his commitment to the geosciences and to GSA….
The Geological Society of America Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of the J. David Lowell Field Camp Scholarship Program Endowment, made possible through the generosity of Dr. David Lowell, renowned field-based mineral exploration geologist. The $500,000 contribution establishes…
There are many communities of support in GSA. Recently, you read the stories and inspirations that drive the GSA Foundation’s trustees to give back to their science and the Society as volunteers and donors. Over the next weeks, we look…
Tom Holzer, GSA Foundation Trustee and Board Treasurer, as well as a Consulting Professor in both the Departments of Geological and Environmental Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, shares with us what inspires his gifts of time…
Jack Shroder, GSAF Trustee, Research Coordinator at the Center for Afghanistan Studies, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Nebraska Omaha, shares how his desire to see the geosciences prosper inspires his service to the Foundation. What inspires you to…
Jeff Oslund, Vice-Chair of the GSA Foundation Board of Trustees and retired manager of Geoscience Career Development and Recruiting at Anadarko Petroleum, shares with us his belief in GSA as a comprehensive society capable of connecting geoscientists of different backgrounds…