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1998 Quaternary Awards

Geological Society of America Archaeological Geology Division
For more information, contact John Albanese, Chair, GSA Archaeological Geology Division Awards Committee, P.O. Box 1397, Casper, WY 82602; 307-234-1379; albanes@trib.com

Rip Rapp Award
The 1998 Rip Rapp Archaeological Geology Award was presented to AMQUA's Past President, Vance Holliday (University of Wisconsin). The award is given for outstanding contributions to the interdisciplinary field of archaeological geology.

Student Award
William J. Chadwick (University of Delaware) received the Division's Student Travel Grant for his paper, "Ground Penetrating Radar Reveals the Relationship Between Sea-Level Rise and the Prehistoric Occupation of Relict Recurved Spits, Cape Henlopen, Delaware".

Claude Albritton Fund
Sarah C. Sherwood (University of Tennessee) was awarded $500 from the GSA Claude Albritton Scholarship Fund to support her dissertation research, "Depositional History of Dust Cave, Alabama." Dust Cave is a uniquely well preserved, deeply stratified cave site, located north of the Tennessee River in Alabama, with a chronosequence that dates from the Late Paleoindian through the Middle Archaic.
Under the auspices of the Archaeological Geology Division, family, friends and close associates of Claude C. Albritton, Jr. formed a memorial fund in his honor at the GSA Foundation. The Albritton Fund provides scholarships and fellowships for graduate students in the earth sciences and archaeology. Recipients of these awards will be students who have an interest in: (1) achieving the M.S. or Ph.D degree in earth sciences or archaeology; (2) applying earth science methods to archaeological research; and (3) a career in teaching and academic research. Awards in the amount of $500 will be given in support of thesis or dissertation research, with emphasis on the field and/or laboratory parts of this research. Contact Reid Ferring, Institute for Applied Sciences, P.O. Box 13078, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203; 817 565-2993. To contribute to the Albritton Fund, send gifts to the GSA Foundation.

Geological Society of America: Quaternary Geology and
Geomorphology Division
Application forms are available from the Division Secretary: Alan R. Nelson, U.S. Geological Survey, P.O. Box 25046, MS 966, Lakewood, CO 80225; anelson@ ght.cr.usgs.gov

Howard and Mackin Awards
The 1998 winner of the J. Hoover Mackin (Ph.D.) award is Noah Snyder from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His proposal is for the project "Channel response to varying uplift, King Range, northern California." Kelin Whipple is his advisor.
The 1998 winners of the Arthur D. Howard (M.S.) award are: Yarrow Axford, Utah State University, for "Late Quaternary Glacier Fluctuations and Vegetational Changes in NW Aklun Mountains, SW Alaska"; and Sarah Linfield Brown, University of Vermont, for "Lacustrine records of Holocene hillslope erosion in New England." Axford's advisor is Darrell Kaufman, and Brown's advisor is Paul Bierman.
Awards for student research in geomorphology or Quaternary geology are given from both the J. Hoover Mackin fund and the Arthur D. Howard fund. The Howard fund was established by a bequest from the Arthur D. Howard family estate and is administered by the GSA Foundation. The deadline for receipt of applications is February 15, 1999. Both M.S. (or M.A.) and Ph.D. candidates are eligible.

Distinguished Career Award
Dale F. Ritter, Desert Research Institute, is the 1998 recipient of the Distinguished Career Award.
The Award was established in 1985 to recognize Quaternary geologists and geomorphologists who have demonstrated excellence in their contributions to science. The recipient need not be a member of the GSA or the QG&G Division. Nominations will be accepted at any time during the year, but the deadline is April 1, 1999.

Kirk Bryan Award
The winner of the 1998 Kirk Bryan Award is Vance T. Holliday, University of Wisconsin, for his paper "Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of Late Quaternary Valley Fills on the Southern High Plains: Geological Society of America, Memoir 186." The Kirk Bryan Award is given for a paper or book published within the past five years.

Gladys Cole Research Award
The Gladys Cole Award for 1998 went to Steven L. Forman of the University of Illinois at Chicago for his research proposal "Late Quaternary glaciation of northern Novaya Zemlya, Russia." This year's award was $11,000.
This award is restricted to investigation of the geomorphology of semiarid and arid terrains in the United States and Mexico. It is given each year to a GSA Member or Fellow between 30 and 65 years of age who has published one or more significant papers in geomorphology. The award was established in 1980 by W. Storrs Cole in memory of his wife. Application forms may be obtained from the Research Grants Administrator, Geological Society of America, PO Box 9140, Boulder CO 80301; 303-447-2020, x137. Applications must be postmarked by February 15 each year to be eligible for the April award.

Desert Research Institute
Jonathon O. Davis Award
The Quaternary Sciences Center of the Desert Research Institute awarded the 1998 scholarship to Yvonne A. Wood from the University of California Riverside for her dissertation "Mesoscale Patterns of Desert Pavement Stone Mosaics: Linkages with Vegetation and Soil Distributions on a Single-Age Basalt Flow, Cima Volcanic Field, Eastern Mojave Desert, California."
Jonathan O. Davis, a prominent Quaternary geologist and geoarchaeologist was tragically killed in an auto accident in December, 1990. The family and friends of Jonathan established an endowment which provides monies for the scholarship, which is given annually to support field research of a graduate student working on the Quaternary geology of the Great Basin or surrounding areas. The grant will be $2,000.
Applications for 1999 should include: (1) a current resume or vita, (2) a two page (single-spaced) description of the thesis/dissertation research which clearly documents the geologic orientation and research significance, and (3) a letter of recommendation from the thesis/ dissertation supervisor that emphasizes the student's research ability and potential as a Quaternary scientist. Applications must be received by February 1, 1999, so the scholarship can be used the following summer. Send applications to: Executive Director, Quaternary Sciences Center, Desert Research Institute, P.O. Box 60220, Reno NV 89506. To help the endowment grow, contributions can be sent to the above address.

Geochron Laboratories Research Awards
Geochron Laboratories, a division of Krueger Enterprises, Inc., annually awards a series of research grants to graduate students requiring interesting or new applications of isotopic analyses. The awards consist of analytical services to be performed free of charge to the winner in each category. For the past several years awards have been offered in K-Ar dating, C-14 dating, and stable isotope ratio analyses (SIRA), SIRA in dietary studies, and SIRA of fluid inclusions in minerals. The awards are offered by Geochron Labs in an effort to encourage the application of isotopic analytical techniques to solve original and significant problems. The deadline for applications is May 1, 1999. For guideline contact: Research Awards, Geochron Laboratories, 711 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 01238-1002; 617-876-3691; fax: 661-0148.