Doris M. Curtis Outstanding Woman in Science Award

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The Doris M. Curtis Outstanding Woman in Science Award, also known as the Subaru Outstanding Woman in Science Award is a prize given annually by the Geological Society of America to "...women who have made a significant impact on the geosciences with their Ph.D. research." [1] The award is named in memory of Doris Malkin Curtis, first female president of the GSA, [2] and sponsored by Subaru.

Recipients of the award are listed below.

YearNamePh.D. affiliationContributionReference
2018 Andrea Balbas California Institute of Technology Application of cosmogenic nuclides and argon geochronology to paleoclimate, paleomagnetism, and paleohydrology. [3]
2017 Sonia M. Tikoo Rutgers University Planetary geology - the understanding of the paleomagnetism of lunar rocks and impact craters. [4]
2016 Christine A. Regalla Pennsylvania State University Tectonic evolution of northern Japan. [5]
2015 Priya M. Ganguli University of California, Santa Cruz Processes that influence mercury dynamics in coastal ecosystems. [6]
2014 Ami L. Ricassi Oak Ridge National Laboratory Controls on streamwater dissolved and particulate mercury within three mid-Appalachian forested headwater catchments. [7]
2013 Whitney M. Behr University of Texas at Austin Measurement of flow stress in ductilely deformed rocks in the crust in south-eastern California and southern Spain. [8]
2012 Phoebe A. Cohen Harvard University Precambrian paleontology - eukaryotic fossil groups from the Neoproterozoic. [9]
2011 Naomi E. Levin Johns Hopkins University Understanding how landscapes and terrestrial organisms respond to past climate change. [10]
2010 Kateryna Klotchko University of Maryland, College Park Calibration and theoretical understanding of the boron isotope-pH proxy. [11]
2009 Jaime D. Barnes University of New Mexico Chlorine isotope geochemistry of a wide range of geological materials. [12]
2008 Lorraine E. Lisiecki University of California, Santa Barbara Computational approaches to the comparison and interpretation of paleoclimate records. [13]
2007 Tanja Bosak California Institute of Technology Laboratory models to examine microbial biosignatures in carbonate rocks [14]
2006 Elizabeth S. Cochran University of California, Los Angeles Tidal triggering of earthquakes and crustal active fault zone microcracks. [15]
2005 Michelle Walvoord New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Revision of the understanding of flow processes in desert regions where water tables are greater than 50 meters deep. [16] [17]
2004 Costanza Bonadonna [18]
2003 Marin K. Clark
2002 Miriam E. Katz Micropaleontology [19]
2001 Ingrid Hendy [20]
2000 Emily E. Brodsky
1999 Carrie E. Schweitzer [21]

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