Awards and honours for University at Albany Geological Sciences faculty, staff, and students (present and former)
 

Present and emeritus faculty

Win Means - 1996 Geological Society of America Career Contribution Award
                   - 1997 University at Albany Excellence in Research Award
                   - 1999 Bruce Hobbs Medal [Geological Society of Australia]
                     Journal of the Virtual Explorer volume in honour of W.D. Means

John Delano - 1996 University Award for Excellence in Teaching
                        Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching
                     - 2000 - Distinguished Teaching Professor
 

Stephen E. Delong - 1991 Collins Fellow, University at Albany

Akiho Miyashiro - 1977 Arthur L. Day Medal of the Geological Society of America
                           - 2004 Fellow of the American Association  for the Advancement of Science
                           - a mineral named for him (very rare!)

Former faculty

Kevin Burke - 2007 Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America - citation and response
                     - 2004 Geological Society of America Career Contribution Award
                    
- 2004 Fellow of the American Association  for the Advancement of Science

John Dewey - 2006 Geological Society of America Career Contribution Award
                    -
1997 Member of the National Academy of Sciences
                    - 1992 Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America - picture!
                    - 1985 Fellow of the Royal Society
                         - 1980 SUNY Distinguished Professor
                    (among others)

Jeff Fox  - 
2004 Fellow of the American Association  for the Advancement of Science

Mark Harrison - 1995 N.L. Bowen Award of the American Geophysical Union

Former students

Celal Sengor - 2000 Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences
 
Heather Sloan     2002 - Excellence in Geophysical Education Award of the American Geophysical Union - citation and picture

Student awards

Stefanie Dannenmann - Best student paper award, American Geophysical Union 2000 Annual Meeting
Dannenmann, S., Linsley, B.K., Rosenthal, Y., and Oppo, D.W., 2000. Millennial-scale changes in sea surface temperature and oxygen isotopic composition of seawater in the Sulu Sea during Marine Isotope Stage 3. EOS Trans. AGU, 81 (48), Fall Meet. Suppl., F619, 2000.

John Nadeau - Best student paper award, American Geophysical Union 1999 Annual Meeting
Nadeau, J. M., P. J. Phillips, and B. K. Linsley, Stable isotope and herbicide residues in tile drain samples from central New York State, EOS Trans. AGU, 80 (46), Fall Meet. Suppl., F430, 1999.

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