2021 AASG - Pick and Gavel Award to Dr. Elizabeth Eide

2021 AASG Pick and Gavel Award recipient Elizabeth Eide, acting executive director for the National Academy Division on Earth and Life Studies, has contributed tremendously in facilitating the role that geology plays in society.  She has directed 11 consensus studies of the National Academies on topics including critical minerals, disaster resilience, induced seismicity, coalbed methane, and floodplain mapping as a senior program officer between 2005 and 2012.  From 1993-2005, she served as a research geologist, team leader, and geochronology laboratory manager at the Geological Survey of Norway in Trondheim. Among her publications are more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.  She received a Fulbright Scholarship to Norway and was elected to membership in the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.  She completed a Ph.D. in geology at Stanford University and received a B.A. in geology from Franklin and Marshall College. 

https://www.nationalacademies.org/about/leadership/elizabeth-eide

David Wunsch is President of AGI

Dr. David R. Wunsch is the State Geologist and Director of the Delaware Geological Survey. Previously was the State Geologist of New Hampshire (2000-2010), and Director of Science & Technology (2010-2011) for the National Groundwater Association (NGWA). He has held leadership positions with the Association of American State Geologists (President 2009-2010), NGWA (Division Director 2002-2005), and AGI (Secretary 2002-2004). Dr. Wunsch was AGI's first Congressional Science Fellow (1988-1999), where he advised the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy & Minerals. He has served on National Academy of Science committees, and federal advisory committees for the U.S. Geological Survey. He holds an affiliated faculty position with the University of Delaware Department of Earth Sciences. His areas of interest include hydrogeology and geochemistry, and science and policy.

https://www.americangeosciences.org/content/board-directors