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Volunteers and nominations are sought for the positions of Treasurer and Vice President of the Geoscience Information Society. 

The Treasurer serves for 2 years as a member of the GSIS Executive Board (EB) and manages the society’s funds, advises the Executive Board on managing and investing our funds, and prepares our financial report. This is a great way to play a more active role in the organization and see how things work from the inside.

The Vice-President has a three-year term, moving from the vice president role to president to past president, and serves on the GSIS Executive Board. As VP, you do program planning; as president you convene and lead the Executive Board and annual meetings; as past president you serve on the Nominating Committee. In these roles, you play an important part in setting the agenda for the organization, both now and for the future. If you want to gain leadership experience, this is an excellent opportunity!

If interested, please contact Bob Tolliver at pastpresident@geoinfo.org by July 11, 2025 with your name and brief biographical information. 

Feel free to contact Bob or any other current officer for more information.

The title that garnered the most votes for this year’s Common Read was: 

Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by John Elledge

Thank you to all who have suggested titles and voted! We look forward to seeing everyone on July 31 at 2:00 EDT/11:00 PDT. You don’t have to have read the book to participate. Links to the Zoom meeting and the nominated titles are below.

Zoom Meeting ID: 953 2036 9773
Passcode: 799249

The Geoscience Information Society is hosting a webinar on March 19^th from 1:00 – 2:00 Eastern. Please join us for a presentation by Emily Wild titled “Understanding budget cuts: a personal experience from a former federal scientist and federal librarian” 

This webinar will explore cuts to jobs, including how are jobs funded and eliminated, what typically happens to data and publications when programs and agencies are eliminated, and tricks to finding and archiving geosciences data and publications in this changing climate. 

Emily C. Wild is the Chemistry, Geosciences and Environmental Studies Librarian in the Princeton University Library. Before joining Princeton she was the Librarian (Physical Scientist) at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) 

(more about Emily here: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6157-7629)

Zoom link here: https://smith.zoom.us/j/99549699077?pwd=K373p5BBkH7aMgw1BF2iQZkY2nkkiY.1