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

Steve Delong - 1991 Collins Fellow, University at Albany

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

Mark Harrison - 2009 Arthur L. Day Medal of the Geological Society of America
                           - 1995 N.L. Bowen Award of the American Geophysical Union

Win Means - 2000 Journal of the Virtual Explorer volume in honour of W.D. Means
                    - 1999 Bruce Hobbs Medal [Geological Society of Australia]
                    - 1997 University at Albany Excellence in Research Award
                     - 1996 Geological Society of America Career Contribution Award  local article

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

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

The history and former distinction of the Geological Sciences at Albany

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