Geoffrey Feiss

Geoff Feiss is Provost, Professor of Geology, and former Dean of the Faculty at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He previously taught economic geology and geochemistry at Albion College, MI, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was chair of the department and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences. A member of GSA for somewhere in the neighborhood of thirty-five years and a fellow for a good part of that time, he has served on the Geology and Public Policy Committee and on the GSA/USGS Congressional Science Fellow Selection Committee and believes that he has been to well in excess of fifty section and annual meetings of GSA in that period.

He is a past president of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers and the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, a 600 member organization of Arts and Sciences deans across the country. He is the vice-chair and a trustee of the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) and a former member of the Committee on Mineral Resources of the National Academy of Science. He serves ex officio on the Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary and the Endowment Association of the College of William and Mary. He holds an A.B in Geology from Princeton and the Ph.D. from Harvard. His wife, Nancy West, is a K-12 earth science educator and a member of GSA.

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