The Distinguished Service Award will be presented on an irregular basis at the discretion of the GS Board of Directors. The award recognizes outstanding service to the Geochemical Society and/or the geochemical community that greatly exceeds the normal expectations of voluntary service. The award does not have to be given each year. The society presents a plaque and honorarium to the recipient.
Nominations of people from underrepresented groups are encouraged (e.g., women, non-white researchers and/or researchers from Asia, Africa and Latin America, disabled scientists, those who have led diversified careers, other historically minoritized groups, and intersections thereof).
| Year | Recipient | Citation | Published Speech |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Edoardo Ammannati and the Goldschmidt student helper teams | Supporting the communication of science through numerous contributions to the smooth running of the Goldschmidt Conference | |
| 2023 | Ken Rubin | Service as Goldschmidt Conference Chair for 2020 and 2022 conferences | |
| 2020 | Sam Savin | Service as treasurer of the society from 2011-19. | |
| 2019 | Marc Norman | Service as executive editor of GCA | GCA v. 272 pp. 287-288 |
| 2015 | Seth Davis | Service as chief operating officer of the society | |
| 2014 | Carla Koretsky | Service as editor of Geochemical News and chair of student travel grant comm. | |
| 2013 | Kerstin Lehnert, Klaus Peter Jochum, Baerbel Sarbas, and J. Douglas Walker | Efforts to bring modern online data management to geochemistry | |
| 2009 | Frank A. Podosek | Service as executive editor of GCA | |
| 2007 | Michael F. Hochella, Jr. | Service as GS president, co-organizer of the 2001 Goldschmidt Conference, and principal editor of Elements | GCA v.73/13S pp.S5-6 |
| 2005 | Guenter Faure | Service as executive editor of GCA and on the boards of GS and IAGC | GCA v.71/15S pp.S30-32 |
| 2004 | Claude J. Allègre | Helped create the European Union of Geosciences and the European Association of Geochemistry | GCA v.70/18S pp.S19-21 |
| 2003 | Hubert L. Barnes | Service as GS president, organizer of the first Goldschmidt Conference, and other contributions | GCA v.68/9 pp.1927-9 |
| 2002 | Denis M. Shaw | Service as executive editor of GCA | GCA v67/13 pp.2317-9 |