THE 2010 JOSEPH A. CUSHMAN AWARD

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ANDREW J. GOODAY The 2010 Joseph A. Cushman Award for Excellence in Foraminiferal Research was presented to Andrew J. Gooday on November 2, 2010 at the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research Reception and Award Ceremony in Denver, Colorado. Andy Gooday began his career studying ostracodes. His M.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee was on Miocene benthic ostracodes and his Ph.D. from the University of Exeter (UK) was on Devonian ostracodes. The particular group that he studied in his dissertation, the entomozoids, is believed to have been plankton and so the logical next step was to work with the modern equivalents. This he did as a NERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (Wormley, England), where he studied modern planktonic ostracodes under the direction of Dr. Martin V. Angel, the leading authority on this unusual group. As this fellowship was finishing, Dr. Tony Rice was starting a benthic biology working group at the same institution and Andy began working on the copious benthic foraminiferal material collected off northwestern Africa on a cruise in 1973. During this early stage of his career, Andy was employed …