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2005 Award Winners
Dr. Tanya Marie Atwater was given SWG's 2005 Triennial Gold Medal for her pioneering work in plate tectonics, which has increased the world's knowledge of earth movements from mountaintops to ocean floors.	Dr. Alison Spence Brooks received an Outstanding Achievement Award at the Savannah Triennial for pursuing the theory that human development occurred in Africa much earlier than once believed. She bolstered this theory by developing new dating techniques for materials too old for radiocarbon methods, using fossilized ostrich eggs.
Receiving an Outstanding Achievement Award in absentia was Mary Upjohn Meader for her pioneering aerial photography in the 1930s.

Triennial Pictures

Scenes from the Savannah Triennial

Gold Medal Winner Tanya Atwater during her presentation "Tectonic Plates, Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Ice Ages. "	Ann Schneider, Mary Sue Coates is in the blue jacket. Jodi Mills-Cerny is sipping from the coffee cup. Bess Burton on the end.	At-large member Margaret Fuller talks with DC group member Fran McLean.
Jane Coon introduces panel on "GIS: The Revolution Across Disciplines Using the New Technology." Moderator Patricia Caldwell is in the foreground.	Gibby Edson, Joan Koven and others at Old Fort Jackson.	Triennial organizer Betty Kaynor takes break.
Members talk to the musicians at Old Fort Jackson before dinner.	Alison Spence Brooks and Mikaila Bell talk at Old Fort Jackson . Sandy Nichols is in the background, while incoming president Kimberly Crews makes a call.	Triennial photographer Linda Lisom sets up the group shot.
Group shot taken in early evening before dinner at Old Fort Jackson.

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