About

Paul Tomascak is a professor of geology and geochemistry at the State University of New York College at Oswego, where he is an Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His research interests include geochemistry of crustal magmatic and ore systems, as well as applications of non-traditional stable isotopes. He received a B.S. in geology from New Mexico Tech, M.Sc. from the University of Manitoba, and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. He was a Carnegie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, an N.S.F. Postdoctoral Research Fellow (at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), and an Assistant Research Scientist at Maryland. He has served the MSA in a variety of capacities, including as Associate Editor of Am. Min. for eleven years.

Fabrizio Nestola is Professor of Mineralogy in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Padova, Italy. His research focuses on mineralogy, crystallography, and mineral physics, extending its background to geology and Earth sciences in the broadest sense. He earned his PhD at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy), after which he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut (Bayreuth, Germany) and subsequently held a postdoctoral position at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, VA, USA). In 2024, he received the Dana Medal awarded by the Mineralogical Society of America. He has authored more than 380 peer-reviewed publications in international journals.