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Journal of the Geological Society

doi:10.1144/jgs2015-Awa | Vol. 172 | 2015 | pp. 681–682

Society Awards

Award winners 2015: Back row, left to right: Professor John Catt, (Distinguished Service Award) for his work and dedication as a soil scientist, scientific manager and promoter of professionalism; Dr David Branagan, (Sue Tyler Friedman Medal) for historical work on the greats of Australian geology; Professor Rory Mortimore, (Coke Medal) for translating pure research on the Chalk into essential engineer-ing geological guidance and good practice; Dr Stuart Archer, (Aberconway Medal) for his translation of academic work in the North Sea Basin, Atlantic Margin and Gulf of Mexico into reservoir characterisation of hydrocarbon plays.

Second Row, left to right: Professor James Jackson, (Wollaston Medal) for his work on active continental deformation, employing geology, geomorphology, geochronology and seismology to illuminate active tectonics in practically every active region of the world; Professor Colin Ballantyne, (Lyell Medal) for enhancing our understanding of periglacial processes in arctic and alpine environments, dimensions and palaeoclimatic implications of former glaciations, and postglacial and paraglacial evolution in mountain landscapes; Professor Daniel Parsons, (Bigsby Medal) for his work on process-product relationships through investigating the interaction of fluid-flows with mobile sediments; Professor Alastair Robertson, (Prestwich Medal) for outstanding contributions to tectonics and sedimentation in the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Himalayas; Dr Sebastian Watt, (Murchison Fund), for valuable additions to reconstructing regional eruption histories and their consequences.

Third row, left to right: Professor Sarah Davies, (Coke Medal) for her leadership, administrative, and research activities supporting the global geological community; Professor Geoffrey Wadge, (Murchison Medal) for major contributions in geology and remote sensing, especially in volcanology and Caribbean tectonics; Dr Stefanie Hautmann, (Wollaston Fund) for novel contributions to the use of gravity and deformation in deducing volcano dynamics.

Society Awards for 2015

2015-058announcementSociety Awards10.1144/jgs2015-AwaSilurian–Devonian magmatism, mineralization, regional exhumation and brittle strike-slip deformation along the Loch Shin Line, NW ScotlandR. E. Holdsworth, E. Dempsey, D. Selby, J. R. Darling, M. Feely, A. Costanzo, R. A. Strachan, P. Waters, A. J. Finlay &, S. J. PorterXXX10.1144/jgs2015-058AwardsMagmatism and tectonics, Loch Shin Line2015

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Awards 682

Front Row, left to right: Professor David Manning (President); Professor Anthony Doré OBE, (William Smith Medal) for his tectonic-palaeogeographic syntheses of the North Atlantic-Arctic region; Mr Peter Loader, (R H Worth Prize), for 38 distinguished years as a teacher, examiner and promoter of geological education; Dr Sarah Bradley, (William Smith Fund) for work towards a new generation of numerical glacio-eustatic adjustment models; Dr Samantha Engwell, (President’s Award) for applying statistical and numerical methods to understanding the processes associated with explosive volcanic eruptions; Dr Steven Hollis (President’s Award) for work on the evolution and mineralisation of volcanic arc sequences.

Photo: Ted Nield.

Not pictured: Dr Esther Sumner, (Lyell Fund) for deriving new insights into turbidites and gravity flows in the Recent and fossil record.

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