SOES staff and students continue to make headlines with their achievements and accolades. We extend our congratulations to everyone.
- Professor Harry Bryden was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the Earth sciences. Since its inception in 1919, the AGU has played an important role in advancing the geophysical sciences, often through international scientific collaborations. Only eminent scientists who have made exceptional contributions to the field are nominated for Fellowships, and new Fellows are chosen by a Committee of Fellows.
- Physical oceanography expert Dr Alberto Naveira Garabato was awarded a 2010 Philip Leverhulme Prize. These prizes are awarded annually to the ‘best young scientists in the UK’.
- Professor Eelco Rohling was awarded a prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Award by the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, to support his research on global ice volume, a key indicator of change in the global climate state and, through its control on sea level, a major concern to society.
- Casey Nixon, a second year PhD student in the Geology and Geophysics group, was presented with two awards for his research into Topology, Kinematics and Strain Variation within strike-slip fault networks, at the Tectonic Studies Group Annual Meeting in Durham.
- PhD students Steven Hollis and James Nowecki were recognised for their work at the Mineral Deposits Studies Group Conference. James won the award for Best Student Poster Presentation for his work on sedimentary copper mineralisation in the Yozgat-Delice-Yerkoy Basin, Middle Anatolia, Turkey. Steven was runner-up for his talk entitled: ‘A multidisciplinary approach to VMS exploration in ancient collision zones: the Ireland - Newfoundland connection’.
- Dr Heiko Pälike has been awarded the prestigious Wollaston Fund, presented by The Geological Society, London, the learned and professional society for Geoscientists in the UK.
- Michele Paulatto, a PhD student in SOES, was awarded one of the Geological Society’s President's Awards for 2011. These are awarded annually to young researchers of exceptional promise and ability in the Earth Sciences, and are the gift of the President of The Geological Society of London.
- Clara Bolton, a recent PhD student in SOES has been selected by The Micropalaeontological Society to receive the Charles Downie Award for 2011. The award is made to recognise the most significant scientific paper published in a given year based on postgraduate research.
- Helen Miller, a PhD student in SOES, recently attended the BGS BUFI Science Festival 2011 (BGS University Funding Initiative) at the BGS headquarters in Keyworth and was awarded the 'Best Staff Poster Prize'.