Congratulations and thank you

The 19th Australian Geological Convention/Australian Earth Sciences Convention 2008 in Perth was held the 20-24 July. The GSA thanks all delegates, volunteers and organisations that supported the conference in being successful – without you it isn’t possible.

Congratulates to the following medal and award recipients:

The S.W. Carey Medal was presented to Professor Gordon Lister by Andy Gleadow; prior the Mawson Lecture. This medal is awarded to a person distinguished in the field of tectonics (sensu lato).

The W. R. Browne Medal was awarded to Dr Jim Ross. This is awarded to a person distinguished for their contributions to the geological sciences in Australia.

 The Joe Harms Medal was awarded to Dr Mike Etheridge by Andy Gleadow. This medal is awarded to a person distinguished for excellence in mineral exploration and contribution to the discovery of ore deposits.

The F.L. Stillwell Award for 2006 was awarded to Neville Exon, Peter Hill, Yves Lafoy, Christian Heine and George Bernardel for their paper: Kenn Plateau off northeast Australia: a continental fragment in the southwest Pacific jigsaw.

 F.L. Stillwell Award for 2007 was awarded to Dick Morris and Erick Ramanaidou for their paper: Genesis of the channel iron deposits (CID) of the Pilbara region, Western Australia.

 D. I. Groves Award for 2006 was awarded to Mark Quigley, senior author of the paper written jointly with Matt Cupper and  Mike Sandiford entitled: Quaternary faults of south-central Australia: palaeoseismicity, slip rates and origin.

 D.I. Groves Award for 2007 was awarded to Ivo Vos, senior author of the paper written jointly with Warren Potma, Frank Bierlein and Heather Sheldon: Numerical modelling of the western Hodgkinson Province, northeast Queensland: implications for gold mineralisation.

The Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) presented the inaugural AIG Service Medal to Mike Smith.

The R. A. F. Penrose Gold Medal was presented to Michael (Mike) Soloman at the convention. This medal is awarded in recognition of a full career in the performance of outstanding work in the Earth Sciences.

The next convention will be the 20th Australian Geological Convention in Canberra, 2010.