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Journal of the Geological Society, London, Vol. 171, 2014, pp. 739­–740. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/jgs2014-Awa.

Society Awards for 2014

Medallists 2014: Back row, left to right: Ted Rose (), for distinguished work in the history of military geology; John Maclennan (), for the enormous impact of his work on our understanding of magmatic processes; Peter Styles (), for pioneering the use of micro-gravity for detecting and characterising near-surface voids; Julian Pearce (Murchison Medal), for his pioneering use of geochemical data to fingerprint the tectonic environment in which magmas form. Middle Row, left to right: Jane Francis (Coke Medal), for her work using fossil plants, especially of the high-latitude forests, as tools for interpreting the Earth’s palaeoclimate, and biodiversity. Max Coleman (), for his distinguished contributions to sedimentary and environmental biogeochemistry. Front row, left to right: David Shilston (President), Maureen Raymo (), for developing the uplift-weathering hypothesis to explain the onset of cooling during the Cenozoic, establishing the deep-sea oxygen-isotope record as the fundamental global stratigraphic template for the last five million years, and groundbreaking work on sea levels in the Plio-Pleistocene, integrating geological observations with glacio-isostatic adjustment models. Martin Brasier (), for seminal contributions to our understanding of the Earth’s early life and its evolution, from its origins, to the so-called ‘Cambrian Explosion’, tackling fundamental questions about how and when life arose on Earth. Christine Peirce (Coke Medal), for outstanding work in marine geophysics.

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740 Awards

R H WORTH PRIZE: Robert Chandler for significant contribu- PRESIDENT’S AWARDS tions to our knowledge and understanding of Middle Jurassic ammonite faunas and biostratigraphy, and in the promotion of Oliver Shorttle, for his work on mantle heterogeneity and convec- geological conservation. tion; Hannah Hughes, for he work on mafic igneous rocks from Western Scotland and the evolution of the sub-continental litho- WILLIAM SMITH FUND: Claire Corkhill for her work in spheric mantle; Michael Babechuk, for his work on interactions developing concepts for the safe geological disposal of UK between the atmosphere and lithosphere, including evidence for the nuclear wastes. oxygenation of the early atmosphere.

LYELL FUND: Paul Butler for his work on marine climate change records preserved in annual growth increments of JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL exceptionally long-lived and fossil bivalve mollusc shells. SOCIETY YOUNG AUTHOR AWARD 2013

MURCHISON FUND: Katherine Joy for research in lunar Anna Bird for her paper ‘Lu–Hf and Sm–Nd dating of geology. metamorphic garnet: evidence for multiple accretion events during the Caledonian orogeny in Scotland’ pp. 301–317 (with WOLLASTON FUND: Craig Barrie for furthering our under- M. F. Thirlwall, R. A. Strachan & C. J. Manning) standing of sulphide minerals through integration of micro- structural and microchemical studies.