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Journal of the Geological Society, London, Vol. 165, 2008, pp. 881–882. Printed in Great Britain.

Society Awards for 2008

WOLLASTON MEDAL—Norman Sleep —Alan Smith for his lifelong contribution to our understanding of physical for his pioneering work on the application of computing processes of the Earth and planets. technology in Earth sciences.

MURCHISON MEDAL—Mike Searle —Martin Sinha for his pre-eminent work on the structural geology of major for the development and application of controlled source electro- mountain ranges. magnetic sounding (CSEM) for fluid location in subsurface environments.

COKE MEDALS

Jim Rose for his work on Quaternary geology and contributions Nigel Woodcock for his stratigraphic and structural work that to our understanding of the evolution of the British landscape. has helped elucidate the relationship between major synsedimen- tary structures and tectonic ones, principally in the Lower Palaeozoic.

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882 AWARDS

BIGSBY MEDAL—Chris Ballentine ABERCONWAY MEDAL—Richard Davies for using noble gas isotopes to investigate the evolution of the for pioneering the use of oil industry data in understanding a mantle, crust and atmosphere, as well as the origins, migrations wide range of geological phenomena and processes. and mass balance of fluids in sedimentary basins.

R. H. WORTH PRIZE—Ian West for his extensive series of web pages covering the geology of the Jurassic Dorset Coast: Geology of the Wessex Coast of Southern England.

WOLLASTON FUND—Sanjeev Gupta for his work on the relationships between sedimentary accumulations and contemporaneous tectonic movement.

MURCHISON FUND—Arwen Deuss for her work on inner-core shear waves, and comprehensive studies of mantle discontinuities.

LYELL FUND—Kathy Willis for work on the relationship between long-term ecosystem dynamics and environmental change, using long-term experimental records.

WILLIAM SMITH FUND—Tim Lenton for his work on charting the Earth System’s complex feedbacks involving lithosphere, biosphere, oceans and atmosphere.

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARDS Neil Ellis for his work producing the GCR volumes that assess and document Earth science Sites of Special Scientific Interest, representing Britain’s geological heritage. Peter Wigley for adopting and adapting leading-edge computing technology to digitize, organize, manipulate and otherwise present existing geological, geophysical and geographical data so as to increase their accessibility and usefulness.

PRESIDENT’S AWARDS Luke Skinner for work on millennial scale variability in climate, using marine records. Steven Smith for work on the origin and evolution of low-angle normal faults. Madeleine Humphreys for work on the processes that affect magma during its ascent through the crust.

JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY YOUNG AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2007 Carl Stevenson for his paper ‘Laccolithic, as opposed to cauldron subsidence, emplacement of the Eastern Mourne pluton, N. Ireland: evidence from anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility’, pp. 99–110 (with W. H. Owens, D. H. W. Hutton, D. N. Hood & D. N. Meighan)