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Journal of the Geological Society, London, Vol. 162, 2005, pp. 577. Printed in Great Britain.

Society Awards for 2005

WOLLASTON MEDAL—Ted Irving —Michael James Benton whose seminal contributions on palaeomagnetism paved the way for his systematic work on archosaurs and rhynchosaurs of the to the final proof of the reality of continental drift and Triassic, and our understanding of mass extinction events. subsequently the development of plate tectonic theory.

MURCHISON MEDAL—Christopher Scholz —Robert Knipe for his important work at the interface between rock mechanics for his empirical approach to structural problems and their and earthquake seismology, combining laboratory study of implication for oil exploration and extraction, the physical and friction and brittle deformation with observational seismology chemical behaviour of rocks during deformation, pioneering use of microstructural analysis and its integration into larger-scale tectonic evolution.

COKE MEDALS

Michael Brown for his contribution to our understanding of how David Gwyn Roberts whose pioneering work on the structure of heat and mass are transferred within continents, his research the Rockall Plateau shed light on the early opening of the NE within high-pressure and paired metamorphic belts, and his work Atlantic and the evolution of volcanic and non-volcanic rifted on international bodies and editorial boards. margins.

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578 SOCIETY AWARDS FOR 2005

PRESTWICH MEDAL—Geoffrey Russell Coope —Jonathan Blundy for his work as founder and main exponent of the study of for major contributions to experimental and theoretical igneous Pleistocene insect faunas. geochemistry.

SUE TYLER FRIEDMAN MEDAL—Ursula Bailey Marvin for her work on the history of plate tectonics, and meteorites and impact structures, her popularizing work and for advancing the cause of women in science.

LYELL FUND THE R. H. WORTH PRIZE Ian Alsop for his seminal papers on the structural evolution of Susan Brown for the energy and flair with which she has applied the Caledonides of NW Ireland, and subsequent work on the herself to the work of the GA and Rockwatch, encouraging the geometric and kinematic analysis of sheath and flow perturbation enthusiasm of the young - and the not so young. folds within the mid-crust.

MURCHISON FUND DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD Peter Dominic Clift for his work on the sedimentary and Andrew Charles Skinner for providing the scientific basis from tectonic geology of active plate margins, especially the marginal which has been developed a sustainable policy for protecting the seas of Asia and the Western Pacific. UK’s groundwater.

PRESIDENT’S AWARDS Simon Howard Brocklehurst for his research into Quaternary landscape evolution in the UK. Andrew Walker for his work on the use of computational mineral physics to explore deformation in the Upper Mantle.

JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY YOUNG AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2004 Victoria Smith for her paper ‘Reactivation of a rhyolite magma body by new rhyolitic intrusion before the 15.8 ka Rotorua eruptive episode: implications for magma storage in the Okataina Volcanic Centre, New Zealand’ (with Phil Shane and Ian Nairn, pp. 757–772)