77th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting (2014) sess154.pdf
Monday, September 8, 2014 AWARDS CEREMONY 3:30 p.m. Benguerir Room
Chairs: Monica Grady Michael Zolensky
3:30 p.m. Leonard Medal Recipient: Roger Hewins Citation: Harold Connolly
The Leonard Medal is given to individuals who have made outstanding original contributions to the science of metoriitics or closely allied Fields. This year we honor Roger Hewins for seminal petrologic and experimental studies on the origin of chondrules and, by extension, the mechanisms and environments of formation of these essential building blocks of meteorites and planetary bodies.
3:45 p.m. Barringer Medal Recipient: Alexander Deutsch Citation: Falko Langenhorst
The Barringer Medal is given for outstanding work in the field of impact crating. This year we honor Alexander Doutsch for broad contributions to the understanding of impact cratering, and contributions of particular importance in the areas of radiometric dating of terrestrial and lunar impact events, isotopic geochemistry and petrology of impact rocks from terrestrial impact craters, and experiments in shock metamorphism.
4:00 p.m. Nier Prize Recipient: James Martin Dines Day Citation: Frédéric Moynier
The Nier Prize is given for sigifican t research in the field of meteoritics and closely related fields by a young scientist under the age of 35. The 2014 Nier Prize will be awarded to James Martin Dines Day for significant contributions to an improved understanding of the late accretion history of the terrestrial planets and smaller planetary bodies of the inner solar system.
4:15 p.m. Service Award Recipient: Roy S. Clarke Jr. Citation: TBD
This award honors members who have advanced the goals of the society to promote research and education in meteoritcs and planetary science in way other than by conducting scientific research. The 2014 Service Award will be given to Roy S. Clarke Jr. for his role in helping to build the meteorite collection at the Smithsonian into a national and international resource, for archival and historical work important to the Society, and for efforts that helped guide the Society at critical moments.
77th Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting (2014) sess154.pdf
4:30 p.m. Student Awards Pellas-Ryder Award Recipient: Eike Beitz in recognition of the paper Experiments on the Consolidation of Chondrites and the Formation of Dense Rims Around Chondrules, which was published in Icarus, Volume 225, 558–569
McKay Award (2013) Recipient: Nicole G. Lunning, University of Tennessee for the presentation Heterogeneity in the Vestan Regolith: Evidence from the GRO 95 HED Pairing Group
Wiley-Blackwell Awards (2013) Recipient: Christine Jilly, University of Hawai’I for the presentation In-Situ Radiometric Dating of Aqueously Formed Carbonates in Sutter’s Mill
Recipient: Jinping Hu, Arizona State University for the presentation Shock Metamorphism in L Chondrites Above Shock Stage S6
Recipient: Agata Krzesinska, Polish Academy of Sciences for the presentation Multiple Impact Deformation of the Pultusk H-Chondrite
Recipient : Niel Williams, University of Manchester for the presentation Absolute and Mass-Dependent Titanium Isotope Compositions of Solar System Materials
4:45 p.m. Society Fellows (2014)
Gretchen Benedix (Australia) For significant studies on the origin of primitive achondrites, and for contributions to the Society.
Fred Ciesla (USA) For outstanding theoretical studies on the early solar system that have contributed to our understanding of the origin of components in meteorites and comets, and for contribution to the Society.
Harold Connolly (USA) For significant contributions to the origin of chondrules, sample return missions, as well as extensive service to the Society.
Matthieu Gounelle (France) For contributions to astrophysical models of the early solar system and isotopic studies of meteorites and IDPs, and for service to the Society.
Munir Humayun (USA) For significant studies on the chemistry and isotopic compositions of meteorites and their components, and for contributions to the Society.
Dante Lauretta (USA) For significant contributions to the study of opaque minerals in chondrites, sample return missions, and service to the Society.
Marc Norman (Australia) For studies on lunar petrogenesis, and significant contributions to the Society.
Ian Sanders (Ireland) For contributions to the impact model of chondrule formation, as well as for contributions to the Society.
Rhonda Stroud (USA) For studies of presolar grains and significant advancements in the microscopy and microanalysis of meteorites through FIB-TEM techniques.
Andrew Westphal (USA) For distinguished contributions to sample return missions through scientific and technical efforts, and particularly for leadership in the identification of contemporary interstellar dust.