It’s never too soon to nominate someone for a prestigious ASEG award! The awards committee welcomes all nominations and is here to help answer any questions. The committee does not nominate or ‘back’ nominations, we rely on you, all ASEG Members including State and Federal executives to nominate people you consider deserving of these awards. And we encourage self-nomination, the work you do could be confidential, bespoke, and hard to understand … so self-nominate!
The 2024 award recipients will be announced at the inaugural DISCOVER 2024 ASEG Conference in Hobart in October 2024.
The ASEG Awards can be found on the internet and are summarised below:
ASEG Gold Medal - for exceptional and highly significant distinguished contributions to the science and practice of geophysics, resulting in wide recognition within the geoscientific community over many years. Dr Philip Schmidt, Dr Malcolm Cattach and Dr Brian Spies are recent recipients.
Honorary Membership - for distinguished contributions by a Member to the profession of exploration geophysics and to the ASEG over many years. Dr Ted Tyne, Dr Andrew Mutton and Henk Van Paridon are recent recipients.
Grahame Sands Award - for innovation in applied geophysics through a significant practical development in the field of instrumentation, data acquisition, interpretation or theory. Dr Lesley Wyborn, Andrew Duncan and Greg Street are recent recipients.
Lindsay Ingall Memorial Award - for the promotion of geophysics to the wider community. Dough Morrison, Dr David Isles and Dr Leigh Rankin are recent recipients.
Early Achievement Award - for significant contributions to the profession by a Member under 36 years of age, by way of publications in Exploration Geophysics or similar reputable journals, or by overall contributions to geophysics, ASEG Branch activities, committees, or events. Dr Janelle Simpson, Dr Stanislav Glubokovskikh and Regis Neroni are recent recipients.
ASEG Service Awards - for distinguished service by a Member over many years to ASEG Branch activities, Federal or State committees, publications, conferences, or other Society activities. Dr Kate Brand, Danny Burns and Marina Costelloe are recent recipients.
ASEG Members are eligible for all award categories. Non-members also are eligible for the Lindsay Ingall and Grahame Sands awards. Under exceptional circumstances, the other awards may be offered to a non-member of the ASEG who has given appropriate service to the ASEG or to the profession of geoscience, and who has been duly nominated by the Federal Executive.
Nomination Procedure
Any Member of the Society may submit nominations for an award. These nominations are to be supported by a seconder, and in the case of the Lindsay Ingall Memorial Award by at least four geoscientists who are Members of an Australian geoscience body (e.g., ASEG, GSA, AusIMM, AIG, PESA, or similar). The Honours and Awards committee don’t nominate people for awards, you do, so please I encourage you and your network to nominate someone you think is worthy of an award.
Nominations must be specific to a particular award and all aspects of the defined criteria should be addressed. Because these awards carry considerable prestige within the ASEG and the geoscience profession, appropriate documentation is required to support each nomination.
Further details of the award categories, lists of previous awardees and citations for recent awards, award criteria, nomination guidelines and nomination forms can be found on the ASEG website at: https://www.aseg.org.au/about-aseg/honours-awards
Further information can be obtained by emailing the Chair of the Honours and Awards Committee at [email protected].
Nominations including digital copies of all relevant supporting documentation are to be emailed to: [email protected]. All correspondence and nominations will be treated confidentially.