Dear All,
I am writing this message in my capacity as Secretary for the Geological Society’s Tectonic Studies Group to ask for nominees from your group for two prizes we award annually. These are:
1. The Ramsay Medal, which is awarded to the postgraduate or recent postgraduate who has been judged to have produced the best publication arising directly from a PhD project in the field of tectonics and structural geology during the previous year. The paper would normally also have been presented as a talk by a post-graduate student at a UK TSG sponsored meeting.
2. The Dave Johnston Undergraduate Mapping Prize, which is awarded for the best undergraduate mapping project arising from fieldwork conducted in the summer of 2012.
The prizes are awarded at our Annual Meeting in January, which will be held at Cardiff University from the 6th-8th January, 2014.
If you would like to nominate an individual for the Ramsay medal, please send by email, pdf copies of their paper to Richard Walker at [log in to unmask] by the 20th December 2013. The paper should have been written primarily by the student, and be based on their own research, with no more than normal expected input from supervisors: please include in the email, a statement confirming this.
If you would like to nominate an individual for the Dave Johnston Prize, then please send their undergraduate mapping reports (including field notebooks and field slips), by the 20th December 2013, to:
TSG 2012 undergraduate prize entry
c/o Prof. Tom Blenkinsop
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences,
Cardiff University,
Main Building,
Park Place,
Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
Alternatively, if a member of your department will be attending the meeting in Cardiff, they can deliver the map to me personally on the morning of the 6th January. Mapping projects will be returned after the meeting. We request also that you include a statement explaining the scope of the project work, such as the degree of independence of the student (or amount of field supervision), the length of fieldwork undertaken, and the size of the project (in credits or equivalent).
Many thanks. We look forward to receiving your nominations.
Richard Walker
Secretary for the Tectonic Studies Group
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