James L. Best
- 2018
- Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal
The 2018 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal is awarded to James L. Best for major contributions to our understanding of physical sedimentary processes and their products in the geological record.
Division on Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology
President: Helmut Weissert (ssp@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Marc De Batist
(marc.debatist@ugent.be)
The Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology Division (SSP) focuses its activities on all aspects of the sedimentary record. About 70 % of the Earth surface is covered by sedimentary deposits, which are eroded and deposited right at the contact between the solid lithosphere and the atmosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere. Sedimentary rocks record the history of our planet since almost 4 billion of years and play a pivotal role for our understanding of the evolution of life. This deep-time archive of Earth history is studied with a wide range of analytical techniques providing ever stunning details on the evolution of our planet. Sedimentary basins host important natural resources like coal, gas, oil, ore deposits and groundwater and therefore a better understanding of the physical, chemical and biological processes controlling the formation and distribution of sediments and sedimentary rocks is of utmost importance for our society.
Recent awardees
Emma Dunne
- 2018
- Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards
The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards is awarded to Emma Dunne The Late Triassic Latitudinal Biodiversity Gradient
Ricarda D. Rohlfs
- 2018
- Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards
The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards is awarded to Ricarda D. Rohlfs Weighted Voronoi calculations in crystal surface morphology: a fast approach
Paul B. Wignall
- 2017
- Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal
The 2017 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal is awarded to Paul B. Wignall in recognition of his outstanding contributions to our understanding of mass extinction events in the geological record, with an emphasis on the Permian–Triassic mass extinction.
Pinar Güneş
- 2017
- Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards
The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards is awarded to Pinar Güneş Important Conclusions on the Messinian Salinity Crisis Depositional History of the Eastern Mediterranean Basin
Current issue of the EGU newsletter
This month, we have announced changes to the EGU General Assembly 2019 schedule, which aim to give more time for all presentation types. Check our news announcement for more information. If you’d like to apply for funding to attend the meeting next year, make sure to submit your conference abstract by 1 December! In other news, we have opened applications to the EGU General Assembly 2019 mentoring programme, and are advertising a job opportunity for geoscientists with science communication experience to work at the meeting.
Also this month, we opened the call for applications for EGU Public Engagement Grants, and have announced the creation of the EGU Working Group on Diversity and Equality. In addition, we opened the EGU Autumn 2018 Elections for the next EGU Treasurer: you have until 30 November to cast your vote. We’ll be announcing the results early next week.