Specialist Group Awards

Australasian Palaeontologists

Robert Etheridge Jr Medal
The Robert Etheridge Jr Medal is awarded biennially by the AAP Executive Committee on the basis of lifetime contributions to Australasian palaeontology.

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Mary Wade Prize
The Mary Wade Prize will be awarded biennially by the AAP Executive Committee for the best paper(s) published in the previous two years in a peer-reviewed AAPpublication (currently, Alcheringa and Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs) by an early career researcher as sole or first author.

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Earth Science History

Tom Vallance Medal
The Tom Vallance Medal was introduced in 2011 to recognize people who have made a significant contribution to researching, recording, investigating, documenting and/or publishing about people or places or events of historical importance to the geological sciences in Australia or Australasia. It will be awarded biennially, and be presented at the biennial Convention of the Geological Society of Australia (or similar event).

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Economic Geology

A. B. Edwards Medal
The A. B. Edwards Medal is awarded on an annual basis for the best paper on aspects of economic geology published in the Australian Journal of Earth Sciences.

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Tectonics & Structural Geology

Chris Powell Medal
This medal may be awarded at each regular field conference of the SGTSG for an outstanding research paper arising from postgraduate research on some aspect of structural geology or tectonics.

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Bruce Hobbs Medal
This medal may be awarded at each regular field conference of the SGTSG for excellent contributions to structural geology.

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