BSRG Award for Masters Sedimentology
This prize is awarded to the best sedimentological project completed by a student on a one-year taught Masters course at a UK or Irish University and celebrates skills and achievement in sedimentology. The interests of BSRG members have always been broad, in line with our original ethos and therefore all aspects of sedimentology are considered. The project will normally have been submitted as part of the MSc degree requirement.
Masters projects submitted for the award should include sedimentological data that have been generated by the student through field, experimental or laboratory based work (such as the analysis of data from the subsurface).
The judging panel will look for the following:
- Clear evidence of the ability to make, record and present high quality primary sedimentological observations;
- The interpretations are explored in an engaging manner with reference to related work incorporated appropriately;
- The conclusions identify the main points of the project and are scientifically justified on the basis of the data presented.
The award: The recipient will be invited to give a presentation on their project at the BSRG Annual Meeting in the year of the award. The award will cover travel to the meeting, registration and accommodation.
Submission for consideration of the award: Departments should select their top ranked, independent project by a final year student and submit: (1) student’s name and degree course (2) the mark and a pdf copy of the marksheet and (3) send by email/FTP/dropbox the entire project in pdf format to the BSRG Awards Officer by September 30th each year.
Announcement: The BSRG Award for Masters Sedimentology will be announced by the end of October each year.
Past Winners:
- 2019 - Holly Bargh (Bangor University)- Investigating the effect and significance of trigger mechanisms in creating earthquake induced Sediment Gravity Flows using scaled laboratory experiments.
- 2017 - Adriana Crisostomo Figueroa (University of Liverpool) - Stability of detrital grain-coating clays during sediment transport.
- 2016 - Megan Baker (University of Bangor) - The effect of clay type on the properties of cohesive sediment gravity flows.
- 2015 - Bonita Barrett-Crosdil (Bangor University) - An investigation into the seismic response of gassy marine sediments: a synthetic model study.
- 2014 - Simon Stephenson (Imperial College London) - A Cenozoic Uplift History of Mexico from Longitudinal River Profiles.
- 2013 - Gail McAleese (Bangor University) - Monitoring subaqueous sand dune evolution in response to tidal motions.
- 2012 - Rhys McCarthy (Bangor University) and James Lyne (Imperial College).
Honourable mention: Daniel Collins (Oxford University).
- 2011 - Manuel González-Quijano (Imperial College London) and Jane Grant (Bangor University)