BSRG Award for Undergraduate Sedimentology
This prize is awarded to the best final-year undergraduate sedimentological project and celebrates undergraduate 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. Sedimentology projects will normally have been submitted as part of the degree requirement in the student’s final year of their undergraduate programme (BSc or undergraduate Masters degree, e.g. MSci or MGeol) at a UK or Irish University.
Final-year 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). Final-year mapping projects that include a significant sedimentological component (such as a detailed analysis supported by for example, graphic logs, palaeoflow measurements, petrography, correlation panels or clast analysis) will be considered.
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 August 1st each year.
Announcement: The BSRG Award for Undergraduate Sedimentology will be announced by the end of October each year.
Past Winners:
- 2019 - Vivien Field (University of Leicester) - Changes in lithostratigraphy and palaeoenvironment between the Tithonian and the Early Eocene on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset.
- 2017 - Jesse Zondervan (Imperial College London) - Landscape response to active faulting, southern Gulf of Corinth, central Greece.
- 2016 - Laura Briggs (University of Cambridge) -
Sedimentological and ichnological analysis of the Upper Carboniferous Bude Formation, Culm Basin, Southwest England
Honourable mention: Isabela de la Cala (University of Hull)
- 2015 – Alexander Rolland (University of St Andrews) - Hummocky cross stratification and ancient storms.
Honourable Mentions: Robert Housego (University of Hull) and Adam Lindley (Swansea University).
- 2014 – Delano Henry (Kingston University) - Outcrop Study of the Bridport Sands and Sherwood Sandstone, Major Reservoir Intervals in the Wytch Farm Oilfield.
- 2013 - Nicolas Cope (University of Manchester) – An environmental assessment of the Geohazards and Seep phenomena in the Mad Dog block, Gulf of Mexico.
Honorable mentions: Geoff Richards (Bangor University) and Hannah Lee (Swansea University).
- Dublin 2012 - David Warburton (Leeds University).
Honorable mentions: Mark Quint and Matthew Whitney (Swansea University).
- London 2011 - Marion Grundy (University of Liverpool).
Honorable mentions: David Gold (University of Portsmouth) and India Weidle (Imperial College London).