Award for Research Masters in Sedimentology
This award is presented to the best sedimentological project completed by a student on a one-year taught Masters course and celebrates the 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 at a UK or Irish University.
Masters projects submitted for the award should include sedimentological data that have been generated by the student through field, experimental, computational or laboratory based work.
The judging panel will look for the following:
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Clear evidence of the ability to make, record and present high quality primary sedimentological observations.
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The interpretations are explored in an engaging manner with reference to related work incororated appropriately.
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The conclusions identify the main points of the project and are scientifically justified on the basis of the data presented.
Award Nomination Calls
The award nomination calls are announced and circulated through the BSRG mailing list, website and social media at the beginning of autumn (typically September). The nomination deadline is typically at the start of November each year and nominations are submitted to the BSRG Awards officer (brian.burnham@abdn.ac.uk).
Departments should select their top ranked, independent project by a final year student and submit:
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Student's name and degree course.
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The mark and a pdf copy of the marksheet.
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An account by the student's supervisor of the support provided during the project and the duration over which the student had to work on the project (i.e. was it due at the end of the academic year or half way through).
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Send by email/FTP/dropbox the entire project in pdf format to the BSRG Awards officer (brian.burnham@abdn.ac.uk).
The BRSG Award for Taught Masters in Sedimentology will be announced at the AGM.
Analysis of past awards identifies clear issues in relation to gender balance (11% female: 89% male) and underrepresentation with regards to ethnicity and race (4% BAME: 96% white). Please do take the time to think about this and to nominate someone deserving for the awards.
Past Winners
2023: Parichat Srisen (Royal Holloway University) – Seismic sequence stratigraphy and sedimentological analysis of a Miocene carbonate system, Browse Basin, NW Australia.
2022: Shing Chung Chan (University of Aberdeen) – Alternative geological scenarios: Schiehallion segments 2, 3, and 5
2021: Harry Rennie (Royal Holloway) – Variability of fault-controlled syn-rift deposits, Exmouth Plateau, NW Shelf, offshore Australia.
2021: Hajar Alwazzan (Imperial College London)
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).