Awards and Plenaries

The Goldschmidt2008 award ceremonies, plenaries and addresses will take place first thing each morning (Monday – Friday 08:30 – 09:45) in the War Memorial Gym.

For more details of the whole provisional conference timetable please go to the Program page. Any questions concerning the award ceremonies should be addressed to Paul Beattie (info@goldschmidt2008.org)

   

Monday, July 14th

08:30   Welcome Addresses, UBC Dean of Science: Simon Peacock
09:00   Presidential Lecture: Alex Halliday
    Earth Viewed from a Late Moon

   

Tuesday, July 15th

08:30   Plenary Lecture: Francis Albarède
    The Physics of Mantle Geochemical Heterogeneities
09:15   Award Ceremony
    Goldschmidt Medal (Francis Albarède)
Clarke Medal (Andrew Jacobson)
Patterson Medal (Bill Sunda)
Distinguished Service Award (Michael Hochella)

   

Wednesday, July 16th

08:30   Plenary Lecture: Vala Ragnarsdottir
    The Role of Geochemists in the Era of "Peak Everything"
09:15   Award Ceremony
    Dana Medal (Thomas Armbruster)
MAC Young Scientist Award (Laurence Coogan)
Geochemical Journal Award (Morihisa Hamada & Toshitsugu Fujii)
IAG Early Career Researcher Award (Alon Amrani)
Shen-su Sun Award (Qiang Wang)

   

Thursday, July 17th

08:30   Plenary Lecture: Larry Edwards
    New 230Th Dating Methods Applied to Chinese Caves: Climate Change on Glacial to Cultural Timescales
09:15   Award Ceremony
    EAG-GS Fellows (Bill Griffin, Jim Kasting, Malcolm McCulloch, Bjorn Mysen, Roberta Rudnick, Don Sparks, Karen von Damm)
Urey Medal (Pascal Richet)
Houtermans Medal (Nicolas Dauphas)
Shackleton Medal (Larry Edwards)

   

Friday, July 18th

08:30   The Gast Lecture: Jérôme Gaillardet
    Direct Coupling between Chemical and Physical Erosion Rates in the West Indies
09:15   Closing Remarks and Future Goldschmidts