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Awards

Award Guidelines, Nomination Forms

And ASEG Award Recipients (By Category):

For information related to the nomination process, please refer to the General Guidelines for all ASEG Honours and Awards.

Nomination forms for the respective awards are located below.

"For exceptional and highly significant distinguished contributions to the science and practice of geophysics by a member, resulting in wide recognition within the geoscientific community"

Nomination form

"For distinguished contributions by a member to the profession of exploration geophysics and to the ASEG over many years."

Nomination form

"For innovation in applied geophysics through a significant practical development of benefit to Australian exploration geophysics in the field of instrumentation, data acquisition, interpretation or theory." (Inaugurated 1986). The file here provides some background to the naming of the award.

Nomination form

"For the most innovative use of a geophysical technique from a paper presented at the ASEG Conference." The file here provides some background to the naming of the award. (Inaugurated 1985).

  • 1987 Shanti Rajagopalan
  • 1988 Mike Asten
  • 1989 Geoff Pettifer, Julie Whithers, Nenad Djordjevic, David Heislers, Jurgen Scaeffer
  • 1991 Michael Shirov, Anatoly Legchencko, Graham Greer
  • 1992 Shunhua Cao, Stuart Greenhalgh
  • 1994 Marcus Flis
  • 1995 Michael Hallett, Edward Tyne
  • 1997 Michael Roach, Roger Lewis, W Jablonski
  • 1998 X. Luo, P. Hatherly
  • 2000 Jason Meyers, Mathew Cooper, John Bishop, Michael Hatch
  • 2001 John Bancroft, Xinxiang Li
  • 2003 Natasha Hendrick, Steve Hearn
  • 2004 Mike Asten
  • 2006 Rune Tenghamn
  • 2007 A. Duncan, M. Cattach, S. Griffin
  • 2009 M. Lebedev, B. Gurevich, B. Clennell, M. Purvukhina, V. Shulakova, T. Muller
  • 2010 A. Kass, K.Davis, Y. Li
  • 2012 D.A. Pratt, K.B. McKenzie and A.S. White
  • 2013 P. Kovesi, E.J. Holden, J. Wong
  • 2016 Alison Kirby, Graham Heinson & Lars Krieger
  • 2018 Malcolm Cattach, Christopher Parker & Russell Mortimer
  • 2019 Mike McMillan, Eldad Haber & Jenn Fohring

"For the promotion of geophysics to the wider community." The file here provides some background to the naming of the award. (Inaugurated 2000)

Nomination form

"For the best student paper in Exploration Geophysics in the past 18 months"

Announcement in Preview (Aug 2013)

"For significant contributions to the profession by a member under 36 years of age, by way of publications in Exploration Geophysics or similar reputable journals, or by overall contributions to geophysics, ASEG Branch activities, committees, or events"

"For outstanding and distinguished service by a member in making major contributions to the shaping and the sustaining of the Society and the conduct of its affairs over many years." (Inaugurated 1998)

Nomination form

"For distinguished service by a member to the ASEG, through involvement in and contributions to State Branch committees, Federal Committees, Publications, and Conferences." (Inaugurated 1998)

Nomination form

A new ASEG Scholarship has been established to support Geophysics Honours and Masters Students and to commemorate the life and work of ASEG Gold Medal recipient Richard Lane. The scholarship is open to all BSc(Hons) and MSc geophysics students and consists of a grant of $5,000 to the best ranked student for the current year. Ranking will be based on a 200 word discussion, overview of geophysics project and on academic transcript. More information and application forms are available here.