b'ASEG 2021 Honours and AwardsFeatureresearch and mentoring students, and for the promotion ofAs a researcher, Marks primary contribution over the years geophysics to the wider community through ASEG publications,has been in bringing geophysical techniques to the table to chairing major conferences, and collaborations with othersolve geological problems, and in this sense his core research geoscientists. He has been a very active and committedis all about communicating geophysics to the wider earth member of the NSW Branch throughout his career and has thesciences community. He has also been able to use a wide record as the longest serving President of the Branch from 2007array of geophysical techniques to provide insights into the to 2020. deep crustal structure. This has allowed him to interact with a variety of researchers interested in very different outcomes. His Mark graduated with a BSc (Hons) from Melbourne Universitycollaborations span scales from using gravity and seismic data to in 1982, and completed his PhD on palaeomagnetism atmap crustal structure, through to detailed petrophysical studies, Macquarie University in 1989. He worked at the CSIRO untilsuch as using magnetic anisotropy to map flow directions of 1994, when he was appointed as lecturer at Macquarieignimbrites and lavas and utilizing palaeomagnetic techniques to University and continued in that role until the end of 2020. Heconstrain plate movements and the timing of intrusive episodes.has now re-located to a quieter lifestyle in regional Victoria.Marks extraordinary contributions to the Society and to Mark became a Member of the ASEG in 1981 and has been aeducation over 40 years have been previously recognized consistent supporter and contributor to the ASEG since thatby the ASEG with the award of Honorary Membership time. He was the NSW Branch President for 14 years, and overin 2016. However, his on-going commitment since then that time many of his students have remained part of the branchto ASEG publications, conferences and the NSW Branch even though they may not work directly in geophysics. He hashave represented further outstanding achievements and created an extended geophysics family in Sydney, and overcommitment to the profession and the ASEG.time due to the evolving nature of the group, he has diversified NSW branch meetings to include geoscientific endeavoursIt is therefore very fitting to honour Mark on the occasion of outside the traditional scope of the ASEG. He has been a primarythe 50th Anniversary of the Society with this special award as communicator to the wider ASEG and geosciences communityfurther recognition of his on-going outstanding achievements though his regular contributions to Preview. One of Marksand contributions to the ASEG, and to the profession over greatest legacies is that the current entire committee of the NSWmany years.ASEG Branch is comprised of his former students.Mark was the co-chair of the ASEGs 21st International Conference and Exhibition held in Sydney in 2010, and he also co-chaired the inaugural AEGC, held in Sydney in 2018, In this capacity he played a pivotal role in the first of what has become a successful format, bringing together a diverse array of professionals from all areas of geophysics, geology, geochemistry and remote sensing. Mark helped take us from three separate communities, the ASEG, AIG and PESA into a new era of collaboration between professional geoscientists. Mark has not only been a guiding light for the communication of geophysics to the wider community, but he has also played an important role in getting the wider community communicating with geophysicists.Mark has especially made, and continues to make, an enormous contribution to the Society and the profession, through his role as Editor in Chief of Exploration Geophysics since 2009. In his time overseeing the journal he has enhanced the quality of content and increased its impact factor. He has also played a critical role in transforming the journal, from mainly Australian content, to become a leading international journal in ourMark Lackiefield. In this sense Mark has both facilitated the transfer of geophysical knowledge to specialists and non-specialists alike,Richard Lane Scholarship: Zak Weidingerand also enabled promotion of Australian geophysical practice to the wider global community. This new ASEG Scholarship has been established to Mark has taught of generations of undergraduate andsupport geophysics Honours and Masters Students and to postgraduate geophysicists at Macquarie University, leavingcommemorate the life and work of ASEG Gold Medal recipient an enduring Mark on a large number of young professionalsRichard Lane. The scholarship is open to all BSc (Hons) and MSc in the Australian geoscience community. Mark has producedgeophysics students and consists of a grant of $5000 to the excellent quality graduates that have gone on to successfulbest ranked student for the current year. Ranking will be based careers. His graduates operate in the environmental sector,on a 200 word discussion, overview of geophysics project and mineral exploration, hydrocarbon exploration, government,on academic transcript. For 2021 we acknowledge and thank and academia. Furthermore, by teaching the fundamentals ofJayson Meyers and Resource Potentials Pty Ltd for the initial geophysics to students from other disciplines, Mark has createddonation and concept.generations of scientists across many fields who are literate inThe scholarship will be an annual event and donations to geophysics. support the continuation of this scholarship are sought from OCTOBER 2021 PREVIEW 58'