INHIGEO Early Career Award and Student Prize
The INHIGEO Board assigns the INHIGEO Early Career Award (under 35 years of age) and the INHIGEO Student Prize for best presentations (oral or posters) at the Annual Symposia in the respective category.
Two young scholars were the recipients of the first newly established INHIGEO awards, both for their presentations at the 47th Annual Symposium in Les Eyzies (France), 14 – 25 September 2022: the INHIGEO Early Career Award was assigned to Maddalena Napolitani for her presentation Painting the mountains between art and Earth sciences during the 2nd half of the 19th century: some French case studies and the INHIGEO Student Prize was given to Timothé Lhoste for his talk Making the fossil man: investigation around the remains of ‘Denise’ and their stratigraphic context.
In 2023 the INHIGEO Early Career Award was presented to Daniele Musumeci for his presentation Scientific paradigms and complexity in modern and contemporary volcanology: the contribution of the studies on Mt. Etna and Mt. Vesuvius at the 48th INHIGEO Symposium at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kracow, (Poland), 31 July – 4 August 2023.
In 2024 the INHIGEO Early Career Award, was presented to Lucero Morelos-Rodriguez for her presentation Mexican Women in Paleontology and the Oil Industries at the 49th INHIGEO Symposium held together with the 37th International Geological Congress in Busan (South Korea), 25 – 31 August 2024.
In 2025 the INHIGEO Early Career Award was presented to Sarah Qidwai (University of York, UK) for her presentation Islam, Geology, and Colonialism in 19th – Century South Asia at the 50th INHIGEO Symposium held together with the 25th International Congress of History, Science & Technology (ICHST 2025 https://www.ichst2025.org), June 28th to July 5th in Dunedin (New Zealand).
INHIGEO Vladimir V. Tikhomirov History of Geology Award
The award, in recognition of outstanding original contributions and achievements by an individual scholar on the history of the geological sciences, was established in 2011, as part of the IUGS Science Excellence Awards to be assigned every four years during the International Geological Congress.
The award is a medal printed on a disk of Armenian obsidian (volcanic glass), made by an Armenian craftsman, under directions of INHIGEO member Gourgen Malkhasyan. This type of medal was introduced after the 2017 symposium celebrating the 50 years of our commission INHIGEO, which was established in Yerevan, Armenia, in 1967.
Past recipients are Hugh S. Torrens (United Kingdom) at the 34th IGC in Brisbane, Australia (2012) and Martin J.S. Rudwick (United Kingdom) at the 35th IGC in Cape Town, South Africa (2016).
In 2020 the award became independently managed by INHIGEO’s Board, and was assigned to David Branagan (Australia). Due to the cancellation of the 36th IGC in New Delhi (India), the award was presented to David in Sydney by INHIGEO President Barry Cooper.
At the 37th IGC in Busan, South Korea (2024), Kenneth L. Taylor (USA) was announced as the recipient of the award, which was presented by INHIGEO President Ezio Vaccari to Ken at an event hosted by the History of Science Collections of the University of Oklahoma in Norman (USA) in September 2024.
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