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Closing soon: call for nominations for 2021 Academy Gold Medal in the Environmental Sciences and Geosciences

07 July 2021

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Closing date for nominations for 2021 Academy Gold Medal in the Environmental Sciences and Geoscience is Wednesday, 14 July at 17:00.

Sponsored by the Geological Survey Ireland and the Geological Survey Northern Ireland, this award will honour an individual making a demonstrable and internationally recognised scholarly contribution to their field. 

Eligibility for candidature is restricted to persons who are usually resident in Ireland. Candidates are currently making a distinguished, demonstrable and internationally recognised scholarly contribution to the Environmental Sciences and Geosciences. The work underpinning this will have been undertaken while candidates have been working in Ireland. Candidates are expected to be research active at the time of nomination. 

The Academy seeks to ensure greater gender, disciplinary, institutional, and overall diversity in all of its activities. In the event that at the close of the call for nominations, the Academy is not satisfied that the nominations received are fully representative of the diversity, and especially the gender diversity, of the field, the assessment of nominations will not proceed, and the Gold Medal will not be awarded.

A proposer and seconder are required, at least one of whom is a Member (or Honorary Member) of the Academy and/or a current member of one of the Academy Multi-Disciplinary Committees, and/or the head of an institution designated under the HEA Act (1971). The nomination form should be supplemented by:

  • a supporting statement of not more than one A4 page, outlining the candidate’s scholarly achievements and contributions;
  • a brief (no more than four pages), up-to-date C.V.; and
  • a list (no more than twenty) of the candidate’s most important publications to date, including evidence of current research, with an evaluation (no more than two pages) by the proposer and seconder of the five most significant publications.

Nominations must be submitted using the Academy Gold Medal Award Nomination Form

The closing date for receipt of nominations for the 2021 Academy Gold Medal in the Environmental Sciences and Geosciences is Wednesday, 14 July 2021 at 17:00.

Please download and read the following documents before preparing a nomination:

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