AASP Awards, Medals & Honorary Memberships

The American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists recognizes outstanding service, to the Association or to the science of palynology, by the following awards and honors. [Award Procedures]

AASP Medal for Scientific Excellence

• Professor William R. Evitt (awarded 1982)
• Professor William G. Chaloner (awarded 1984)
• Dr. Lewis E. Stover (awarded 1988)
• Dr. Graham Lee Williams (awarded 1996)
• Dr. Hans Gocht (awarded 1996)
• Professor Svein B. Manum (awarded 2002)
• Professor Barrie Dale (awarded 2004)
• Dr. David Wall (awarded 2004)
• Dr. Robin Helby (awarded 2005)

AASP Medal for Teaching Excellence

• Professor Aureal T. Cross (awarded 1999)
• Professor Alfred Traverse (awarded 2001)

AASP Honorary Members

• Professor Dr. Alfred Eisenack (elected 1975)
• Dr. William S. Hoffmeister (elected 1975)
• Professor Leonard R. Wilson (elected 1975)
• Professor Knut Faegri (elected 1977)
• Professor Charles Downie (elected 1982)
• Professor William R. Evitt (elected 1989)
• Professor Lucy M. Cranwell (elected 1989)
• Dr. Tamara F. Vozzhennikova (elected 1990)
• Professor Aureal T. Cross (elected 1991)
• Dr. Robert T. Clarke (elected 2002)
• Professor Vaughn M. Bryant. Jr. (elected 2005)
• Professsor Alfred Traverse (elected 2005)

AASP Board of Directors Award recipient

• Dr. Robert T. Clarke (awarded 1994)

AASP Distinguished Service Award recipients

• Dr. Robert T. Clarke (awarded 1978)
• Dr. Norman J. Norton (awarded 1978)
• Dr. Jack D. Burgess (awarded 1982)
• Dr. Richard W. Hedlund (awarded 1982)
• Dr. John A. Clendening (awarded 1987)
• Dr. Kenneth M. Piel (awarded 1990)
• Dr. Gordon D. Wood (awarded 1993)
• Dr. Jan Jansonius (awarded 1995)
• Dr. D. Colin McGregor (awarded 1995)
• Professor John H. Wrenn (awarded 1998)
• Professor Vaughn M. Bryant (awarded 1999)
• Dr. Donald W. Engelhardt (awarded 2000)
• Professor Owen K. Davis (awarded 2005)
• Dr. David K. Goodman (awarded 2005)
• Dr. David T. Pocknall (awarded 2005)

AASP Student Scholarship Award recipients

• 1990
  Ian D. Campbell
  Thomas D. Demchuk

• 1991
  Dale Beeson
  Laurent De Verteuil

• 1992
  R. Andrew MacRae
  Koldo Nunez-Betelu

• 1993
  Donald C. Hargrove
  Lynne A. Milne

• 1994
  Martine J. Hardy
  Timothy J. Kroeger
  Yuan Xun-Lai

• 1995
  Caroline P. Davies
  Florin-Alexandru Neumann

• 1996
  Sophie A. Warny
  Mario Van Der Hoeven

• 1997
  Giles A. Smith
  Danica Suballyova
  Susan E. de Villers

• 1998
  Jonathan Hughes
  Carlos A. Jaramillo
  Anne-Marie Tosolini

• 1999
  Robert K. Booth
  Caroline Davies
  Lindsey Gillson

• 2000
  Caroline van Mourik
  Jeffrey Richardson
  Sarah Tiffen

• 2001
  James Eldret
  Khum Narayan Paudayal
  Freea Itzstein-Davey

• 2002
  Julius Lejju Bunny

• 2003
  Stijn De Schepper
  Tambra L. Eifert
  Elizabeth Watson

• 2004
  Lawrence Febo
  Ali Soliman
  Deborah Skilliter
  11IPC Travel Grants
  Matthew Dixon
  Tambra L. Eifert
  Dafna Kadosh
  Julius Lejju Bunny
  Carmen Isela Ortega Rosas
  Maria Papanikolaou
  Barry Taylor
  11IPC Paper & Poster Awards
  Barry Taylor
  Ian Troth

• 2005
  Shane Brodie
  Susan Richer

• 2006
  Shelly Crausbay
  Silane da Silva

• 2007
  Ilham Bouimetarhan
  Nicolas Van Nieuwenhove

Awards given at AASP annual meetings

The following awards may be made at Annual Meetings: L.R. Wilson Best Student Paper Award and the Best Poster Award.

Nominations for AASP Awards and Medals should be made by Members of AASP to the Chair of the AASP Awards Committe:

Martin Farley
Geology, Old Main 213
Univ. of North Carolina at Pembroke
Pembroke, NC 28372
tel: 910 521-6478
mbfarley@sigmaxi.net

Award Procedures

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