Call for nomination of candidates for the Wager Medal and George Walker Award for 2011

The Awards Committee invites nominations of candidates for the Wager medal and George Walker Award for the next IAVCEI General Assembly (IUGG General Assembly at Melbourne in July 2011).

Awards Committee members

Charlie Bacon (USA)
Don Dingwell (Germany)
Setsuya Nakada (Japan, Chair)
Hazel Rymer (UK)
Claus Siebe (Mexico)

 

Nomination packages for the medal/award should include:

(1) a formal nomination letter, not to exceed three pages

(2) a curriculum vitae

(3) at least three supporting letters originating from different institutions (two such letters are sufficient for the George Walker Awards)

(4) if needed, a postulation letter describing explicitly the types of "difficult circumstances" encountered by the candidate for the George Walker Award.

* Any candidate must be a IAVCEI member when nominated.
*The decisions of the committee will be noticed to the winners and referees before the deadline for abstract submissions to the 2011 General Assembly (February 2011). The citation and acceptance speeches will be scheduled in General Assembly, and will be published in the IAVCEI newsletter.

Send nomination packs by December 15, 2010:

IAVCEI Awards Committee, c/o Setsuya Nakada (nakada@eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan). They should be sent by e-mail (as PDF or DOC documents).