WAGER MEDAL TO BE AWARDED IN 2008

The Wager Medal honors the memory of Professor Lawrence Rickard Wager of the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, who was born in 1904 and died in 1965. Professor Wager is best known for the discovery of the Skaergaard layered intrusion and the first detailed structural, mineralogical and petrological study of such intrusions. The medal is given every two years to a single scientist under the age of 40 (see below) who has made outstanding contributions to volcanology, particularly in the eight-year period prior to the Awards. Candidates must be under the age of 40 on the 31 of December of the year preceding the IAVCEI meeting at which the award is made.