September 2012
‘Geofacets’ wins award
Society News, Geoscientist 22.08 September 2012
The Society and its partner Elsevier, have won the GetEnergy Education Partnership award 2012. This award traditionally recognises a partnership between an oil/gas company and a university, college or learning provider which shows significant promise. The Education / Industry Partnership award, determined by over 11,000 individual votes on Getenergy's website, recognizes the success of Elsevier and the Geological Society of London's collaboration in developing a new module for Elsevier's Geofacets research tool. The module adds over 48,000 maps sourced from 11 journals from the Geological Society of London's prestigious Lyell Collection. Pictured are: Jonathan Craig (GSL, Petroleum Group Chair, left), and (right) Friso Veneestra (Elsevier, Director of Market Development – Oil and Gas).
Awards – ours and theirs!
By all means nominate colleagues for Society Awards – but have you thought of nominating them for the awards of other Societies?
Fellows of the Society are invited to submit nominations for the Society’s Awards for 2013 to the Awards Committee. Full details of how to make nominations are on the website at www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/awards. Nominations must be received at the Society no later than Friday 5 October 2012.
But remember, the Society does not have a monopoly on rewarding excellence in Earth science! In fact, to promote international recognition of Fellows of the Society, we encourage you to nominate colleagues for other societies’ awards - such as the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the American Geophysical Union, the European Geosciences Union and the Geological Society of America.
Details on how to do this, and eligibility criteria, can be found at:
New visitor arrangements
From September 2012 changes will be introduced for ‘visitor’ (i.e. non-Fellow/Corporate Affiliate) access to the Library. While an initial appointment will be needed as before, a ‘Visitor’s Ticket’ can now be purchased for daily, weekly, monthly or annual reference use of the Library. Charges will be tiered depending on the reason for using the Library, with rates kept low for students and non-commercial researchers.