Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal 2006

The American scientist Judith A. McKenzie has won the prestigious EGU Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal for her outstanding contributions in the fields of chemical sedimentology, isotope geochemistry, and geomicrobiology, and for her dedicated services to the Earth science community.

The Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal is established by the Division on Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Paleontology in recognition of the scientific achievement of Jean Baptiste Lamarck. It is reserved for scientists for their exceptional contributions to either Stratigraphy, Sedimentology or Paleontology. The medal will be awarded each year, alternating between the three subdivisions, so that each third year a Stratigrapher, Sedimentologist or Paleontologist will be awarded.

Judith McLenzie is a Professor at the Geologische Kreisläufe und Erdsystem-Modellierungen, Geologischen Institut der Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich.

Resumé

Professor McKenzie has played a key role in the international Ocean Drilling Program (now IODP). She is an active member of several professional societies, serving currently as the president of The Geochemical Society and of the International Association of Sedimentologists. She was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 1999. Judith A. McKenzie´s career in sedimentary geology is an exceptionally creative, productive and diverse, contributing fundamental concepts which are currently in use in our fields. She is an unusually caring person, who has always provided mentoring and great concern for the scientific career of students and younger colleagues.

Medal Lecture

Judith A. McKenzie will accept her medal and give her Medal lecture during the EGU General Assembly, to be held in Vienna, Austria from 2 – 7 April 2006. The lecture ‘Evolving Concepts in Carbonate Formation and Diagenesis’ starts Monday 3 April, at 17:30 in Lecture Room 4.

More information:
http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/awards/jean_baptiste_lamarck_overview.html