Awards

The Awards Committee, consisting of five members of the Association, seeks nominations, selects recipients, and announces winners of the IAMG Awards. Members of the Awards Committee are ineligible to receive any of the Association's awards while serving on the Committee.

The William Christian Krumbein Medal is the highest award given by the Association and is awarded to senior scientists for career achievement, which includes distinction in application of mathematics or informatics in the earth sciences, service to the IAMG, and support to professions involved in the earth sciences. There is no stipulated preference for fields of application within the earth sciences.

The Felix Chayes Prize for Excellence in Research in Mathematical Petrology is a cash prize endowed in honor of Felix Chayes that is given to recipients of exceptional potential and proven research ability. The prize is given for outstanding contributions to statistical petrology or related applications of mathematics or informatics.

The John Cedric Griffiths Teaching Award is presented to honor outstanding teaching, especially for teaching that involves application of mathematics or informatics to the Earth's nonrenewable natural resources or to sedimentary geology.

The Andrei Borisovich Vistelius Research Award is given to a young scientist for promising contributions in research in the application of mathematics or informatics in any fielf of the earth sciences. A recipient should be 35 years or younger at the end of the calendar year for which he or she has been selected for the award.

Each of the four awards is usually presented every other year. A specific award may not be presented to a group or an individual more than once.

Each IAMG journal may select every year the most outstanding paper. Selection of Best Paper is made by a commission appointed by the journal's Editor-in-Chief from members of the journal's editorial board and the Association at large. Each selection commission consists of at least five members. The President serves as non-voting member ex officio of the commission.