QG&G Awards FEBA

Farouk El-Baz Award for Desert Research

Nomination DEADLINE: 1 April

The Farouk El-Baz Award for Desert Research was established in 1999 by the GSA Foundation as a Division award administered entirely by the Division. Dr. Farouk El-Baz, Research Professor and Director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University, contributed the initial endowment for the award. A summary of Dr. El-Baz's career (to this point!) can be seen at:

http://www.bu.edu/remotesensing/Faculty/El-Baz/FEBbio.html

The award is given annually for an outstanding body of work in the field of desert research. For the purposes of the award, the term "desert" is restricted to warm deserts rather than polar deserts. "The award is intended to encourage young scientists to strive for excellence in desert research," said Dr. El-Baz, "Desert landforms have not received as much attention by geologists as other types of landforms," he added " we need to encourage and reward arid land studies." Any scientist may be nominated for this award, and applicants need not be geologists or U.S. citizens.

How to nominate someone
for the Farouk El-Baz Award.

Nomination packages must include the following materials: a 1-3-page
letter by the chief nominator outlining the significance and importance of
the nominee's contribution to desert research, copies of no more than five
particularly significant publications, a selected bibliography, reviews of
the nominee's publications that have appeared in journals, newsletters, or
books, and several or more letters from other supporters of the
nomination.

Please note: Nomination packages (preferably as PDF attached to email) are to be submitted electronically. Paper submissions of nomination packages will be accepted ONLY by permission of the QG&G Division Officer who handles the award. The Division will only accept electronic submissions as PDF or DOC files (attached to email or on a diskette or CD) of any of the items in the nomination package. Nominations must be received by the 1st Vice-Chair by April 1. Nomination packages for the Farouk El-Baz Award should be sent directly to the First Vice-Chair.

The Farouk El-Baz Award Selection Committee, chaired by the First Vice-Chair of the Division, selects the award winner from the group of nominations received by the Division. Three at-large specialists in desert research also serve on the award Selection Committee. The First Vice Chair arranges for the chief nominator of the award winner, or their substitute(s), to be the citationist for the award at the Awards Ceremony at the Annual Meeting. The Division Chair arranges for the winner of the Farouk El-Baz Award to present the 30-minute Farouk El-Baz Lecture as part of a regularly scheduled technical session (Quaternary) at the Annual Meeting.

Past Award Recipients

1999 Mohamed Sultan, Argonne National Laboratory

2000 Steve Wells, Les McFadden, University of New Mexico

2001 Nick Lancaster, Desert Research Institute

2002 Jay Quade, University of Arizona

2003 Aaron Yair, Hebrew University

2004 Ashok Singhvi, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India

2005 Yehouda Enzel, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

2006 Gerald Nanson, University of Wollongong.

2007 Andrew Goudie, Oxford University.

2008 Martin Williams, University of Adelaide.