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The CSEG Medal is awarded to a member of the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysics who has made a long-standing contribution to the teaching , application or business development of exploration geophysics. Recognizing integrity as well as accomplishment, it is the highest award that the Society bestows. Full citation

Matthew Gray, Carlin Horkoff, Robert Kaplan and Jaime Loughlin won the 2014 Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS) Student Competition in the Undergraduate Report (Group) category for their report titled "Inperfecto Project Pre-Feasibility Level Slope Design" which they prepared as their final assignment for EOSC 445 (Engineering Design Project) in 2014/15.The award includes a monetary prize of $500 per person, framed certificates, one year's membership in the CGS and free registration for each of them for the annual CGS conference being held in Regina, Saskatchewan this year.Congratulations Matthew, Carlin, Robert and Jaime!

Prof. Roland Stull and his research team in the UBC Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Dept are providing tailored weather forecasts for the Special Olympics Canada Summer Games, held at UBC during 6 - 12 July 2014. For more details see http://www.eos.ubc.ca/home/2014/ForcastsForSpecialOlympics.html.

Corey Wall, a PhD candidate in EOAS, was awarded the Early Career Researcher 2014 Award by the International Association of Geoanalysts for his work on developing a new uranium-lead zircon standard for ancient rocks in the Archean (older than 2.5 billion years). Corey presented his results on "Evaluation of the Stillwater Complex Anorthosite (ANII) as an Archean U-Pb Geochronology Standard" at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry meeting in Sacramento, California (June 9-13, 2014) and the award ceremony took place just prior to the last plenary session on Friday, June 13.

PhD student Kathi Unglert won a Student Paper award for a talk she gave at the Seismological Society of America in April. Her talk was entitled: "Volcanic tremor and frequency gliding during the 2011 Kamoamoa eruption, Kilaueam Hawaii".

For his career-long contributions to the understanding and mitigation of ozone pollution in the Lower Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Douw G. Steyn is the recipient of the Dr. Andrew Thomson Prize in Applied Meteorology, awarded by the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society for "outstanding contribution to the application of meteorology in Canada".