The highest award of the Geological Association of Canada is presented to an individual for sustained distinguished achievement in Canadian earth science.
2022 Logan Medalist
Dr. Brendan Murphy (St. Francis Xavier University)
“For his sustained and distinguished contributions to our understanding of the geological processes that have shaped Earth through deep time, and global leadership in the pursuit of models explaining the linked deep mantle and lithospheric processes that together have shaped our planet.”
Brendan Murphy FRSC, has been professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at St. Francis Xavier University since he graduated with a PhD from McGill University in 1982. Previously, he obtained an MSc from Acadia University and a BSc from University College, Dublin. He has taught courses in structural geology, petrology, tectonics and the evolution of the Earth, and has supervised more than 80 student theses, including 10 PhDs and 22 MScs.
Brendan has served on many national and international committees including the University Partnerships in Cooperation and Development Program, the NSERC Solid Earth Sciences Committee, the Atlantic Geoscience Society, and as leader of several IGCP projects. He is the current science editor of Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences and a past editor of Geology, Geological Society of America, and Geoscience Canada. He has published over 350 scientific articles and two introductory textbooks (with R.D. Nance) in Earth Sciences/Physical Geology. Previous awards include the Gesner Distinguished Geoscientist Medal; Hadyn Williams, Killam Research and Fulbright fellowships; and the Ambrose Medal from the Geological Association of Canada.
The deadline for National Medal nomination forms is November 30th.
Previous Award Winners
2021 Kurt Konhauser
2020 Margot McMechan
2019 Cees van Staal
2018 Barbara Sherwood Lollar
2017 Roy Hyndman
2016 Brian Jones
2015 Richard Grieve
2014 Andrew Miall
2013 George Pemberton
2012 Robert Kerrich
2011 Anthony E. Williams-Jones
2010 Christopher Barnes
2009 Noel James
2008 James M. Franklin
2007 John Clague
2006 Claude Hillaire-Marcel
2005 Ron M. Clowes
2004 Stewart Blusson
2003 Fred Longstaffe
2002 James Monger
2001 S.E. Calvert
2000 H. Gabrielse
1999 R. G. Walker
1998 D.F. Sangster