The Gertrude Elles Award supports high quality, amateur or institutional, public engagement projects that promote the discipline.
A full list of previous recipients can be viewed here: Medal and Award Winners.
Who can nominate? Nomination by one or more individuals. Individuals do not need to be members of the Association. Can self-nominate.
Deadline: 31st March
Who was Gertrude Elles?
Completing her studies in 1891, when the University of Cambridge did not yet award degrees to women, Gertrude Elles (1872-1960) was the first woman to become a university reader at the University of Cambridge, UK. Elles is known for her work on graptolites and Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy, and she pioneered the concept of communities of fossil organisms. In 1919 she became one of the first women to become a Fellow of the Geological Society of London and received their Murchison Medal in recognition of her work. Her contribution to the study and classification of graptolites was fundamental and still forms an important part of graptolite research.
Image: Gertrude Elles, Dolywern 1914 (Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Ref. SGWC 02/02/16)
