AOGS Honorary Member

(Year Instituted: 2018)

for recognizing excellence in geoscience or
cooperation in the Asia Oceania region



How to Nominate?

Nomination Package should be submitted when complete via MARS.
See point 7 below for requirements.

Deadlines
2024 Award Nomination: Opens 17 Oct 2023; Closes 09 Jan 2024
Please submit your nominations by 09 Jan 2024 in MARS: https://meetmatt-svr.net/Account/Login

Honorary Members are defined in the AOGS Constitution (4.1b) as:

“… persons whose international standing in geosciences or whose services to the Society are recognised by the Society and elected by the General Meeting.”

Multiple awards can be made in any one year but the recommendations from Council must be approved by the General Meeting.

Calls for nominations for Honorary Members should be announced at least 9 months before the next AOGS Annual General Meeting.

Important Information

  1. Honorary Member Nominations to recognize contribution to excellence in geoscience or cooperation in the Asia Oceania region.
  2. A fixed package of USD2, 500 will be awarded to the winner on a reimbursement basis for covering airfare, hotel and all other travel associated expenses.
  3. AOGS Honorary Members receive all benefits associated with Regular membership, but are exempt from registration fee payment to attend AOGS Annual Meetings.
  4. If the AOGS Council nominates the Honorary Member, then this must be approved at an Annual Meeting of the AOGS
  5. The Award Committee should evaluate and rank the nominated candidates and then submit its recommendations and the ranked list to the Council, at least 3 months prior to the next AOGS Annual General Meeting, for consideration and approval
  6. The criteria for ranking, each of equal weight, are any two of the following three criteria.
    1. Significant contribution to generate activity to enrich AOGS meetings
    2. Significant contribution to raise profile of geosciences in the Asia Oceania Region
    3. Sustained contribution to development of geoscience knowledge relevant to the Asia Oceania Region
  7. Requirements for Nominations of the Honorary Members:
    1. A nomination letter: this
      • Should demonstrate the nominee’s contribution to excellence in geoscience or cooperation in the Asia Oceania region
      • Must be 2 pages or less in length
    2. A list of selected publications; this list
      • Must be no longer than 2 pages and describe the major publications of the nominee, and must include published papers that best support the argument for award of the Honorary Member Award
    3. Curriculum Vitae: this
      • Must be approximately 2 pages in length and include the nominee’s degrees, employment, honors, memberships, and service to the scientific community.
    4. Three supporting reference letters:
      • Supporting letters from the outside of the candidate's home country are necessary to show wide international recognition.
  8. Validity of Nomination
    The completed nomination package can be retained for 3 years so that candidates who are unsuccessful in initial application can be considered in two further rounds.
  9. Self-nomination is not allowed.
    Only complete package submitted online via MARS will be considered.

AOGS Honorary Member

(Year Instituted: 2014)




Honorary Members are defined in the AOGS Constitution (4.1b) as:

“… persons whose international standing in geosciences or whose services to the Society are recognised by the Society and elected by the General Meeting.”

Multiple awards can be made in any one year but the recommendations from Council must be approved by the General Meeting.

Council has approved a policy that all winners of the Axford Medal subsequently become Honorary Members. This principle needs to be approved by the General Meeting before it can be enacted.

As the General Meeting needs to approve election of Honorary Member it is suggested that names are submitted to the General Meeting for approval but then awarded at the conference in the following year.

  1. Calls for nominations for the Honorary Members should be announced at least 9 months before the next AOGS Annual General Meeting.
  2. The Award Committee should evaluate and rank the nominated candidates and then submit its recommendations and the ranked list to the Council, at least 3 months prior to the next AOGS Annual General Meeting, for consideration and approval. The criteria for ranking, each of equal weight, are any two of the following three criteria.
    1. The excellence, outstanding nature, breadth, persistence, and international recognition of a candidate's research contributions to the geosciences;
    2. The excellence and duration of a candidate's record of international leadership and unselfish cooperation in the geosciences, particularly in Asia and Oceania;
    3. The excellence and duration of a candidate's contributions to AOGS, especially relating to the development of the geosciences within Asia and Oceania and to international cooperation within and outside these regions.
  3. If the Council nominates the Honorary Members then it must be approved at an Annual General Meeting of AOGS.
  4. Requirements for Nominations of the Honorary Members:
    1. A nomination letter: this
      • should demonstrate the nominee's outstanding contributions to the geosciences (including planetary and solar system science) and
      • must be 2 pages or less in length.
    2. A list of selected publications: this list
      • must be no longer than 2 pages and describe the major publications of the nominee, and
      • must include the published papers that best support the argument for award of the Honorary Member.
    3. Curriculum Vitae: this
      • must be approximately 2 pages of length and include the nominee's degrees, employment, honors, memberships, and service to the scientific community.
    4. Three supporting reference letters:
      • Supporting letters from the outside of the candidate's home country are necessary to show wide international recognition.
  5. Complete nominations should be sent by email, with the documents in pdf format as attachments for the attention of the Award Committee