Busk Medal

The Busk Medal is an award given annually by the Royal Geographical Society, for "conservation research or for fieldwork abroad in geography or in a geographical aspect of an allied science".[1] It was first awarded in 1975, and is named in honour of Sir Douglas Laird Busk, a former diplomat, mountaineer, and honorary vice-president of the Society. Busk worked as a diplomat in Iran, Hungary, South Africa, Japan, Turkey and Iraq before serving as Ambassador to Ethiopia, Finland and Venezuela.[1]

Winners

Busk Medal winners[2]
Year Winner
1975 Professor Nicholas N. Ambraseys
1976 Dr Arthur H. B. Stride
1977 Professor André Guilcher
1978 Dr William O. Field
1979 Professor Karl Butzer
1980 Dr Marjorie Sweeting
1981 Professor Hans Bobek
1982 Alfred Thomas Grove
1983 Professor Luna Leopold
1984 Dr Jevan Pierres Berrangé
1985 Professor Jean Tricart
1986 Commander Chris Furse
1987 Professor Alice Coleman
1988 Dr Malcolm Coe
1989 Ralph Daly
1990 Max Nicholson
1991 Dr John Proctor
1992 Dr Robin Pellew
1993 Dr John Sheail
1994 Dr Bernard Tinker
1995 Dr Rita Gardner
1996 Professor Alexey Yablokov
1997 Professor Grenville Lucas
1998 Dr David Collins
1999 Michael Mortimore
2000 Dr Mark Collins
2001 Professor David Bellamy
2002 Professor Edward O. Wilson
2003 Professor David Warrell
2004 Dr Bill Adams
2005 Dr Sampurno Bruijnzeel
2006 Dr Hugh Brammer
2007 Professor Geoffrey Petts
2008 Tamotsu Nakamura
2009 Professor Janet Hooke
2010 Professor Ann Varley
2011 Professor Lewis Owen
2012 Professor Claudio Vita-Finzi
2013 Professor Susan Page
2014 Professor Uma Kothari
2015 Dr Jayalaxshmi Mistry
2016 Professor Jo Sharp
2017 Professor David Evans
2018 Professor Bhaskar Vira
2019 Dr Ayona Datta
2020 Professor Nina Laurie
2021 Dr Emma Mawdsley
2022 Professor James D. Sidaway[3]
2023 Professor Jos Barlow
2024 Leon McCarron

References

  1. ^ a b "A history of the Society's medals and awards". Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  2. ^ RGS-IBG (2022). "Medals and Awards". OSF. RGS-IBG. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/QSDT4. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
  3. ^ "Busk Award recipient - Professor James D Sidaway". www.rgs.org. 17 May 2022. Retrieved 28 October 2022.