During 2015, GFF, Scandinavia’s leading Earth Science Journal, published a total of 35 research articles covering various topics in the Earth Sciences. To celebrate the achievements of the authors contributing research articles to GFF, the editorial team and the board of the Geological Society of Sweden each year make an award for the best papers published in GFF. The first authors of the selected manuscripts receive an award of 5000 SEK as well as the honour. The papers will also be free to access until the end of December 2015.
For 2015, the board of the Geological Society of Sweden has decided to award the following scientists:
For best paper published by a student:
| (1) | Karolina Bjärnborg, Lund University (Bjärnborg et al. Citation2015) – A well written and extensive work where the origin, age and formation of a Ni–Cu bearing, mafic intrusive rock in southern Sweden was investigated in great detail with a variety of methods. | ||||
For best papers in general:
| (1) | Jan Ove R. Ebbestad, Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University (Ebbestad et al. Citation2015) – A detailed study combining stable C-isotope stratigraphy with biostratigraphy for an important part of the terminal Ordovician sedimentary sequence in Sweden. Will likely have a great impact on future research, both in Sweden and internationally. | ||||
| (2) | Sarah L. Greenwood, Stockholm University (Greenwood et al. Citation2015) – A good example of how LiDAR imagery from land and multibeam bathymetric imagery can be combined and, in this case, provide new insights into the glacial dynamics of the retreating Fennoscandinavian Ice Sheet. | ||||
| (3) | Thomas Scheiber, Geological Survey of Norway (Scheiber et al. Citation2015) – A concise, well-written article showing the problems with, and possible solutions for, deriving consistent lineament information from LiDAR for which variation in scale, illumination angle and operator can yield striking differences in the results. | ||||
| (4) | Per Möller, Lund University (Möller et al. Citation2015) – An example of how the new LiDAR data has shed new light on the landscape genesis and deglaciaion of a large part of southern Sweden and how understanding of landscape genesis requires geomorphology and outcrops. | ||||
References
- Bjärnborg, K., Scherstén, A., Söderlund, U. & Maier, W.D., 2015: Geochronology and geochemical evidence for a magmatic arc setting for the Ni-Cu mineralised 1.79 Ga Kleva gabbro–diorite intrusive complex, southeast Sweden. GFF 137, 83–101.10.1080/11035897.2015.1015265
- Ebbestad, J.O.R., Högström, A.E.S., Frisk, Å.M., Martma, T., Kaljo, D., Kröger, B. & Pärnaste, H., 2015: Terminal Ordovician stratigraphy of the Siljan district, Sweden. GFF 137, 36–56.10.1080/11035897.2014.945620
- Greenwood, S.L., Clason, C.C., Mikko, H., Nyberg, J., Peterson, G. & Smith, C.A., 2015: Integrated use of LiDAR and multibeam bathymetry reveals onset of ice streaming in the northern Bothnian Sea. GFF 137, 284–292.10.1080/11035897.2015.1055513
- Möller, P. & Dowling, T.P.F. 2015: The importance of thermal boundary transitions on glacial geomorphology; mapping of ribbed/hummocky moraine and streamlined terrain from LiDAR, over Småland, South Sweden. GFF 137, 252–283.
- Scheiber, T., Fredin, O., Viola, G., Jarna, A., Gasser, D. & Łapińska-Viola, R., 2015: Manual extraction of bedrock lineaments from high-resolution LiDAR data: methodological bias and human perception. GFF 137, 362–372.10.1080/11035897.2015.1085434