BSGF wins CSPG President’s Special Recognition Award
The CSPG President’s Special Recognition Award has been presented only a few times in the history of the Society. The award is given to those individuals or organizations who are not members of our profession and yet, through their sustained effort, have brought great honour and distinction to the geoscience community. On Thursday, June 5th, at the CSPG Technical Luncheon at the Telus Convention Centre, the award was presented to Randle Robertson by Colin Yeo, the CSPG President, and Ian McIlreath, Randle’s nominator.
The citation for Randle Robertson’s award reads as follows:
“For outstanding achievement in the promotion and appreciation of Earth and Life Sciences. As Executive Director of the Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation, he has helped give the Earth a voice though guided hikes, interpretive seminars, teacher workshops, and student research and science programs. The result has been a much greater appreciation by the public of Earth processes and the significance of the evolution of life through mainly the interpretation of the world-renowned fossils preserved in the Burgess Shale.”