Earth Model Award

The Earth Model Award is an international geoscience competition rewarding excellence in Master’s level research.

The Earth Model Award (EMA) was established as the Neftex Earth Model Award in 2012, in affiliation with the Geological Society of London, to foster the link between industry and academia by rewarding excellence in Master’s level research.

Highlights

• Up to 5 applications accepted per university department
• An industry-recognized award for Master's geoscience research projects
• Global recognition for both student and university
• Prizes of $2500 USD (1st place), $1500 USD (2nd place) and $1000 USD (3rd place) for both student and university department
• An opportunity to present to an international audience of Exploration and Production companies

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2019 Competition

This year, we are looking for examples of ‘big picture’ research in a wide range of geoscience subjects, particularly if there is a relevance to natural resource exploration. If your thesis is impactful, then submit your abstract for the Earth Model Award 2019.

Competition closes on October 31 2019.

2018 Competition

We are pleased to announce that the winners of the Halliburton Landmark Earth Model Award 2018 are

• 1^st PRIZE: Aasmund Lovestad from the University of Bergen, for his thesis 'Mudstone-rich Fluvial Systems as Reservoirs: The Brushy Basin Member of the Morrison Formation, Eastern Utah
• 2^nd PRIZE: James Lovell Kennedy from the University of Manchester, for his thesis 'Assessing the Provenance and Contribution of Local vs Regional Drainage Systems for the Upper Triassic Fluvial Deposits, High Atlas, Morocco'
• 3^rd PRIZE: Landon Lockhart of the University of Texas, for his thesis entitled 'Pore Pressure Prediction: from Vertical Stress to Mean Stress to the Full Stress Tensor

Congratulations to our 3 winners and to all of our finalists in this year's competition.

2017 Competition

The 2017 EMA competition was the first to be opened to an international audience and with entries from nine countries including Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Spain and the United States, it was a great success. As with previous years, the standard was very high and some very insightful and well written thesis were submitted. Our winners are:

2016 Competition

The 2016 competition was open to UK-based geoscience students with projects applicable to exploration geoscience. It was an extremely competitive year with many excellent submissions providing a real challenge for the judging panel. The panel selected three superbly executed projects with integrated global geoscience significance: