News — Prize winners

We would like to congratulate Dean Lomax on being awarded the Edward Forbes Prize by the Palaeontographical Society, the oldest society devoted specifically to the advancement of palaeontological knowledge. This award aims to recognise outstanding contributions by early career researchers in the field of taxonomic and systematic palaeontology, and specifically for the study of fossils from the British Isles. Dr Paul Michael Barrett (the president of the society) presenting the award to Dean at the Natural History Museum, London earlier this week.Dean was awarded the prize for his recent scientific paper describing Ichthyosaurus anningae. However, this is not the first...

Congratulations to Max Stockdale of the University of Bristol for winning one of our book tokens for his student talk at the Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting held in December. The book you requested will be winging its way to you shortly. The details of Max's talk are as follows: Phylogeny and macroevolution of crocodylomorphs*Max T. Stockdale1, Michael J. Benton1, Mario Bronzati2, Marco B. de Andrade3 and Gavin T. Thomas41-University of Bristol, UK, 2-Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Germany, 3-Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 4-University of Sheffield, UK ABSTRACTThe Crocodylomorpha present a unique dichotomy in their...

Congratulations to Jack Oyston of the University of Bath for winning one of our book tokens for the best student talk at the Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting held in December. The book you requested will be winging its way to you shortly. The details of Jack's talk are as follows: What limits the morphological disparity of clades?*Jack W. Oyston(1), Martin Hughes(2), Peter J. Wagner(3), Sylvain Gerber(4) & Matthew A. Wills(1)1-University of Bath, UK, 2-Natural History Museum, London, UK, 3-Smithsonian Institution, USA, 4-University of Cambridge, UKABSTRACT Variation in form within clades is decoupled from estimates of diversity.  Specifically, groups tend to...

Congratulations to Dean Lomax, author of our titles: Dinosaurs of the British Isles and Fossils of the Whitby Coast for being the recipient of the Marsh Award for Palaeontology 2015. Dean receiving the Marsh Award from Brian Marsh OBE at the Natural History Museum, London The purpose of the Marsh Award for Palaeontology is to recognize 'unsung heroes' – those who have made an outstanding or cumulative contribution to palaeontology in the UK, yet whose efforts have not necessarily been widely recognized. The award is presented annually and Dean is the youngest individual to receive this honour. Dean giving his...

Congratulations to Eva Liznarova (Czech Republic) and Luka Katusic (Italy) who received Siri Scientific Press book tokens as prize winners for their presentations at the 29th European Congress of Arachnology, held in Brno, Czech Republic, which included 173 participants from all over the world (42 different countries). Eva's talk was titled: Is prey-capture efficiency innate or gained by experience in a specialised spider? Kuka's talk was titled: An overview on the Croatian spider fauna. Congratulations to both! Anybody interested in learning more about the cutting edge of spider research, presented at such meetings, should take a look at our edited...