Make a nomination

1. Awards in any category are open to nominees who may be either non-members or members of European Association of Geochemistry and the Geochemical Society.
2. Letters of nomination are welcome from current, past, or non-members of these societies.
3. Here geochemistry is considered to be broadly defined to include studies of the chemistries of atmospheres, hydrospheres, biogeochemical cycles, and rocks / soils of Earth and planetary bodies.
4. Geochemists working in all sectors and in all countries are a valued part of the international community, deserving of recognition.
5. Nominators and/or nominees should ensure that any periods of part-time working, career breaks, compulsory civic service, significant periods of parental, adoptive, caring, bereavement, or sick leave, work outside of science and/or active research, severe and chronic illness, disability, and COVID-impacts are succinctly recorded on their CVs / in the nomination package so that sufficient evidence of this is available during assessment.
6. An option to disclose limited demographic data for nominators and nominees on a discrete, secure, and entirely voluntary basis will be available.
7. Assessment panels are encouraged to use the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (https://sfdora.org/read/) alongside society-defined award criteria and guiding documents.
8. Award panel members are expected to have undergone unconscious bias training and are encouraged to consider the differing nature of opportunities among scientists based for instance on gender, ethnic background or geographic location, during the consideration of nominee rankings for any given category.
9. Awardees and nominators should have a track record that demonstrates continued adherence to the conduct expectations of the societies (please refer to the code of ethics of the European Association of Geochemistry as well as to the Geochemical Society’s code of ethics). In case of any substantiated complaints or known infraction on the codes of ethics, the ethics committee of the societies will review evidence and the societies shall revoke prizes where it has been proven that the expected high standards of conduct were not met.
10. The societies are keen to attract and encourage more talented researchers from underrepresented groups, and intersections thereof, to serve as nominators and be nominated for society awards.

The societies are committed to their recognition of inspirational and prominent figures in geochemistry representing the full range of talent in the community. We shall do everything possible to promote and encourage the success for all people. For example, we regularly review and revise processes to ensure that all talented applicants have an equitable chance to succeed. Plus, independent of the award committees and society executives we intend to develop a mentoring scheme for less experienced nominators to access as wished.