Best Paper Award

The “Geosciences 10th Anniversary Best Paper Award” was established to mark the 10th anniversary of Geosciences in 2020. Nominations were made by the Evaluation Committee from all the papers published from 2011 to 2020 and approved by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias. We are now proud to announce that the two final winners have been selected, and they are as follows:

Article (500 CHF):
The Nippon Foundation—GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project: The Quest to See the World’s Oceans Completely Mapped by 2030
Authors: Larry Mayer *, Martin Jakobsson, Graham Allen, Boris Dorschel, Robin Falconer, Vicki Ferrini, Geoffroy Lamarche, Helen Snaith and Pauline Weatherall
doi: 10.3390/geosciences8020063

Review (500 CHF):
The Carbon-Isotope Record of the Sub-Seafloor Biosphere
Authors: Patrick Meister * and Carolina Reyes
doi: 10.3390/geosciences9120507

These papers perfectly represent the broad array of excellent-quality research published in Geosciences and are well-deserving of this award. We warmly congratulate Larry Mayer, Patrick Meister, and their respective colleagues.

 
Geosciences 2020 Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Geosciences will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

29 pages, 80409 KiB  
Article
Reconstructing the Variscan Terranes in the Alpine Basement: Facts and Arguments for an Alpidic Orocline
by Michel Faure and Jacky Ferrière
Geosciences 2022, 12(2), 65; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12020065 - 30 Jan 2022
18 pages, 4674 KiB  
Article
Impact of Well Placement in the Fractured Geothermal Reservoirs Based on Available Discrete Fractured System
by Saeed Mahmoodpour, Mrityunjay Singh, Kristian Bär and Ingo Sass
Geosciences 2022, 12(1), 19; https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12010019 - 4 Jan 2022

Award Committee

Prof. Jesús Martínez Frías Chairman
Instituto de Geociencias, IGEO (CSIC-UCM)
Prof. Karoly Nemeth
Massey University
Dr. Gianluca Groppelli
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Prof. Dimitrios Nikolopoulos
University of West Attica, Department of Industrial Design and Production Engineering
Prof. Ioannis Koukouvelas
University of Patras

Winner

Larry Mayer
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/8/2/63
Patrick Meister
Department of Geodynamics and Sedimentology, University of Vienna, Althanstr. 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/9/12/507
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