{"id":499,"date":"2020-11-15T15:18:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T15:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/guidelines-for-iavcei-awards\/thorarinsson-medal\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:53:18","slug":"thorarinsson-medal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/awards\/thorarinsson-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorarinsson Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>Thorarinsson Medal<\/strong>&nbsp;is awarded every 4 years at the IAVCEI Scientific Assembly to a scientist of outstanding distinction who has made fundamental contributions to research in volcanology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Thorarinsson Medal honours the memory of Professor Sigurdur Thorarinsson (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sigur%C3%B0ur_%C3%9E%C3%B3rarinsson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sigur\u00f0ur \u00de\u00f3rarinsson<\/a>) who was born on 8 January 1912 in Vopnafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, Iceland, and died in Reykjavik on 8 February 1983. Professor Thorarinsson is known for his pioneering work in volcanology, especially tephrochronology of Iceland. The medal was donated by the Iceland Geoscience Society (<a href=\"https:\/\/jfi.is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jar\u00f0fr\u00e6\u00f0af\u00e9lag \u00cdslands<\/a>). The medal is the most senior medal of IAVCEI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"block-image aligncenter size-large\"><div class=\"loading-placeholder shine\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\/ 1.02209944751\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/thorarinsson-medal.gif\" width=\"181\" height=\"185\" src=\"\/\/:0\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Thorarinsson Medal\" style=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"181\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/thorarinsson-medal.gif\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Thorarinsson Medal\" style=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/noscript><\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>PREVIOUS THORARINSSON MEDAL winners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"block-list\">\n<li>1987 &#8211; Robert L. SMITH<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1989 &#8211; George P.L. WALKER<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1993 &#8211; Hans U. SCHMINCKE<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1997 &#8211; Richard V. FISHER<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2000 &#8211; Keiiti AKI<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2004 &#8211; Wes HILDRETH<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008 &#8211; Robert Stephen John SPARKS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2013 &#8211; Barry VOIGHT<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017 &#8211; Bruce Frank HOUGHTON<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023 &#8211; Katharine V. CASHMAN<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2025 &#8211; Lionel WILSON<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"block-image aligncenter size-large\"><div class=\"loading-placeholder shine\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\/ 1.02777777778\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/thorarinsson-medal-back.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"185\" src=\"\/\/:0\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Thorarinsson Medal Back\" style=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/thorarinsson-medal-back.gif\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Thorarinsson Medal Back\" style=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/noscript><\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Thorarinsson Medal&nbsp;is awarded every 4 years at the IAVCEI Scientific Assembly to a scientist of outstanding distinction who has made fundamental contributions to research in volcanology. The Thorarinsson Medal honours the memory of Professor Sigurdur Thorarinsson (Sigur\u00f0ur \u00de\u00f3rarinsson) who was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6746,"menu_order":3,"ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_meta_fields_payment-items":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-499","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 02:14:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14502,"href":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/499\/revisions\/14502"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}