{"id":501,"date":"2020-11-15T15:18:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T15:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/guidelines-for-iavcei-awards\/wager-medal\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:56:02","slug":"wager-medal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/awards\/wager-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Wager Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Wager Medal is awarded every 2 years at both the IAVCEI Scientific Assembly and at the IAVCEI General Assembly to a scientist within 15 years after Ph.D acquisition*, who has made outstanding contributions to volcanology, particularly in the eight-year period prior to the Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Excluding Career Breaks as defined in paragraph 4.3 of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/statutes-and-by-laws\/\">Statutes &amp; By-Laws<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wager Medal honours the memory of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lawrence_Wager\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Professor Lawrence Rickard Wager<\/a>&nbsp;of the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. He was born on 5 February 1904 in Batley and died on 20 November 1965 in London. Professor Wager is best known for the discovery of the Skaergaard layered intrusion and the first detailed structural, mineralogical and petrological study of such intrusions.<\/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\/ 1.01910828025\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/wager-medal.gif\" width=\"157\" height=\"160\" src=\"\/\/:0\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Wager Medal\" style=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"157\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/wager-medal.gif\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Wager 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><em><strong><strong><em>PREVIOUS WAGER award winners<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"block-list\">\n<li>1974 \u2013 Franco BARBERI<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1974 \u2013 J. VARET<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1978 \u2013 R.S.J. SPARKS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1987 \u2013 Charlie BACON<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1993 \u2013 Colin WILSON<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1993 \u2013 Claude JAUPART<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1998 \u2013 Giovanni MACEDONIO<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1998 \u2013 Jon DAVIDSON<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2002 \u2013 Andrew WOODS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2002 \u2013 James GARDNER<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2004 \u2013 Andrew HARRIS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2004 \u2013 Oleg MELNIK<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008 \u2013 Joachim GOTTSMANN<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008 \u2013 Alessandro AIUPPA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2011 \u2013 Amanda CARKE<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2013 \u2013 Antonio COSTA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2013 \u2013 Fidel COSTA<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015 \u2013 Tommaso ESPOSTI ONGARO<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015 \u2013 Mattia DE MICHIELI VITTURI<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017 \u2013 Marie EDMONDS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017 \u2013 Yan LAVALL\u00c9E<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019 \u2013 Madeleine HUMPHREYS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023 \u2013 Susanna JENKINS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023 \u2013 Yves MOUSSALAM<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023 \u2013 Michael J. HEAP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2025 \u2013 Teresa UBIDE<\/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 size-large\"><div class=\"loading-placeholder shine\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\/ 0.993630573248\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/wager-medal-back.gif\" width=\"157\" height=\"156\" src=\"\/\/:0\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Wager Medal Back\" style=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"157\" height=\"156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/wager-medal-back.gif\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Wager Medal Back\" style=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/noscript><\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wager Medal is awarded every 2 years at both the IAVCEI Scientific Assembly and at the IAVCEI General Assembly to a scientist within 15 years after Ph.D acquisition*, who has made outstanding contributions to volcanology, particularly in the eight-year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6746,"menu_order":5,"ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_meta_fields_payment-items":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-501","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 02:03:31","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\/501","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":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14503,"href":"https:\/\/www.iavceivolcano.org\/api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501\/revisions\/14503"}],"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=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}