M.W. (Malcolm) Wallace
2008
The Geological Society of Australia, Victoria Division, is pleased to award the Selwyn Medal for 2008 to Professor Malcolm Wallace of The University of Melbourne.
Professor Wallace's research is primarily in the field of sedimentary geology, but he has also published on a wide variety of other topics, including carbonate-hosted ore deposits, giant meteorite impact events, active tectonics and petroleum geology, including a number of papers in the high-profile, high-impact journals Nature and Geology. His research on the young tectonic evolution of southeast Australia has resulted in a Stillwell Medal by the Geological Society of Australia as the best paper published in the Journal of Earth Sciences in 2005.
Malcolm’s research contributions in economic geology have had significant benefit for the minerals and petroleum industries. His applied research has focussed on two topics: lead-zinc deposits in carbonate rocks and seismic exploration as it relates to the petroleum industry. Malcolm’s stratigraphic and sedimentological research has contributed fundamentally to the understanding of the evolution of the shelf regions of southeast Australia during the Cenozoic.
He has supervised 13 PhD students to completion as well as 65 honours students, many of whom have worked on problems of Victorian Geology. He is currently supervising 5 PhD students, working on a wide variety of research problems including Neoproterozoic extreme climates.
Professor Wallace's research is primarily in the field of sedimentary geology, but he has also published on a wide variety of other topics, including carbonate-hosted ore deposits, giant meteorite impact events, active tectonics and petroleum geology, including a number of papers in the high-profile, high-impact journals Nature and Geology. His research on the young tectonic evolution of southeast Australia has resulted in a Stillwell Medal by the Geological Society of Australia as the best paper published in the Journal of Earth Sciences in 2005.
Malcolm’s research contributions in economic geology have had significant benefit for the minerals and petroleum industries. His applied research has focussed on two topics: lead-zinc deposits in carbonate rocks and seismic exploration as it relates to the petroleum industry. Malcolm’s stratigraphic and sedimentological research has contributed fundamentally to the understanding of the evolution of the shelf regions of southeast Australia during the Cenozoic.
He has supervised 13 PhD students to completion as well as 65 honours students, many of whom have worked on problems of Victorian Geology. He is currently supervising 5 PhD students, working on a wide variety of research problems including Neoproterozoic extreme climates.