BUTT SMITH MEDAL
Dr Ravi Anand wins the 2006 Butt Smith Medal
The announcement was made at the 2006 CRC LEME Minerals Exploration Seminar held on Friday 11 August.
Ravi Anand is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Exploration and Mining, based in Perth. For three decades he has been involved in regolith research providing a better understanding of the processes involved in the formation of geochemical anomalies, and leading to more effective and efficient geochemical tools used in modern mineral exploration.
 Left to Right: Cajetan Phang, Ravi Anand and Craig McFarlane at the Teutonic Bore Stock Piles WA, sampling vegetation.
Ravi had led research teams that are cohesive, focused and productive. He has been the driving force in several successful industry funded research projects in geological provinces in Australia and overseas. He is noted for the graciousness of his dealings with colleagues, so that in countless meetings, seminars and workshops with industry geologists he has shared his knowledge openly and generously. He has supervised and inspired many post-graduate students.
Further information about Dr Anand's regolith geoscience research contributions, in a citation delivered by CRC LEME CEO Dr Steve Rogers, can be downloaded.
The Medal will be presented at the LEME Regolith Symposium, Hahndorf SA in Nov 06.
Initiated in 2004 by CRC LEME and CSIRO Exploration and Mining-
The Butt Smith Medal recognises and honours the significant contribution of Charles Butt and Ray Smith to research and development related to the mineral industry in Australia through their lifelong association with CSIRO and CRC LEME. The work they pioneered in the early 1970s and developed with colleagues is widely credited as having contributed to several successful exploration programs in the 1980s and 1990s.
The Butt Smith Medal is awarded every two years and attracts a $15,000 grant. The recipient gives a Commemorative Address on the scope of his/her work, and other presentations on opportunity around Australia. It is open to geoscientists who have made an outstanding and sustained contribution linking regolith science to exploration in Australia. The inaugural Medal was won by Dr Richard Mazzucchelli in 2004. See LEME Archive News September 2004 for full detail.
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