YearSAGA Honorary MembersRudolf Krahmann Medal WinnersGeophysical Enterprise AwardSAGA Innovation Award WinnersMeritorious Geophysical Service Award
2024Dr Branko CornerAnre Vorster sponsored by Geofocus
Eddie Köstlin & Teo Hage & the IPHT team
2022Ray Durrheim
2021Marcus ChatfieldMarcus Chatfield
2018Johan DeBeer Geoff Campbell
Sue Webb
2015Ray Durrheim
Geoff Campbell
Billy Steenkamp (Excalibur)
Martin Frere, Steve Nicol & Ollie Wright (Team Geodass)
2013Edgar StettlerLaurent AmeglioBraam du Plooy
2009Geoff Campbell Terry OdgerJohan de Beer
Edgar Stettler
Gordon Cooper;
Susan Webb;
Braam DuToit
2008Manfred Hauger
2007Ray van RensburgReinie Meyer
2005Geoff Campbell
Eddie Köstlin
George Smith
Maurice Gidlow
1993R. W. WoolhamJohan Enslin
1992Oscar Weiss
Jan van Zijl
Jan van Zijl
At Roux
1989At RouxIan Gough
1988Oscar Weiss
Anton Hales
Rudolf Krahman
Awards criteria and nomination form

SAGA Best Paper Award

  • 2024: SAGA 2024 Best Paper – Recipient: Dr. Lynette Kirkpatrick sponsored by First Quantum Minerals
  • 2019: Anthea Davids: The Structural Mapping of the Pletmos Basin through the Mesozoic and Cenozoic (Best Poster Presentation)
  • 2019: Nigel Hicks: Re-interpretations of legacy 2D seismic, well and aeromagnetic data: Implications for basin characterisation of a proposed CCS site – the South African Pilot CO2 Storage Project (Best Keynote presentation)
  • 2011 – “Magnetic Evolution of the Geothermal History of the Western Karoo Basin” – Leonie Mare, Michiel de Kock, Hassina Mouri and Bruce Cairncross
  • 2009 – “Gravi-magnetic anomalies of uniform thin polygonal sheets”  – Horst Holstein
  • 2007  – “Penetrating neutron radiation enhances physical properties of rock”– Frikkie de Beer
  • 2005 – “Borehole radar delineation of the Ventersdorp Contact Reef in three dimensions” – Petro du Pisani & Declan Vogt
  • 2003 – “Fixed point inversion of geophysical data”- Dr Gordon Cooper
  • 2001 – “Seismic Exploration for Merensky Reef: The Way Ahead” – Gordon Davison & Gordon Chunnett

SAGA Best Student Award

  • 2024: Award: SAGA 2024 Best Student Paper – Recipient: Treyen Pillay sponsored by First Quantum Minerals
  • 2019: Thiashen Nadan: Subsurface mapping of parts of the Far Western Limb of the Bushveld Complex using Geophysics: Preliminary Results (Best Student Oral presentation)
  • 2019: Lebogang Sehoole: (student category): Seismic, statistical and spatial analysis of potholes in the western Bushveld Complex, South Africa (Best Oral presentation)

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