Prizes awarded by the Society

The Steno Medal was instituted in 1969 to honour prominent non-Danish geologists who have made significant contributions to Danish and Greenland geology. The medal is named after the famous Danish scientist Niels Steensen (Nicolaus Steno, 1638–1686) who was a pioneer in the the fields of crystallography and stratigraphy - two fundamental disciplines in geology. The medal, done in gold by medallist of the Royal Danish Court, Harald Salomonsen, and kept at the Royal Danish Mint, is awarded every 4 or 5 years. The Steno Medal was - after a long pause - again awarded on 16 November 2009.

Since 1969 the Steno Medal has been awarded to:

2015: Janne Blichert-Toft, France (high-temperature geochemistry, igneous petrology, geochronology)
2009: Finn Surlyk, Denmark (sedimentology, palaeoecology, basin analysis in Greenland and Denmark)
1998: Katharina von Salis Perch Nielsen, Switzerland (micropalaeontology in Denmark and Greenland)
1993: John Callomon, Great Britain (fossils of the Jurassic, East Greenland)
1989: Victor R. McGregor, New Zealand//Greenland (Archaean basement geology in West Greenland)
1984: Jörn Thiede, Germany (oceanic sedimentation in the North Atlantic)
1979: Stephen Moorbath, Great Britain (isotope geology , Precambrian of West Greenland)
1974: John Haller, Schwitzerland (tectonics of the East Greenland Caledonides)
1969: Sigurdur Thorarinsson, Iceland (volcanology, tephrachonology)

The Danish Geology Prize is awarded each year by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland on recommendation by the Geological Society of Denmark. The prize (DKK 25.000) is awarded to a person or a group of persons who has published one or more articles or maps within the last 5 years which have given an exceptional contribution to the understanding of the geology of Denmark or Greenland. The awardee must have been employed at a Danish or Greenland insitution or company.

Danish Geology Prize:
2012Adam Andreas Garde for the mapping of the gigantic meteorite crater at Maniitsoq, Wet Greenland
2011Else Marie Friis & Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersenfor their life-long commitment to the study of angiosperm plant evolution.
2010Troels F.D. Nielsen(GEUS) for his comprehensive and innovative contributions to the understanding of magmatic rocks in Greenland and their mineral content.
2009Stig Schack Pedersen (GEUS)  is life-long work on especially the unravelling of the glaciotectonic complexities  displayed in the Danish coastal cliff exposures.
2008Minik Rosing (Geological Museum, Copenhagen)  for fhis pioneer work  on some of the oldest rocks on Earth found at Isua in Greenland.2008Minik Rosing (Geological Museum, Copenhagen)  for fhis pioneer work  on some of the oldest rocks on Earth found at Isua in Greenland.
2007Michael Houmark-Nielsen (University of Copenhagen)  for mapping and creating a detailed understanding of the Quaternary of Denmark and the course of Ice Ages in northern Europe.
2006Søren Bom Nielsen (University of Aarhus) for a paper on plate-wide stress relaxation explaining European Paleocene basin inversions.
2005Lars Stemmrik (GEUS) for his studies on the geological evolution of Pangaea in the northern Atlantic.
2004Asger Ken Pedersen (Geological Museum, Copenhagen),Lotte Melchior Larsen (GEUS) andKeld S. Dueholm (Technical University) for unravelling the geological history of the West Greenland Basalt Province.
2003Jon Ineson (GEUS) andFinn Surlyk (University of Copenhagen) for their major effort as editors on the ''The Jurassic of Denmark and Greenland'.
2002Hans Christian Larsen, Danish Lithosphere Center
2001 Not awarded
2000Niels Henriksen, GEUS
1999 Not awarded
1998Peter Japsen, geophysicist, GEUS
1997Karen Louise Knudsen, Århus University
1996Ole Valdemar Vejbæk andPeter Britze, GEUS
1995Nanna Noe-Nyegaard, University of Copenhagen
1994John A. Korstgård, docent, Århus University
1993Asger Bertelsen, University of Copenhagen