Gerard V. Middleton

Gerard Viner "Gerry" Middleton FRSC (born 1931) is an award winning Canadian geologist.

Middleton was born in South Africa. Over his career his main fields of research were physical sedimentology and data analysis in geology.

Since 2004, he has been publishing biographies of Canadian geologists, including; Frank Dawson Adams (1859-1942), Robert Bell (1841-1917), Reginald Aldworth Daly (1871-1957), John William Dawson (1820-1899), Andrew Cowper Lawson (1861-1952), and Joseph William Winthrop Spencer (1851-1921).

He is an emeritus professor in the School of Geography and Earth Sciences at McMaster University.

Affiliations

*American Geophysical Union
*Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association
*Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists (Honorary Member)
*Geological Association of Canada
*Geological Society of America
*History of Earth Sciences Society

Accolades

*1970, made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
*1980, awarded the Logan Medal by the Geological Association of Canada
*2003, awarded the William H. Twenhofel Medal by the Society for Sedimentary Geology
* made an Honorary Member of the Society for Sedimentary Geology
* made an Honorary Member of the International Association of Sedimentologists

Often cited publications

*Cheel, R.J. and Middleton, G.V., 1993, Directional scours on a transgressive surface: examples from the Silurian Whirlpool Formation of Southern Ontario, Canada: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 63, p. 392-397.
*Middleton, G.V. (2004) Short Biographies: Frank Dawson Adams (1859-1942), p.209; Robert Bell (1841-1917), p.211-212; Reginald Aldworth Daly (1871-1957), p.213-214; John William Dawson (1820-1899), p.215-216; Joseph William Winthrop Spencer (1851-1921), p.217: in R.W. Macqueen, ed., Proud Heritage: People and Progress in Early Canadian Geoscience. Geological Association of Canada, Geoscience Reprint Series 8.
*Middleton, G.V. (2006) Andrew Cowper Lawson (1861-1952): How a boy from Canada became a legendary professor of Geology at Berkeley. GSA Today, v.16, no.4/5, p.50-51.

External links

* [http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/~geo/faculty/emeriti/middleton/research.html McMaster University bio]
* [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-3091.1987.tb00572.x Sedimentology]