The Busk Medal is an award given annually by the Royal Geographical Society, for "conservation research or for fieldwork abroad in geography or in a geographical aspect of an allied science". It was first awarded in 1975, and is named in honour of Sir Douglas Laird Busk, a former diplomat, mountaineer, and honorary vice-president of the Society. Busk worked as a diplomat in Iran, Hungary, South Africa, Japan, Turkey and Iraq before serving as Ambassador to Ethiopia, Finland and Venezuela.
Winners + Busk Medal winners Year Winner 1975 Professor Nicholas N. Ambraseys 1976 Dr Arthur H. B. Stride 1977 Professor André Guilcher 1978 Dr William O. Field 1979 Professor Karl Butzer 1980 Dr Marjorie Sweeting 1981 Professor Hans Bobek 1982 Alfred Thomas Grove 1983 Professor Luna Leopold 1984 Dr Jevan Pierres Berrangé 1985 Professor Jean Tricart 1986 Commander Chris Furse 1987 Professor Alice Coleman 1988 Dr Malcolm Coe 1989 Ralph Daly 1990 Max Nicholson 1991 Dr John Proctor 1992 Dr Robin Pellew 1993 Dr John Sheail 1994 Dr Bernard Tinker 1995 Dr Rita Gardner 1996 Professor Alexey Yablokov 1997 Professor Grenville Lucas 1998 Dr David Collins 1999 Michael Mortimore 2000 Dr Mark Collins 2001 Professor David Bellamy 2002 Professor Edward O. Wilson 2003 Professor David Warrell 2004 Dr Bill Adams 2005 Dr Sampurno Bruijnzeel 2006 Dr Hugh Brammer2007 Professor Geoffrey Petts 2008 Tamotsu Nakamura 2009 Professor Janet Hooke 2010 Professor Ann Varley 2011 Professor Lewis Owen 2012 Professor Claudio Vita-Finzi 2013 Professor Susan Page 2014 Professor Uma Kothari 2015 Dr Jayalaxshmi Mistry 2016 Professor Jo Sharp 2017 Professor David Evans 2018 Professor Bhaskar Vira 2019 Dr Ayona Datta 2020 Professor Nina Laurie 2021 Dr Emma Mawdsley 2022 Professor James D. Sidaway 2023 Professor Jos Barlow 2024 Leon McCarron
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External links RGS spreadsheet of all medal and award winners: Enter "Busk" in search box to see all Busk Medal winners from 1975 onwards; adjust width of columns to see information about each winner