GAC® National Medals & Awards
Yves O. Fortier Earth Science Journalism Award
The Yves Fortier Earth Science Journalism Award of the Geological Association of Canada is awarded for excellence in journalistic presentation of earth science in the newsprint media. The award shall recognize a journalist who is a resident of Canada and who has been exceptionally effective in presenting one or more earth science stories during the previous 1-3 years in one of Canada's daily or weekly newspapers or periodicals. The award will be granted annually, subject to the submission of satisfactory nominations. The award is named after Yves O. Fortier, a founding member of the Geological Association of Canada and a former Director of the Geological Survey of Canada. Entries for the Yves Fortier Award deal with a broad spectrum of Earth science topics, ranging from Earth to ocean and atmosphere. They are judged on the basis of originality, clarity of interpretation, scientific accuracy and value in promoting a broader understanding of Earth sciences to the public.
The Geological Association of Canada (GAC®) is pleased to announce that
Randy Boswell, CanWest News Service, for his article entitled “Lost World”,
has been selected as the 2010 recipient of the GAC®'s Yves Fortier
Earth Science Journalism Award, and will receive the Award's $1,000 prize.
Biography
Randy Boswell is a senior writer with Canwest News Service, reporting on a wide variety of national news but specializing in subjects with a historical twist — present-day discoveries and controversies related to all aspects Canada’s past, including political and social history, archeology, paleontology and geology. He also writes about the Arctic, arts and culture, politics, Canadian identity, sports, crime, geography and animals. A former city editor with the Ottawa Citizen, Boswell has been teaching journalism since 1995 at Carleton University, the school he attended in the 1980s. He's originally from Grand Valley, Ont., and now lives in Ottawa with his partner Kelly Patterson, an Ottawa citizen writer and editor, and their children Daniel, Christie and Emma.