Research chair awarded medal

Professor Janok Bhattacharya has been awarded the 2023 Francis P. Pettijohn Medal for Excellence in Sedimentology and Stratigraphy from the Society for Sedimentary Geology.
Janok is the Susan Cunningham Research Chair in Geology in the School of Earth, Environment & Society.
Janok’s research program is mostly focused on investigating the sequence stratigraphy and 3D facies architecture of shelf, shallow marine, paralic, and fluvial depositional systems.
The Society for Sedimentary Geology is a non-profit society that focuses specifically on enriching professionals and students within sedimentary geology.
Congratulate Janok at bhattaj@mcmaster.ca.
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