CivMin Professor Emeritus Paul Young is to be awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal.
The medal is awarded to those who have made a significant contribution to Canada or to a particular province, territory, region or community of Canada, or have made an outstanding achievement abroad that brings credit to Canada. The Coronation Medal commemorates the Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III as King of Canada. The medal is administered by the Chancellery of Honours at Rideau Hall.
The citation from the Royal Society of Canada reads:
“I am pleased to inform you that, in recognition of your exceptional and sustained contributions to the mission and goals of the Royal Society of Canada, you have been awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal”
Young is an engineering geophysicist who has focused his research and engineering career on developing seismic methods and instrumentation to monitor fractures and rock quality. Over the past 40 years, he has pioneered techniques for monitoring and interpreting induced seismicity in the mining, energy and nuclear waste disposal industries. Through his research groups at Queen’s University and the University of Toronto, Canada, Keele University and Liverpool University, UK, as well as through spin off companies such as ESG, Canada and Applied Seismology Consultants, UK, innovative scientific advances have been made in applied seismology and rock mechanics.
He has published over 275 scientific papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, supervised over 45 PhD students and postdoctoral research fellows and developed innovative instrumentation systems for induced seismicity/acoustic emission monitoring. He continues to develop geophysical imaging techniques for rock fracture and investigate the synergy with numerical modeling and further facilitate the movement of science from the laboratory to industry.
He has been awarded many honours for his research and innovation, notably, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Willet G. Miller Medal of the Royal Society of Canada for his research in Earth Sciences, the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for services to Canada, and the John A. Franklin Award for Rock Mechanics by the Canadian Geotechnical Society. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining and is a Chartered Engineer.
A presentation ceremony will be held in Ottawa on March 27.