David Linton Award for Hervé Piegay

The David Linton Award is given to a geomorphologist who has made a leading contribution to the discipline over a sustained period. The winner is invited to present the Linton Lecture, which is one of the central elements of the AGM. Hervé Piégay (2018) - The David Linton Award is given to a geomorphologist who has made a leading contribution to the discipline over a sustained period. The 2018 Award is made to Hervé Piégay because of his academic contribution to the field of geomorphology and also the way he has promoted geomorphology across Europe and beyond as an essential tool in the diagnosis of river-related problems and their management. Since the award of his PhD in 1995, Hervé Piégay has made many important contributions to fluvial geomorphology. His early work focussed on wood as a physical element in rivers and he soon recognised that this was an important focus for multidisciplinary river research, collaborating closely with freshwater ecologists and hydrologists. As he has moved up through the environmental research hierarchy in France to his current position as Director of the Rhône River Observatory (OHM Rhône-Valley) and Research Director, Unit 5600 CNRS / EVS in Lyon, he has maintained a multidisciplinary approach to river research centred on fluvial geomorphology.