Peter A. Ziegler#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 767 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Peter A. Ziegler passed away July 19, 2013.
Positions Held
- 1999 - 2003 Co-ordinator EUCOR-URGENT Project
- 1990 - 2000:lecturer at University of Basel and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- 1988 December 1st, retirement from Shell. Since then independent exploration consultant (Petroleum Exploration Consultancy Services)
- 1984 - 1988 Senior Exploration Consultant, team leader Global Geology, giving on a routine basis Shell-internal training lectures on: seismic stratigraphy, plate tectonics and basin evolution, intra-plate tectonics, structural styles of fold belts
- 1982 - 1984 Deputy Head New Ventures and Exploration Advice Department (world wide responsability)
- 1978 - 1982 Exploration Consultant with special responsability for Europe, South America, seismic stratigraphy and exploration in fold belts
- 1970 - 1977 Region Geologist Northern Europe, acting Exploration Manager A/S Norske Shell and Denmark joint venture
- 1970 - 1988 Shell Internationale Petroleum Mij. B.V. Den Haag, The Netherlands
- 1967 - 1970 Subsurface Geologist and later Exploration Manager Alberta Plains
- 1964 - 1966 Technical advisor foothills and offshore Exploration Division
- 1958 - 1963 fieldwork Canadian Cordillera, fieldparty supervisor
- 1958 - 1970 Shell Canada Ltd. Calgary, Canada
- 1957 Compagnie d'Exploration Pétrolière, fieldwork in southern Algeria
- 1956 Societé des Pétroles de Madagascar, fieldwork Morandava basin, Madagascar
- 1955 ISRAMCO, fieldwork Dead Sea area, wellsite geologist
- 1948 - 1955 University of Zürich, Geology study. Ph.D. University of Zürich, May 1955. (Promotor: Prof. R. Trümpy)
Fields of Scholarship
- Plate Tectonics and Basin Evolution
- Paleogeographic and Paleotectonic Reconstructions
- Dynamics of Extensional and Compressional Intraplate Deformation
Honours and Awards
- 1983 Member Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1984 Honorary Member of The Geological Society, London
- 1986 Fourmarier Medal, Geological Society Belgium
- 1986 American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Distinguished Lecturer
- 1987 Van Waterschoot van der Gracht Medal, Royal Geological and Mining Society of The Netherlands
- 1988 William Smith Medal, The Geological Society, London
- 1989 Entry in International "Who is Who"
- 1990 Thomas Neville George Medal, Geological Society of Glasgow
- 1990 Robert H. Dott sr. Memorial Award, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (best Special Publication award)
- 1990 Member Academia Europaeana
- 1992 Honoray Lecturer, University of Basel (geodynamics, basin evolution)
- 1993 Leopold von Buch Medal, Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft
- 1994 Honorary Member of the Polish Geological Society
- 1995 Special Commendation Award, American Association of Petroleum Geologists
- 1995 Honorary Member European Union of Geoscientists
- 1995 Distinguished Lecturer Award Netherlands Research School of Sedimentary Geology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
- 1995 Member New York Academy of Sciences
- 1995 Pjotr Leonidovici Kaptsa Medal, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
- 1996 Entry in "Who's Who in the World"
- 1996 Member Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Crakow
- 1996 Titular Professor for Global Geology, University of Basel
- 1997 Honorary Member Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
- 1997 Doctor Honoris Causa, Moscow State University
- 1997 Entry “2000 Outstading Pleople”
- 1997 Life membreship Bureau International Lithosphere Program
- 1998 Stephan Müller Medal, European Geophysical Society
- 1999 Tectonophysics 300, Tectonics of Sedimentary Basin Formation: Model and Constraints.”The Ziegler Volume”
- 2000 Foreign Member Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsawa
- 2000 Dr. Honoris Causa, Technical University of Delft
