The Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia is a technical and scientific society

Learned society

A learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline/profession, as well a group of disciplines. Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honor conferred by election, as is the case with the oldest learned societies,...

 that aims brings to bring together Brazilian geologists

Geology

Geology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves. Geology gives insight into the history of the Earth, as it provides the primary evidence for plate tectonics, the evolutionary history of life, and past climates...

, to disseminate technical and scientific information, and to participate in national decisions involving the geological sciences.

Publications

The major publication of the society is the Revista Brasileira de Geociências which is a quarterly publication established in 1971. It superseded the now defunct SBG Bulletin which had been published since 1952.

Prizes

The society awards a number of prizes including the José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva award (named after José Bonifácio de Andrada). This prize is awarded to honour those who have contributed to the development and advancement of geological knowledge and acted in the interests of the society.

José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva Prize winners

• 2010 José Maria Landim Dominguez
• 2009 Carlos Schobbenhaus Filho
• 2008 Roberto Dall’Agnol
• 2007 Márcio Martins Pimentel
• 2006 Kenitiro Suguio
• 2005 Joachim Karfunkel
• 2004 Jorge Silva Bettencourt
• 2003 Reinhardt Adolfo Fuck
• 2002 Benjamin Bley de Brito Neves
• 2001 Hardy Jost
• 1998 Umberto Giuseppe Cordani
• 1997 Marcel Auguste Dardenne
• 1992 Bhaskara Rao Adusumilli
• 1988 Friedrich Wilhelm Sommer
• 1984 Francisco Celso Ponte
• 1982 Frederico Waldemar Lange
• 1980 Llewellyn Ivor Price
  Llewellyn Ivor Price
  Llewellyn Ivor Price was one of the first Brazilian paleontologists.-Biography:Price's work contributed not only to the development of Brazilian but also to global paleontology...
  
  
• 1978 Alberto Ribeiro Lamego
• 1977 José Moacyr Vianna Coutinho and Aluízio Licínio de Miranda Barbosa
  Aluízio Licínio de Miranda Barbosa
  Aluízio Licínio de Miranda Barbosa usually known as Professor Licínio is a retired geologist. He is Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Geociências of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais ....
  
  
• 1976 Jannes Markus Mabesoone
• 1975 Sérgio Mezzalira
• 1974 Heinz Ebert
  Heinz Ebert
  Heinz Ebert was a German-Brazilian geologist, naturalist, and educator.Ebert had his basic training in chemistry, physics, and analytical chemistry and natural sciences and served as geologist at the Geological Survey of Prussia...
  
  
• 1973 Francisco Moacyr de Vasconcelos and Irajá Damiani Pinto
  Irajá Damiani Pinto
  Irajá Damiani Pinto, born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on July 3, 1919 and currently still working with Paleontology. - Biography:...
  
  
• 1972 Karl Beurlen and Carlos Walter Marinho Campos
• 1971 Rui Ribeiro Franco
• 1970 Pedro de Moura
• 1969 Setembrino Petri
• 1968 Octávio Barbosa
• 1967 Reinhard Maack
• 1966 Djalma Guimarães
  Djalma Guimarães
  Djalma Guimarães , was a pioneer Brazilian geochemist. He was Professor Emeritus in the Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto and in the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais at Belo Horizonte...
  
  , João José Bigarella, and José Raymundo de Andrade Ramos
• 1965 Wilhelm Kegel
• 1964 John Von Nostrand Dorr II and Carlos de Paula Couto
  Carlos de Paula Couto
  -Biography:Carlos de Paula Couto, was one of the most important Brazilian paleontologists.Researcher at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, specialized in paleontology of mammals...
  
  
• 1963 Josué Camargo Mendes and Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida
  Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida
  Fernando Flávio Marques de Almeida is a Brazilian Geologist. Almeida did the central works to understand the South American geology: son of the first Brazilian generation of geologists did the pioners papers of the continent's geology He is considered to be one of the top Brazilians in geology and...
  
  
• 1962 Glycon de Paiva
• 1961 Luciano Jaques de Moraes
• 1960 Elysiário Távora Filho
• 1959 William D. Johnston Jr. and Sylvio Fróes de Abreu
• 1958 Avelino Ignácio de Oliveira, Otton Henry Leonardos, and Viktor Leinz

External links

• Revista Brasileira De Geociências website (Accessed March 2011)