Roger G. Walker

Roger G. Walker, FRSC, MMR is a geologist and an award-winning emeritus professor at McMaster University.

Walker obtained his D.Phil. from Oxford University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University. For 32 years, he taught at McMaster University. In 1998, Walker left McMaster to be a consultant in Calgary.^[1]

In 2013, Walker achieved the title of Master Model Railroader from the National Model Railroad Association.

Honours

• made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
• made an honorary member of Society of Sedimentary Geology

Awards

• 1975, awarded the Past Presidents' Medal by the Geological Association of Canada
• 1990, awarded the R. J. W. Douglas Medal by the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists
• 1999, awarded the Logan Medal by the Geological Association of Canada
• awarded the Francis J. Pettijohn Medal by the Society of Sedimentary Geology
• awarded the Henry Clifton Sorby Medal by the International Association of Sedimentologists
• awarded the Distinguished Educator Award by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists