Abstract
Professor Khadyzhat Magome-dovna Saidova received the Joseph A. Cushman Award for Excellence in Foraminiferal Research on November 6, 2012, during the Cushman Foundation reception at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Charlotte, North Carolina. This award recognizes her major contributions to understanding the taxonomy and distribution of modern foraminifera during a long and continuing career that started in the 1950s. Professor Saidova received her first degree in 1949 from the Moscow Oil Institute and was then employed for three years as a structural geologist by the Russian Gas and Oil Research Institute. During the long field seasons (from May to October), she led geological mapping parties in the Dagestan and Chechen regions of the Caucasus Mountains. In order to discriminate Cretaceous strata, she collected rock samples from various facies, mainly sandstones, and identified foraminifera, thereby initiating her interest in these protists. She was puzzled by facial changes in synchronous fossil assemblages and this led her to shift her attention to modern foraminifera. In 1952, she started work on her Ph.D. at the P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology. The topic of her thesis, completed in 1956, …
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