Abstract
On 29 October 2013 Professor David B. Scott was co-recipient of the Joseph A. Cushman Award for Excellence in Foraminiferal Research along with Dr. Franco Medioli at the Annual Geological Society of America Meeting in Denver, Colorado. This prestigious award acknowledges Prof. Scott’s significant contributions to the ecology of coastal benthic foraminifera and their utility as a relative sea-level indicator, most notably regarding salt marsh fauna. Upon publications of Scott & Medioli (1978, 1980), a new field of Quaternary research emerged and these publications are among the most cited foraminiferal papers in the world. The 1978 Nature paper describes using the turnover salt-marsh foraminiferal species across the marsh surface from the upland to the intertidal zone (as a consequence of tidal inundation) to refine estimates of relative sea level. At the time, sea-level proxies (raised beaches, oyster beds, and submerged or emerged terraces and deltas) were hampered by large errors regarding their position relative to sea level, sometimes larger than the change in sea level attempting to be reconstructed. Determining the relationship between salt-marsh foraminifera and sea level was ground-breaking, and opened entirely new avenues of scientific inquiry that continue today. Professor Scott’s work on …
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