The Barringer Family Fund for Meteorite Impact Research will provide a small number (3 to 5) of competitive grants each year in the range of $2,500 to $5,000 USD for support of field research at known or suspected impact sites worldwide.

It is a great pleasure and honor to share the 2021 recipient of the Barringer Medal, Dr Gordon “Oz” Osinski.

Dr. Osinski is a Professor at Western University, London, Ontario and Director of Western University’s Institute for Earth and Space Exploration.

This fund reflects the family’s long-standing commitment to responsible stewardship of The Barringer Meteorite Crater and the family’s steadfast resolve in maintaining the crater as a unique scientific research and education site.

The research at Chicxulub Crater continues and a recent publication of the discovery of iridium bearing “asteroid dust” has confirmed the corresponding dates of the impact and the end of the dinosaurs!

This shaded relief (public domain) image of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula shows a subtle, but unmistakable, indication of the Chicxulub impact crater. Most scientists now agree that this impact was the cause of the Cretatious-Tertiary Extinction, the event 65 million years ago that marked the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs as well as the majority of life then on Earth.