Roger G. Walker

Roger G. Walker, FRSC, MMR (26 March 1939 – 14 August 2026) was a geologist and an award-winning emeritus professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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, Alberta.

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