NOMINATED AWARDSASSOCIATION AWARDS
Special Awards BACKGROUND
Special Awards are given when, in the Executive Committee’s judgment, per-sons are deserving of recognition for some outstanding accomplishment which does not otherwise qualify for existing honors or awards.
| 2008 | Nikolai V. Lopatin Steven L. Veal |
| 2007 | Richard D. Fritz (for visionary leadership and stalwart management of AAPG's scientific and business activities) Marcus Milling (posthumously) (for leading the American Geological Institute to national prominence in earth science education, public geoscience outreach and government relations) |
| 2006 | Jordi "Jorge" Ferrer Modolell (for efforts to improve international communications) Roy Helge Gabrielsen (for leadership of academic and industrial petroleum research) |
| 2005 | John Gibson (for his contribution to AAPG's legacy on ethics as well as his passion for the science of geology, and for his genuine love of people and sense of humor that melts boundaries and borders) |
| 2004 | Dietrich H. Welte (for contributions in petroleum geochemistry and numerical modeling of petroleum systems) |
| 2003 | Waverly Person (for contributions to the field of earthquake studies and establishment of the National Earthquake Information Center) |
| 2002 | Emmanuel Tamesis (for contributions to the education of geologists and for achievements in Philippine petroleum exploration) |
| 2001 | J.C. "Jay" Gallagher (posthumously) (for the successful evolution of the International Pavillion) |
| 2001 | Richard Warren (for his commitment to the oil industry while facing personal affliction with fortitude) |
| 2001 | Kenneth Dale Owen and David L. Rice (for their efforts in restoring the 19th century New Harmony scientific community in Indiana) |
| 2000 | William T. Smith (for outstanding achievment as a working petroleum geologist and oil industry executive) |
| 2000 | Arthur R. Green (for visionary work to develop integrated geoscience and commitment to deliver these products to the geoscience community) |
| 1999 | Sarah G. Stanley (for leadership in the development of public centers for workstation training) |
| 1999 | Isaac J. Crumbly (for leadership in creating a technical workforce for the nation's energy industry) |
| 1998 | Fred A. Dix, Jr. (for dedicated leadership of the AAPG from 1973 to 1996) |
| 1997 | Robert E. Megill (for showing petroleum geologists how to express their ideas and cope with their science through the use of petroleum economics) |
| 1997 | Paul G. Benedum, Jr. (for leadership of the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation) |
| 1997 | Eugene M. Shoemaker (for transforming meteor impacts into an accepted geologic process with implications for terrestrial geology and evolution) |
| 1997 | Marsha A. Barber (for development of K-12 curricula and teacher training to improve public understanding of energy issues) |
| 1996 | Norman D. Newell (for paleoecological studies of Permian Reef complex of W. Texas and organic evolution) |
| 1996 | Wesley G. Bruer (for adding Oregon to the list of producing states with the 1979 discovery of the 70 bcf Mist gas field) |
| 1995 | James Wood Clarke (for English translation/publication of geological information from Soviet Union and Russia) |
| 1991 | Norman H. Foster and Edward A. Beaumont (for work on the Treatise of Petroleum Geology) |
| 1990 | John F. Bookout (for excellence in exploration leadership) |
| 1974 | Marcel and Conrad Schlumberger (posthumously) (for development of electrical logging) |
| 1973 | Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt (for lunar exploration) |