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ASSOCIATION AWARDS

Harrison Schmitt Awards BACKGROUND

Harrison Schmitt Awards are given when, in the Executive Committee's judgment, persons are deserving of recognition for some outstanding accomplishment which does not otherwise qualify for other Association awards. In 2011 the name of the award was changed by Executive Committee from Special Award to Harrison Schmitt Award.

2012 Jill Stevens
2011 Anthony Doré (for his published contributions and analysis on the tectonic history, geology and petroleum systems, of the northeast Atlantic margin; for his "influential' leadership in working to bridge industry and academia; and for being "an enlightened" senior manager who has influenced his company to embrace new geological play concepts and technology)
Myron K. "Mike" Horn
(for development of four global databases that are significant parts of the GIS-UDRIL project)
2010 Robert W. Allen
George P. Mitchell
2009 Alexi E. Kontorovich
Akif Ali Narimanov
2008 Nikolai V. Lopatin(for recognizing his lifelong contribution to petroleum geochemistry and establishing some of the most important principles of petroleum maturation and migration).
Steven L. Veal (for contributing to the AAPG over the past two decades, including service to HoD, DEG, Conventions and the Executive Committee).
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)

 

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