The Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award is to
honor and reward the author(s) of the best
AAPG Bulletin article published each
calendar year.
Restrictions
The author(s) need not be a member of the
Association. If some of the material in the article
has been published previously, there must have
been substantive additional material in the
AAPG Bulletin publication.
Guidelines for Consideration of
Candidates
The elected Editor will solicit
recommendations from the Associate Editors;
however, recommendations are welcome from
all sources.
Procedure for Recommendation
Nomination forms, with publication
reference of the article, should be submitted to
the Editor before March 1 following the year of
publication. The Editor will forward his recommendations
to the Chairman of the Honors and
Awards Committee. Its recommendations are
transmitted to the Advisory Council which will
in turn transmit its selection to the Executive
Committee for final action.
Description of Award
The award is $1,500.00 cash and a certificate
bearing the recipient’s name, the title of the
award-winning article, and the appropriate
bibliographical reference. Co-authors share
equally.
History
The Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award was
approved by Executive Committee action and
the first award was made in 1982. The award