Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award

The Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award is to honor and reward the author(s) of the best AAPG Bulletin article published each calendar year.

 

2023

Barry Jay Katz

Fang Lin

2022

Alexei V. Milkov

William Navidi

2021

David W. Houseknecht

2020

Tor Somme

Anthony George Dore

Erik Roland Lundin

Bjorn O. Torudbakken

2019

Kurt William Rudolph

Franklin James Goulding

2018

Mason Lewis Dykstra

Juan Pablo Milana

Benjamin Kneller, PhD

Luke I. Fairweather

2017

Robert M. Cluff

Keith William Shanley, PhD

2016

Seshane Ngwanamakhutswe Mahlo

Daniel T. Carruthers

Omieari Sepribo Briggs

Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson, PhD

2015

Kitty Lou Milliken, PhD

Mark D. Rudnicki

David Neel Awwiller

Tongwei Zhang

2014

Sonja Kisin Spasojevic

Michael Gurnis

2013

Andrew C. Aplin

James Harry Macquaker

2012

Robert H. Lander

Linda M. Bonnell

2011

Leonard Franklin Brown, Jr., PhD

William Anthony Ambrose

Eric C. Potter

Robert G. Loucks

Tucker F. Hentz

Florence Laure Bonnaffe

Fred Wang

2010

David Richard Pyles

2009

Joseph Albert Cartwright

Mads Huuse, PhD

Andrew C. Aplin

2008

Graham Rhys Davies, PhD

Langhorne B. Smith

2007

Shankar Mitra

Juan Antonio Murillo Alvarado

Gerardo Correa Figueroa

Jesus Hernandez Garcia

2006

John William Robinson

Robert M. Cluff

Keith William Shanley, PhD

2005

Hongliu Zeng

Charles Kerans

2004

Donald Sherwood Stone

2003

Roger Joseph Barnaby

Stephen C. Ruppel

2002

John S. Bridge

Robert Spence Tye

2001

Robert G. Loucks

2000

Paul Mitchell Harris

Karla E. Tucker

Richard C. Hoeksema, PhD

1999

Peter J. McCabe

John William Robinson

1998

Ulisses T. Mello

Garry D. Karner, PhD

1997

Floyd Jerry Lucia

1996

Floyd Jerry Lucia

Rainer K. Senger

Charles Kerans

1995

Michael C. Corey

Carlos Arturo Dengo

1994

Wolfgang Schlager

Kevin T. Biddle, PhD

Terry L. Bush

Kurt William Rudolph

1993

Gerard J. Demaison

Bradley James Huizinga

1992

David Trowbridge Lawrence

Mark Anthony Doyle

Thomas Aigner

1991

Robert Bruce Kirk

David Richard Dawson Boote

1990

Richard T. Buffler

Charles David Winker

1989

Regis Pelet

Philippe Ungerer

Bernard Pierre Tissot

1988

Shankar Mitra

1987

Tod Powell Harding

1986

Tod Powell Harding

1985

Dave Russell Kingston

Philip Anthony Williams

Carr Pritchett Dishroon, Jr.

1984

William Edmond Galloway

David Kenneth Hobday, PhD

Kinji Magara, PhD

1983

James K. Crouch

1982

Roelof John Murris, PhD

Presentation of Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Awards to Kurt W. Rudolph and Frank J. Goulding for 'Benchmarking exploration predictions and performance using 20+ yr of drilling results: One company’s experience' (February 2017 AAPG Bulletin) at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas on May 19, 2019.
Presentation of Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Awards to Mason Dykstra and Juan Pablo Milana for 'Mass-transport and slope accommodation: Implications for turbidite sandstone reservoirs' (February 2016 AAPG Bulletin) at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 21, 2018.
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 was formerly a part of the President’s Award.

Wallace E. Pratt (1885-1981) was one of the world’s most distinguished geologists. He was a founder of the Association, served as its fourth president and was the first recipient of the Sidney Powers Medal. He was also awarded AAPG’s Human Needs Award and Honorary Membership. He was a Distinguished Lecturer, served on many committees, and remained a constructive adviser and inspiration all his life. Dr. Amos Salvador, in his memorial to Pratt, said “But Wallace Pratt was not only a geologist; he was also a businessman, a scientist of broad interests, a humanist, a philosopher and a magnificent human being.”

Funding

Funding for the award is provided through the AAPG Foundation Awards Fund through a bequest from AAPG member Fred W. Bartlett (1897-1982).

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