Past Recipients for Best Presentation Awards
Thomas A. Philpott Excellence of Presentation Award
A. I. Levorsen Memorial Awards
Gordon I. Atwater Best Poster Awards
Best Student Oral Presentation Award
Best Student Poster Presentation Award
Year |
First Award |
Second Award |
Third Award |
Award |
1959 |
J. E. Walters |
R. L. Oakes |
H. A. Bernard, C. F. Major, Jr., and B. S. Parrott |
Not awarded |
1960† |
D. J. Hughes |
D. I. Andrews |
E. H. Rainwater |
Not awarded |
1961 |
R. D. Ocamb |
D. I. Andrews and J. C. Stipe |
R. P. Fietz, K. R. Scott, and W. E. Hayes |
Not awarded |
1962‡ |
D. R. Tucker |
R. J. Granberry and R. C. Wilshusen |
G.C. Glaser (tie) and W.R. Walton (tie) |
Not awarded |
1963 |
E. H. Rainwater |
V. Peppard |
S. L. Blanton, Jr. |
Not awarded |
1964 |
E. H. Rainwater |
D. R. Boyd and B. F. Dyer |
J. L. Arps |
Not awarded |
1965 |
C.R. Kolb and J. R. van Lopik |
G. R. Kellough |
Not awarded |
Not awarded |
1966 |
B. J. Sloan, Jr. |
W. R. Paine |
R. E. Gernant and R. V. Kesling |
B. J. Sloan, Jr. |
1967 |
H. Yarborough, Jr. |
W. A. Price |
J. Ewing (tie) and J. C. Meyers (tie) |
H. Yarborough, Jr. |
1968 |
J. D. Myers |
E. H. Rainwater |
D. J. Hughes |
J. D. Myers |
1969 |
P. O. Roehl |
J. K. Rogers |
D. F. McNamee (tie) and L. F. Brown (tie) |
J. K. Rogers |
1970 |
J. J. Amoruso |
R. R. Berg |
J. F. Harris |
J. J. Amoruso |
1971 |
H. Yarborough, Jr. |
D. A. Reel and G. M. Griffin (tie), B. J. Sloan (tie), and J. A. Hartman (tie) |
Not awarded |
H. Yarborough, Jr. |
1972 |
R. R. Berg |
M. T. Halbouty |
J. J. Amoruso |
R. R. Berg |
1973 |
R. D. Woods and J. W. Addington |
R. D. Ottman, P. L. Keyes, and M. A. Ziegler |
R. R. Berg and F. L. Findley |
J. M. Coleman and L. D. Wright |
1974 |
D. H. Kupfer |
J. M. Coleman, L. D. Wright, J. N. Schyda, and T.Whelan |
C. A. Parker |
D. H. Kupfer |
1975 |
W. L. Seal and J. A. Gilreath |
J. D. Myers |
B. P. Baganz, J. C. Horne, and J. C. Ferm |
J. D. Myers |
1975 |
W. L. Seal and J. A. Gilreath |
J. D. Myers |
B. P. Baganz, J. C. Horne, and J. C. Ferm |
J. D. Myers |
1976 |
J. D. Robinson and A. R. Troell |
J. W. Becher, C. H. Moore, and A. R. Troell |
N. Neel |
J. D. Robinson |
1977 |
D. K. Davies and W. R. Almon |
J. O. Lewis |
J. O. Snowden, W. B. Simmons, E. B. Toughber, and R. W. Stephens |
D. K. Davies and W. R. Almon |
1978 |
C. T. Siemers |
J. W. Lund, J. S. King, R. E. Berlitz, and J. A. Gilreath |
E. F. McBride |
C. T. Siemers |
1979 |
C. D. Winker |
R. R. Berg |
C. C. Christina and K. G. Martin |
R. R. Berg |
1980 |
E. A. Mancini and D. J. Benson |
F. W. Harrison, Jr. |
G. N. Gatenby |
E. A. Mancini and D. J. Benson |
1981 |
E. C. Roy, Jr., M. Eidelbach, and N. Trumbly |
J. L. Coleman, Jr., and C. J. Coleman |
G. J. Grabowski, Jr. |
E. C. Roy, Jr., M. Eidelbach, and N. Trumbly |
1982 |
T. E. Ewing and S. C. Caran |
D. J. Benson and E. A. Mancini |
R. R. Berg and M. F. Habeck |
T. E. Ewing and S. C. Caran |
1983 |
J. W. Cagle and M. A. Khan |
W. M. Ahr and H. B. Hull, Jr |
T. E. Ewing (tie) and C. H. Moore (tie) |
J. W. Cagle and M. A. Khan |
1984 |
G. Kinsland |
S. K. Stewart |
C. L. Sartor and S. R. Howard |
G. Kinsland |
1985 |
C. C. Walters and M. R. Cassa |
E. A. Mancini, R. M. Mink, and B. L. Bearden |
A. L. Workman and J. S. Hanor |
W. E. Galloway |
1986 |
S. P. Dutton |
A. H. Saller and B. R. Moore |
J. M. Coleman, D. P. Prior, and H. H. Roberts |
S. P. Dutton |
1987 |
S. P. Dutton, R. Finley, and K. Herrington |
R. Evans |
C. Black and R. Berg |
S.P. Dutton, R. Finley, and K. Herrington |
1988 |
M. P. Prescott |
J. J. O’Brien and I. Lerche |
D. F. Williams and I. Lerche |
J. J. O’Brien and I. Lerche |
1989 |
P. Hutchinson |
N. M. Kuich |
W. Wade, J. Hanor, and R. Sassen |
P. Hutchinson |
1990 |
M. P. Prescott |
P. L. Cook, Jr., J. D. Bush, J. C. Marble, and R. D. Schneeflock |
D. Tearpock and H. Pousson |
M. P. Prescott |
1991 |
A. J. Davidoff |
H. S. Sumner |
T. Ewing and G. Fergeson |
A. J. Davidoff |
1992 |
K. T. Barrow, G. B. Asquith, and G. L. Causey |
R. A. Levey, M. A. Sippel, R. J. Finley, and R. R. Langford |
J. U. Ricoy, J. S. Yeh, and R. P. Major |
H. H. Roberts, D. J. Cook, and M. K. Sheedlo |
1993 |
W. Carew, P. F. Ostendorf, and G. L. Krum |
W. A. Ambrose, R. A. Levey, J. M. Vidal, M. A. Sippel, J. R. Ballard, D. M. Coover, Jr, and W. E. Bloxsom |
W. D. DeMis and J. V. Milliken |
W. Carew, P. F. Ostendorf, and G. L. Krum |
1994 |
J. A. Rhodes |
B. E. Bradshaw and J. S. Watkins |
R. J. Barnaby, R. Ramamoorthy, and M. H. Holtz |
John A. Rhodes |
1995 |
R. R. Zenero, D. L. Seng, M. R. Byrnes, and R. A. McBride |
E. Heydari, W. J. Wade, and L. C. Anderson |
A. H. Bouma, H. deV. Wickens, and J. M. Coleman |
M. J. Broussard and B. E.Lock |
1996 |
J. C. Fiduk, B. D. Trudgill, M. G. Rowan, P. Weimer, P. E. Gale, B. E. Korn, R. L. Phair, W. T. Gafford, G. R. Roberts, S. W. Dobbs, and C.K. Guu |
C. Story |
D. J. Hall |
D. J. Hall |
1997 |
S. M. Sartain and B. E. See |
J. C. Fiduk, P. Weimer, B. D. Trudgill, M. G. Rowan, P. E. Gale, B. E. Korn, R. L. Phair, G. R. Roberts, W. T. Gafford, C. K. Guu, and R. Lowe |
W. J. Doyle, R. G. Wonish, and T. Schroeder |
B. A. Robison, R. Detomo, Jr., R. D. Garner, A. Speksnijder, and M. J. Styzen |
1998 |
G. L. Kinsland |
T. E. Ewing |
C. Story |
T. E. Ewing |
1999 |
W. C. Dawson |
R. Sassen |
D. J. Tearpock |
W. C. Dawson and W. R. Almon |
2000 |
W. C. Parcell |
T. Whitbread, T. Nicholson and W. C. Owens |
G. J. Halvatzis and K. B. Hill |
F. Zhu, R. I. Gibson, and J. S. Watkins |
2001 |
K. B. Hill |
R. G. Loucks |
A. Muzaffar |
S. H. Yuh and K. B. Hill |
2002 |
G. P. Saunders |
S. T. Knapp |
C. Wascom, G. Snellgrove, and F. J. Peel |
S. T. Knapp |
2003 |
R. S. Bruno and J. S. Hanor |
K. O. Jones and S. Nagihara |
J. A. Nunn |
W. A. Ambrose, K. Fouad, D. Jennette, L. F. Brown, Jr., T. Wawrzyniec, S. Sakurai, E. Guevara, M. Aranda, J. Alvaredo, U. Hernandez, E. Macias, D. Velez, F. Sanchez, G. Lopez, and J. C. Flores |
2004 |
P. Weimer |
T. M. Missimer and R. G. Maliva |
J. F. Blickwede, M. W. Damm, M. J. DiMarco E. Dore, B. L. Gouger, J. G. Hawkins, J. W. Hildore, and S. Walden |
Roger Young and Bob LoPiccolo |
2005** |
Not awarded |
Not awarded |
Not awarded |
Not awarded |
2006 |
Michael J. Quinn |
Roger A. Young and Robert D. LoPiccolo |
James Thomson, Michael Taylor, and Mike Garrett |
Mary L. Barrett and John P. Goodson, Jr. |
2007 |
Frank G. Cornish and Robert W. Parker |
Ursula Hammes, Hongliu Zeng, Robert Loucks, and Frank Brown, Jr. |
Donald S. Van Nieuwenhuise |
Angela McDonnell, Mike Hudec, and Martin P. A. Jackson |
2008 |
Not awarded |
Not awarded |
Not awarded |
Not awarded |
2009 |
William A. Ambrose, Tucker F. Hentz, Florence Bonnaffé, Robert G. Loucks, and Fred P. Wang |
Steven Losh, Daniel Swart, and Andrew Dickinson |
Vishal Maharaj and Lesli J. Wood |
John B. Wagner |
2010 |
Charles Cusack, Jana Beeson, Gregg Robertson, and Dick Stoneburner |
Susan Snow and Doug Ratcliff |
Robert Loucks, Robert Reed, Stephen Ruppel, and Ursula Hammes |
Robert G. Loucks, Robert M. Reed, Stephen C. Ruppel, and Ursula Hammes |
2011*** |
Not awarded*** |
Not awarded*** |
Not awarded*** |
Not awarded*** |
2012 |
Michael R. Hudec |
Eddie Valek |
Linda McCall, James Sprinkle, Ann Molineux, and Christopher Garvie |
Michael R. Hudec |
2013 |
Jonathan P. Parker, Claudia Montoya, Michael Murat, Richard Uden, and Oleg Yakovlev |
Richard Denne and Robert Blanchard |
Jeffrey Nittrouer |
Jonathan P. Parker, Claudia Montoya, Michael Murat, Richard Uden, and Oleg Yakovlev |
2014 |
Randy Broussard andAbu K. M. Sarwar | Craig Fulthorpe, William E. Galloway, John W. Snedden, Patricia E. Ganey-Curry, and Timothy L. Whiteaker |
Tim Bennett |
John Snedden, Ian O. Norton, Gail L. Christeson, and Jason C. Sanford |
2015 |
Christopher D. Walker, Glen A. Anderson, Paul G. Belvedere, Alison T. Henning, Francis O. Rollins, Eric Soza, and Shalina Warrior |
Pilar Rojas |
Clement Bataille, Gabriel Bowen, and Dylana Watford |
Elizabeth A. Watkins, Julio Tamashiro, Marcelo Cristian Torrez Canaviri, Nicolas Martin, Eldar Guliyev, Renato Leite, Nhom (Vince) Nguyen, Abayomi Aina, and Mauro R. Becker |
2016 |
Bo Chen, Dhananjay Kumar, Anthony Uerling, Sheryl Land, Omar Aguirre, Tao Jiang, and Setiawardono Sugianto |
Paul K. Wieg |
Thomas E. Ewing and Juan L. Gonzalez |
Cian O’Reilly, Duncan Bate, James Keay, Alex Fick, Alex Birch Hawkins, Dario Chisari, Jason Kegel, and Brad Torry |
2017 |
Peter Clift, Yuting Li, and Peng Zhou |
Shirley P. Dutton, William A. Ambrose, Bohdan B. Horodecky, and Robert G. Loucks |
David A. Ferrill, Ronald N. McGinnis, Alan P. Morris, Kevin J. Smart, Kirk D.H. Gulliver, Daniel Lehrmann, and Mark Evans |
John R. Dribus |
2018 |
Steven Walkinshaw |
Robert G. Loucks |
Mary L. Barrett |
Anish Kumar, Josselin Kherroubi, Florent Bringer, George Richard Kear, Robert Laronga, and Juan Herrera |
2019 |
Sam Brody |
John Bain, Jason Kegel, and Cian O’Reilly |
Tim Rynott |
James J. Willis, Duncan S. McIntosh, Jr., Jesse W. Zwennes, Gregory J. Ferguson, James Pasley, and Garrett M. Goettel |
2020 |
David Hodgetts |
Steve Walkinshaw |
Michael Shoemaker Honorable Mention - John Dribus |
Michael Shoemaker |
2021 |
Justin C. Thompson, Charles W. Kreitler, and Michael H. Young |
Wen Pan, Carlos Torres-Verdin, Michael J. Pyrcz, and Ian J. Duncan |
B. Fairhurst, T. Ewing, and B. Lindsay |
Not awarded |
2022**** |
Not awarded**** |
Not awarded**** |
Not awarded**** |
Not awarded**** |
2023 |
Lara Heister and Andrew Pepper |
Gordon Holmes, Nic Bongiovanni, Tracy Wulf, Stephen Schneider, Scott Maxwell, Brian Chacka, and Hussain Sheikha |
Jean-Marie Laigle |
Sumit Verma and Shuvajit Bhattacharya |
* This award is given by the AAPG to the paper that best exemplifies creative ideas in oil and gas exploration (first award, 1966). ** Presentation awards were not given for 2005 due to cancellation of the New Orleans GCAGS/GCSSEPM convention. *** Presentation awards were not given for 2010 due to cancellation of the Veracruz GCAGS convention. **** Presentation awards were not given for 2022 due to convention moving from fall to spring. † In the 1985 through 1990 Transactions, the 1960 awards were erroneously shown as not awarded. ‡ Glaser and Walton received First Place in the Paleontology Division for their 1962 paper. Notes: Prior to 2000 the awards were presented as “GCAGS Best Paper Awards.” In 2000, the 1999 awards were presented as “GCAGS Excellence of Presentation Awards.” |
Year* |
First Place |
Second Place |
Third Place |
1988 |
G. M. Pense and A. A. Sartin |
J. A. Adamick and J. Coleman |
H. H. Roberts |
1989 |
F. G. Cornish |
R. D. McPhearson |
Not awarded |
1990 |
T. H. Fett |
R. B. Bray and J. S. Hanor |
Not awarded |
1991 |
M. J. DiMarco and R. C. Shipp |
J. U. Ricoy |
Not awarded |
1992 |
T. P. Bulling and A. J. Kregii |
W. C. Dawson and D. F. Reaser |
Not awarded |
1993 |
A. H. Bouma and D. A. Goddard |
W. Carew, P. F. Ostendorf, and G. L. Krum |
Not awarded |
1994 |
T. H. Brown, L. Bruno, and M. Green |
N. Chowdhury, D. L. Risch, and A. E. Hannan, Sr. |
Not awarded |
1995 |
M. Kontrovitz and J. M. Slack |
R. Sturdivant, Jr, G. A. Fulton, Jr., and F. E. Bains (tie); J. K. Jordan (tie) |
Not awarded |
1996 |
H. DeWitt, M. Globe, and R. Sorenson (tie); H. H. Roberts (tie) |
A. M. Al-Ghamdi and J. S. Watkins |
H. A. Collier and J. O. Parra |
1997 |
P. N. Lawless, R. H. Fillon, and R. G. Litton, III |
R. Tyler, R. P. Major, H. S. Hamlin, M. H. Holtz, and M. Vining |
F. R. Sheppard, III, D. N. Wright, and P. L. McGriew |
1998 |
T. F. Hentz, B. J. Bascle, L. D. Nixon, R. H. Peterson, and C. J. John |
J. C. Fiduk, P. Weimer, B. D. Trudgill, M. G. Rowan, and B. C. McBride |
R. R. Pressler and D. B. Walker |
1999 |
A. N. Veazey and J. S. Hanor |
G. Jin, R. H. Grshorng, Jr., and J. C. Pashin |
S. E. Mahmoud, E. A. Pessagno, Jr., and |
2000 |
G. T. Wach, R. G. Lytton III, D. McCarty, L. C. Lorn, S. L. Moate |
M. E. Gregg and C. T. Bukowski, Jr. |
Gregory J. Halvatzis |
2001 |
S. P. Tischer, D. R. Womochel, and S. Penland |
J. Koch and S. Penland |
W. W. Womardt, Jr. |
2002 |
H. H. Roberts, J. M. Coleman, J. L. Hunt, W. W. Shedd, R. Sassen, and A. Milkov |
Ted Playton |
C. Kerans and R. G. Loucks |
2003 |
P. V. Heinrich |
R. G. Loucks and C. Kerans |
H. H. Roberts, J. M. Coleman, S. J. Bentley, and N. Walker |
2004 |
A. Chowdhury and S. Lopez-Mora |
Kaiyu Liu |
L. F. Brown, Jr., R. G. Loucks, R. H. Trevino, U. Hammes, P. Montoya and R. L. Remington |
2005** |
Not awarded |
Not awarded |
Not awarded |
2006 |
Steve J. Blanke and Sean P. Kelly |
Paul R. Knox, Steven C. Young, William E. Galloway, Ernest T. Baker, Jr., and Trevor Budge |
Keri B. Judice, Carl Richter, William H. Schramm, Catherine E. Bishop, and Timothy W. Duex |
2007 |
Hongliu Zeng and Robert G. Loucks |
James R. Garrison, Jr., and Bobby McCoy |
Ettore Marcucci and |
2008 |
Not awarded |
Not awarded |
Not awarded |
2009 |
Hannah Vedrines, Carl Richter, and William P. Schramm |
Ignacio Pujana, Nolan Shaw, Jr., and Patricia F. DuBois |
Amy L. Spaziani and Gregory W. Stone |
2010 |
Mark Etienne, Carl Richter, and William Schamm |
Thomas Van Biersel |
Tucker Hentz and Stephen Ruppel |
2011*** |
Not Awarded*** |
Not Awarded*** |
Not Awarded*** |
2012 |
Lauri A. Burke, Scott A. Kinney, Russell F. Dubiel, and Janet K. Pitman |
Jennifer K. Hendricks, Thomas E. Yancey, James E. Flis, Christopher J. Flis, and Ethan L. Grossman |
Robert M. Reed and Stephen C. Ruppel |
2013 |
Regina Dickey |
Joshua Vanlandingham and W. Joe Lambert |
Jason Asmus and G. Michael Grammer |
2014 |
Catherine B. Enomoto |
Dallas Dunlap |
Arthur S. Waterman and Richard H. Fillon |
2015 |
Alessio Checconi, Peter Conn, and James Stockley |
James A. MacKay |
Selim Simon Shaker |
2016 |
Peng Li, Michael E. Ratchford, Marc W. Charette, Bradley J. Walls, and Richard P. Philp |
Adam Majzoub and Kevin W. Stafford |
Aaron A. Eaves and Kevin W. Stafford |
2017 |
Peter R. Rose |
Pin Lin and Paul Mann |
Vsevolod Egorov, Robert Neese, and Jonathan Neese |
2018 |
Omar Zavala and Paul Mann |
Jack Kenning and Paul Mann |
Muhammad Nawaz Bugti and Paul Mann |
2019 |
Celeste D. Lohr, Brett J. Valentine, Frank T. Dulong, and Paul C. Hackley |
Kenneth Elsbury, Mark S. Hickey, Santiago Trevino III, Justin Oberle, Oscar Vasquez, and Drew Jones |
Brian F. Platt, Jennifer N. Gifford, Lance D. Yarbrough, Al A. O’Reilly, and Mohammed Harthy |
2020 |
Lenora D. Perkins, Wesley Brown, and Kevin Stafford |
Brian Lesh, Melinda Faulkner, and Julie Bloxson |
Barbara M. Kemeh Honorable Mention - Special Recognition for Outstanding Contributions to the GeoGulf 2020 Poster Sessions Steven F. Austin State University Department of Geology Students and Faculty: Joseph Amell, Alex P. Blizzard, Julie M. Bloxson, Wesley A. Brown, Hannah Chambers, Patrick D. Coplan, Melinda Faulkner, Merritt Ford, Andrew Henry, Ryan M. Jaska, Barbara M. Kemeh, Kaleb Kirk, Brian Lesh, Kaleb C. McClain, Lenora D. Perkins, Kevin Stafford, and Adrian Valdez |
2021 |
V. Egorov, C. Puryear, R. Tharimela, and J. Jurasin |
D. B. Dunlap, O. Duffy, N. Fernandez, and M. Hudec, and J. A. Covault |
John Berry |
2022*** |
Not awarded*** |
Not awarded*** |
Not awarded*** |
2023 |
David A. Ferrill, Kevin J. Smart, Daniel J. Lehrmann, Alan P. Morris, and Ronald N. McGinnis |
Hongliu Zeng and Mariana I. Olariu |
Wesley A. Brown, Lenora Perkins, and Kevin Stafford |
* Poster sessions began in 1988. Prior to 2000, the awards were presented as “GCAGS Best Poster Awards.” ** Presentation awards were not given for 2005 due to cancellation of the New Orleans GCAGS/GCSSEPM convention because of Hurricane Katrina. *** Presentation awards were not given for 2022 due due to convention moving from fall to spring. |