The Kirk Bryan Award is the annual award of the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division of the
Geological Society of America
The Geological Society of America (GSA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences.
History
The society was founded in Ithaca, New York, in 1888 by Alexander Winchell, John J. Stevenson, Charles H. Hitchco ...
. It is named after
Kirk Bryan a pioneer in
geomorphology
Geomorphology (from Ancient Greek: , ', "earth"; , ', "form"; and , ', "study") is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of topographic and bathymetric features created by physical, chemical or biological processes operating at or n ...
of arid regions. The award was established in 1951 and is bestowed upon the author or authors of a published paper of distinction advancing the science of geomorphology or some related field.
List of Recipients
*2020 Martha Cary "Missy" Eppes and Russ Keanini
*2018 Karen B Gran, Noah Finnegan, Andrea L. Johnson, Patrick Belmont, Chad Wittkop
*2017 Les McFadden
*2016 Chris Goldfinger, C. Hans Nelson, Ann E. Morey, Joel E. Johnson, Jason R. Patton, Eugene Karabanov, Julia Gutiérrez-Pastor, Andrew T. Eriksson, Eulàlia Gràcia, Gita Dunhill, Randolph J. Enkin, Audrey Dallimore, and Tracy Vallier
*2015 Daniel Muhs, Kathleen Simmons, Randall Schumann, Lindsey Groves, Jerry Mitrovica, DeAnna Laurel
*2014 John C. Ridge, Greg Balco, Robert L. Bayless, Catherine C. Beck, Laura B. Carter, Jody L. Dean, Emily B. Voytek and Jeremy H. Wei
*2013 P.K. House, P.A. Pearthree, and M.E. Perkins
*2012 Neal R. Iverson, Thomas S. Hooyer, Jason F. Thomason, Matt Graesch, and Jacqueline R. Shumway
*2011 Robert C. Walter and Dorothy J. Merritts
*2010
Rolfe D. Mandel Rolfe D. Mandel (born August 25, 1952) is a Distinguished Professor of archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kansas as well as Senior Scientist and Executive Director of the Odyssey Geoarchaeological Research Program at ...
*2009 Ellen Wohl
*2008 Jon J. Major
*2007 Marith Cady Reheis, A.M. Sarna-Wojcicki, R.L. Reynolds,
C.A. Repenning, and M.D. Mifflin
*2006
David R. Montgomery
David R. Montgomery is a Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he is a member of the Quaternary Research Center.
Montgomery received his B.S. in geology from Stanford University in 1984, and his ...
*2005
John C. Gosse and Fred M. Phillips
*2004 Stephen C. Porter
*2003 Michael R. Waters, and C. Vance Haynes
*2002 Frank J. Pazzaglia and Mark T. Brandon
*2001 Richard M. Iverson
*2000
Brian Atwater
Brian Franklin Atwater (born September 18, 1951) is a geologist who works for the United States Geological Survey and is also a research professor at the University of Washington.
Career
Atwater has spent much of his career studying the likelihood ...
and Eileen Hemphill-Haley
*1999 William L. Graf
*1998 Vance T. Holliday
*1997 Grant A. Meyer, Stephen G. Wells, and
A.J. Timothy Jull
*1996 Roger T. Saucier
*1995 James E. O'Connor
*1994 Arthur N. Palmer
*1993 William B. Bull
*1992 R. Dale Guthrie
*1991 Milan J. Pavich
*1990 Arthur S. Dyke and Victor K. Prest
*1989 Kevin M. Scott
*1988 Peter W. Birkeland
*1987 Richard B. Waitt
*1986 Ronald I. Dorn and Theodore M. Oberlander
*1985 No award given
*1984 Steven M. Colman
*1983 Leland H. Gile, John W. Hawley, Robert B. Grossman
*1982 Kenneth L. Pierce
*1981
J. Ross Mackay
John Ross Mackay, (偕約翰, December 31, 1915 – October 28, 2014) was a Canadian geographer. He is most noted for his explorations of permafrost phenomena in the western Canadian Arctic. His 40 plus years of study has enabled the building of ...
*1980 James A. Clark, William E. Farrell, and
W. Richard Peltier
*1979 Stanley A. Schumm
*1978
Richard L. Hay
*1977 Michael A. Church
*1976 Geoffrey S. Boulton
*1975 James B. Benedict
*1974 Robert V. Ruhe
*1973
John T. Andrews
*1972
Dwight R. Crandell
*1971
A. Lincoln Washburn
*1970 Harold E. Malde
*1969 Ronald L. Shreve
*1968 David M. Hopkins
*1967
Clyde A. Wahrhaftig
*1966 Charles S. Denny
*1965 Gerald M. Richmond
*1964
Robert P. Sharp
*1963 Arthur H. Lachenbruch
*1962
Anders Rapp
Anders Rapp (1927–1998) was a Swedish geomorphologist and geographer who pioneered quantitative geomorphological approach on mass movements and erosion. He was the first to make a comprehensive study on avalanche boulder tongues. Most of Rapp's ...
*1961
John T. Hack
*1960
John F. Nye
*1959 Jack L. Hough
*1958
Luna B. Leopold
Luna Bergere Leopold (October 8, 1915 – February 23, 2006) was a leading U.S. geomorphologist and hydrologist, and son of Aldo Leopold. He received a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1936; an M.S. in physics-meteor ...
and Thomas J. Maddock, Jr.
See also
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List of geology awards
This list of geology awards is an index to articles on notable awards for geology, an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Geology can also include the ...
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Prizes named after people
References
#http://rock.geosociety.org/qgg/
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