Past Recipients of the G.K. Gilbert Award for
Excellence in Geomorphic Research

2008:

• David Leigh, Pradeep Srivastava, and George Brook for "Late Pleistocene braided rivers of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA.." Quaternary Science Reviews 23 (1-2): 65-84. Citation by Frank Magilligan.

2007:

• Basil Gomez for "The potential rate of bed-load transport." Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of the USA 103 (46): 17170-17173. Citation by Frank Magilligan.

2006:

• William H. (Bill) Renwick (with Smith, Bartley, and Buddemeier) for "The role of impoundments in the sediment budget of the conterminous United States." Geomorphology 71: 99-111. Citation by W. Andrew Marcus and Jonathan D. Phillips.

2005:

• Mark Fonstad and Andrew Marcus for "Self-Organized Criticality in Riverbank Systems." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 93(2): 281-296. Citation by Dick Marston.

2004:

• Anne Chin for "The periodic nature of step-pool mountain streams." American Journal of Science 302: 144-167. Citation by Carol Harden.

2003:

• Ellen Wohl and Dave Merritt for "Bedrock channel morphology." Geological Society of America Bulletin 113(9): 1205-1212. Citation by Greg Springer and Andrew Wilcox.

2002:

• Michael C. Malin and Kenneth S. Edgett for "Evidence for recent groundwater seepage and surface runoff on Mars." Science 288: 2330-2335. Citation by Martin Doyle.

2001:

• Karl F. Nordstrom for Beaches and Dunes of Developed Coasts, Cambridge University Press (2000). Citation by Douglas Sherman.

2000:

• Ellen Wohl, Doug Thompson and Andy Miller for "Canyons with undulating walls." Geological Society of America Bulletin 111: 949-959. Citation by Frank Magilligan.

1999:

• T.R. Paton, G.S. Humphreys and P.B. Mitchell for Soils: A New Global View, Yale University Press (1995). Citation by Randy Schaetzl.

1998:

• David Butler for Zoogeomorphology: Animals as Geomorphic Agents. Cambridge University Press (1995). Citation by Richard A. Marston.

1997:

• Jonathan Phillips for "Deterministic Uncertainty in Landscapes." Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 19 (5): 389-401. Citation by Judy Haschenburger.

1996:

• James C. Knox for "Large increases in flood magnitudes in response to modest changes in climate." Nature 361: 430-432. Citation by Frank Magilligan.

1995:

• No award given

1994:

• Nelson Caine for "Sediment transfer on the floor of the Martinelli Snowpatch, Colorado Front Range." Geografiska Annaler. Series A, Physical Geography 74: 133-144. Citation by John Dixon.

1993

• William C. Mahaney for Ice on the Equator, Wm. Caxton Press (1990). Citation by Ron Dorn.

1992:

• Don Currey for "Quaternary palaeolakes in the evolution of semidesert basins, with special emphasis on Lake Bonneville and the Great Basin, U.S.A." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 76: 189-214.

1991:

• Alan Howard for "Theoretical Model of Optimal Drainage Networks." Water Resources Research 26(9): 2107-2117.

1990:

• Don Johnson and Donna Watson-Stegner for "Evolution model of pedogenesis." Soil Science 143: 349-366.

1989:

• No award given

1988:

• Ron Dorn for Studies of Alluvial Fans, Death Valley.

1987:

• Derek Ford for Studies in Karst Geomorphology and Quaternary Chronology, Castleguard.

1986:

• Karl Butzer for Archaeology as Human Ecology, Cambridge University Press (1982).

1985:

• Athol Abrahams for Studies of Channel Networks.

1984:

• Will Graf for Studies of Fluvial processes in the Southwestern U.S.

1983:

• J. Ross Mackay for Studies of Permafrost in the Mackenzie River Delta Area.