H. Victor Church Memorial Award
2020-2021
No award given due to cancellation of convention
2019
Megan R. Mortimer-Lamb, Richard Behl, PhD
Quantitative Compositional Characterization of the Biosiliceous Miocene Lark Formation, Danish North Sea and Norwegian Margin
2018
Daniel E. Schwartz, PhD
Source-to-Sink Analysis of the Tributary System that fed the Mio-Pliocene Capistrano Formation Channel Complex at Dana Point Harbor, Orange County, CA
2017
Robert J. Gillis, David L. LePain, Trystan M. Herriot, Marwan A. Wartes PhD, Paul L. Decker, Diane P. Shellenbaum, Jeffrey A. Benowitz PhD, and Paul B. O’Sullivan PhD
Results of 1:63,360-scale geologic mapping and related field studies in the south-central Tyonek Quadrangle, Alaska: Late Paleocene?-middle Eocene transtension and post-Oligocene inversion on the northwest periphery of the Cook Inlet forearc basin
2016
Michael A. Thompson
Tectonic Evolution of the Palos Verdes Fault – Lasuen Knoll Segment, Offshore Southern California
2015
Matthew Van Grinsven, Kathleen M. Marsaglia
Evaluation of Calleguas Creek as a Source of Sand at ODP site 1015 on the Hueneme-Mugu Submarine Fan, Santa Monica Basin, CA
2014
Brian Gray, Nora Lewandowski, Hans Abramson Ward, Maria E. M. Arcos, William D. Page
Regional Stratigraphic Framework Along the Central California Shelf Margin for Assessment of Quaternary Activity on the Hosgri Fault Zone
2013
William A. Rouse, David W. Houseknecht, Ken J. Bird, Christopher P. Garrity
Regional Geologic Framework for Appraising Continuous Petroleum Resources in Source-Rock Systems of Arctic Alaska
2012
2011
2010
Meng He
One-Dimensional Burial History Model Sheds New Insights into the Petroleum Systems in the Vallecitos Area and Oil Field, San Joaquin Basin, California
2009
Holly Ryan, Jacob Covault, Homa Lee, Charles Paull, David Caress
Tectonic Influence on the Generation of Cyclic Steps by Turbidity Currents Offshore San Mateo Point, Southern California Borderland
2008
J. Paul Elliot, Dalton Lockman & Thomas Howard
Multiple Uses of Image Logs within the Los Angeles Basin, California
2007
No Recipient
2006
No Recipient
2005
Paul G. Gillis and Richard G Stanley
Evaluation of Petroleum Source Rocks from Yukon Flats, East-Central Alaska
2004
Jon R. Schwalbach, S. Gordon, C. O’Brien, B. Benmore & C. Huggins
Variation and Complexity: Monterey Formation Reservoirs of California
2003
Robert D. Francis, Mark Legg & Donald Hallinger
Segmentation in the Palos Verdes Fault, San Pedro Bay and Detachment Attenuation within the Inner Continental Borderland, Offshore Southern California
2002
Marwan A. Wartes & A.R. Carroll
Detailed Facies Analysis of the Lower Cretaceous Fortress Mountain Formation, Atigun Syncline, North Alaska
2001
Charles .M. Noyes, & Michael .P. Maley & Richard G. Blake
Definition of Hydrostratigraphic Units Within the Alluvial Sediments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2000
Michael S. Clark, Karla E. Tucker & Willaim C. Kempner
Sequence Stratigraphy and Trappin Mechanisms, Miocene Temblor Formation, Coalinga Field California
1999
Caroline M. Isaacs, Margaret A. Keller & Kenneth J. Bird
Potentially Hazardous Trace Elements in the Monterey Formation, California
1998
Steve Grayson
Advantages of “Real Time” LWD Dipmeter Data
