A. I. Levorsen Award

2020-2021

No award given due to cancellation of convention


2019

Lisa Alpert, T. Becker, M. S. Miller, and A. Allam

Mantle structure beneath the Alboran Sea from shear wave splitting


2018

Yannick Wirtz, Richard Behl, PhD

Why Structural and Stratigraphic Surface Observations in the Monterey and Sisquoc Formations, Southern Santa Maria Basin, CA are a Critical Element to better Understand the Quality and Style of Structures in the Subsurface


2017

Paul G. Lillis PhD, Michael D. Lewan, Richard G. Stanley, David L. LePain and Marwan A. Wartes PhD

Are Tertiary coals from central and southern Alaska sources for oil?


2016

Gregory Gordon

Miocene Paleogeography and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Ventura Basin


2015

Michael D.Henschel, Benjamin Deschamps, Shinya Sato, Gillian Robert

Long Term Operational Observation of Ground Deformation in the San Joaquin Valley


2014

Todd J. Greene, PhD

Fluvial Architectures of a Cascades-Sourced ‘Paleo-Sacramento River’ System within the Lower Tuscan Formation in the Northern Sacramento Valley, CA


2013

David W. Houseknecht, Ken J. Bird

Tectonic Influences on Thermal Maturation History of Arctic Alaska and the Canada Basin


2012


2011


2010

Grant Garven, Byeongiu Jung, & James R. Boles

A Geohydrodynamic Study of the Role of Faults on Petroleum Migration in the California Borderlands Basins.


2009

Timothy McHargue, Julian Clark, Morgan Sullivan, Michael Pyrcz, Andrea Fildani, Marjorie Levy, Henry Posamentier, Brian Romans, Jacob Covault

Allocyclicity of Sediment Volume and Composition Provide the Basis for a Predictive Model of Tuurbidite Channel Architectures


2008

Scott T. Hector, Mike Johns and Brian Cunningham

The Randolph Oil Zone, Semitropic Field, Kern County, CA: A Highly Bioturbated, High-Pressure, Low-Permeability Reservoir in the Lower Etchegoin.


2007

No Recipient


2006

No Recipient


2005

Jacob A. Covault, Stephen A. Graham & William R. Normack

Sea Level and Tectonic Controls on Late Quaternary Sedimentation in San Diego Through, Offshore, CA


2004

Michael S. Clark, D. Julander & T. Zalan

Reservoir Characterization of a Diatomite-Sandstone Reservoir Using Integrated Core and Log Analysis, Lost Hills Field, California


2003

Morgan D. Sullivan & K. Ehman

Fluvio-Deltaic Cyclicity, Ridge Basin, Southern California: Evidence for Kinematic Cyclostratigraphy


2002

Herbert W. Swan

Robust AVO Processing for Arctic Exploration


2001

Michael J. Richey

3-D Modeling and Depositional Reconstruction of a Multi-Staged Turbidite System Within a Structurally Complex Basin: The Republic Sandstone Member, San Joaquin Valley, California


2000

Dalton F. Lockman, Philip Cerveny, Dana Coffield, Russell Davies, Graham Dudley, Richard Fox, Rop Knipe, Robert Krantz, Stephen Lewis

Predicting Fault-Fluid Behavior and Reducing Development Risks in the Prudhoe Bay Field, Alaska


1999

Brian J. Casey

Occidental View of the Elk Hills Field, California


1998

Michael F. Ponek & A. G. Mathews

“The Big Banana” – Geologic Mapping and Thermal Recovery in a Vertical Reservoir, North Midway Field, California


1997

Joseph A. Nahama & Rod Nahama

Exploration and Development in the West Tracy Gas Field


1996

No Recipient

1995


Ronald. C. Crane

Geology of the Mount Diablo Region


1994

Michael D. Campbell & Walter E. Reed

The Western Transverse Ranges microplate as a Native Terrane


1993

Robert A. Horton, Jr.


1992

Donald A. Medwedeff, Joseph T.C. Lin, Timothy R. Carr & John M. Stafford


1991

John M. Lohmar & Scott R. Morgan


1990

No Recipient


1989

Donald D. Miller, Thomas E. Covington & John G. McPherson


1988

James C. Ingle, Jr.


1987

No Recipient


1986

R. E. Chamberlain & Victor M. Madrid


1985

Ronald C. Crane


1984

John N. Thomson, Richard G. Blake & Richard W. Boyd


1983

Richard P. Thomas


1982

Margaret A. Keller


1981

No Recipient


1980

Lee F. Krystinik


1979

C. Elizabeth Koch


1978

William R. Dickinson & Raymond V. Ingersoll


1977

David W. Scholl & Alan K. Cooper


1976

Donald L. Zieglar & John H. Spotts


1975

David R. Butler


1974

John A. Minch


1973

No Recipient


1972

M. Keith Scribner & Stanford Eschner


1971

No Recipient


1970

John Harbaugh


1969

Robert F. Dill


1968

David W. Scholl, David M. Hopkins, H. Gary Greene & Edwin E. Buffington