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