At the American Association of Geographers 2019 Annual Meeting held in Washington D.C., the Geomorphology Specialty Group was pleased to announce the following awards:
G.K. Gilbert Award for Excellence in Geomorphological Research
- Douglas J. Faulkner, Phillip H. Larson, Harry M. Jol, Garry L. Running, Henry M. Loope, and Ronald J. Goble for “Autogenic incision and terrace formation resulting from abrupt late-glacial base-level fall, lower Chippewa River, Wisconsin, USA,” Geomorphology, 266, 7-95, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.04.016. Citation by Donald Friend.
Mel Marcus Distinguished Career Award
- Dr. Heather Viles – University of Oxford
Reds Wolman Student Research Awards
- Ph.D. – Greta Wells (University of Texas): Reconstructing Holocene jökulhlaups along the Hvítá River and Gullfoss Waterfall, Iceland
- M.S. – Jordan Fields (Dartmouth College): River recovery and channel reach evolution following dam removal in a small upland channel
Graduate Student Paper Awards
- Ph.D. – Cesar Castillo (Texas A&M University): Channel-floodplain connectivity within a coastal riverine landscape of Texas
- M.S. – Miranda Jordan (Missouri State University): Watershed disturbance history as interpreted through floodplain core analysis, Big River Watershed, Ozark Highlands, Missouri
Undergraduate Poster Award
- Andrew Vanderheiden, Nicole Hernandez, Haoyan Chen, Billy Hales, and Cesar Castillo (Texas A&M University): Comparison of geomorphometric approaches for extracting channel dimensions of meandering rivers
