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G.K. Gilbert Award in Surface Processes
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2023 RECIPIENT
Douglas W Burbank

In a career spanning more than 4 decades, Douglas Burbank’s sustained and outstanding research contributions developed the field of quantitative tectonic geomorphology. Doug’s early-career work on glacial Read Complete Citation

2022 RECIPIENT
Yehouda Enzel
As a prominent and broadly recognized Quaternary geologist, Yehouda Enzel’s expertise includes fluvial geomorphology, neotectonics, limnology, hydrology, sedimentology, and paleoclimatology. Linking these different fields of expertise is a basic conc...
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2021 RECIPIENT
David C Mohrig
2020 RECIPIENT
Suzanne P Anderson
2019 RECIPIENT
Kelin X Whipple

Prof. Kelin Whipple is a remarkable scientist, mentor, and community builder who is an ideal recipient of the 2019 G. K. Gilbert Award in Surface Processes for his seminal studies on the role of fluvial incision as the key process linking climate,...

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2018 RECIPIENT
Ellen Wohl

Prof. Ellen Wohl fully represents all of the qualities of an inspiring and groundbreaking scientist and as such greatly deserves the 2018 G. K. Gilbert Award in Surface Processes. She has consistently and significantly advanced our understanding o...

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2017 RECIPIENT
Michael A Church

Given Grove Karl Gilbert’s legacy of high-caliber fieldwork, coupled to process-based studies, there can be few more deserving recipients of the G. K. Gilbert Award than Prof. Michael Church of the University of British Columbia. Primarily a...

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2016 RECIPIENT
Chris Paola

Prof. Chris Paola merits the G. K. Gilbert Award for his leadership in shepherding a generation of Earth surface process researchers through the maze of complexity, to the beauty of insight via first-order simplification. Prof. Paola is

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