Past Recipients of the Grover E. Murray Best Published Paper Awards

Year*	First Place	Second Place	Third Place
1970	W. W. Hay, S. W. Wise, Jr., and R. D. Stieglitz	J. B. Dunlap, Jr.	W. L. Fisher, C. V. Proctor, Jr, and W. E. Galloway
1971	R. W. Maxwell, Jr.	C.W. Poag	E. A. Shinn
1972	W. F. Tanner	A. E. Weidie, J. L. Wolleben, and E. F. McBride	P. A. Thayer and D. A. Textoris
1973	W. F. Tanner	R.J. Moiola and A.B. Spencer	P. A. Thayer and W. J. Cleary (tie); E. O’Donnell, and A. P. Wright (tie)
1974	G. M. Friedman	W. F. Tanner and C. R. Berquist	R. J. Moiola, D. Wiser, and A. B. Spencer
1975	J. L. Wilson and M. E. York	K. F. Wantland	W. C. Isphording
1976	C. J. Stuart and C. A. Caughney	R. R. Berg and R. R. Powell	C. W. Poag and P. C. Valentine
1977	C. D. Winker and J. D. Howard	W. C. Isphording and V. R. Baker	R. M. Looney
1978	A. Thomson	C. W. Poag	J. A. Schiebout
1979	L. C. Price, J. L. Clayton, and L. L. Rumen	C. W. Poag and R. C. Tresslar	R. E. Casey, L. W. Gust, R. A. Reynolds, D. H. Williams, L. W. Gust, R. A. Reynolds, D. H. Williams, A. Levesley, T. Duis, and J. M. Spaw
1980	A. W. Cleaves	I. L. Van Heerden and H. H. Roberts	T. A. Hansen
1992	E. G. Otvos and W. E. Howat	D. W. Harrelson and J. A. Saunders	W. T. Tanner
1993	R. L. Adams	S. Q. Breard, A. D. Callender, and M. J. Nault	E. C. McDade, R. Sassen, L. M. Wenger, and G. A. Cole
1994	M. D. Blum and D. M. Price	R. A. Eustice and L. S. Land	H. H. Roberts, A. Bailey, and G. J. Kuecher
1995	S. Q. Breard and G. L. Stringer	R. A. McBride and M. R. Byrnes	C. C. Smith
1996	S. Q. Breard, A. D. Callender, Jr., and M. J. Nault	Harry H. Roberts	P. Hansley
1997	Jeffrey S. Hanor	Boashun Fu and Paul Aharon	Paul N. Lawless, Richard H. Fillon, and Rome G. Lytton, III
1998	Jiafu Qi, Jack C. Pashin, and Richard H. Groshong, Jr.	Ralph A. Nolte and D. Joe Benson	Antonio B. Rodriguez, John B. Anderson, and John Bradford
1999	Ciaran J. O’Byrne, Joydeep K. Halder, Arthur E. Berman, Richard Klecker, and John Martinez	David Fugitt, Charles E. Stelting, William J. Schweller, James E. Florstedt, Gary J. Herricks, and Michael R. Wise	Hugh J. Mitchell-Tapping, Joel Bellucci, Graham Woody, and Thomas J. Lee
2000	Richard H. Fillon and Paul N. Lawless	H. E. Denman and J. A. Adamick	Marc B. Edwards
2001	Edward M. Norood and Lise Brinton	Ernest A. Mancini and William C. Parcell	Ezat Heydari and Roger N. Townsend
2002	Charles Kerans	Alton A. Brown	James C. Gibeaut, Roberto Gutierrez, and Tiffany L. Hepner
2003	Richard H. Fillon	W. Joe Lambert, Paul Aharon, and Antonio B. Rodriguez	Donald A. Goddard and Ronald K. Zimmerman
2004	Brian E. Lock, Ashley Walker Fife, and B. Elizabeth Anderson	David T. King, Jr., Kevin O. Pope, and Lucille W. Petruny	Alan Lowrie and Evgenii Koslov
2005	Robert Wellner, Rick Beaubouef, John Van Wagoner, Harry Roberts, and Tao Sun	William C. Dawson and William R. Almon	James M. Coleman, Oscar Huh, DeWitt Braud, Jr., and Harry Roberts
2006	Van S. Mount, Arnold Rodriguez, Ahmed Chaouche, Steven G. Crews, Peter Gamwell, and Patricia Montoya	Dengliang Gao (two papers)	Michael J. Quinn
2007	Lowell E. Waite, Robert W. Scott, and Charles Keran	Brian E. Lock, Fleur S. Bases, and Robert A. Glaser	Frank G. Cornish and Robert W. Parker
2008	Todd Greene, Rich Drumheller, Todd Butaud, Arnold Rodriguez, and Brian O’Neil	Linda McCall, James Sprinkle, and Ann Molineux	Shirley Wade
2009	Bryan P. Stephens	Minghua Ren, Robert Stern, Brian E. Lock, Randy Griffin, Elizabeth Y. Anthony, and Ian Norton	Robert A. Morton and Charles W. Holmes
2010	Andrea D. Cicero, Ingo Steinhoff, Tony McClain, Kimberly A. Koepke, and Jim D. Dezelle tie with David R. Spain and Glen A. Anderson	Leonardo Macelloni, Simona Caruso, Laura Lapham, Carol Lutken, Charlotte Brunner and Allen Lowrie	Robert G. Loucks, Robert M. Reed, Stephen C. Ruppel, and Ursula Hammes
2011	Erik A. Kneller and Christopher A. Johnson	Mark G. Rowan and Kerry F. Inman	Peter Birkle, Miguel Ángel Lozada Aguilar, Esteban Soriano Mercado, and José de Jesús Torres Villaseñor
2012	Jeffrey A. Nunn	Brian B. Hunt, Brian A. Smith, and Nico Hauwert	William A. Tedesco and R. P. Major
2013	Thomas E. Ewing	Malcolm B. Hart, Peter J. Harries & Andrés L. Cárdenas, David T. King, Jr. and Lucille W. Petruny	Brian E. Lock, Joseph W. Grimball and Jack G. Johnson
2014	Kathleen S. Haggar, Les R. Denham, and H. Roice Nelson, Jr.	C. Hans Nelson and John E. Damuth	Erik Scott and Wayne Abraham
2015	Kathleen S. Haggar, Les R. Denham, and Louis J. Berent	Elizabeth Ann Watkins, Julio Tamashiro, Mercelo Cristian, Torrez Canaviri, Nicolas Martin, Eldar Guliyev, Renato Leite, Nhom (Vince) Nguyen, Abayomi Aina, and Mauro R. Becker	Christopher D. Walker, Glen A. Anderson, Paul G. Belvedere, Alison T. Henning, Francis O. Rollins, Eric Soza, and Shalina Warrior
2016	Erik S. Heider and David T. King, Jr.	Douglas W. Haywick, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, and Richard Keyes	Brian B. Hunt, Alex S. Broun, Douglas A. Wierman, David A. Johns, and Brian A. Smith
2017	Scott W. Singleton	James J. Willis and William G. Bixler, III	David L. McCabe, Alan J. Katz, Arthur H. Thomson, and Robert W. England
2018	Anish Kumar, Josselin Kherroubi, Florent Bringer, George Richard Kear, Robert Laronga, and Juan Herrera	Nick B. Pollard and Nicole Elhaj	Thomas E. Ewing
2019	Kyle Reuber, Jim Pindell, Antara Goswami, Chuck Campbell, Andy Bliss, and Brian W. Horn	Christine Griffith, Michael Pope, Kyle Gillespie, Alexis Godet, and Daniel Minisini	John Bain, Jason Kegel, and Cian O’Reilly
2020	Indrajit Basu, Anish Kumar, and Elizabeth Ruiz	Christopher M. Smith and Michael P. Smith	Adewale Amosu, Mohamed Imsalem, and Yuefeng Sun -Honorable Mention- David T. King, Jr. and Lucille W. Petruny; Alex P. Blizzard and Julie M. Bloxson; and Ana Batista, Ken McCarley, and Ezat Heydari
2021	L. F. Baie, T. L. Uphoff, and R. N. Blackhall	Thomas E. Ewing	Mark E. Thompson
2022**	Not Awarded	Not Awarded	Not Awarded

* From 1981 to 1991, awards were only given for first place. Note: Prior to 2000 the awards were presented as “GCSSEPM Best Paper Awards.”

**No awards given due to the convention moving from fall to spring.

Past Recipients of the GCSSEPM Best Paper Award

Year*	Best Published Paper	Excellence of Presentation
1981†	T. A. Daws, A. V. Applegate, and J.C. Palacas	C. R. Handford
1982	J. Mazzullo	C. D. Winker
1983	E. C. Kosters and A. Bailey	D. B. Prior
1984	M. J. Ulrich, J. R. Kyle, and P. E. Price	M. Kontrovitz
1985	P. A. Thayer and H. H. Roberts	G. W. Fielder
1986	D. F. Williams and D. M. Trainor	R. R. Berg
1987	W. Isphording, D. Imsand, and G. Flowers	R. Lemoine (tie); E. McBride (tie)
1988	R. Boyd and S. Penland	E. McFarlan, Jr.
1989	R. Boyd, J. Suter, and S. Penland	H. H. Roberts
1990	G.C. Flowers and W. C. Isphording	J. A. Pacht
1991	B. E. Lock and C. E. Bishop	A. J. Pulham

* Before 1981 and since 1992, awards were given for first, second, and third place.
† Best Poster award to E. A. Mancini.
Note: After 1999, the awards were presented as the “Grover E. Murray Best Published Paper Awards.”