The Kirk Bryan Award is the annual award of the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division of the Geological Society of America

Geological Society of America

The Geological Society of America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of the geosciences. The society was founded in New York in 1888 by Alexander Winchell, John J. Stevenson, Charles H. Hitchcock, John R. Proctor and Edward Orton and has been headquartered at 3300 Penrose...

. It is named after Kirk Bryan a pioneer in geomorphology

Geomorphology

Geomorphology is the scientific study of landforms and the processes that shape them...

 of arid regions. The award was establish in 1951 and is bestowed upon the author or authors of a published paper of distinction advancing the science of geomorphology or some related field.

List of Recipients

• 1958 Luna B. Leopold
  Luna Leopold
  Luna Bergere Leopold was a leading U.S. geomorphologist and hydrologist, and son of Aldo Leopold. He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1936; an M.S. in Physics-Meteorology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1944; and a Ph.D...
  
   and Thomas J. Maddock, Jr.
• 1959 Jack L. Hough
• 1960 John F. Nye
• 1961 John T. Hack
• 1962 Anders Rapp
  Anders Rapp
  Anders Rapp was a Swedish geomorphologist and geographer who first made a comprehensive study on avalanche boulder tongues. Most of Rapp's works were made in the Scandinavian mountains and Spitsbergen including the areas of Kärkevagge near Abisko and Kebnekaise.Studying under Filip Hjulström, Rapp...
  
  
• 1963 Arthur H. Lachenbruch
• 1964 Robert P. Sharp
• 1965 Gerald M. Richmond
• 1966 Charles S. Denny
• 1967 Clyde A. Wahrhaftig
• 1968 David M. Hopkins
• 1969 Ronald L. Shreve
• 1970 Harold E. Malde
• 1971 A. Lincoln Washburn
• 1972 Dwight R. Crandell
  Dwight Crandell
  Dwight R. "Rocky" Crandell was an American volcanologist who alongside Donal R. Mullineaux correctly predicted that Mount St. Helens would erupt before the end of the 20th century....
  
  
• 1973 John T. Andrews
• 1974 Robert V. Ruhe
• 1975 James B. Benedict
• 1976 Geoffrey S. Boulton
• 1977 Michael A. Church
• 1978 Richard L. Hay
• 1979 Stanley A. Schumm
• 1980 James A. Clark, William E. Farrell, and W. Richard Peltier
• 1981 J. Ross Mackay
  J. Ross Mackay
  John Ross Mackay, OC, FRSC is an award winning Canadian geologist. He is most noted for his explorations of permafrost phenomena in the western Canadian Arctic...
  
  
• 1982 Kenneth L. Pierce
• 1983 Leland H. Gile, John W. Hawley, Robert B. Grossman
• 1984 Steven M. Colman
• 1985 No award given
• 1986 Ronald I. Dorn and Theodore M. Oberlander
• 1987 Richard B. Waitt
• 1988 Peter W. Birkeland
• 1989 Kevin M. Scott
• 1990 Arthur S. Dyke and Victor K. Prest
• 1991 Milan J. Pavich
• 1992 R. Dale Guthrie
• 1993 William B. Bull
• 1994 Arthur N. Palmer
• 1995 James E. O'Connor
• 1996 Roger T. Saucier
• 1997 Grant A. Meyer, Stephen G. Wells, and A.J. Timothy Jull
• 1998 Vance T. Holliday
• 1999 William L. Graf
• 2000 Brian R. Atwater and Eileen Hemphill-Haley
• 2001 Richard M. Iverson
• 2002 Frank J. Pazzaglia and Mark T. Brandon
• 2003 Michael R. Waters, and C. Vance Haynes
• 2004 Stephen C. Porter
• 2005 John C. Gosse
  John Gosse
  John C. Gosse of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia is internationally known for his research in the field of geomorphology , and is recognized as a world leader in investigating the rate of landscape evolution via the use of cosmogenic isotopes.In 1989, Gosse received his Bachelor's...
  
   and Fred M. Phillips
• 2006 David R. Montgomery
  David R. Montgomery
  David R. Montgomery is a Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he leads the Geomorphological Research Group and is a member of the Quaternary Research Center....
  
  
• 2007 Marith Cady Reheis, A.M. Sarna-Wojcicki, R.L. Reynolds, C.A. Repenning
  Charles Repenning
  Charles Repenning was an American paleontologist and zoologist noted for his work on shrews, fossil rodents, modern pinnipeds and their extinct relatives, the Desmostylia...
  
  , and M.D. Mifflin
• 2008 Jon J. Major
• 2009 Ellen Wohl