John Wesley Powell Award
The John Wesley Powell Award is a United States Geological Survey honor award that recognizes an individual or group, not employed by the U.S. federal government, for noteworthy contributions to the objectives and mission of the USGS.
The award is named for John Wesley Powell, the distinguished scientist and explorer who was the second director of the USGS, serving from 1881 to 1894, and who made the pioneer exploration of the Colorado River. The first award was given in 1971.
Awardees
1971- George R. Shanklin, retired Director of Division of Water Policy and Supply, State of New Jersey
- Raymond J. Heringer, Director of the work experience program at Ravenswood High School, East Palo Alto, California
- Wallace W. Hagan, Director and State Geologist, Kentucky Geological Survey
- C. R. Baskin, Chief Engineer, Texas Water Development Board
- L. J. Maher, Assistant Publisher, Huron Daily Plainsman, Huron, South Dakota
- David M. Evans, Geologic Engineer from Colorado School of Mines
- R. S. "Rock" Howard, Executive Secretary of Georgia Water Quality Control Board
- Susanne B. Wilson, Councilwoman of City of San Jose, California
- Dr. Clarence J. Velz, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan
- John P. Snyder, privately employed chemical engineer, Madison, New Jersey
- Professor Thomas H. Pigford, University of California
- Kazutaka Saiki
- S. L. Groff, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, Butte, Montana
- Abel Wolman, Emeritus Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland School of Engineering and School of Hygiene and Public Health
- Stephen E. Reynolds, New Mexico State Engineer
- Dr. Hugo F. Thomas, Director and State Geologist, Department of Environmental Protection, Hartford, Connecticut
- John McPhee
- Dr. Harold Moellering, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
- Dr. M. Gordon Wolman, Chairman, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
- Duane M. Hamann, San Miguel, California
- Genevieve Atwood, Director/State Geologist for Utah
- Walter S. Sullivan, Science Editor for The New York Times
- Glass Instruments, Inc.
- Michael T. Halbouty
- Dr. Lynn R. Sykes, Columbia University
- Paleontology Team, Unocal Corporation's North America Oil and Gas Division, Ventura, California
- A. Ivan Johnson
- Professor Carl Kisslinger, University of Colorado
- Ray A. Miller, Idaho State Mapping Advisory Committee and Idaho Geographic Information Advisory Committee
- Dr. James F. Pankow, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
- InterNetwork Inc.
- California Department of Transportation
- InterNetwork Inc.
- Susan Seacrest, President of the Groundwater Foundation
- William R. Walker, Virginia Water Resources Research Center and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Dr. Kenneth N. Weaver, Maryland Geological Survey
- Dr. George M. Hornberger, Department of Environmental Science, University of Virginia
- Alfred H. Vang, Deputy Director, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
- W. Jacquelyn Kious
- Nancy L. Parke
- Jack Dangermond, Environmental Systems Research Institute
- Tri-County Regional Planning Commission
- Dr. James Merchant, Associate Professor, University of Nebraska–Lincoln,
- James M. Harrison, Minnesota-Wisconsin Boundary Area Commission
- National Stone Association
- Lawrence E. Callender
- Dr. Samuel S. Adams
- Richard Burton, Monroe County Department of Health, Monroe County Environmental Health Lab
- Paul Deshler, Northern Arizona University
- Garruba, Dennis, Konetzka
- California Division of Mines and Geology, California Department of Conservation
- George A. Thompson, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University, Stanford, California
- Harlan Tucker, Executive Director, The Friends of the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Inc.
- Lloyd S. Cluff, Manager, Geosciences Department, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, San Francisco, California
- Susan Carson Lambert, Director, Kentucky Office of Geographic Information, Frankfort, Kentucky
- Dr. James N. Gray, Senior Researcher and Manager, Microsoft Bay Area Research Center, San Francisco, California
- Thomas D. Barclay, Lead Developer, Microsoft Bay Area Research Center, San Francisco, California
- Dr. Emery T. Cleaves, Director, Maryland Geological Survey, Baltimore, Maryland
- Robert Dean, Vantage Point Productions, LLC, Los Angeles, California
- Captain Edward K. Miller, Senior Pilot, Air Lines Pilots Association
- Dr. Paul "Ty" Ferre, Assistant Professor, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, Tucson, Arizona
- Dr. William J. Plant, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
- American Geological Institute, Government Affairs Program, Alexandria, Virginia
- Delaware Data Mapping and Integration Laboratory, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
- Dr. Gerald E. Galloway, Titan Corporation, Vice President, Enterprise Engineering Group, Reston, Virginia
- Dr. Dennis Helder, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota
- David Perlman, Science Editor, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California
- Ian Von Essen, Spokane County Information Systems, Spokane, Washington
- Dr. Keith C. Clarke, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Dr. William L. Graf, University of South Carolina
- Larry A. Larson, Association of State Floodplain Managers
- USGS Coalition,
- Dr. Samuel Goward, Department of Geography, University of Maryland
- Illinois Department of Natural Resources – Office of Water Resources
- Dr. Walter J. Arabasz of the University of Utah
- Loren L. Turner, P.E., of the
- Dr. Mary Skopec of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources
- Dr. James L. Smith of The Nature Conservancy
- Robert B. Smith of the University of Utah
- John Galetzka, TLALOCNet Project Manager of UNAVCO