The Medal of Merit has been awarded since 1952 and is the most prestigious and oldest technical award of the society. The medal is awarded annually for the best peer reviewed paper on a geological subject related to the petroleum geology or the geology of energy generation and extraction, of Canada. The stated objectives of the Medal of Merit Award are: to promote the preparation and publication of geological papers of high quality, to give honorable recognition to works of merit, and by means of suitable publicity, to bring the attention of the members and of the public to the activities of the geological petroleum profession by awarding the Medal of Merit annually for the best paper.
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Alexander D. Hutter Luke P. Beranek Read Award Citation
View Interview with Luke Beranek "Provenance of Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous synrift strata in the Terra Nova oil field, Jeanne d’Arc basin, offshore Newfoundland: A new detrital zircon U-Pb-Hf reference frame for the Atlantic Canadian margin" AAPG Bulletin, v. 104, no. 11 (November 2020), pp. 2325–2349
Past Recipients
2017 - Mark Barton 2016 - Denis Lavoie, Nicolas Pinet, Jim Dietrich, Zhuoheng Chen 2015 - Jen Russel-Houston and Ken Gray 2014 - Jennifer Adams, Steve Larter, Barry Bennett, Haiping Huang, Joseph Westrich, Cor van Kruijsdijk 2013 - Brett Miles, Ross Kukulski, M. Keegan Raines, John-Paul Zonneveld, Andrew Leier and Stephen Hubbard 2012 - Milovan Fustic, Barry Bennett, Jennifer Adams, Haiping Huang, Bill MacFarlane, Dale Leckie, & Steve Larter 2011 - Tim McCullagh and Bruce Hart 2010 - Jack Wendte, David Sargent, Alan Byrnes and Ihsan Al-Aasm
2009 - Daniel J.K. Ross and R. Marc Bustin 2008 - Bruce S. Hart, Bogdan L. Varban, Kurt J. Marfurt, A. Guy Plint 2007 - Graham R. Davies, Langhorne B. Smith Jr. 2006 - S. George Pemberton, Murray Gingras 2005 - Keith Shanley, Robert Cluff, John Robinson 2004 - Ron Boyd, Claus Diessel, Dale Leckie, Jennifer Wadsworth 2003 - Brian A. Zaitlin, Dan Potocki, Marian J. Warren, Lorne Rosenthal, and Ron Boyd 2002 - Kevin G. Root 2001 - Gregor P. Eberli, Peter W. Homewood, Eric W. Mountjoy, Frans S.P. Van Buchem, Michael T. Whalen 2000 - Owen A. Dixon, Tim de Frietas, Mark Mallamo, Hans P. Trettin
1999 - G. Klapper, Ross A. McLean 1998 - R.T. Brandley, Fed Krause 1997 - X.M. Marquez, Eric Mountjoy 1996 - Douglas Cant 1995 - Jeremy Hall, George Langdon 1994 - J.E. Amthor, Hans G. Machel, Eric W. Mountjoy 1993 - Dale R. Issler 1992 - J.A. Curiale 1991 - J. Allan, S. Creaney 1990 - John D. Dwyer, R.John Knight, H.W. Welsink
1989 - R.J. Hubbard 1988 - H.N. Collins, P. Rosemary French, Federico F. Krause, S.D. Machemer, D.A. Nelson 1987 - Dale A. Leckie 1986 - P. Craig Jackson 1985 - Wolfgang Kalkreuth, Margaret E. McMechan 1984 - R.D. Hyndman, C.J. Yorath 1983 - T.G. Powell, Lloyd R. Snowdon 1982 - Ian E. Hutcheon, Cynthia Nahnybida, A.E. Oldershaw 1981 - Frank A. Stoakes 1980 - Exploration Staff of Chevron Standard Limited
1979 - Norman C. Wardlaw, J.P. Cassan 1978 - L.W. Vigrass 1977 - Ashton F. Embry, J. Ed Klovan 1976 - C.R. Evans, D.K. McIvor, K. Magara 1975 - D.K. Norris 1974 - N.J. McMillan 1973 - S. Machielse 1972 - Cal R. Evans, M.A. Rogers, N.J.L. Bailey 1971 - Clinton D.A. Dahlstrom 1970 - W.R. Maiklem, D.G. Bebout, R. Perry Glaister
1969 - Norman R. Fischbuch 1968 - W.H. Poole 1967 - A.W. Bally, Peter L. Gordy , G.A. Stewart 1966 - J.William Kerr, R.L.Christie 1965 - J.Ed Klovan 1964 - N.W. Cowper, T.A. Oliver 1963 - D.E. Jackson, A.C. Lenz 1962 - Raymond Thorsteinsson, E.T. Tozer 1961 - R. Martin 1960 - F.G. Fox
1959 - John M. Andrichuk 1958 - G.S. Hume 1957 - D.C. Skeels 1956 - Andrew D. Baillie 1955 - F.K. North, G.G.L. Henderson 1954 - M.A. Reasoner, A.D. Hunt 1953 - R.A. Bishop 1952 - J.B. Webb
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