Kirk Bryan Award

The Kirk Bryan Award is the annual award of the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division of the Geological Society of America. It is named after Kirk Bryan, a pioneer in geomorphology of arid regions. The award was established 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

 * 2020 Martha Cary "Missy" Eppes and Russ Keanini
 * 2018 Karen B Gran, Noah Finnegan, Andrea L. Johnson, Patrick Belmont, Chad Wittkop
 * 2017 Les McFadden
 * 2016 Chris Goldfinger, C. Hans Nelson, Ann E. Morey, Joel E. Johnson, Jason R. Patton, Eugene Karabanov, Julia Gutiérrez-Pastor, Andrew T. Eriksson, Eulàlia Gràcia, Gita Dunhill, Randolph J. Enkin, Audrey Dallimore, and Tracy Vallier
 * 2015 Daniel Muhs, Kathleen Simmons, Randall Schumann, Lindsey Groves, Jerry Mitrovica, DeAnna Laurel
 * 2014 John C. Ridge, Greg Balco, Robert L. Bayless, Catherine C. Beck, Laura B. Carter, Jody L. Dean, Emily B. Voytek and Jeremy H. Wei
 * 2013 P.K. House, P.A. Pearthree, and M.E. Perkins
 * 2012 Neal R. Iverson, Thomas S. Hooyer, Jason F. Thomason, Matt Graesch, and Jacqueline R. Shumway
 * 2011 Robert C. Walter and Dorothy J. Merritts
 * 2010 Rolfe D. Mandel
 * 2009 Ellen Wohl
 * 2008 Jon J. Major
 * 2007 Marith Cady Reheis, A.M. Sarna-Wojcicki, R.L. Reynolds, C.A. Repenning, and M.D. Mifflin
 * 2006 David R. Montgomery
 * 2005 John C. Gosse and Fred M. Phillips
 * 2004 Stephen C. Porter
 * 2003 Michael R. Waters, and C. Vance Haynes
 * 2002 Frank J. Pazzaglia and Mark T. Brandon
 * 2001 Richard M. Iverson
 * 2000 Brian Atwater and Eileen Hemphill-Haley
 * 1999 William L. Graf
 * 1998 Vance T. Holliday
 * 1997 Grant A. Meyer, Stephen G. Wells, and A.J. Timothy Jull
 * 1996 Roger T. Saucier
 * 1995 James E. O'Connor
 * 1994 Arthur N. Palmer
 * 1993 William B. Bull
 * 1992 R. Dale Guthrie
 * 1991 Milan J. Pavich
 * 1990 Arthur S. Dyke and Victor K. Prest
 * 1989 Kevin M. Scott
 * 1988 Peter W. Birkeland
 * 1987 Richard B. Waitt
 * 1986 Ronald I. Dorn and Theodore M. Oberlander
 * 1985 No award given
 * 1984 Steven M. Colman
 * 1983 Leland H. Gile, John W. Hawley, Robert B. Grossman
 * 1982 Kenneth L. Pierce
 * 1981 J. Ross Mackay
 * 1980 James A. Clark, William E. Farrell, and W. Richard Peltier
 * 1979 Stanley A. Schumm
 * 1978 Richard L. Hay
 * 1977 Michael A. Church
 * 1976 Geoffrey S. Boulton
 * 1975 James B. Benedict
 * 1974 Robert V. Ruhe
 * 1973 John T. Andrews
 * 1972 Dwight R. Crandell
 * 1971 A. Lincoln Washburn
 * 1970 Harold E. Malde
 * 1969 Ronald L. Shreve
 * 1968 David M. Hopkins
 * 1967 Clyde A. Wahrhaftig
 * 1966 Charles S. Denny
 * 1965 Gerald M. Richmond
 * 1964 Robert P. Sharp
 * 1963 Arthur H. Lachenbruch
 * 1962 Anders Rapp
 * 1961 John T. Hack
 * 1960 John F. Nye
 * 1959 Jack L. Hough
 * 1958 Luna B. Leopold and Thomas J. Maddock Jr.