Meinzer Award

The O.E. Meinzer Award is the annual award of the Hydrogeology Division of the Geological Society of America. Established in 1965, it is named after Oscar Edward Meinzer who has been called the "father of modern groundwater hydrology". The Meinzer award recognizes the author or authors of a publication or body of publications that have significantly advanced the science of hydrogeology or a closely related field.

List of Recipients
Starting in 1973, the list of recipients is available from the National Ground Water Association website.


 * 1965	Tóth, József
 * 1966	McGuinness, C. L.
 * 1967	Stallman, Robert W.
 * 1968	Hantush, Mahdi S.
 * 1969	Cooper, Hilton H., Jr.
 * 1970	Stringfield, Victor T.
 * 1971	Maxey, George B.
 * 1972	Poland, Joseph F. and Davis, George H.
 * 1973	Back, William and Hanshaw, Bruce B.
 * 1974	Freeze, R. Allan
 * 1975	Bredehoeft, John D. and Pinder, George F.
 * 1976	Neuman, Shlomo P. and Witherspoon, Paul A.
 * 1977	Rubin, Jacob and James, Ronald V.
 * 1978	Nelson, William R.
 * 1979	Sharp, John. M., Jr., and Domenico, P. A.
 * 1980	Cooley, Richard. L.
 * 1981	Bennett, Gordon D.
 * 1983	Weeks, Edwin P.
 * 1984	Schwartz, Franklin W. and Smith, Leslie. J.
 * 1985	Cherry, John A.
 * 1986	Narasimhan, T. N.
 * 1987	Gelhar, Lynn W.
 * 1988	Winograd, Isaac J.
 * 1989	Davis, Stanley N.
 * 1990	Hem, John D.
 * 1991	Neuzil, Christopher E.
 * 1992	Bethke, Craig M.
 * 1993	Plummer, L. Niel
 * 1994	Gorelick, Steven M.
 * 1995	Garven, Grant
 * 1996	Wilson, John L.
 * 1997	Konikow, Leonard F.
 * 1998	Mary P. Anderson
 * 1999	Sudicky, Edward A.
 * 2000	Chapelle, Francis H.
 * 2001	Philips, Fred M.
 * 2002	Winter, Thomas C.
 * 2003	Ingebritsen, Steven E.
 * 2004	de Marsily, Ghislain
 * 2005	Siegel, Donald I.
 * 2006	Pruess, Karsten
 * 2007	Frape, Shaun
 * 2008	Thorstenson, Donald C.
 * 2009  Edmunds, W. Mike
 * 2010  Baedecker, Mary Jo
 * 2011  Fogg, Graham E.
 * 2012  Parkhurst, David L.
 * 2013  Zheng, Chunmiao
 * 2014  Harvey, Charles F.
 * 2015  Berkowitz, Brian
 * 2016  Andrew T. Fisher
 * 2017  Donald O. Rosenberry
 * 2018  Shemin Ge
 * 2019  Bridget R. Scanlon
 * 2020  William W. Woessner
 * 2021  Mark Person
 * 2022  Parker, Beth
 * 2023  Jiao, Jimmy J. J.