In a career spanning more than 4 decades, Douglas Burbank’s sustained and outstanding research contributions developed the field of quantitative tectonic geomorphology. Doug’s early-career work on glacial geomorphology and basin analysis positioned h...

As a prominent and broadly recognized Quaternary geologist, Yehouda Enzel’s expertise includes fluvial geomorphology, neotectonics, limnology, hydrology, sedimentology, and paleoclimatology. Linking these different fields of expertise is a basic conc...

Prof. Kelin Whipple is a remarkable scientist, mentor, and community builder who is an ideal recipient of the 2019 G. K. Gilbert Award in Surface Processes for his seminal studies on the role of fluvial incision as the key process linking climate, te...

Prof. Ellen Wohl fully represents all of the qualities of an inspiring and groundbreaking scientist and as such greatly deserves the 2018 G. K. Gilbert Award in Surface Processes. She has consistently and significantly advanced our understanding of p...

Given Grove Karl Gilbert’s legacy of high-caliber fieldwork, coupled to process-based studies, there can be few more deserving recipients of the G. K. Gilbert Award than Prof. Michael Church of the University of British Columbia. Primarily a fi...