Coastal & Marine Specialty Group
Student Paper Merit Award
Past Winners
2008
Undergraduate/Masters Student
Laura Merner, Clark University.
Assessing Drivers of Bald-Cypress Mortality in Forested Wetlands of Louisiana
PhD Student
Christopher Brehme, University of Buffalo.
Biology, Boats, and Boundaries: predicting potential overlap of whales, lobster fishing
gear and regulatory lines
2007
Dilumie Saumedaka Abeysirigunawardena, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, BC.
Atmospheric and sea level responses to climate variability and associated impacts on a low lying coastal system in Northern British Columbia
Honorable Mention
Jed Roberts, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State University.
Morphological interpretation of seamounts in American Samoa.
2006
Michael C. A. Bitton, Jennifer Booth, Yuanda Zhu, and Brandon Edwards, Department of Geography, Louisiana State University.
Interpolating surface moisture variations on a fine grained beach, Padre Island National Seashore, Texas.
2005
Joanna Wolaver, Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin. Competing for water: challenges and strategies for maintaining freshwater inflow into Texas coastal reserves.
2004
Arielle Levine, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, CA. A Comparative Analysis of Community-Based Marine Protected Area Programs in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
2003
- Best paper on human interactions with the coastal or marine environment: Christian Patrick Heidkamp,
Department of Geography, University of Connecticutt, Storrs-Mansfield, CT. Capital, Gentrification, and Social Change on the Waterfront.
- Best paper on physical processes in a coastal or marine environment: Andreas Baas, Department of Geography, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, CA, Formation and behavior of aeolian streamers
2002
- Best oral paper: Jim McDermott, Department of Geography, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. Sediment-Level Oscillations in the Swash Zone.
- Best illustrated paper: Beth Watson, Department of Geography,
UC/Berkeley, CA. Environmental History of a Holocene Tidal Salt Marsh near San Jose, CA.
2001
Jennifer Brewer, Department of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA. Lines in the Water: Limits, Bounds, and Spatial Strategies in the Maine Lobster Fishery.
2000
Kamron Michele Barron, Department of Geography, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, CA. Inland sand entrapment in Los Angeles County that may decrease beach sand
resources.
1999
Jeffery R. Baldwin, Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
Tourism, development, and environmental alteration in Antigua, West Indies: Wetlands
reclamation and changing views of coastal ecologies.
1998
- Best paper on human interactions with the coastal or marine environment: Michael Craghan,
Department of Geography, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Geomorphically Immaterial -Estuarine Flooding in Built Areas.
- Best paper on physical processes in a coastal or marine environment: Steven Namikas, Department of Geography, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, CA, A Field Investigation of Aeolian Saltation
1997
Jianchun Yi, Department of Geography, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
Event-based estimates of shear velocity in unsteady aeolian systems
1996
Eugene Farrell, Department of Geography, USC. The relationship between mean grain
size and foreshore slope, Derrymore Spit, Ireland
1995
Jennifer L. Rahn, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
Coastal sediments on Saba, Netherlands Antilles: A pilot study
1994
- Best paper on human interactions with the coastal or marine environment:
Paul Box, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Computer simulation and
recreational boat traffic monitoring strategies for Serosity Bay, Florida
- Best paper on physical processes in a coastal or marine environment:
Christopher Meindl, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Tampa, Florida
and the storm of the century.