National Ground Water Association

2012

2011 

2010

• Taylor Dahlke, Co-Past President Award Recipient, Walnut Creek, California, University of California, Berkeley, hydrogeology 
• Mitchell Olds, Co-Past President Award Recipient, Kimberly, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, hydrogeology
  
• Aana Taylor-Smith, Ora Lyons Award Recipient, Greensboro, North Carolina, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, environmental sciences 
• Alejandra Contreras Nava, Thornton, Colorado, Red Rocks Community College, environmental sciences
• Andrew Karleigh, West Bend, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, environmental sciences
• Audrey Mohr, New Ulm, Minnesota, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Hydrogeology
• David Aguinaga, Garland, Texas, University of Texas, Dallas, environmental sciences, geology, and hydrogeology
• Simarjit Chehal, Bakersfield, California, California State University, Bakersfield, environmental sciences and geology  
• Richard Gurevich, San Diego, California, Cuyamaca College, water/wastewater technology
• William Mackebee, Knoxville, Tennessee, Duke University, environmental sciences

2009

• Breana Hashman, Past President's Award, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Dickinson College, geology
• Matthew J. Palmer, Ora Lyons Award,  Fort Worth, Texas, Tarrant County College, hydrology
• Laura A. Hempel, Tallahassee, Florida, Dartmouth College, environmental science
• Peter J. Laciano, New Providence, New Jersey, Hamilton College, environmental science and geology
• David C. Mills, Janesville, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, eydrogeology
• Crystal L. Nickel, Lake Mills, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, eeology and hydrogeology
• Amber C. Rolader, Bostwick, Georgia, University of Georgia, environmental science
• Caroline L. Vallélian, Argyle, Texas, University of Arkansas, environmental science

2008

• Jennifer Teeple, Past President's Award, Toledo, Ohio, University of Toledo, environmental science and geology
• Jeanne Eckhart, Ora Lyons Award, Bandera, Texas, Texas A&M University, environmental geoscience
  Guleed Ahmed Hussein Ali, Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona, geology Jonathan Love, Petersburg, Illinois, Western Illinois University, geology (focus on hydrogeology) with a minor in natural resources and conservation
• Elliot Matthews, Easton, Kansas, Colorado School of Mines, geological engineering with an emphasis on hydrogeology

• Katherine Anarde, Past President's Award, Fowler, Colorado, University of Colorado at Boulder, environmental science
• Laura Valdmanis, Ora Lyons Award, Prior Lake, Minnesota, Hobart and William Smith College at Geneva, New York, environmental science
• Kaylee Kooiman, Eugene, Oregon, Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, computer science
• Dustin Hicks, Centralia, Washington, Montana Tech, Geological engineering
• Jean Luc Hebert, Abbeville, Louisiana, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, petroleum geology

2006

• Megan Kelleher, Past President's Award, Centereach, New York, Lehigh University, environmental engineering
• Melody Cornelius, Ora Lyons Award, Austin, Texas, University of Texas at Austin, hydrogeology
• Margaret Popek, Lancaster, New York, University of Rochester, geological sciences
• Ryan Cunico, Snellville, Georgia, Georgia Southern University, geology
• Michael Weaver, Madison, Alabama, University of Alabama, business management
• William Floyd, Spartanburg, South Carolina, Clemson University, mechanical engineering

2004

• Kathryn A. Milius, Past President's Award, Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, biological systems engineering
• Joel Canfield, Robert Farvolden Award, Fort Morgan, Colorado, Colorado State University, geology
• Kathleen Kelleher, Ora Lyons Award, Centerreach, New York, Cornell University, chemical engineering
  Nicholas Kyle Pendarvis, Columbia, Mississippi, Southwest Mississippi Community College, well drilling technology
• Jonathan Lee Brown, McComb, Mississippi, Southwest Mississippi Community College, well construction technology
• Cody Landon Cameron, Lumberton, Mississippi, Southwest Mississippi Community College, rotary drilling
• Jeremy Glenn Hamilton, Osceola, Iowa, Iowa State University, electrical engineering

2003

• Stacey Douglas, Past President's Award, Rathdrum, Idaho, University of Idaho, hydrogeology
• Sheena Lea Cunningham, Masonville, Iowa, Augustana College, premedicine
• Anna Booth, DeKalb, Illinois, Case Western Reserve University, biology and Spanish
• Kendra Coonse, Caldwell Idaho, Albertson College, biology and chemistry
• Leslie Rindfuss, Waterford, Pennsylvania, Mercyhurst College, business and chemistry
• Charles Jones, Oxford, Mississippi, Southwest Mississippi Community College, rotary drilling
• Paul Starnes, New Albany, Mississippi, Southwest Mississippi Community College, well construction technology

2002

• Rhett Higgins, Hodgenville Kentucky, Southwest Mississippi Community College, well drilling/marketing
• Kenneth Johnson, San Antonio, Texas, Texas A&M, architecture
• Elizabeth Jurshak, Murray, Iowa, Central Missouri State University, mathematics and economics