The Awards Ceremony is part of the Opening Session to be held in the Ulúa 3 Ballroom, 16:30–18:35 hrs, Sunday, October 16. It is intended recognize the 2010 Convention award winners and to honor selected individuals who through their works have made an important contribution to the GCAGS and the advancement of geosciences.

The 2011 Transactions will be dedicated in memory of Ernesto López-Ramos.

The Don R. Boyd Medal will be awarded to Ernest A. Mancini.

The 2010 Gordon I. Atwater Best Poster Awards will be presented to:

1st place: Mark Etienne, Carl Richter, and William Schramm for their poster, “Geoelectrical Imaging of a Hydrocarbon Plume at the Lookout Release Site, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.”

2nd place: Thomas Van Biersel for his poster, “Natural History, Geology, and the Civil War Battle Field at Port Hudson, Louisiana.”

3rd place: Tucker Hentz and Stephen Ruppel for their poster, “Regional Lithostratigraphy of the Eagle Ford Shale: Maverick Basin to East Texas Basin.”

The 2010 Thomas A. Philpott Excellence of Presentation Awards will be given to:

1st place: Charles Cusack, Jana Beeson, Dick Stoneburner, and Gregg Robertson for their paper “The Discovery, Reservoir Attributes, and Signifi cance of the Hawkville Field and Eagle Ford Shale Trend, Texas.”

2nd place: Eleanour Snow and Doug Ratcliff for their paper “GeoFORCE Texas: Six Years of Experience Turning Rural and Urban, Mostly-Minority High School Students into College Science Majors.”

3rd place: Robert G. Loucks, Robert M. Reed, Stephen C. Ruppel, and Ursula Hammes for their paper “Preliminary Classifi cation of Matrix Pores in Mudrocks.”

The 2010 Grover E. Murray Best Published Paper Awards will be presented to:

1st place (tie): Andrea D. Cicero, Ingo Steinhoff , Tony McClain, Kimberly A. Koepke, and Jim D. Dezelle for their paper, “Sequence Stratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic Mixed Carbonate/Siliciclastic Haynesville and Bossier Shale Depositional Systems in East Texas and North Louisiana.”

1st place (tie): David R. Spain and Glen A. Anderson for their paper, “Controls on Reservoir Quality and Productivity in the Haynesville Shale, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Basin.”

2nd place: Leonardo Macelloni, Simona Caruso, Laura Lapham, Carol Lutken, Charlotte Brunner, and Allen Lowrie for their paper, “Spatial Distribution of Seafl oor Biogeological and Geochemical Processes as Proxy to Evaluate Fluid-Flux Regime and Time Evolution of a Complex Carbonate/Hydrates Mound, Northern Gulf of Mexico.”

3rd place: Robert G. Loucks, Robert M. Reed, Stephen C. Ruppel, and Ursula Hammes for their paper, “Preliminary Classification of Matrix Pores in Mudrocks.”

The 2010 A. I. Levorsen Award will be presented to:

Robert G. Loucks, Robert M. Reed, Stephen C. Ruppel, and Ursula Hammes for their paper, “Preliminary Classification of Matrix Pores in Mudrocks.”

The 2011 AAPG Gulf Coast Section Imperial Barrel Award Winners:

1st place: The University of Texas, Austin*

2nd place: Louisiana State University

3rd place: University of Louisiana, Lafayette

*The University of Texas, Austin went on to win the 2011 Global IBA competition

The Distinguished Service Award will be presented to:

Danny Harrelson

The Outstanding Educator Award will be presented to:

Jaime Rueda-Gaxiola

The Special Commendation Award will be presented to:

José Carrillo-Bravo