Supported by the SEPM Foundation, Inc.

Medals and awards will be presented to the awardees at the 2006 President's Reception and Awards Ceremony, during the SEPM Annual Meeting held in Houston, Texas on Tuesday, April 11, 2006.

• Twenhofel Medalist: William Hay
• Shepard Medalist: Michael Sarnthein
• Pettijohn Medalist: Daniel Bernoulli
• Moore Medalist: Allison Palmer
• James Lee Wilson Award: Gerilyn Soreghan
• Honorary Member: Gail Ashley
• Distinguished Service Award: Rod Tillman

2005 Excellence of Oral Presentation:
Robert W. Dalrymple and Donald I. Cummings; The Offshore Transport of Mud: Why It Doesn't Happen and the Stratigraphic Implications

2005 Excellence of Oral Presentation - Honorable Mention:
Ron Boyd and K. Ruming; High Resolution imaging of a continental margin sediment dispersal system

2005 Excellence of Poster Presentation:
J. Camillo Goyenche and R.M. Slatt; Outcrop Characterization, 3D Geological Modeling, "Reservoir" Simulation and Upscaling of Jackfork Group Turbidites in Hollywood Quarry, Arkansas

2005 Excellence of Poster Presentation - Honorable Mention:
Stephen M. Hubbard and Menno J. De Ruig; Deep-Water Axial Channel Deposition in Foreland Basins, Cretaceous Magallanes Basin, Chile and Oligo-Miocene Molasse Basin, Austria

2005 Excellence of Oral Presentation - Honorable Mention:
D.H. McNeil, J.R. Dietrich, D.R. Issler, L.D. Stasiuk, N. Wilson, and J. Dixon; Hydrocarbon-Related, Diagenetic Effects Preserved in Microfossils (Foraminifera) in a Gas Chimney Penetrated by the Immiugak A-06 Well, Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin

2004 Outstanding Paper in the Journal of Sedimentary Research:
Anita É. Csoma, Robert H. Goldstein, Andrea Mindszenty, and Lucia Simone, 2004, Diagenetic Salinity Cycles and Sea Level Along a Major Unconformity, Monte Composauro, Italy, JSR, v. 74: 889-903.

2004 Outstanding Paper in the Journal of Sedimentary Research - Honorable Mention:
P. Clari, S. Cavagna, L. Martire, and J. Hunziker, 2004, A Miocene mud volcano and its plumbing system revisited, JSR, v. 74: 662-676.

2004 Outstanding Paper in the Journal of Sedimentary Research - Honorable Mention:
Linda C. Ivany, Bruce H. Wilkinson, Kyger C. Lohmann, Emily R. Johnson, Brandon J. McElroy, and Gregory J. Cohen, 2004, Intra-annual isotopic variation in Venericardia bivalves: Implications for early Eocene temperature, seasonality, and salinity on the US Gulf Coast, JSR, v. 74: 7-19.

2004 Outstanding Paper in PALAIOS:
Thomas D. Olszewski, 2004, Modeling the Influence of Taphonomic Destruction, Reworking, and Burial on Time-Averaging in Fossil Accumulations, PALAIOS, v. 19: 39-50.

2004 Outstanding Paper in PALAIOS - Honorable Mention:Dianne Edwards and Lindsay Axe, 2004, Anatomical evidence in the detection of the earliest wildfires, PALAIOS, v. 19: 498-512.

2004 Outstanding Paper in PALAIOS - Honorable Mention:Robert Gastaldo, 2004, The relationship between bedform and log orientation in a Paleogene fluvial channel, Weißelster Basin, Germany: Implications for the use of coarse woody debris for paleocurrent analysis, PALAIOS, v. 19: 587-596

2004 Outstanding Paper in PALAIOS - Honorable Mention:Adolf Seilacher and Rolf B. Hauff, 2004, Constructional morphology of pelagic crinoids, PALAIOS, v. 19: 3-16.