Supported by the SEPM Foundation, Inc.

Medals and awards will be presented to the awardees at the 2008 President's Reception and Awards Ceremony, during the SEPM Annual Meeting held in San Antonio, Texas on Tuesday, April 22, 2008.

• Twenhofel Medalist: Steve Stanley
• Shepard Medalist: Chuck Nittrouer
• Pettijohn Medalist: Henry Posamentier
• Moore Medalist: Richard Fortey
• James Lee Wilson Award: Timothy Naish
• Honorary Member: Brian O'Neill
• Distinguished Service Award: Antonius (Tom) Van Loon, Robert Gastaldo, and Charles Svarda

2007 Excellence of Oral Presentation (Co-Awardees):
Ron Boyd and Kevin Ruming, Dynamics of Downslope Sand Transport Sourced from Estuarine Density Flows

Jürgen Schieber, J. B. Southard, and K. G. Thaisen, The Sedimentology of Milk - Studying Deposition and Transport Modes of Moving Clay Suspensions

2007 Excellence of Poster Presentation (Co-Awardees):
Chris Kendall, Gene Shinn, and Xavier Janson, Holocene Cyanobacterial Mats and Lime Muds: Links to Middle East Carbonate Source Rock Potential

Wayne Wright, Paleogeography and Depositional Geometries of the Pennsylvanian/Upper Carboniferous Succession of the Greater Permian Basin Region, Texas and New Mexico

2007 Excellence of Poster Presentation - Honorable Mentions
Gary Gianniny and K. L. Miskell-Gerhards, Progradational Sequence Sets on the Tectonically Active Eastern Margin of the Pennsylvanian Paradox Basin, Colorado and Utah

John Counts and Steve Hasiotis, Neoichnologic Experiments with Modern Scarabaied Beetle Larvae: Implications for Backfilled Trace Fossils in Permian Continental Deposits, Hugoton Gas Field, Western Kansas

2006 Outstanding Paper in Journal of Sedimentary Research
S. Tyrrell, P.D.W. Haughton, J.S. Daly, T.F. Kokfelt and D. Gagnevin, The Use of the Common Pb Isotope Composition of Detrital K-Feldspar Grains as a Provenance Tool and Its Application to Upper Carboniferous Paleodrainage, Northern England, JSR, Vol 76 Iss 2, pgs. 324-345.

2006 Outstanding Paper in Journal of Sedimentary Research - Honorable Mentions
Peter M. Burgess, The Signal and the Noise: Forward Modeling of Allocyclic and Autocyclic Processes Influencing Peritidal Carbonate Stacking Patterns, JSR, Vol 76 Iss 7, pgs. 962-977.

Szczepan J. Porebski and Ronald J. Steel, Deltas and Sea-Level Change, JSR, Vol 76 Iss 3, pgs. 390-340.

2006 Outstanding Paper in PALAIOS
Adam Tomasovych, Brachiopod and bivalve ecology in the Late Triassic (Alps, Austria): Onshore-offshore replacements caused by variations in sediment and nutrient supply, PAL, Vol 21 Iss 4, pgs. 344-368.

2006 Outstanding Paper in PALAIOS - Honorable Mentions

Jonathan L. Payne, Daniel J. Lehrmann, Jiayong Wei, and Andrew H. Knoll, The Pattern and Timing of Biotic Recovery from the End-Permian Extinction on the Great Bank of Guizhou, Guizhou Province, China, PAL, Vol 21 Iss 1, pgs. 63-85.

Alexander P. Wolfe, Mark B. Edlund, Arthur R. Sweet and Steven D. Creighton, A first account of organelle preservation in Eocene nonmarine diatoms: Observations and paleobiological implications, PAL, Vol 21 Iss 3, pgs. 298-304.