Search and Discovery Award
The John W. Shelton Search and Discovery Award is given at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in recognition of the best contribution posted to the "Search and Discovery" in the previous calendar year.
2020
Advances and Perspectives on Stratigraphic Trap Exploration-Making the Subtle Trap Obvious, John Dolson, Zhiyong He, Brian W. Horn, #60054 (2018).
2019
Reservoir Characterization and 3D Modeling of Silurian Reef Slopes: Pipe Creek Jr. Quarry, Grant County, Indiana, G. Michael Grammar, Jim Karsten, Dennis Prezbindowski, Benjamin Dattilo, and Jonathan Havens, #51440 (2017).
2018
The Valuation of Unconformities, Andrew Miall, #70225 (2016).
2017
Record of Cretaceous through Paleogene Gulf of Mexico Drainage Integration from Detrital Zircons, Mike Blum, Kristy T. Milliken, John W. Snedden, William E. Galloway, #30422 (2015).
2016
Paleogeography and Paleotectonics of the Western Interior Seaway, Jurassic-Cretaceous of North America, Ronald C. Blakey, #30392 (2014).
2015
Structure and Petroleum Habitat of the Pay Khoy-Novaya Zemlya Foreland Fold Belt, Timan Pechora, Russia, Konstantin Sobornov, #10554 (2013).
2014
Eagle Ford Reservoir Characterization from Multisource Data Integration, N. Basu, G. Barzola, H. Bello, P. Clarke, and O. Viloria, #80234 (2012).
2013
Characterization of the Bakken System of the Williston Basin from Pores to Production; The Power of a Source Rock/Unconventional Reservoir Couplet, Anne Grau and Robert H. Sterling, #40847 (2010).
2012
Tracking the Migration of Salt Diapirs Using Halokinetic Sequence Stratigraphy, Katherine Giles, #40534 (2010).
2011
The Evolving Exploration of the Subsalt Play in the Offshore Gulf of Mexico, Dwight "Clint" Moore and Robert O. Brooks, #60021 (2009).
2010
Paul M. (Mitch) Harris received the inaugural (2008) Award for the outstanding contribution of 53 articles; e.g.,
Geologic Framework for the Tengiz and Korolev Fields, Kazakhstan — Carboniferous Isolated Carbonate Platforms, by Paul M. (Mitch) Harris, #20060 (2008).