AESE Award for Outstanding Publication

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2017     PRINT: A walking guide to the history & features of Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois, Illinois State Geological Survey, with the Chicago Park District; MAP/POSTER: Geologic map of Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado, United States Geological Survey—Richard F. Madole, author, scientist emeritus; Carol Quesenberry, design coordinator; D. Paco VanSistine, author, geographer; Lisa J. Binder, technical editor
2016     The encyclopedia of volcanoes (2d ed.), edited by Haraldur Sigurdsson
2015     Four billion years and counting : Canada's geological heritage by the Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences
2014     Ohio's geology in core and outcrop : a field guide for citizens and environmental and geotechnical investigators by Gregory A. Schumacher, Brian E. Mott, and Michael P. Angle; The Novarupta-Katmai eruption of 1912 largest eruption of the twentieth century : centennial perspectives by Wes Hildreth and Judy Fierstein
2013     United States-Mexican borderlands : facing tomorrow's challenges through USGS science, edited by Randall G. Updike, Eugene G. Ellis, William R. Page, Melanie J. Parker, Jay B. Hestbeck, and William F. Horak; honorable mention: Best practices for validating CO2 geological storage : observations and guidance from the IEAGHG Weyburn-Midale CO2 monitoring and storage project by Brian Hitchon
POSTER/MAP: A walking guide to the history and features of Burnham Park, Chicago, Illinois by Cheryl K. Nimz, Michael J. Chrzastowski, Cynthia A. Briedis, Julia S. Bachrach, and C. Brian Trask
2012     Geology of Illinois, edited by Dennis R. Kolata and Cheryl K. Nimz
2011     Eruptions of Hawaiian : volcanoes past, present, and future by Robert I. Tilling, Christina Heliker, and Donald A. Swanson
MAP OR POSTER: Geological map of Lassen Volcanic National Park and vicinity, California by Michael A. Clynne and L. J. Patrick Muffler
2009     The coral reef of South Moloka'i, Hawai'i : portrait of a sediment-threatened fringing reef, edited by M. E. Field, S. A. Cochran, J. B. Logan, and C. D. Storlazzi
MAP OR POSTER: Geologic map of Mount Mazama and Crater Lake Caldera, Oregon by Charles R. Bacon; honorable mention: Geology of the Southern Appalachian Mountains by Sandra H. B. Clark
2008     Protecting your family from earthquakes — The seven steps to earthquake safety, 2007, General Information Product 41 (English and Spanish) and General Information Product 42 (English, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean), published in two versions by the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Team, USGS Menlo Park Publishing Service Center, Menlo Park, California; honorable mention: Maine's fossil record : the Paleozoic, 2007, by Lisa Churchill-Dickson, published by the Maine Geological Survey Department of Conservation, Augusta, Maine; MAP/POSTER: Geologic map of the Central San Juan Caldera Cluster, Southwestern Colorado, 2006, by Peter Lipman, Geological Investigations Series I-2799, published by the U.S. Geological Survey Volcano Hazards Team, USGS Menlo Park Publishing Service Center, Menlo Park, California; ELECTRONIC: Bedrock geologic map of Ohio, 2007, compiled by Ernie R. Slucher, E. M. Swinford, G. A. Schumacher, D. L. Shrake, C. L. Rice, M. R. Caudill, and R. G. Rea, with GIS production and cartography by D. M. Powers, Map BG-1 on CD-ROM, published by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological Survey, Columbus, Ohio.
2007     Alberta beneath our feet : the story of our rocks and fossils, edited by Brian Hitchon, published by Geoscience Publishing, Alberta, Canada; MAP OR POSTER: Geologic map of the San Francisco Bay Region by R. W. Graymer, B. C. Moring, G. J. Saucedo, C. M. Wentworth, E. E. Braab, and K. I. Knudsen, and Map of Quaternary-active faults in the San Francisco Bay Region, 2006, by R. W. Graymer, W. Bryant, C. A. McCabe, S. Hecker, and C. S. Prentice, published by the U.S. Geological Survey and the California Geological Survey, USGS Scientific Investigations Maps 2918 and 2919. Companion maps were published in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the 1906 earthquake.
2006     Putting down roots in earthquake country : your handbook for the San Francisco Bay Region, published by the U.S. Geological Survey; ELECTRONIC: Reflections in the field : commemorating the 75th anniversary of the SEG, DVD published by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists; MAP OR POSTER: Geologic map of the Katmai Volcanic Cluster, Katmai National Park, Alaska, by Wes Hildreth and Judy Fierstein, published by the U.S. Geological Survey.
2005     Elements : an international magazine of mineralogy, geochemistry, and petrology, published jointly by the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the Mineralogical Association of Canada, the Geochemical Society, the Clay Minerals Society, the European Association for Geochemistry, and the Mineralogical Society of America' MAP OR POSTER: Hawaii's volcanoes revealed, by Barry W. Eakins, Joel E. Robinson, Toshiya Kanamatsu, Jiro Naka, John R. Smith, Eiichi Takahashi, and David A. Clague, published by the U.S. Geological Survey (Geologic Investigations Series I-2809); ELECTRONIC: Tectonics, geochronology, and volcanism in the Southern Rocky Mountains and Rio Grande Rift by Steven M. Cather, William C. McIntosh, and Shari A. Kelley, published by the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (Bulletin 160).
2004     Messages in stone : Colorado's colorful geology, edited by Vince Matthews, published by the Colorado Geological Survey; MAP OR POSTER: The North American tapestry of time and terrain by Kate E. Barton, David G. Howell, and Jose F. Vigil, published by the U.S. Geological Survey in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Canada and the Mexican Consejo Recursos de Minerales.
2003     Beyond the Golden Gate : oceanography, geology, biology, and environmental issues in the Gulf of the Farallones, edited by Herman A. Karl, published by the U.S. Geological Survey.
2002     The last billion years : a geological history of the Maritime Provinces of Canada by the Atlantic Geoscience Society
2001     Iowa : portrait of the land, Larry Stone (lead writer); A geologic guide to Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska : a tectonic collage of northbound terranes, Gary Winkler (principal author); ELECTRONIC: Geochemistry, geophysics, geosystems (G-Cubed), published by AGU and the Geochemical Society.
2000     Fossils of Ohio, edited by Rodney M. Feldmann and Merrianne Hackathorn
1998     Geology of Svalbard by W. B. Harland
1997     Geological Map of Canada, CD-ROM, by Jo Wheeler, P. F. Hoffman, K. D. Card, A. Davidson, B. V. Sanford, A. V. Okulitch, and W. R. Roest; Mountains and canyons : a photographic description of the Rocky Mountain region by L. I. Goldman, M. W. Longman, and J. Rathbone
1996     Minnesota's natural heritage : an ecological perspective by John R. Tester
1995     Glaciers by Michael Hambrey and Jörg Alean
1994     Earth shock : hurricanes, volcanoes, earthquakes, tornadoes and other forces of nature by Andrew Robinson
1993     Climate, our future? by Ulrich Schotterer and Peter Andermatt