2014 Tampa Awards — April 8-12
Each year, AAG recognizes students, faculty, and professionals for their accomplishments and contributions in conjunction with the annual meeting. We captured the awards presentations in the photos below at special sessions throughout the week at the Convention Center and Marriott Waterside Hotel and during the luncheon held on April 12, 2014, at the Westin Hotel in Tampa.
Alec Murphy received the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Honors.
Anne Buttimer received the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Honors.
Meric Gertler received AAG Distinguished Scholarship Honors.
Amy Glasmeier received AAG Distinguished Scholarship Honors.
AAG President Julie Winkler presented Wei Li with the AAG Ronald F. Abler Distinguished Service Honors.
James W. Harrington received AAG Ronald F. Abler Distinguished Service Honors.
Darrel Hess received the Gilbert Grosvenor Honors for Geographic Education.
Eve Gruntfest was awarded the AAG Gilbert White Public Service Honors.
Derek Alderman received AAG's 2014 Media Achievement Award.
Mike Livingstone accepted the 2014 AAG Publication Award for Esri.
Warren Washington was awarded AAG's 2014 Honorary Geographer by Lesley-Anne Dupigny-Giroux during a special session on April 9.
AAG 2014 Tampa Annual Meeting; AAG Executive Director Doug Richardson, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Joe Darden and Julian Bond meet for the first time before Bond received the 2014 AAG Atlas Award during his plenary session, "Race Around the World," on April 11.
During the luncheon, Past President Eric Sheppard acknowledged Doreen Massey for the Presidential Achievement Award, which he formally presented to her during his Past President's address on April 10.
Audrey Kobayashi (left) and Joe Darden (right) presented Ruth Wilson Gilmore (center) the AAG Rose Award for Anti-Racism Research and Practice after Darden's "Author Meets Critics: Detroit – Race Riots, Racial Conflicts, and Efforts to Bridge the Racial Divide" session on April 10.
Jay T. Johnson, Laura Smith, Zoltan Grossman, Douglas (RDK) Herman and Renee Pualani Louis received the AAG Enhancing Diversity Award.
Anne Kelly Knowles received the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize for Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry.
Stuart Elden received the AAG Meridian Book Award for The Birth of Territory.
Michael Dear received the AAG Globe Book Award for Why Walls Won't Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide.
Douglas Batson received the Merdith F. Burrill Award.
Juanita Sundberg received the Glenda Laws Award.
Eric Shook received the William L. Garrison Award for Best Dissertation in Computational Geography.
Yiyi Wang received the William L. Garrison Award for Best Dissertation in Computational Geography.
Martha Bell received the J. Warren Nystrom Dissertation Award for her research titled, Historical Political Ecology of Water: Municipal Water Governance in Colonial Lima, Peru (1578-1700)."
Yarrow Axford (above right) and graduate student Everett Lasher (above left) from Northwestern U. received the AAG Mel Marcus Fund for Physical Geography honor, although they were unable to attend the luncheon. (Photo by Alison Witt-Janssen.)
Joel Van de Sande received the AAG Darrel Hess Community College Geography Scholarship.
Megan Yanez received the AAG Darrel Hess Community College Geography Scholarship.
Amber Boll received the AAG International Geographic Information Fund Award.
Yaoli Wang received the AAG International Geographic Information Fund Award.
50-Year Members John C. Hudson; Peter O. Muller (previous 50-year member); Charles Kovacik; Janet H. Gritzner; Ronald F. Abler; Stephen O. Wilson; Kingsley E. Haynes; James N. Snaden with AAG President Julie Winkler
