Award Recipients

Note: Some awards are given in the next calendar year

Year George W. Housner Medal Distinguished Lecture Award William B. Joyner Lecture Award Alfred E. Alquist Special Recognition Medal Bruce Bolt Medal Outstanding Paper Award
(details below)
Shah Family Innovation Prize
2011 Mete A. Sozen Stephanie E. Chang Thomas C. Hanks Haresh C. Shah Kojiro Irikura B. F. Maison, K. Kasai
G. Deierlein (2009, 25:4)
 2010 Robert V. Whitman Sharon Wood Arthur Frankel John R. FilsonFor previous award recipients, please visit: http://www.calesf.org/ David Boore 1) Abrahamson et al.
2) Bommer & Scherbaum
 Emily So
2009  Lloyd Cluff Norman Abrahamson Robin K. McGuire Ugo Morelli (Special Recognition Award) Wilfred Iwan  B.F Maison, K. Kasai, and G. Deierlein Jack Baker
2008  James M. Kelly Ronald T. Eguchi Chis Poland Richard Eisner (Special Recognition Award)  1) Norman Abrahamson et al.2) Julian Bommer & Frank Scherbaum Jerome Lynch
 2007 Wilfred Iwan Eric Elsesser* Gail Atkinson S.C. Liu and William Anderson (Special Recognition Award) Elwood et al. Rui Pinho
 2006 Paul C. Jennings  Kathleen Tierney Norm Abrahamson 1) Kircher et al.
2) Dicleli
Ellen M. Rathje
 2005  Luis Esteva  Jack Moehle C. Allin Cornell* Choi & Stewart  Rebekah Green
 2004  Daniel Shapiro  Kenneth Stokoe Lloyd Cluff 1)Vamvatsikos & Cornell
2) Faccioli et al.
 Gustavo Parra-Montesinos
 2003  C. Allin Cornell*  William Petak  1)Olson;
2)Hamburger et al.
 Paul VanderMarck
 2002  Anil K. Chopra  Mete Sozen   Borcherdt  Joshua M. Marrow
 2001  Clarence R. Allen  James M. Kelly  Stepp et al.  Stephanie E. Chang
 2000  Bruce A. Bolt*  Joseph Penzein  Frankel et al.  Durgesh C. Rai
 1999  Egor P. Popov*  C. Allin Cornell* Reinoso & Ordaz  not awarded
 1998  William J. Hall  Bruce A. Bolt*  Shome et al.  Bret Lizundia & Nicos Makris (shared)
 1997  Anestis S. Veletsos  Thomas Paulay  Jennings
 1996  Ray W. Clough  L. Thomas Tobin  O’Rourke & Palmer
 1995  Vitelmo V. Bertero  Clarence R. Allen Behr et al.
 1994  Karl V. Steinbrugge*  Robert V. Whitman  Borcherdt
 1993  Joseph Penzien  Egor P. Popov*
 1992  Donald E. Hudson*  George W. Housner
 1991  John A. Blume*
 1990  George W. Housner

 


Honorary Members

 A – M  N – Z
Mihran S. Agbabian
Clarence R. Allen
Nicholas N. Ambraseys
Christopher Arnold
Perry Byerly*
John A. Blume*
Roger Borcherdt
Sheldon Cherry
Lloyd S. Cluff
Craig Comartin
Henry J. Degenkolb*
C. Martin Duke*
Robert D. Hanson
Walter W. Hays
William T. Holmes
George W. Housner
Donald E. Hudson*
Paul Jennings
James Jirsa
Henry J. Lagorio
David J. Leeds
Frank E. McClure*
Ugo Morelli
Nathan Newmark*
Joseph P. Nicoletti
Bruce C. Olsen*
Robert Olson
Joseph Penzien
William J. Petak
Clarksom Pinkham
Chris D. Poland
F. Robert Preece*
John E. Rinne*
Ronald F. Scott*
Stanley Scott*
H. Bolton Seed*
Haresh C. Shah
Daniel Shapiro
Roland L. Sharpe
Karl V. Steinbrugge*
J. Carl Stepp
Susan K. Tubbesing
Robert E. Wallace*
Robert V. Whitman
Loring A. Wyllie Jr.
T. Leslie Youd
* deceased

Outstanding Papers from Earthquake Spectra

 
2009
B.F Maison, K. Kasai, and G. Deierlein, “ASCE-41 and FEMA-351 Evaluation of E-Defence Collapse Test,” Earthquake Spectra, 25 (4), 927-953.
 
2008
Norman Abrahamson, Gail Atkinson, David Boore, Yousef Bozorgnia, Kenneth Campbell, Brian Chiou, I.M. Idriss, Walter Silver and Robert Youngs, “Comparisons of the NGA Ground-Motion Relations,” Earthquake Spectra, 24 (1), 45-66.
Julian Bommer and Frank Scherbaum, “The Use and Misuse of Logic Trees in Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis,” Earthquake Spectra 24 (4), 997-1009.
2007
Kenneth J. Elwood, Adolfo B. Matamoros, John W. Wallace, Dawn E. Lehman, Jon A. Heintz, Andrew D. Mitchell, Mark A. Moore, Michael T. Valley, Laura N. Lowes, Craig D. Comartin, and Jack P. Moehle, “Update to ASCE/SEI 41 Concrete Provisions,” Earthquake Spectra, 23 (3), 493-523 .
2006
Charles A. Kircher, Hope A. Seligson, Jawhar Bouabid, and Guy C. Morrow, “When the Big One Strikes Again—Estimated Losses due to a Repeat of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake,” The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake: An Earthquake Engineering Retrospective 100 Years Later, Earthquake Spectra, Special Issue II, S297-S339.
Murat Dicleli, “Performance of Seismic-Isolated Bridges in Relation to Near-Fault Ground Motion and Isolator Characteristics,” Earthquake Spectra, 22 (4), 887-907.
2005
Yoojoong Choi and Jonathan P. Stewart, “Nonlinear Site Amplification as Function of 30 m Shear Wave Velocity,” Earthquake Spectra, 21 (1), 1-30.
2004
Ezio Faccioli, Roberto Paolucci, and Julien Rey, “Displacement Spectra for Long Periods,” Earthquake Spectra, 20 (2), 347-376.
Dimitrios Vamvatsikos and C. Allin Cornell, “Applied Incremental Dynamic Analysis (IDA),” Earthquake Spectra, 20 (2), 523-553.
2003
Robert A. Olson, “Legislative Politics and Seismic Safety: California’s Early Years and the ‘Field Act,’ 1925-1933,” Earthquake Spectra, 19 (1), 111-131.
Ronald O. Hamburger, Douglas A. Foutch, and C. Allin Cornell, “Translating Research to Practice: FEMA/SAC Performance-Based Design Procedures,” Earthquake Spectra, 19 (2), 255-267.
2002
Roger D. Borcherdt , “Empirical Evidence for Site Coefficients in Building Code Provisions,” Earthquake Spectra, 18 (2), 189-217.
2001
J. C. Stepp, I. Wong, J. Whitney, R. Quittmeyer, N. Abrahamson, G. Toro, R. Youngs, K. Coppersmith, J. Savy, T. Sullivan, and Yucca Mountain PSHA Project Members, “Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analyses for Fault Displacement and Ground Motions at Yucca Mountain, Nevada,” Earthquake Spectra, 17 (1), 113-151.
2000
Frankel, A. D., Mueller, C. S., Barnhard, T. P., Leyendecker, E. V., Wesson, R. L., Harmsen, S. C. Klein, F. W., Perkins, D. M., Dickman, N. C., Hanson, S. L., and Hopper, “USGS National Seimic Hazard Maps,” Earthquake Spectra, 16 (1).

Special Recognition Awards for Contributions to Earthquake SpectraCharles A. Kircher and Ronald O. Hamburger, editors Earthquake Spectra Theme Issue: Seismic Design Provisions and Guidelines, Earthquake Spectra, 16 (1).1999Eduardo Reinoso and Mario Ordaz, “Spectral Ratios for Mexico City from Free-Field Recordings,” Earthquake Spectra, 15 (2), 273-296.1998Nilesh Shome, C. Allin Cornell, Paolo Bazzurro and J. Eduardo Carballo, “Earthquakes, Records, and Nonlinear Responses, Earthquake Spectra,” 14 (3), 469-500.1997Paul C. Jennings, “Enduring Lessons and Opportunities Lost from the San Fernando Earthquake of February 9, 1971,” Earthquake Spectra, 13 (1), 25-44.1996Thomas D. O’Rourke and M. C. Palmer, 1996, “Earthquake performance of gas transmission pipelines,” Earthquake Spectra, 12 (3), 493-527.1995Richard A. Behr, Abdeldjelil Belarbi, and Adam T. Brown, “Seismic performance of architectural glass in a storefront wall system,” Earthquake Spectra, 11 (3), 367-391.

Special Recognition Awards for Contributions to Earthquake SpectraJohn F. Hall, Editor, 1995, Northridge Earthquake Reconnaissance Report, Earthquake Spectra, 11, Supplement C, vol. 1, 523 pp.;
William T. Holmes and Peter Somers, Editors, 1995, Northridge Earthquake Reconnaissance Report, Earthquake Spectra, 11, Supplement C, vol. 2, 278 pp.1994
Roger D. Borcherdt, “Estimates of site-dependent response spectra for design (methodology and justification),” Earthquake Spectra, 10 (4), 617-654.