EERI recognizes and acknowledges the extraordinary accomplishments and innovative work by members of the earthquake engineering community. From graduates students to professionals who have dedicated their careers to earthquake risk reduction, these individuals have have made important contributions to risk reduction, seismic safety, and earthquake risk mitigation and management. For more information, please click on the award title at the top of each column.
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 | Graduate Fellowship Award |
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| 2016 | Thomas D. O’Rourke | Gregory G. Deierlein | Jonathan P. Stewart | Craig D. Comartin | Roger D. Borcherdt | Christine Beyzaei (2016-2017) Nasser Marafi (2016-2017) | ||
| 2015 | Nigel Priestley* | Robert Olshansky | Paul Somerville | Walter J. Arabasz | John G. Anderson | Brendon Bradley | Brett Maurer (2015-2016) | |
| 2014 | Masayoshi Nakashima | David Wald | David Boore | Laurence Kornfield | Anthony Shakal | S. van Ballegooy et al. (30:1) | Abbie Liel | Julie Fogarty (2014-2015) |
| 2013 | Haresh C. Shah | Mary Comerio | Kelvin Berryman | George G. Mader | Mustafa Özder Erdik | L. Duenas-Osorio and J. Wu (29:3) | Curt Haselton | Clinton Carlson |
| 2012 | Helmut Krawinkler* | Thomas O’Rourke | Jonathan Bray | Phillip Gould | Norman Abrahamson | G. Deierlein and A. Liel (28:4) | Helen Crowley | Scott Swensen |
| 2011 | Mete A. Sozen | Stephanie E. Chang | Thomas C. Hanks | Haresh C. Shah | Kojiro Irikura | J. Baker, N. Jayaram and T. Lin (27:3) | Veronica Cedillos | Kevin Franke |
| 2010 | Robert V. Whitman* | Sharon Wood | Arthur Frankel | John R. Filson For previous award recipients, please visit: http://www.calesf.org/ |
David Boore | K. Jaiswal and D. Wald (26:4) | Emily So | Sharyl Rabinovici |
| 2009 | Lloyd Cluff | Norman Abrahamson | Robin K. McGuire | Ugo Morelli* (Special Recognition Award) | Wilfred Iwan | B.F Maison, K. Kasai and G. Deierlein (25:4) | Jack Baker | Matthew Eatherton |
| 2008 | James M. Kelly | Ronald T. Eguchi | Chris Poland | Richard Eisner Susan K. Tubbesing (Special Recognition Award) |
1) N. Abrahamson et al. (24:1) 2) J. Bommer and F. Scherbaum (24:4) |
Jerome Lynch | David Saftner | |
| 2007 | Wilfred Iwan | Eric Elsesser* | Gail Atkinson | S.C. Liu and William Anderson* (Special Recognition Award) |
Elwood et al. (23:3) | Rui Pinho | ||
| 2006 | Paul C. Jennings | Kathleen Tierney | Norm Abrahamson | Chris Poland | 1) Kircher et al. (22:SI-II) 2) Dicleli (22:4) |
Ellen M. Rathje | Jamie Padgett | |
| 2005 | Luis Esteva | Jack Moehle | C. Allin Cornell* | James F. Davis | Choi and Stewart (21:1) | Rebekah Green | Troy Morgan | |
| 2004 | Daniel Shapiro | Kenneth Stokoe | Lloyd Cluff | L. Thomas Tobin | 1)Vamvatsikos and Cornell (20:2) 2) Faccioli et al. (20:2) |
Gustavo Parra-Montesinos | Brady Cox | |
| 2003 | C. Allin Cornell* | William Petak | Daniel Shapiro | 1)Olson (19:1); 2)Hamburger et al. (19:2) |
Paul VanderMarck | Paul Cordova | ||
| 2002 | Anil K. Chopra | Mete Sozen | Wilfred Iwan | Borcherdt (18:2) | Joshua M. Marrow | Larry Fahnestock | ||
| 2001 | Clarence R. Allen | James M. Kelly | Robert A. Olson | Stepp et al. (17:1) | Stephanie E. Chang | |||
| 2000 | Bruce A. Bolt* | Joseph Penzien* | Lucille M. Jones | Frankel et al. (16:1) | Durgesh C. Rai | |||
| 1999 | Egor P. Popov* | C. Allin Cornell* | William T. Holmes | Reinoso & Ordaz (15:2) | not awarded | |||
| 1998 | William J. Hall | Bruce A. Bolt* | Lloyd S. Cluff | Shome et al. (14:3) | Bret Lizundia & Nicos Makris (shared) | |||
| 1997 | Anestis S. Veletsos | Thomas Paulay* | James E. Roberts*, Hal Bernson |
Jennings (13:1) | ||||
| 1996 | Ray W. Clough | L. Thomas Tobin | Joseph Penzien* | O’Rourke & Palmer (12:3) | ||||
| 1995 | Vitelmo V. Bertero | Clarence R. Allen | Behr et al. (11:3) | |||||
| 1994 | Karl V. Steinbrugge* | Robert V. Whitman* | Bruce A. Bolt*, Robert E. Wallace* |
R. Borcherdt (10:4) |
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| 1993 | Joseph Penzien* | Egor P. Popov* | Clarence R. Allen, Frank E. McClure* |
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| 1992 | Donald E. Hudson* | George W. Housner* | Donald Cheu, Earl W. Hart |
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| 1991 | John A. Blume* | George Housner* | ||||||
| 1990 | George W. Housner* | Christopher Arnold, Stanley Scott* |
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| 1989 | Tom Bradley, Patricia Snyder |
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| 1988 | Henry J. Degenkolb*, Edward M. O’Connor |
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| 1987 | Karl V. Steinbrugge* | |||||||
| 1986 | Afred E. Alquist* |
| A – M | N – Z |
| Mihran S. Agbabian Clarence R. Allen Nicolas N. Ambraseys* William A. Anderson* Christopher Arnold Roger Borcherdt Perry Byerly* John A. Blume* Sheldon Cherry* Lloyd S. Cluff Craig D. Comartin Henry J. Degenkolb* C. Martin Duke* W.D. Liam Finn Marjorie R. Greene Polat Gulkan Robert D. Hanson Walter W. Hays William T. Holmes George W. Housner* Donald E. Hudson* I.M. Idriss Wilfred D. Iwan Paul C. Jennings James O. Jirsa Helmut Krawinkler* Henry J. Lagorio* David J. Leeds* Frank E. McClure* Ugo Morelli* |
Farzad Naeim Nathan Newmark* Joseph P. Nicoletti Bruce C. Olsen* Robert Olson Thomas D. O’Rourke Joseph Penzien* William J. Petak Clarkson Pinkham* Chris D. Poland F. Robert Preece* Bob Reitherman John E. Rinne* Ronald F. Scott* Stanley Scott* H. Bolton Seed* Haresh Shah Daniel Shapiro Roland L. Sharpe Karl V. Steinbrugge* J. Carl Stepp Kathleen Tierney L. Thomas Tobin Susan Tubbesing Robert E. Wallace* Robert V. Whitman* Loring A. Wyllie Jr. T. Leslie Youd |
| * deceased | |
Outstanding Papers from Earthquake Spectra
- 2014
- S. van Ballegooy, P. Malan, V. Lacrosse, M. E. Jacka, M. Cubrinovski, J. D. Bray, T. D. O’Rourke, S. A. Crawford and H. Cowan, “Assessment of Liquefaction-Induced Land Damage for Residential Christchurch,” Earthquake Spectra, 30 (1), 31-55.
- 2013
- Leonardo Duenas-Osorio and Jason Wu, “Calibration and Validation of a Seismic Damage Propagation Model for Interdependent Infrastructure Systems,” Earthquake Spectra, 29 (3), 1021-1041.
- 2012
- Gregory G. Deierlein and Abbie B. Liel, “Using Collapse Risk Assessments to Inform Seismic Safety Policy for Older Concrete Buildings,” Earthquake Spectra, 28 (4), 1495-1521.
- 2011
- Jack W. Baker, Nirmal Jayaram, and Ting Lin, “A Computationally Efficient Ground-Motion Selection Algorithm for Matching a Target Response Spectrum Mean and Variance,” Earthquake Spectra, 27 (3), 797-815.
- 2010
- Kishor Jaiswal and David Wald, “An empirical Model for Global Earthquake Facility Estimation,” Earthquake Spectra, 26 (4), 1017-1037.
- 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 Spectra—Charles A. Kircher and Ronald O. Hamburger, editors Earthquake Spectra Theme Issue: Seismic Design Provisions and Guidelines, Earthquake Spectra, 16 (1).
- 1999
- Eduardo Reinoso and Mario Ordaz, “Spectral Ratios for Mexico City from Free-Field Recordings,” Earthquake Spectra, 15 (2), 273-296.
- 1998
- Nilesh Shome, C. Allin Cornell, Paolo Bazzurro and J. Eduardo Carballo, “Earthquakes, Records, and Nonlinear Responses, Earthquake Spectra,” 14 (3), 469-500.
- 1997
- Paul C. Jennings, “Enduring Lessons and Opportunities Lost from the San Fernando Earthquake of February 9, 1971,” Earthquake Spectra, 13 (1), 25-44.
- 1996
- Thomas D. O’Rourke and M. C. Palmer, 1996, “Earthquake performance of gas transmission pipelines,” Earthquake Spectra, 12 (3), 493-527.
- 1995
- Richard 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 Spectra—John 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 - 1994
- Roger D. Borcherdt, “Estimates of site-dependent response spectra for design (methodology and justification),” Earthquake Spectra, 10 (4), 617-654.
