Best Paper Awards

Each year, in late summer or early fall, the Editorial Board chooses a 'best paper'. The following criteria are used to make this difficult decision: the paper represents a significant advance by presenting a new concept or method with important applications, or a breakthrough on a long-standing problem; is well-written, clearly-illustrated, and referenced comprehensively; and is likely to be cited often in the literature for many years.

To recognize their achievement, the authors will each receive a year's membership in the IAMG with a subscription to Mathematical Geology.

2010

The winners of the 2010 Best Paper Award are:

Debarun Bhattacharjya, Jo Eidsvik, and Tapan Mukerji
The value of information in spatial decision making
42 (2):141-163

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2009

The winner of the 2009 Best Paper Award is:

Yuan Zee Ma
Simpson’s Paradox in Natural Resource Evaluation
41(2): 193–213

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2008

As our readers have come to expect, many exceptional papers are published each year. Chosen from among so many excellent ones, the winners of the 2008 Best Paper Award are :

Pallaz Sarma, Louis F. Durlofksy and Khlaid Aziz
Kernel Principal Component Analysis for Efficient, Differentiable Parameterization of Multipoint Geostatistics
40(1): 3-32

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2007

Another wonderful year for this award! Once again, two outstanding papers among so many excellent ones made it impossible to choose one without being unfair to the other. Thus, the winners of the 2007 Best Paper Award (in alphabetical order) are:

G. Burc Arpat and Jef Caers
Conditional Simulation with Patterns
39(2):177-203

and

Ben P. Marchant and Richard Murray Lark
Optimized Sample Schemes for Geostatistical Surveys
39(1): 113-134

2006

A wonderful year for our best paper award! Two outstanding papers amongst many excellent ones made it impossible to choose one without being unfair to the other. Thus, the winners of the 2006 Best Paper Award (in alphabetical order) are :

Jean-Stéphane Bailly, Pascal Monestiez and Philippe Lagacherie
Modeling Spatial Variability along Drainage Networks with Geostatistics
38(5):515-539

and

Frank C. Curriero
On the Use of Non-Euclidean Distance Measures in Geostatistics
38(8):907-926

2005

Georges Verly
Grade control classification of ore and waste: A critical review of estimation and simulation based procedures
37(5):451-475

2004

Jean-Laurent Mallet
Space-time mathematical framework for sedimentary geology
36(1):1-32

2003

J. Antonio Vargas-Guzman and Roussos Dimitrakopoulos
Successive nonparametric estimation of conditional distributions
35(1):39-52

2002

Andre Haas and Philippe Formery
Uncertainties in facies proportion estimation I. Theoretical framework: The Dirichlet distribution
34(6):679-702

2001

Lin Y. Hu, Georges Blanc and Benoit Noetinger
Gradual deformation and iterative calibration of sequential stochastic simulations
33(4):475-489

2000

Christopher D. White and Brian J. Willis
A method to estimate length distributions from outcrop data
32(4):389-419

1999

Patrick Bogaert
On the optimal estimation of the cumulative distribution function in presence of spatial dependence
31(2) 213-239

1998

Ting ting Yao and Andre G. Journel
Automatic modeling of (cross) covariance tables using fast Fourier transform
30(6) 589-615

1997

J.-L. Mallet
Discrete modeling for natural objects
29(2) 199-219

1996

Ivon Halbwachs, Gabriel Courriouz, Xavier Renaud and Philippe Repusseau
Topological and geometric characterization of fault networks using 3-dimensional generalized maps
28(5) 625-656

1995

Dean S. Oliver
Moving averages for Gaussian simulation in two and three dimensions
27(8) 939-960

1994

Alberto S. Almeida and Andre G. Journel
Joint simulation of multiple variables with a Markov-type coregionalization model
26(5) 565-588

1993

Vera Pawlowsky, Ricard A. Olea and John C. Davis
Boundary assessment under uncertainty: a case study
25(2) 125-144

Pierre Goovaerts
Spatial orthogonality of the principal components computed from coregionalized variables
25(3) 281-302

1986

I. Carina Lemmer
Mononodal indicator variography-Part I: theory
18(7) 589-604

1985

N.I. Fisher, J.F. Huntington, D.R. Jackett, M.E. Willcox & J.W. Creasey
Spatial analysis of two-dimensional orientation data
17(2) 177-194

1984

Goran Granath
Application of fuzzy clustering and fuzzy classification to evaluate the provenance of glacial till
16(3) 283-301

1983

Di Zhou, Theodore Chang and John C. Davis
Dual extraction of R-mode and Q-mode factor solutions
15(5) 581-606

1982

George A. Griffiths
Stochastic prediction in geomorphology using Bayesian inference models
14(1) 65-75

1981

John Aitchison
A new approach to nul correlations of proportions
13(2)175-189

1980

Paul Switzer
Extension of linear discriminant analysis for statistical classification of remotely sensed satellite imagery
12(4) 367-376

1979

Michael F. Dacey and William C. Krumbein
Models of breakage and selection for particle size distributions
11(2) 193-222

1978

John C. Griffiths
Mineral resource assessment using the unit regional value concept
10(5) 441-472

1977

Itsvan Dienes and C. John Mann
Mathematical formalization of stratigraphic terminology
9(6) 587-603

1976

Martha W. Gilliland
A geochemical model for evaluation theories on the genesis of Florida's sedimentary phosphate deposits
8(3) 219-242