Geographic Excellence in Media Award Recipients
1981
The Salter Article
1982
Boslough, John. "Rationing a River." SCIENCE 81. June 1981.
1983
Grady, Denise. "Watch on the Mississippi." DISCOVER. March 1983.
1984
Murphy, Pat. "Thinking About Maps." THE EXPLORATORIUM. 7:3.
Steinhart, Peter. "The Edge Gets Thinner." AUDUBON. 85:6.
1985
Caulfield, Catherine. "A Reporter at Large--The Rain Forest." NEW YORKER. Jan. 14, 1985. Pg. 41-101.
Green, Joe L. "The Logic of Geographic Education," THE HIGH SCHOOL JOURNAL. April-May, 1984. Pg. 252259.
1986
Behar, Ruth. "Past and Present in the Spanish Countryside." NATURAL HISTORY. Vol. 94, No. 11,
November, 1985.
1987
Kniep, Willard. SOCIAL EDUCATION. October, 1986.
1988
Lockwoood, Charles and Christopher B. Leinberger. "Los Angeles Comes of Age." THE ATLANTIC. Vol. 261,
No. 1, January, 1988.
1989
McPhee, John. "The Control of Nature: Los Angeles Against the Mountains." THE NEW YORKER
1990
Special Award
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. "Managing the Earth."
NASSP BULLETIN. "Rediscovering Geography." Vol. 26, No. 3
Lopez, Barry. "Losing Our Sense of Place." TEACHER MAGAZINE. Vol. 1, No. 5,
February, 1990. Pg. 38-44.
Hiss, Tony. "Reflections: Encountering the Countryside." THE NEW YORKER. Vol. 65,
Nos. 27&28, August, 1989.
1991
Special Award
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCAL EDUCATION. "Geography and the Social Studies Education. Vol. 5,
No. 2, Autumn, 1990.
Caufield, Catherine. "The Ancient Forest." THE NEW YORKER. May 1990.
1992
Platt, Rutherford, Timothy Beatley and H. Crane Miller. "The Folly at Folly Beach and
Other Failings of US Coastal Erosion Policy." ENVIRONMENT. Vol. 33, No. 9, Nov. 1991.
Kotlyakov, V.M. "The Aral Sea Basin: A Critical Environment Zone." ENVIRONMENT.
Vol. 33, No. 1, January/February, 1991.
1993
Special Award
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Heckley, Jane and Giselle O. Martin-Kniep. "Students' Geographic Knowledge and Skills in Different Kinds of
Tests: Multiple Chocie versus Performance Assessment." SOCIAL EDUCATION. 56, February, 1992.
Reyes, Karen Westerberg, ed. "The Fabric of a Nation." MODERN MATURITY. June-July, 1992.
1994 - Name changed to Geography Excellence in Media Award
Special Award
THE NEW YORK TIMES. "Themes of the Times: Geography."
Gregg, Sister Madeleine, fcj. "Mapping Out Geography: An Example of Epistemology and Education."
REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH. Vol. 64, No. 2, Summer, 1994.
Dennison, Derek. "Saving the Himalaya." WORLD WATCH. November-
December, 1993.
1995
Boy Scouts of America. GEOGRAPHY. Cub Scout Academics book.
Grantham, George and Rand McNally Corporation. History/Geography maps.
1996
Special Award
Edmondson, Brad and Kathy Bodovitz. "American Diversity: What the 1990 Census Reveals about
Population Growth, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Ethnic Diversity and Children--and What it Means to You."
AMERICAN DEMOGRAPHICS. Desk Reference Series, No. 1. January 1996.
Isserman, Andrew and Terrance Rephann. "The Economic Effects of the Appalachian Regional Commission:
An Empirical Assessment of 26 Years of Regional Development Planning." JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN
PLANNING ASSOCIATION. Vol. 61, No. 3, Summer 1995.
1997 - no awards
1998
Lineback, Neal, GEOGRAPHY IN THE NEWS
Smil, Vaclav. "Global Population and the Nitrogen Cycle,” SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, Vol 277, July 1997.
1999
Carol L. Fleisher and Mark S. Hoover, Fleisher Films, Chasing El Nino
2000
Phil Gersmehl, University of Minnesota, ARGUS Advanced Readings in Geography of the United States?
Scott A. Loomer, U. S. Military Academy, MicroMSI for Windows.
George Carney, Oklahoma State University, Cowabunga! Surfer Rock and the Five Themes of Geography, to
be published in Popular Music and Society
2001
Charles Kovacik and Robert Lloyd, South Carolina Geographic Alliance
SCIG: South Carolina Interactive Geography CD ROM
Martha B. Sharma, National Cathedral School and Gary S. Elbow, Texas Tech University
Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Geography, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood
Press, 2000, 165 pp.
2002
William Loy, Editor, Atlas of Oregon.
APL Boomerang Box.
Honorable Mention for student site: Ross Porter, Planet Smethport
2003
TLC Elementary School: US Geography – The Northeast
Produced for TLC and Discovery Education by Summer Productions
Howard Soriano and Steve Wiebe, Girdwood Partners, LLC, WeeBeeTunes Travel Adventures
Anita Palmer, Christine Voigt , and Lyn Malone, Mapping Our World: GIS Lessons for Educators
2004
Historic Maps in the K-12 Classroom – Dr. James Akerman, Director and Susan Hanf, Program Assistant
Herman Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
The Power of Place: Geography for the 21st Century – Annenberg/CPB – Robert Burns and Lance
Wisniewski, Executive Producers, and Eilish McCormick, Series Producer. Funding by Annenberg/CPB
and McGraw-Hill Higher Education Distributed by Annenberg/CPB
2005
5th Street Cemetery Necrogeographical Study’s website – Steven Branting, Lewiston High School,
Lewiston, ID
WhereAbouts, Inc. Giant Floor Map Kit – Celeste Fraser and Barbara Unikel, WhereAbouts, Inc.,
Wilmette, IL
2006
Online Curriculum Materials
Making Population Real
Population Reference Bureau, Washington, DC
Making Population Real
Lisa Colson -Team Leader, Population Reference Bureau, Washington, DC
Online Resources for Geography Educators
Geography at About.com
Matt T. Rosenberg, Geography at About.com, Fair Oaks, CA
2007 - No Awards
2008
A Faraway Home: An Orphan Train Story, Janie Lynn Panagopoulos
(Thinking Spatially Using GIS, Mapping Our World Using GIS, Analyzing Our World Using GIS, and Making
Spatial Decisions Using GIS, Laura Bowden, ESRI Project Manager for the Our World Series
2009
Geography for Students DVD Series, Schlessinger Media, Wynnewood, PA
2010
GeoLiteracy with ELL Adaptations
Ronald Dorn, Gale Olp Ekiss, Elizabeth R. Hinde, and Margarita Jimenez-Silva, Arizona Geographic
Alliance
2011
The Physical Environment: an introduction to physical geography
Michael Ritter, University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point
2012
Student Atlas of Oregon
Oregon Geographic Alliance and the Center for Spatial Analysis and Research, Portland State University
Geteach.com
Josh Williams, Westwood High school, Austin, TX
2014
Science of Tree Rings
Dr. Henri D. Grossino-Mayer, University of Tennessee
2015
Jamestown to Appomattox: Mapping US History with GIS
Chris Bunin-Virginia Geographic Alliance and Carte Diem Press
Christine Esposito-Virginia Geographic Alliance/Walker Upper Elementary School Charlottesville, VA