Geoscience Information Society
Mary B. Ansari Best Reference Work Award
2007 -- Scott A. Elias (editor).   Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science.  Elsevier, 2006.
2006 -- Felix M. Gradstein, James G. Ogg, and Alan G. Smith, editors.  A Geologic Time Scale, 2004.  Cambridge University Press, 2004
2005 -- James Holton, John Pyle, and Judith Curry, editors.  Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences.  Academic, 2003
2004 -- H.D. Holland and K.K. Turekian (executive editors). Treatise on Geochemistry. Elsevier Pergamon, 2004.
2003 -- Paul Murdin (editor). Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics.  Nature Publishing Group, 2001.
2002 -- Mark D. Spalding, Corinna Ravilious, and Edmund P. Green. World Atlas of Coral Reefs. University of California Press, 2001.
2001 -- Ronald Singer (editor). Encyclopedia of Paleontology.  Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999.
2000 -- Haraldur Sigurdsson (editor). The Encyclopedia of Volcanoes.  Academic Press, 1999.
1999 -- James H. Shirley and Rhodes W. Fairbridge (editors). The Encyclopedia of Planetary Sciences. Chapman & Hall, 1997.
1998 -- Ronald Greeley and Raymond Batson.  The NASA Atlas of the Solar System.  Cambridge University Press, 1997.
1997 -- Stephen H. Schneider (editor-in-chief).  Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather.  Oxford University Press, 1996.
1996 -- Thomas J. Ahrens (editor).  A Handbook of Physical Constants.  American Geophysical Union, 1996.
1995 -- Tom Simkin and Lee Siebert.  Volcanoes of the World: A Regional Directory, Gazetteer, and Chronology of Volcanism During the Last 10,000 Years.  Geoscience Press, 1994.
1994 -- John Sinkankas. Gemology: An Annotated Bibliography.  Scarecrow Press, 1992.
1993 -- William A. Nierenberg (editor-in-chief).  Encyclopedia of Earth Systems Science.  Academic Press, 1992.
1992 -- Grant Heiken, David Vaniman, and Bevan M. French (editors). Lunar Sourcebook: a User's Guide to the Moon.  Cambridge University Press, 1991
1991 -- David Weishampel, Peter Dodson and Halszka Osmolska.  The Dinosauria.  University of California Press, 1990.
1990 -- Willard Lincoln Roberts, Thomas J. Campbell, George R. Rapp and Wendell E. Wilson.  Encyclopedia of Minerals, 2nd edition.  Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990.
1989 -- William J. Frazier and David R. Schwimmer.  Regional Stratigraphy of North America.  Plenum Press, 1987.
1988 -- Carl Seyfert (editor).  The Encyclopedia of Structural Geology and Plate Tectonics.  Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1987.

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