As of 2016, the Best Website Award has been combined with the previous Best Reference Award and is now the Mary B. Ansari Best Geoscience Research Resource Work Award.
resented to a website which exemplifies outstanding standards of content, design, organization, and overall site effectiveness. See Previous Award winning sites for more information.
Winning websites are encouraged to display the badge.
2013
No award
2012
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) (Carlton College)
2011
Earth Impact Database (Planetary and Space Science Centre, University of New Brunswick)
2010
The Echinoid Directory (Dr. Andrew B. Smith, The Natural History Museum, London)
2009
Discovering Antarctica (Royal Geographical Society in partnership with the British Antarctic Survey and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
and
On the Cutting Edge (National Association of Geoscience Teachers)
2008
2007
2006
The Hero of Vesuvius
2005
Paleontology Portal (Academic)
and
Volcano World (formerly maintained at the Univ. of North Dakota)
2004
American Museum of Natural History Division of Paleontology
2003
A Guide to the Orders of Trilobites
2002
United States Geological Survey
and
Links for Mineralogists (site is no longer maintained)