Year Recipient[2] 1976 Walter H. Munk 1977 Henry Stommel 1978 Edward Bullard 1979 Wallace Smith Broecker 1980 J. Tuzo Wilson 1981 Manik Talwani 1982 John I. Ewing 1983 Fred Noel Spiess 1984 Xavier Le Pichon 1985 Kenneth O. Emery 1986 John Imbrie 1987 William Jason Morgan 1988 Wolfgang H. Berger 1989 Klaus Wyrtki 1990 Carl I. Wunsch 1991 Charles David Keeling 1992 Charles Shipley Cox 1993 Kirk Bryan 1994 John A. Orcutt 1995 Jean-Guy Schilling 1996 Walter C. Pitman III 1997 Karl Turekian 1998 Richard P. Von Herzen 1999 Arnold L. Gordon 2000 Joseph L. Reid 2001 Richard G. Fairbanks 2002 Nicholas Shackleton 2003 Gerard C. Bond 2004 Bruce A. Warren 2005 Francois M. M. Morel 2006 G. Michael Purdy[3] 2007 Marcia Kemper McNutt 2008 Miriam Kastner 2009 Thomas Rossby[4] 2010 William J. Jenkins 2011 Joseph Pedlosky 2012 Ellen Thomas 2013 Mark Cane 2014 John Andrews Whitehead 2015 Russ E. Davis 2016 Peter George Brewer 2017 Donald W. Forsyth 2018 Nicklas G. Pisias 2019 Maureen E. Raymo 2020 Anthony Brian Watts 2021 Eelco J. Rohling