KARL & ELISABETH BUTZER LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

The Karl and Elisabeth Butzer Award for Lifetime Achievement in Paleoenvironmental Change was implemented in 2017 as the premiere award of the AAG Paleoenvironmental Change Specialty Group (PEC). Karl Butzer was a preeminent human-environment scientist and pioneer of geoarchaeology. Elisabeth Butzer is a renowned scholar of historical ecology using archival sources. This award honors the work of scholars who, like Karl and Elisabeth, dedicate their lives to exploring and elucidating paleoenvironmental change. 

BUTZER AWARD WINNERS

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2022 Scott Mensing
University of Nevada, Reno
Scott is a biogeographer and paleoecologist. He has extensive experience reconstructing Quaternary environments in the Great Basin and California
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2020 Glen Sproul dit MacDonald
Univ. California, Los Angeles
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2017 Elisabeth Butzer

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2021 Sally Horn
University of Tennessee
​Sally's work in Costa Rica and other tropical regions has been featured in a number of publications, including National Geographic. She has published over 100 articles relating to paleolimnology and biogeography
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2018 Kam-biu Liu
​Louisiana State University

​Nominations
Nominations for the Karl and Elisabeth Butzer Award for Lifetime Achievement require two or more letters of support from members of PEC. Letters should (1) address the research and (2) other contributions to paleoenvironmental change research made by the nominee over their career. Nominations from past years are eligible for resubmission.