ASPO-USA Awards

2009

M. King Hubbert Award

• Robert Hirsch, Senior Energy Program Advisor at SAIC, Senior Energy Advisor at MISI, and a consultant in energy, technology, and management. Project leader of “Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation and Risk Management” (2005), aka the “Hirsch report.”

ASPO-USA’s Whipple Volunteer of the Year Award

• Roger Bezdek, president of Management Information Services Inc. (MISI), co-author of the Hirsch report.

2008

M. King Hubbert Awards

• Julian Darley of Global Public Media.
• Kyle Saunders representing The Oil Drum.

ASPO-USA’s Whipple Volunteer of the Year Award

• John Theobald, University of California, Davis.

For elected officials:

The Congressman Roscoe Bartlett Award for speaking out on peak oil.

• Connecticut State Rep. Terry Backer
• Huntington Beach, California Mayor Debbie Cook (candidate for US Congress in 2008 and ASPO-USA board member)

2007

M. King Hubbert Awards

• Henry Groppe, oil industry analyst
• Charles T. Maxwell, oil industry investment analyst

ASPO-USA’s Whipple Volunteer of the Year Award

• Rick Block received the 2007 award for his considerable help with ASPO’s 2006 conference in Boston.  Rick is now serving ASPO-USA as our Board Treasurer.

2006

M. King Hubbert Award

• Congressman Roscoe Bartlett, most outspoken elected official in the US on this issue
• Richard Heinberg, author, lecturer on peak oil and related topics

ASPO-USA Volunteer of the Year Award

• Tom Whipple; ASPO-USA then named the award after him because otherwise he would win the award every year for writing our daily Peak Oil News.

2005

First Annual M. King Hubbert Award

• L.F. “Buzz” Ivanhoe, geophysicist
• Dr. Albert Bartlett, Prof. Emeritus University of Colorado at Boulder, population expert, 1600+ presentations to the public, from 1978 - 2008, on our long term energy problems
• Dr. Walter Youngquist, retired geologist, author of “Geodestinies”
• Matthew R. Simmons, investment banker, author, speaker