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| 2019 | Dan Gessler, PhD, PE, D.WRE, Vice President, Alden Research Laboratory, Inc. | "The Role of Models in the Design of the Lower Mississippi River" |
| 2018 | Daniele Lantagne, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University | "Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Engineering in International Humanitarian Response: Lessons from Haiti and Worldwide" |
| 2017 |
Don Scavia, Ph.D., Professor & Director, Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute, University of Michigan | "Lake Erie’s Death, Resurrection, Re-Death, and the Role of Models in Guiding a Re-Resurrection" |
| 2016 |
Prof. John H. Lienhard, Director, Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
"Desalination for water supply:Is energy consumption manageable?"
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| 2015 | John Cherry, Ph.D., P.E., Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo | "Shale Gas Development: A Big Environmental Experiment?" |
| 2014 | Perry L. McCarty, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Stanford University | "Capturing Domestic Wastewater's Resource Potentials" |
| 2013 |
Lawrence J. Murphy,
P.E., CDM-Smith | "Hurricane Storm Barrier Design and Operation" |
| 2012 |
Dr. Richard N. Palmer Department Head and Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | "Climate Change and Water Resources: Characterizing Uncertainties for Decision Makers" |
| 2011 | Vladimir Novotny, Ph.D., P.E., D.E.E. |
"Closing the Water Cycle, Recovering Energy and Resources in Future Sustainable Communities"
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| 2010 |
Steven C. Chapra, Ph.D. Professor and Berger Chair, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Tufts University | |
| 2009 |
Paul V. Rush, P.E., New York City Department of Environmental Protection |
"Big City, Big Aqueduct, Big Challenge: Planning Repairs of NYC’s Leaking Delaware Aqueduct" |
| 2008 | Brendan M. Harley, CDM Inc. | "Singapore's Marina Barrage" |
| 2007 | Denis R. LeBlanc, U.S. Geological Survey |
"Cape Cod's Billion Dollar Ground-Water Cleanup: The Hydrologic Story" |
| 2006 | Eugene Z. Stakhiv, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers | "Integrated Water Resources Management in the Midst of Chaos and Caducity: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina" |
| 2005 | Peter Rogers, Harvard | "Global Water Crises: Myth or Reality?" |
| 2004 | Donald Harleman, MIT and Rafael Bras, MIT | "Saving Venice from High Tides: The Case for Mobile Gates" |
| 2003 | Charles Harvey, MIT | "The Arsenic Crisis in Bangladesh" |
| 2002 | Frederick Laskey, MWRA and Kevin Reilly, EPA | "Security of Metro-Boston's Water Supply" |
| 2001 | Henning Moe, CDM and Sava Nedic, Metcalf & Eddy Inc. | "Water Supply in Palestine." |
| 2000 | Douglas MacDonald, MWRA | "What Does the Future hold for Greater Boston's Water Supply?" |
| 1999 | Jörg Imberger, U. Western Australia | "Mixing and Transport in Lakes: Consequenses for Water Quality Management." |
| 1998 | David Schindler, U. Alberta | "Interactions Among Climate Warming, Acid Rain and Stratospheric Ozone" |
| 1997 | Cancelled due to snow storm | |
| 1996 | Robert Goodland, World Bank, Dai Qing, Author of Yangtze! Yangtze!, and Phillip Williams, International Rivers Network | "The Big Dam Debate: Are Large Multi-Purpose Dams Sustainable? |
| 1995 | Harry Hemond, MIT and Bill Thilly, MIT | "Wells G and H Revisited: Evaluation of routes and amounts of community exposure to toxic metals via municipal water supply" |
| 1994 | Dominic DiToro, Hydroqual | "Estuaries in Peril? Case studies of Chesapeak Bay, New York Harbor, Long Island Sound and Mass/Cape Cod Bays" |
| 1993 | Angelos Findikakis, Bechtel, Tom Fredette, Army Corps of Engineers, and Henry Bokuniewiecz, SUNY, Stony Brook | "Disposal of Contaminated Marine Sediments" |
| 1992 | John L. Wilson, New Mexico Tech | "Why are we failing in our approach to cleaning up contaminated groundwater?" |
| 1991 | Gene Suhr, CH2M-Hill, Eric Adams, MIT, Wolfgang Schiller, EAWAG | "Combined Sewer Overflows in Metropolitan Boston: structural and operational controls" |
| 1990 | Ed Scheader, NYDEP, Paul Levy, MWRA, and Marcis Kempe, MWRA | "Water supply planning: a tale of two cities" |
| 1989 | Richard Wetherald, GFD Lab (Princeton), Charles W. Stockton, Lab for Tree Ring Research (U Arizona), and Peter Gleick, Pacific Inst. (Berkeley) | "Climate, Hydrology, and Water Supply" |
| 1988 | Norman Brooks, Cal Tech, Cecil Lue-Hing, Metro Sanitary Comm (Chicago), Richard Fox, MWRA, Jonathan French, CDM, and Donald R. F. Harleman, MIT | "Boston Harbor: Engineering and Technical Issues" |
| 1987 | George Pinder, Princeton | "The Tragedy of Woburn- A Study of Groundwater Stimulation and Litigation." |
| 1982 | Gerhard H. Jirka | "Multiport Diffusers for Heat Disposal- A Summary" |
| 1977 | Peter S. Eagleson | "The Annual Water Balance, An Introduction to New and Powerful Methods of Hydrology." |
| 1974 | Donald R. F. Harleman | "Heat Disposal in Water Environment." |
| 1973 | Harry Headland | "Hydroelectric Pumped Storage - Some Aspects of the Western European Scene" |
| 1972 | Ven Te Chow | "Hydrologic Modeling" |
| 1971 | Arthur T. Ippen | "A New Look at Sediment Transport in Turbulent Streams." |
| 1970 | Klas Cederwall | "Dispersion Phenomena in Coastal Environments." |
| 1968 | John Parmakian | "Unusual Aspects of Hydraulic Transients in Pumping Plants." |
| 1967 | Hans Gerber | "European Experience with the Thermodynamic Method." |
| 1966 | Hunter Rouse | "Jet Diffusion and Cavitation." |