MG Anderson Awards

MG Anderson Editors' Choice Award for Outstanding Paper of the Year

To celebrate Professor Malcolm Anderson’s role as the founder of Hydrological Processes and to acknowledge his important and long-lasting contributions to the journal, a new award has been established to commend one outstanding paper every year (one per volume) for its contribution to the field of hydrological processes. The award is not designed to honour the most cited paper, but will recognize originality, advancement to the field and likely exceptional influence on the community.

The Editors and Associate Editors will use reviewers’ comments as well as the criteria listed below to produce a shortlist of contenders. This information will be gathered throughout the year with the aim to collect all nominations by 30 December for a paper that has appeared in an issue in that calendar year. The Editors will review these nominations in January and the award will be presented in February. The award will initially be sent to the authors of the selected paper, but will also be presented to the authors in person at the Wiley booth at either the following EGU or AGU.

Criteria

The paper should necessarily:

  • Be original
  • Advance our understanding of hydrological processes with new concepts, theories or results
  • Contain outstanding novel contributions to the wider international community interested in hydrological processes

 

Award Winners

2024

Many congratulations to the winners of 2024 MG Anderson Editors' Choice Award for Outstanding Paper of the Year: Shyanika Lakmali, Richard G. Benyon, Gary J. Sheridan and Patrick N. J. Lane for their paper: Increasing fire frequency may trigger eco-hydrologic divergence

2023

Many congratulations to the winners of 2023 MG Anderson Editors' Choice Award for Outstanding Paper of the Year: Andy J. Baird, and Rob G. Low for their paper: The water table: Its conceptual basis, its measurement and its usefulness as a hydrological variable


2022

Many congratulations to the winners of 2022 MG Anderson Editors' Choice Award for Outstanding Paper of the Year: Susan L. Brantley, and Marina I. Lebedeva for their paper: Relating land surface, water table, and weathering fronts with a conceptual valve model for headwater catchments


2021

Many congratulations to the winners of 2021 MG Anderson Editors' Choice Award for Outstanding Paper of the Year: Nicolas B. Rodriguez, Paolo Benettin, and Julian Klaus for their paper: Multimodal Water Age Distributions and the Challenge of Complex Hydrological Landscapes

2020

Many congratulations to the winners of 2020 MG Anderson Editors' Choice Award for Outstanding Paper of the Year: Arik Tashie, Charles I. Scaife, and Lawrence E. Band for their paper: Transpiration and subsurface controls of streamflow recession characteristics.


2019

Many congratulations to the winners of the 2019 MG Anderson Editors' Choice Award for Outstanding Paper of the Year: Brady A. Flinchum, W. Steen Holbrook, Dario Grana, Andrew D. Parsekian, Bradley J. Carr, Jorden L. Hayes and Jianying Jiao for their paper: Estimating the water holding capacity of the critical zone using near-surface geophysics.


2018

Many congratulations to the winners of the 2018 MG Anderson Editors' Choice Award for Outstanding Paper of the Year: Ryan J. McCutcheon, James P. McNamara, Matthew J. Kohn and Samantha L. Evans for their paper: An evaluation of the ecohydrological separation hypothesis in a semiarid catchment.


2017

Many congratulations to the winners of the 2017 MG Anderson Award Outstanding Paper of the Year: Pedro Hervé-Fernández, Carlos Oyarzún, Christophe Brumbt, Dries Huygens, Samuel Bodé, Niko Verhoest, and Pascal Boeckx, for their paper: Assessing the ‘two water worlds’ hypothesis and water sources for native and exotic evergreen species in south-central Chile.

2016

Many congratulations to the winners of the 2016 MG Anderson Award Outstanding Paper of the Year: Ype van der Velde, Ingo Heidbüchel, Steve W. Lyon, Lars Nyberg, Allan Rodhe, Kevin Bishop and Peter A. Troch, for their paper: Consequences of mixing assumptions for time-variable travel time distributions

2015

We are pleased to announce that the winners of the MG Anderson Award for Outstanding Paper of the Year were Sarah E Godsey and Jim W Kirchner for their paper Dynamic, discontinuous stream networks: hydrologically driven variations in active drainage density, flowing channels and stream order