Gordon Maskew Fair Award

The Gordon Maskew Fair Award honors one of the pioneers of environmental engineering, Dean Fair. In addition to his own exemplary career, his living legacy includes hundreds of prominent practicing engineers and eminent professors who continue to emulate his values. He taught his students not only the technical aspects of the field but inspired them to use their skills to protect and enhance environmental quality.

Through the Fair Award, the Academy seeks to identify Board Certified Environmental Engineers, Members or Scientists who have contributed to the status of the environmental engineering or science professions by:

Exemplary professional conduct
Recognized achievements in the practice of environmental engineering and science
Significant contributions to the control of the quality of the world's environment

For the full list of eligibility criteria and information on how you can submit nominations for a worthy Environmental Engineer or Scientist, click here.

2023 Gordon Maskew Fair Award Recipient

Morton A. Barlaz, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE

Dr. Morton A. Barlaz is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin. He joined NC State in 1989 and served as Department Head from 2010 - 2022.

He has conducted extensive research on landfills including biological refuse decomposition, methane production, the fate of hazardous wastes, policies for their long-term management after closure, the release of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and factors contributing to heat generation and accumulation. Dr. Barlaz is also recognized for his research on the use of life-cycle analysis to evaluate environmental emissions associated with alternate solid waste management strategies. Dr. Barlaz has published over 150 peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. Barlaz served as co-Editor-in-Chief of Waste Management from 2018 - 2020 and has served as co-chair of the Global Waste Management Symposium since 2008. He previously served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Environmental Engineering and co-chair of the bi-annual Intercontinental Landfill Research Symposium. He was previously awarded the Perry L. McCarty Founders’ Award and the Frederick George Pohland Medal by the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) and AAEES, the Richard I. Stessel Waste Management Award by the Air & Waste Management Association and is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, AEESP and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Past Recipients

Year	Recipient
2022	Daigger, Glen T.
2021	Tobiason, John
2020	Reible, Danny
2019	Dzombak, David A.
2018	Reinhart, Debra R.
2017	Hickox, Stephen J.
2016	Rittmann, Bruce
2015	Luthy, Richard G.
2014	McCarty, Perry
2013	Lawrence, Alonzo W.
2012	Sproul, Otis J.
2012	Huang, C. P.
2011	Shuval, Hillel I.
2010	Surampalli, Rao Y.
2009	Wilson, Thomas E.
2008	Haug, R. Tim
2007	Stahl, Jim F.
2006	Singer, Philip C.
2005	Marini, Robert C.
2004	Conway, Richard A.
2003	Johnson, Jr., Charles C.
2002	Schad, Theodore M.
2001	Lue-Hing, Cecil
2000	Pohland, Frederick G.
1999	Eckenfelder, W. Wesley
1998	Orlob, Gerald T.
1997	Woodruff, Paul H.
1996	Loehr, Raymond J.
1995	Weber, Jr., Walter J.
1994	Gilbert, Jerome B.
1993	Sorber, Charles A.
1992	Carroll, William J.
1991	Busch, Paul L.
1990	Garrison, Walter E.
1989	Geyer, John C.
1988	Longest, II, Henry L.
1987	Canham, Robert A.
1986	Lagnese, Jr., Joseph F.
1985	Bacon, Vinton W.
1984	Malina, Jr., Joseph F.
1983	Stern, Arthur C.
1982	Gloyna, Earnest F.
1981	Rohlich, Gerard A.
1980	Gibbs, William R.
1979	Lawler, Joseph C.
1978	Kappe, Stanley E.
1977	Weston, Roy F.
1976	Boyce, Earnest
1975	Gilbertson, Wesley E.
1974	Butrico, Frank A.
1973	Ludwig, John H.
1972	Okun, Daniel A.
1971	Coulter, James B.