Fair Medal

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.


Fair Winner

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.

 

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