2020 - present
- 2025 Karen Wiltshire (Ireland)
- 2024 William Cheung (Canada)
- 2023 Michael Follows (USA)
- 2022 Uta Passow (Germany)
- 2021 Shubha Sathyendranath (UK)
- 2020 John Marshall (USA)
2010 - 2019
- 2019 Adina Paytan (USA)
- 2018 Terence Hughes (Australia)
- 2017 Jeffrey Hutchings (Canada)
- 2016 Benjamin Halpern (USA)
- 2015 Philip Boyd (Ireland)
- 2014 Edward DeLong (USA)
- 2013 Scott Doney (USA)
- 2012 Katrina J. Edwards (USA)
- 2011 Andrew J. Weaver (Canada)
- 2010 Curtis A. Suttle (Canada)
2000 - 2009
- 2009 James P.M. Syvitski (USA/Canada)
- 2008 Roger François (Canada)
- 2007 Thomas Kiørboe (Denmark)
- 2006 not awarded
- 2005 Robert F. Anderson (USA)
- 2005 Trevor J. McDougall (Australia)
- 2005 Edouard Bard (France)
- 2005 Sallie (Penny) W. Chisholm (USA)
- 2004 not awarded
- 2003 Lynne Talley (USA)
- 2002 Donald W. Forsyth (USA)
- 2001 David M. Karl (USA)
- 2000 William Jenkins (UK)
1990 - 1999
- 1999 I. Nicholas McCave (UK)
- 1998 Paul Falkowski (USA)
- 1997 Russ E. Davis (USA)
- 1996 Robert Detrick (USA)
- 1995 Victor S. Smetacek (Germany)
- 1994 Edward A. Boyle (USA)
- 1993 Robert A. Berner (USA)
- 1992 Trevor Platt (Canada)
- 1991 Gabriel T. Csanady (USA)
- 1990 Nicholas J. Shackleton (UK)
1980 - 1989
- 1989 Lawrence Pomeroy (USA)
- 1988 Carl Wunsch (USA)
- 1987 Xavier LePichon (France)
- 1986 Tom Fenchel (Denmark)
- 1985 Wallace S. Broecker (USA)
- 1984 Wolfgang H. Berger (USA)
- 1983 Reuben Lasker (USA)
- 1982 Christopher J.R. Garrett (Canada)
- 1981 John Tuzo Wilson (Canada)
- 1980 Dan Peter MacKenzie (UK)
- 1980 Henry Melson Stommel (USA)
- 1980 Ramon Margalef (Spain)
