Awards
During our annual conferences, the SWAT community gives awards recognizing outstanding efforts and achievements in the development and improvement of the SWAT model.
2024 - Strasbourg, France
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Chris George
- Senior Scientist of the Year: Mike White
- Scientist of the Year: Timo Schaffhauser
- Student/Post Doc Award: Osvaldo Luis Barresi
- Student/Post Doc Award: Alejandro Sanchez Gomez
- Mid-Career Researcher Award: Mikolaj Piniewski
- Mid-Career Researcher Award: Monireh Faramarzi
- Team Award: Ukrainian Team
- SWAT Community Appreciation Award: Sylvain Payraudeau
2018 - Brussels, Belgium
- SWAT 2018 Global Ambassador Award: Philip Gassman
- SWAT 2018 Senior Scientist of the Year Award: Antonio Lo Porto
- SWAT 2018 Young Scientist of the Year Award: Saeid Ashraf Vaghefi
- SWAT 2018 Student of the Year Award: Roxelane Cakir
- SWAT 2018 Best Poster Presentation Award: Giovanni Francesco Ricci
- SWAT 2018 Team of the Year Award: GMOD Toulouse Team
- Heads of the group: José-Miguel Sánchez-Pérez, Sabine Siméoni-Sauvage
- Post-Doctorants: Mélanie Raimonet, Santiago Yepez, Maité Meaurio
- Students: Roxelane Cakir, Pankyes Datok, Clément Fabre, Jérémy Guilhen, Himanshu Kankal, Juan-Luis Lechuga, Rebeca Martínez, Xi Wei, Amine Zettam
- SWAT 2018 Support of the Year: Natalja Čerkasova
- SWAT 2018 Support of the Year: Leelambar Singh
- SWAT 2018 Support of the Year: Lakhwinder Singh
2017 - Warsaw, Poland
- Lifetime Contribution: Valentina Krysanova
- SWAT 2017 Scientist of the Year: Ryan Bailey
- SWAT 2017 Young Scientist of the Year: Mikołaj Piniewski
- SWAT 2017 Senior Scientist: Peter Allen
- SWAT 2017 Most Cited Paper: Philip Gassman
- SWAT 2017 Post Doctoral Student of the Year: Yihun Dile
- SWAT 2017 Support of the Year: Nguyen Liem
- SWAT 2017 Team of the Year for the development of Black Sea SWAT model: Dorian Gorgan, Ann van Griensven, Pierluigi Cau, Anthony Lehman, and Karim Abbaspour
2016 - Beijing, China
- SWAT Pioneer in China: Hao Fanghua
- SWAT 2016 Most Cited Paper: Wei Ouyang
- SWAT 2016 Young Scientist of the Year: Xuesong Zhang
2015 - Purdue University, USA
- VIP: Adam Freihoefer - Outstanding leadership of the Midwest Watershed Modeling Users Group
- VIP: Jane Frankenberger - Increased SWAT visibility and use worldwide with production of SWAT instructional videos
- Lifetime Support Award: Nancy Sammons
2015 - Sardinia, Italy
- Best SWAT 2015 Young Scientist Award: Katrin Bieger
- Best SWAT 2015 Senior Scientist Award: Valentina Krysanova
- SWAT 2015 Most Cited Paper Award: Santhi Chinnasamy
- Best SWAT 2015 Student / Post Doc Award: Prasad Daggupati
- Best SWAT 2015 Team Award: CEAP Team
- Best Student Presentation: Anna Malagò
- Best Student Presentation: Xiaoling Sun
2014 - Pernambuco, Brazil
- Best SWAT 2014 Young Scientist Award: Nadia Bonumá
- Best SWAT 2014 Senior Scientist Award: Martin Volk
- SWAT 2014 Most Cited Paper Award: Daniel Moriasi
- SWAT 2014 Support of the Year Award: Karim Abbaspour
- Best SWAT 2014 Student / Post Doc Award: Cibin Raj
- Best SWAT 2014 Oral Presentation: Danielle de Almeida Bressiani
2013 - Toulouse, France
- Best SWAT 2013 Confirmed Research Award: Dr. Karim Abbaspour
- Best SWAT 2013 Young Researcher Award: Dr. Balaji Narasimhan
- Best SWAT 2013 Young Researcher Award: Dr. Jaehak Jeong
- Best SWAT 2013 Student Award: Hendrik Rathjens
- Best SWAT 2013 Team Award: Dr. José Miguel Sanchez Perez and Dr. Sabine Sauvage
- Honorary SWAT 2013 Award: Dr. Allan Jones
- SWAT Ambassador 2013 Award: Dr. Philip Gassman
Please see the awards book for more information about these awards and their recipients.
2011 - Toledo, Spain
SWAT Ambassadors:
- A.K. Gosain
- Allan Jones
- Ann van Griensven
- Antonio Lo Porto
- Attachai Jintrawet
- Fanghua Hao
- Jeffrey Arnold
- Jimmy Williams
- José María Bodoque del Pozo
- Karim Abbaspour
- Nguyen Kim Loi
- Manuel Reyes
- Michael Winchell
- Nam-Won Kim
- Nancy Sammons
- Nicola Fohrer
- Peter Allen
- Philip Gassman
- Raghavan Srinivasan
- Valentina Krysanova
- Chris George
- José Miguel Sanchez Perez