Certificates of Merit: 1980s (1987-1989)

1989

Sara L. Aliaga and Aura Murrieta, Peruvian Association for Conservation of Nature (APECO), Lima, Peru
"Biodigesters in Schools as a Tool for Environmental Education"

Michael S. Clark, Environmental Policy Institute, Washington, D.C.
"Creating Better Balance in International Lending Patterns: Bankrolling Successes in Small Scale, More Environmentally, Socially and Ecologically Sound Projects in the Philippines"

Barry Dellinger, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio
"Destruction of Hazardous Organic Wastes Using Concentrated Solar Radiation"

Julie Hirsch, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona
"Increasing the Efficiency of Rural Sewage Treatment"

Mihaly Horanyi, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
"The Balance Between Our Expanding Space Activities and Near Earth Environment"

Jay K. Kirkpatrick, Eastern Montana College, Billings, Montana
"Sex and Age-Class Determination in Uncaptured Grizzly Bears (Ursus arctos)"

William Langbauer and Katharine Payne, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
"The Long Distance Functions of Elephants' Infrasonic Calls: Using Technology to Broaden Our Understanding of Aspects of the Natural World Lying Outside the Limits of Human Perception"

William Morgan, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
"Reconciling History and the Automobile in the Monadnock Region: The Environment and Progress Along Route 101"

Elizabeth Dixon Pierson, University of California, Berkeley, California
"Samoan Flying Foxes, Rain Forest, and Man: An Ecological Balance in Peril"

Elaine Marina Solowey, Ben Gurion University, Kibbutz Ketura, Israel
"Balancing Technology and Environmental Need in a Search for New Crops for Arid and Saline Lands"

Thomas H. Suchanek, University of California, Davis, California
"In-Situ Studies of Bioturbation and Radionuclide Biolaccumulation at the Farallon Islands Nuclear Waste Dump Site"

1988

Phil Brown, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
"Concepts of Risk in the Balance Between Health and Technological Progress"

Guy D. Phillips, Pacific Energy and Resources Center, Sausalito, California
"Rejuvenating the Use of Traditional Samoan Folklore Methods to Maintain Sound Environmental Practices"

Timothy J. and Elizabeth R. Woods, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana
"'Ujamaa' Made Manifest: Balancing Culture, Country and Technology"

1987

Martin T. Katzman, University of Texas at Dallas
"How Market Incentives Can Balance the Environmental Risks and Benefits of High Technology: Lessons for Success"

Ulrich Jorg Krull, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
"Artificial Chemoreception for Environmental and In-vivo Selective Chemical Sensing and Contaminant Control"

Natividad T. Nacianceno, University of the City of Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
"An Alternative Solution to Problems of Waste Disposal and Environmental Sanitation in the City of Manila, Philippines"

David Stock, Stetson University, DeLand, Florida
"Radiation-Damaged DNA Plasmids in Insect Cells: Potential Use of Radiation as an Alternative to Chemical Insect Control"

Michael S. Switzenbaum, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
"Anaerobic Treatment of Domestic Wastewater in Tropical Municipalities with Special Reference to South America"

Anitra Thorhaug, Greater Caribbean Energy & Environment Foundation, Inc., Miami, Florida
"Testing the Balance Between an Oil Spill Clean-up Technology (Various Disperseants) with Critical Fisheries Nursery Habitat Seagrass"