2025 Award Recipients

Service and technical awards

Elaine Bowman Distinguished Service Award

Recipients: 
Evan Bloomfield
Manuela Malfanti
Nafiseh Ebrahimi
Harsh Zala
Suryani

Joyce Wright Industry Impact Award

Recipient: Abigail Amu

Oliver Moghissi Asset Integrity Management Award

Recipients: 
Faisal Mohammed Al-Abbas
Tom Pickthall
Hasan Sabri

Early Career Excellence Award 

Recipient: Abdullah M. Al-Ratoee

Distinguished Organization Award 

Recipients: 
Belzona
BP
Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)
Penspen
Petronas

Willis Whitney Technical Achievement Award

Recipient: Narasi Sridhar

Oladis Troconis de Rincón Field Applied Technology Award

Recipients: 
Helena Alves
Warren Green
Karthik Krishnan
Nicolas Larche
Christina Stewart

Fellow Honor

Recipients: 
David Bastidas
Ronald Bianchetti
Bruce Brown
Tingyue Gu
Julio Maldonado
Roberto Malfanti
Jeremy Moloney
R.G. Pillai
Lee Smith
Dominique Thierry
Mark Wilms
Yu Yan

Christopher M. Fowler Award for International Cooperation

Recipient: Roger Francis

Russell Brannon & John Keane Signature Award

Recipient: Bill Hedges

AMPP Awards Educator Award - Richard Drisko

Recipient: Sjon Westre

AMPP Annual Conference + Expo

Recipient: Adsorption of Model Inhibitor Compound Characterized Using Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation Monitoring

Materials Performance or CoatingsPro Magazine 

Recipient: Defining Solvent Free Coatings - a Volatile Subject Michael Winter, et al

Ivy M. Parker Best Paper in CORROSION journal Award 

Recipient: Ryan Katona, Erin Karasz and Rebecca Schalle - A Review of the Governing Factors in Pit-to-Crack Transitions of Metallic Structures

Project awards

Outstanding Engineering in the Area of Materials Protection or Remediation

Recipient: OPTI-EX (Who Dat) – Offshore Gulf of Mexico

Structure owner: LLOG Exploration

Engineer: Sami Abu-Zahra

Title: S. Turpin

Community Service Award

Recipient: The Way at Laumeier Sculpture Park – Sappington, Missouri, USA 

Structure owner: Laumeier Sculpture Park 

Contractor: Blackline Construction 

Applicator: Coatings Unlimited 

Title: D. Ferrell 

Coating material supplier: Carboline 

Outstanding Achievement in Coatings Work in a Fixed Shop Project – in honor of Eric Kline

Recipient: Texas Shipyard – Galveston, Texas, USA 

Contractor/applicator: BHI Coatings 

Title: Y. Burova 

Coating material supplier: Belzona Houston 

Engineer: Belzona Houston 

Consultant: Stefan Trosclair

Excellence in Technical Support of Materials Protection Systems

Recipient: Cylindrical Pressure Vessel – La Porte, Texas, USA 

Structure owner: Belzona Houston 

Contractor: BHI Coatings 

Title: Y Burova     

Coating material supplier: Belzona Houston 

Excellence in Management of a Complex Materials Protection Project – in honor of George Campbell 

Recipient: Octopus Mountain 160-ft Communication Tower Recoating – Kitsap, Washington USA 

Structure owner: NAVFAC 

Contractor: Site Master 

Coating material supplier: Sherwin Williams 

Title: B Wilson 

Consultant: DPSI