The Peter M. Hauer Spelean History Award

The American Spelean History Association presents the annual Peter M. Hauer Spelean History Award each year to an individual for outstanding work in the field of cave history.  The Award recipient is selected by an Awards Committee and the Award is presented at the National Speleological Society's annual convention.

The Award was started in 1979 and a list of recipients is below:

1979     Kevin Downey 1980     Jack Speece 1981     Anne Whittemore 1982     Joel Sneed 1983     Larry O. Blair 1984     Marion O. Smith 1985     Trevor R. Shaw 1986     Gary K. Soule 1987     Angelo I. George 1988     William R. Halliday 1989     Russell H. Gurnee 1990     Larry E. Matthews 1991     Cato Holler 1992     Dean H. Snyder 1993     Chris Howes 1994     Stephen A. Craven 1995     Fred Grady 1996     Paul Damon 1997     Tom and Kim Metzgar 1998     Joseph C. Douglas 1999     Charles J. DeCroix 2000     Dale R. Ibberson

2001     Robert H. Thompson 2002     John C. Taylor 2003     Dan Snyder 2004     Roger Brucker 2005     Greg Brick 2006     Tom Lera 2007     Robert Hoke 2008     Jim Whidby 2009     Carl E. Kunath 2010     no award 2011     Richard J. Rhinehart 2012     Gordon Smith 2013     Stanley Sides 2014     John Benton 2015     H. Dwight Weaver 2016     David Hughes 2017     Chris Nicola 2018     Donald Davis 2019     Ernst Kastning 2020     Gary O'Dell