AMPP Announces 2025 Annual Service and Technical Awards Winners
AMPP AWARDS · INDUSTRY RECOGNITION
AMPP’s 2025 Annual Service and Technical Awards recognized individuals, organizations, authors, and project teams for contributions to corrosion control, protective coatings, asset integrity, technical research, education, service, and materials protection.
The 2025 honorees represented a wide range of disciplines and career stages—from early-career professionals and educators to researchers, project teams, organizations, and long-serving industry leaders.
2025 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT
AMPP announced these recipients on January 7, 2025. The honorees were recognized in connection with AMPP Annual Conference + Expo 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. Event and ticket information from that conference has been removed from the active article because the event has passed.
2025 RECOGNITION
Awards across the materials protection community
- Service and Technical Awards recognizing individual and organizational contributions
- Publication Awards recognizing technical authorship and research
- AMPP Fellow honors recognizing distinguished professional achievement
- Conference recognition for technical work presented through AMPP
- Project Awards recognizing outstanding materials protection projects and teams
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About the awards · Service & Technical · Publications · AMPP Fellows · Conference Award · Project Awards · About AMPP
Recognizing Excellence Across Materials Protection
AMPP’s Annual Service and Technical Awards highlight contributions that advance corrosion control, protective coatings, asset integrity, engineering, education, technical research, industry service, and the broader materials protection profession.
“This year’s honorees exemplify innovation, collaboration, and a commitment to excellence.”
— Rebecca Griebe, Senior Director of User Experience, AMPP
2025 Service and Technical Award Recipients
WILLIS WHITNEY TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Narasi Sridhar
JOYCE WRIGHT INDUSTRY IMPACT AWARD
Abigail Amu
OLIVER MOGHISSI ASSET INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT AWARD
Faisal Mohammed Al-Abbas, Tom Pickthall, Hasan Sabri
ELAINE BOWMAN DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
Evan Bloomfield, Nafiseh Ebrahimi, Manuela Malfanti, Suryani, Harsh Zala
RUSSELL BRANNON & JOHN KEANE SIGNATURE AWARD
William Hedges
CHRISTOPHER M. FOWLER AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Roger Francis
EDUCATOR AWARD · IN HONOR OF RICHARD DRISKO
Sjon Westre
EARLY CAREER EXCELLENCE AWARD
Abdullah M. Al-Ratoee
OLADIS TROCONIS DE RINCÓN FIELD APPLIED TECHNOLOGY AWARD
Helena Alves, Warren Green, Karthik Krishnan, Nicolas Larche, Christina Stewart
DISTINGUISHED ORGANIZATION AWARD
Belzona, BP, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), Penspen, PETRONAS
2025 Publications Awards
IVY M. PARKER BEST PAPER IN CORROSION JOURNAL
Ryan Katona, Erin Karasz, Rebecca Schalle
A Review of the Governing Factors in Pit-to-Crack Transitions of Metallic Structures
MATERIALS PERFORMANCE & COATINGSPRO MAGAZINE AWARD
Michael Winter, et al.
Defining Solvent Free Coatings – A Volatile Subject
2025 AMPP Fellows
The 2025 Fellow honorees included:
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
AMPP Annual Conference + Expo Award
2025 RECIPIENT
Adsorption of Model Inhibitor Compound Characterized Using Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation Monitoring
2025 Project Award Recipients
OUTSTANDING ENGINEERING IN MATERIALS PROTECTION OR REMEDIATION
OPTI-EX (Who Dat) · Offshore Gulf of Mexico
Structure owner: LLOG Exploration
Engineer: Sami Abu-Zahra
COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD
The Way at Laumeier Sculpture Park · Sappington, Missouri, USA
Structure owner: Laumeier Sculpture Park
Contractor: Blackline Construction
Applicator: Coatings Unlimited
Coating material supplier: Carboline
EXCELLENCE IN MANAGEMENT OF A COMPLEX MATERIALS PROTECTION PROJECT · IN HONOR OF GEORGE CAMPBELL
Octopus Mountain 160-ft Communication Tower Recoating · Kitsap, Washington, USA
Structure owner: NAVFAC
Contractor: Site Master
Coating material supplier: Sherwin Williams
Consultant: DPSI
EXCELLENCE IN TECHNICAL SUPPORT OF MATERIALS PROTECTION SYSTEMS
Cylindrical Pressure Vessel · La Porte, Texas, USA
Structure owner: Belzona Houston
Contractor: BHI Coatings
Coating material supplier: Belzona Houston
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN COATINGS WORK IN A FIXED SHOP PROJECT · IN HONOR OF ERIC KLINE
Texas Shipyard · Galveston, Texas, USA
Contractor/applicator: BHI Coatings
Coating material supplier: Belzona Houston
Engineer: Belzona Houston
Consultant: Stefan Trosclair
THE BIGGER PICTURE
Materials protection advances through people, research, projects, and collaboration.
The range of 2025 awards reflects how many different contributions are required to protect infrastructure and improve materials performance—from technical research and education to field execution, project management, professional service, and organizational leadership.
About AMPP
The Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP) is a global professional association focused on corrosion control, protective coatings, asset protection, and materials performance.
AMPP was established in 2021 through the combination of NACE International and SSPC: The Society for Protective Coatings, bringing together long-standing technical expertise, education, standards, certification, publications, and professional communities.
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