JB Jones Award
Award Recipients
The prestigious J. Benton Jones Jr. Award is given to an individual who has made significant scientific and education contributions to the development and advancement of soil testing and plant analysis and is presented at the closing ceremony of each International Symposium on Soil and Plant Analysis.
Nominations for the JB Jones award are accepted in the fall of the year prior to the next ISSPA symposium.
J. Benton Jones Jr.
1st ISSPA - 1989 - Fresno, California USA
Victor Houba
Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
2nd ISSPA - 2001 - Orlando, Florida USA
Yash Kalra
Forestry Canada, Edmonton, Canada
3rd ISSPA -1993 - Olympia, Washington USA
Nat Dellavalle
Dellavalle Laboratory, Fresno, California, USA
4th ISSPA - 1995 -Wageningen, The Netherlands
Wayne Sabbe
University of Arkansas, USA
5th ISSPA - 1997- Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
Umesh Gupta
Agri-Food Canada, PEI
6th ISSPA - 1999 - Brisbane, Australia
Ted Peck
University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois USA
7th ISSPA - 2001- Edmonton, Alberta Canada
George Rayment
ASPAC Queensland, Australia
8th ISSPA -2003 - Somerset West, South Africa
Malcom Sumner
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia USA
9th ISSPA -2005 - Cancun, Mexico
John Ryan
Ireland
10th ISSPA - 2007 - Budapest, Hungary
Tamás Németh
Institute of Soil Science, Budapest, Hungary
11th ISSPA - 2009 - Santa Rosa, California USA
Ray Ward
Ward Laboratory, Kearney, Nebraska USA
12th ISSPA - 2011 - Chania, Greece
Arrie van Vuuren
Triomf Advanced Nutrients, Johannesburg, South Africa
13th ISSPA - 2013 - Queenstown, New Zealand
David Kissel
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia USA
14th ISSPA - 2015 - Kona, Hawaii USA
Dr. Abdul Rashid
Land Resources Research, NARC, Pakistan
15th ISSPA - 2017 - Nanjing, China
Roger Hill
Hill Laboratories, Hamilton, New Zealand
16th ISSPA - 2019 - Wageningen, The Netherlands
Dr. Robert Miller
Agricultural Laboratory Proficiency Program, Windsor Colorado
17th ISSPA - 2023 - Concepción, Chile