Dr. Benny Gallaway (7 April 1944−11 November 2025) was the President of LGL Ecological Research Associates, Inc. in Bryan, Texas, and had been a Senior Fisheries and Marine Ecologist with the LGL since 1974. Dr. Gallaway had decades of experience dealing with the environmental impacts and effects of nearly every phase of oil and gas development in both the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.

In addition to numerous site- and incident-specific studies, Dr. Gallaway had been the senior investigator for many programs that reviewed and synthesized historic information pertaining to the effects of petroleum production in coastal and offshore waters. These included An Ecosystem Analysis of Oil and Gas Development on the Texas−Louisiana Continental Shelf, published by the Office of Biological Services, US Fish and Wildlife Service (OBS/USFWS); Ecology of Petroleum Platforms in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico: A Community Profile, also published by OBS/USFWS; Environmental Trends in the Gulf of Mexico in the 20th Century: The Role of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry for the American Petroleum Institute; Cumulative Ecological Significance of Oil and Gas Structures in the Gulf of Mexico: A Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Habitat Suitability Model for the US Geological Survey and the Minerals Management Service; the Arctic Anadromous Fish Database for Standard Alaska Production Company; the Endicott Development Project Synthesis (1991–1996) for BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc.; the Bering Sea Biology Environmental Database for SOHIO Alaska Petroleum Company; and Selected Aspects of the Ecology of the Continental Slope Fauna of the Gulf of Mexico for the Minerals Management Service.

Dr. Gallaway also served as senior scientist for a survey of a BP Exploration deep-water synthetic drilling fluid and cuttings disposal site in MMS Lease Block Viosca Knoll 989. Over his career, Dr. Gallaway authored nearly 200 scientific papers and reports, including more than 60 publications in the peer-reviewed literature. His legacy will continue to shape our field well into the future.