Louisiana Urban Forestry Council, "U. S. Landscape Ordinances, John Wiley & Sons."

Louisiana ASLA Merit Award, "Annotated Landscape Ordinance Research."

Louisiana Urban Forestry Council Research Award, "Hurricane Resistant Landscapes."

Louisiana ASLA Honor Award, "Hurricane Resistant Landscapes," Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Louisiana Merit Award, Concept Plan, Affiliated Blind of Louisiana Campus, Lafayette, Louisiana.

Louisiana Merit Award, "Dow Chemical Company Visual Assessment" Plaquemine, Louisiana.

Landscape Excellence Award , The Baton Rouge Rose Society, Public Rose Garden, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Louisiana Urban Forestry Council Education Award to the Louisiana Nurserymen Association for Prof. Abbey's project "Landscape Ordinances in Louisiana."

Louisiana ASLA President's Award Of Excellence "History of Louisiana Country Music."

Louisiana ASLA Merit Award, "Landscape Ordinances in Louisiana."
Louisiana ASLA Service Award, "Promotion Of The Profession"

Texarkana Chamber of Commerce, Civic Beautification Award St. Michael's Hospital, Texarkana, Arkansas.

Louisiana State Arts Council Fellowship 1987-1988.

Louisiana Recreation and Park Association, Distinguished Service Award for "outstanding contribution to the general field of recreation and parks."

Other awards include The Louisiana Swamp Exhibit at the Audubon Zoological Park with participation as a consultant with Design Consortium Ltd, who won a National Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects. Another project, The Pennington Biomedical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with participation as a member of a faculty team at LSU, who won an Honor Award from the Louisiana Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.