EGU announces its 2023 awards and medals!
30 November 2022
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) has named the 47 recipients of next year’s Union Medals and Awards, Division Medals, and Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards. These individuals are honoured for their important contributions to the Earth, planetary and space sciences. They will be celebrated during the EGU General Assembly 2023, which will be held from 23–28 April.
The following individuals will receive 2023 Union Medals and Awards:
| Harry Vereecken | Alfred Wegener Medal |
| Jonathan Amos | Angela Croome Award |
| Tjalling de Haas | Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| Jessica McBeck | Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| Harry Zekollari | Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| Wim Thiery | Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| Mathilde Cannat | Arthur Holmes Medal |
| Athena Coustenis | Jean Dominique Cassini Medal |
| Sam Illingworth | Katia and Maurice Krafft Award |
The following individuals will receive 2023 Division Medals:
| Ravendra Naidu | Alina Kabata-Pendias Medal |
| Thorsten W. Becker | Augustus Love Medal |
| Maurizio Fedi | Christiaan Huygens Medal |
| Alberto Naveira Garabato | Fridtjof Nansen Medal |
| Hugues Goosse | Hans Oeschger Medal |
| Marc F.P. Bierkens | Henry Darcy Medal |
| David A. T. Harper | Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal |
| Taikan Oki | John Dalton Medal |
| Etienne Berthier | Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal |
| Hermann Opgenoorth | Julius Bartels Medal |
| Angelo Vulpiani | Lewis Fry Richardson Medal |
| Bette L. Otto-Bliesner | Milutin Milankovic Medal |
| Lisa Tauxe | Petrus Peregrinus Medal |
| Andreas A. Richter | Philippe Duchaufour Medal |
| Alberto Viglione | Plinius Medal |
| Dimitri Lague | Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal |
| Susan L. S. Stipp | Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal |
| Tristan Guillot | Runcorn-Florensky Medal |
| Peng Cui | Sergey Soloviev Medal |
| Richard G. Gordon | Stephan Mueller Medal |
| Jürgen Müller | Vening Meinesz Medal |
| Christoph Schär | Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal |
| Tom Battin | Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal |
The following individuals will receive 2023 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards:
| Guangjie Zheng | Atmospheric Sciences (AS) Division |
| Hana Jurikova | Biogeosciences (BG) Division |
| Alexandra R. L. Kushnir | Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics (EMRP) Division |
| Johannes Miocic | Energy, Resources and the Environment (ERE) Division |
| Xin Zhong | Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (GMPV) Division |
| Rebekka Steffen | Geodesy (G) Division |
| Ágnes Király | Geodynamics (GD) Division |
| Mezgeen Rasol | Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems (GI) Division |
| Inge de Graaf | Hydrological Sciences (HS) Division |
| Ankit Agarwal | Natural Hazards (NH) Division |
| Florian Börgel | Ocean Sciences (OS) Division |
| Tim Lichtenberg | Planetary and Solar System Sciences (PS) Division |
| Gina Garland | Soil System Sciences (SSS) Division |
| Stephan G. Heinemann | Solar-Terrestrial Sciences (ST) Division |
| Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr | Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (SSP) Division |
This year the EGU Awards Committee received 159 eligible nominations, approximately 32% of which were female, although it must be noted that the gender of nominees is only assumed and not confirmed. Approximately 30% of this year’s awardees are female. For more information about the awards above, including a full list of the various award panel judges, application and selection criteria and how to apply, please visit the Awards & Medals page.
In addition to the Union and Division Awards and Medals, the EGU also bestows a number of awards to students taking part in its annual General Assembly. These OSPP Awards aim to further improve the overall quality of poster and PICO presentations and foster students’ excitement to present their research at a large scientific conference. The list of recipients of the 2022 OSPP Awards is now available online. For more information about the OSPP awards, including application criteria and how to apply in 2023, please check the OSPP page.
Contact
Thomas Blunier
Chair of the EGU Awards Committee
Email awards.medals@egu.eu
Hazel Gibson
EGU Head of Communications
Email communications@egu.eu