EGU announces 2019 awards and medals
17 October 2018
The EGU has named the 45 recipients of next year’s Union Medals and Awards, Division Medals, and Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Awards. These individuals, from both European and non-European countries, are honoured for their important contributions to the Earth, planetary and space sciences. They will receive their prizes at the EGU 2019 General Assembly, which will take place in Vienna on 7–12 April. The EGU has also announced the winners of the Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards corresponding to the 2018 General Assembly.
The following individuals will receive 2019 Union Medals and Awards:
Michael L. Bender | Alfred Wegener Medal |
Jean Braun | Arthur Holmes Medal |
Margaret G. Kivelson | Jean Dominique Cassini Medal |
Amanda C. Maycock | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
Marie Dumont | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
Mathew Domeier | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
Giulia Sofia | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
The following individuals will receive 2019 Division Medals:
Anne Davaille | Augustus Love Medal |
Annie Souriau | Beno Gutenberg Medal |
Lev V. Eppelbaum | Christiaan Huygens Medal |
Anne-Marie Tréguier | Fridtjof Nansen Medal |
Daniel N. Baker | Hannes Alfvén Medal |
Edward J. Brook | Hans Oeschger Medal |
Petra Döll | Henry Darcy Medal |
Stefano Nativi | Ian McHarg Medal |
Isabel P. Montañez | Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal |
Günter Blöschl | John Dalton Medal |
Masatoshi Yamauchi | Julius Bartels Medal |
Shaun Lovejoy | Lewis Fry Richardson Medal |
Andreas Kääb | Louis Agassiz Medal |
Chris Marone | Louis Néel Medal |
Jacques Laskar | Milutin Milankovic Medal |
Catherine Kissel | Petrus Peregrinus Medal |
Claire Chenu | Philippe Duchaufour Medal |
Philip J. Ward | Plinius Medal |
David L. Egholm | Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal |
Daniela Rubatto | Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal |
Tim Van Hoolst | Runcorn-Florensky Medal |
Kyoji Sassa | Sergey Soloviev Medal |
Serge Lallemand | Stephan Mueller Medal |
Tonie van Dam | Vening Meinesz Medal |
Johannes Lelieveld | Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal |
Kurt O. Konhauser | Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal |
The following individuals will receive 2019 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards:
Gabriele Messori | Atmospheric Sciences (AS) Division |
Benedikt Soja | Geodesy (G) Division |
Evangelos Moulas | Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (GMPV) Division |
Serena Ceola | Hydrological Sciences (HS) Division |
Jadranka Šepić | Natural Hazards (NH) Division |
Peter Landschützer | Ocean Sciences (OS) Division |
John Carter | Planetary and Solar System Sciences (PS) Division |
Piero Poli | Seismology (SM) Division |
Christian Zeeden | Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (SSP) Division |
Bahar S. Razavi | Soil System Sciences (SSS) Division |
Chao Xiong | Solar-Terrestrial Sciences (ST) Division |
Daniel Pastor-Galán | Tectonics and Structural Geology (TS) Division |
The EGU Awards Committee received 177 nominations for the 2019 awards, with 31.1% of them nominating female scientists (about 35.6% of this year’s awardees are female). These numbers represent a significant increase from last year, when 21.1% of nominations and 18.4% of EGU awards went to female scientists. For more information about the awards above, including application and selection criteria and how to apply, please check the Awards & Medals page on this website.
In addition to the Union and Division Awards and Medals, the EGU also bestows a number of poster 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 posters at a large scientific conference. The list of recipients of the 2018 OSPP Awards is now available online. For more information about the OSPP awards, including application criteria and how to apply in 2019, please check the OSPP page.
Contact
Özgür Karatekin
Chair of the EGU Awards Committee
Email awards.medals@egu.eu
Bárbara Ferreira
EGU Media and Communications Manager
Munich, Germany
Phone +49-89-2180-6703
Email media@egu.eu