Jonathan Amos

The 2023 Angela Croome Award is awarded to Jonathan Amos for deep, authoritative, and impactful journalism that expertly breaks a broad range of cutting-edge geoscience topics to European and worldwide audiences, across multiple types of media.

Jonathan Amos is a true authority in science journalism. As science correspondent for the BBC, he harnesses an amazing cross-media platform that engages millions of people worldwide with each report, covering an impressive range across all aspects of Earth, planetary and space science. Amos has a knack for discovering the most scientifically fascinating stories at the cutting-edge of all these research areas time and time again, pioneering new beats and breaking stories before anyone else. He also consistently demonstrates depth of knowledge and understanding across such broad topics, rooted in Amos’ commitment to scientific accuracy. It is not easy to communicate complex scientific topics simply and clearly, but Amos is a master at distilling complicated issues to their essence, expertly and concisely conveying these, and their importance, to the public. These are rare traits indeed. Not only does his work convey science itself, but Amos consistently reports on science-policy issues as well, with particular focus across Europe and the governmental decisions which set the pace for what science can be discovered. Overall, Amos has an unrivalled pan-European reputation in science journalism and exemplifies the qualities of not only the EGU Angela Croome Award, but of Angela Croome herself.

Medal lecture video (Vimeo) of the Angela Croome Award given at the EGU General Assembly 2023.