Awards & medals committees
Ex-officio members are not included; they are the relevant division president and the chair of the Union Awards Committee. Awards and medals committee members should declare at the beginning of the selection procedure any potential conflict of interest.
Union medals
Alexander von Humboldt Medal
Scientists who have performed research in developing regions
Tom Veldkamp (Chair)
Carlo Laj
Manfred R. Strecker
Subimal Ghosh
Verena Foerster
Alfred Wegener Medal
Atmospheric, hydrological or ocean sciences
Karen Heywood (Chair)
Annica Ekman
Harry Vereecken
Marco Borga
Victor Brovkin
Arthur Holmes Medal
Solid Earth geosciences
William Lowrie (Chair)
Boris Kaus
Claudio Faccenna
Mathilde Cannat
Paraskevi Nomikou
Torgeir Andersen
Jean Dominique Cassini Medal
Planetary and space sciences
Rosaly Lopes (Chair)
Anders Johansen
Janet Luhmann
Rumi Nakamura
Sara Russell
Veronique Dehant
Union awards
Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists
Achievements made by early career scientists in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences
Members of the Council
Angela Croome Award
Earth, space and planetary sciences journalism
Kirsten von Elverfeldt (Chair)
Gaia Vince
Lakshmi Supriya
Pouria Nazemi
Champion(s) for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award
Significant contributions in advancing the values of EDI in the geoscience community
Daniel J. Conley (Chair)
David Bastviken
Ivica Vilibić
Maria-Helena Ramos
Mary Anne Holmes
Munira Raji
Patric Jacobs
Katia and Maurice Krafft Award
Geoscience outreach and engagement
Miguel Gomez-Heras (Chair)
Christina Anna Orieschnig
Eleanor Armstrong
Paraskevi Nomikou
Union Service Award
Outstanding services for the Union
Members of the Council
Division medals
Alina Kabata-Pendias Medal
Soil System Sciences
José María de la Rosa (Chair)
Anke Herrmann
Cécile Quantin
Ravendra Naidu
Augustus Love Medal
Geodynamics
Paul Tackley (Chair)
Ágnes Király
David Bercovici
Taras Gerya
Thorsten Becker
Beno Gutenberg Medal
Seismology
Malcolm Sambridge (Chair)
Jaroslava Plomerová
Philippe Jousset
Yehuda Ben-Zion
Christiaan Huygens Medal
Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems
Vincenzo Lapenna (Chair)
Ilaria Catapano
Maurizio Fedi
Nemesio M. Pérez
R. Giles Harrison
David Bates Medal
Planetary and Solar System Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with Runcorn-Florensky Medal)
Tristan Guillot (Chair)
Beatriz Sanchez-Cano
Chrysa Avdellidou
Franck Montmessin
Sébastien Charnoz
(inactive for the 2024 call)
Fridtjof Nansen Medal
Ocean Sciences
Richard S. Lampitt (Chair)
Carsten Eden
Ingrid Puillat
Lynne Talley
Pierre-Yves Le Traon
Hannes Alfvén Medal
Solar-Terrestrial Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with Julius Bartels Medal)
Margit Haberreiter (Chair)
Daniel Baker
David J. McComas
Janet Luhmann
Sandra C. Chapman
(inactive for the 2024 call)
Hans Oeschger Medal
Climate: Past, Present & Future
Karol Tylmann (Chair)
Doug Smith
Hugues Goosse
Michael Sigl
Sonia I. Seneviratne
Henry Darcy Medal
Hydrological Sciences
Berit Arheimer (Chair)
Alberto Guadagnini
Andreas Hartmann
Marc F. P. Bierkens
Wouter Buytaert
Ian McHarg Medal
Earth and Space Science Informatics
Kirsten Elger (Chair)
Alice Fremand
François Robida
Mikhail Kanevski
Stefano Nativi
Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal
Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology
Jorijntje Henderiks (Chair)
David A. T. Harper
Elisabetta Erba
Madeleine Vickers
Shradha Menon
Silvia Frisia
John Dalton Medal
Hydrological Sciences
Brian Berkowitz (Chair)
Luis Samaniego
Martha C. Anderson
Paul D. Bates
Taikan Oki
Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal
Cryospheric Sciences
Martyn Tranter (Chair)
Etienne Berthier
Gwenn E. Flowers
Regine Hock
Ruzica Dadic
Julius Bartels Medal
Solar-Terrestrial Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with Hannes Alfvén Medal)
Volker Bothmer (Chair)
Erika Palmerio
Masatoshi Yamauchi
Qiugang Zong
Lewis Fry Richardson Medal
Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences
Ulrike Feudel (Chair)
Angelo Vulpiani
Bérengère Dubrulle
Freddy Bouchet
Kateryna Terletska
Louis Néel Medal
Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics
(attributed every other year, rotation with Petrus Peregrinus Medal)
J. Michael Kosterlitz (Chair)
Chris Marone
David A. Lockner
Patrick Baud
Wen-lu Zhu
(inactive for the 2024 call)
Milutin Milanković Medal
Climate: Past, Present & Future
Ayako Abe-Ouchi (Chair)
Bette L. Otto-Bliesner
Hai Cheng
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Peter U. Clark
Petrus Peregrinus Medal
Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics
(attributed every other year, rotation with Louis Néel Medal)
Lisa Tauxe (Chair)
Jonathan Aurnou
Kenneth P. Kodama
Philippe Duchaufour Medal
Soil System Sciences
Andreas A. Richter (Chair)
Jan Willem van Groenigen
Jose Antonio González-Pérez
Mary K. Firestone
Plinius Medal
Natural Hazards
Fausto Guzzetti (Chair)
Giuliana Rossi
Philip Ward
Raphael Paris
Slobodan Nickovic
Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal
Geomorphology
Paola Passalacqua (Chair)
Christian France-Lanord
Dimitri Lague
Fiona Clubb
Tjalling de Haas
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal
Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology
Janne Blichert-Toft (Chair)
Jean-Francois Moyen
Judith Hannah
Kei Hirose
Susan L. S. Stipp
Runcorn-Florensky Medal
Planetary and Solar System Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with David Bates Medal)
Tristan Guillot (Chair)
Beatriz Sanchez-Cano
Chrysa Avdellidou
Franck Montmessin
Sébastien Charnoz
Sergey Soloviev Medal
Natural Hazards
Andrea Di Muro (Chair)
Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Jacopo Selva
Maria Pregnolato
Ricardo Trigo
TS Division (Marie Tharp or Stephan Mueller) Medal
Tectonics and Structural Geology
Mary Ford (Chair)
Francesca Funiciello
R. Dietmar Müller
Richard G. Gordon
Yann Klinger
Vening Meinesz Medal
Geodesy
Johannes Böhm (Chair)
Christopher Jekeli
Jeffrey T. Freymueller
Jürgen Müller
Peter J. G. Teunissen
Rebekka Steffen
Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal
Atmospheric Sciences
Hugh Coe (Chair)
Nadia Bloemendaal
Spyros N. Pandis
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal
Biogeosciences
Susan E. Trumbore (Chair)
Adina Paytan
Daniel J. Conley
Richard Pancost