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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

Peter van der Beek (Chair)
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

Peter van der Beek (Chair)
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