EGU announces 2017 awards and medals
9 November 2016
The EGU has named the 47 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 2017 General Assembly, which will take place in Vienna on 23–28 April. The EGU has also announced the winners of the Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards corresponding to the 2016 General Assembly.
The following individuals will receive 2017 Union Medals and Awards:
Johan Bouma | Alexander von Humboldt Medal |
Murugesu Sivapalan | Alfred Wegener Medal |
Jean-Pierre Brun | Arthur Holmes Medal |
Luciano Iess | Jean Dominique Cassini Medal |
Federico Bianchi | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
João Duarte | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
Yadong Sun | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
Julia Thalmann | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
Alberto Montanari | Union Service Award |
The following individuals will receive 2017 Division Medals:
Barry E. Parsons | Augustus Love Medal |
Hitoshi Kawakatsu | Beno Gutenberg Medal |
Riccardo Lanari | Christiaan Huygens Medal |
Lynne D. Talley | Fridtjof Nansen Medal |
Eric R. Priest | Hannes Alfvén Medal |
Denis-Didier Rousseau | Hans Oeschger Medal |
Paul Wignall | Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal |
Dani Or | John Dalton Medal |
Tuija I. Pulkkinen | Julius Bartels Medal |
Edward Ott | Lewis Fry Richardson Medal |
Eric Rignot | Louis Agassiz Medal |
Christopher J. Spiers | Louis Néel Medal |
Axel Timmermann | Milutin Milankovic Medal |
John Tarduno | Petrus Peregrinus Medal |
Peter Smith | Philippe Duchaufour Medal |
Bruno Merz | Plinius Medal |
Ellen Wohl | Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal |
D. Graham Pearson | Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal |
Augusto Neri | Sergey Soloviev Medal |
Cees Passchier | Stephan Mueller Medal |
Isabella Velicogna | Vening Meinesz Medal |
John M. C. Plane | Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal |
Jack J. Middelburg | Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal |
The following individuals will receive 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards:
Michaela A. Dippold | Biogeosciences (BG) Division |
Francesco Muschitiello | Climate: Past, Present & Future (CL) Division |
Ricarda Winkelmann | Cryospheric Sciences (CR) Division |
Marie Violay | Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics (EMRP) Division |
Xingxing Li | Geodesy (G) Division |
Nicolas Flament | Geodynamics (GD) Division |
Fabio Tosti | Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems (GI) Division |
Dirk Scherler | Geomorphology (GM) Division |
Pierre Lanari | Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (GMPV) Division |
Anne F. van Loon | Hydrological Sciences (HS) Division |
James E. Daniell | Natural Hazards (NH) Division |
Eleanor Frajka-Williams | Ocean Sciences (OS) Division |
Cedric Gillmann | Planetary and Solar System Sciences (PS) Division |
Elmer Ruigrok | Seismology (SM) Division |
Victoria Arcenegui | Soil System Sciences (SSS) Division |
The EGU Awards Committee received 233 nominations for the 2016 awards, with 21.9% of them nominating female scientists (about 23.4% of this year’s awardees are female). 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 presentations and foster students’ excitement to present posters at a large scientific conference. The list of recipients of the 2016 OSPP Awards is now available online. For more information about the OSP awards, including application criteria and how to apply in 2017, 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