EGU announces 2020 awards and medals
22 October 2019
The EGU has named the 49 recipients of next year’s Union Medals and Awards, Division Medals and Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards. These individuals are honoured for their important contributions to the Earth, planetary and space sciences. They will receive their prizes at the EGU 2020 General Assembly, which will take place in Vienna on 3–8 May. The EGU has also announced the winners of the Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards corresponding to the 2019 General Assembly.
The following individuals will receive 2020 Union Medals and Awards:
| Ingeborg Levin | Alfred Wegener Medal |
| Donald B. Dingwell | Arthur Holmes Medal |
| Pascale Ehrenfreund | Jean Dominique Cassini Medal |
| Bojie Fu | Alexander von Humboldt Medal |
| Weian Chao | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| Beatriz Sánchez-Cano | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| François Massonnet | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| Andreas Hartmann | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| Elizabeth Gibney | Angela Croome Award |
| Rhian H. Meara | Katia and Maurice Krafft Award |
The following individuals will receive 2020 Division Medals:
| Harro Schmeling | Augustus Love Medal |
| Raffaele Persico | Christiaan Huygens Medal |
| Agustín Sánchez-Lavega | David Bates Medal |
| Richard J. Greatbatch | Fridtjof Nansen Medal |
| Qiugang Zong | Hannes Alfvén Medal |
| Kim M. Cobb | Hans Oeschger Medal |
| Xavier Sánchez-Vila | Henry Darcy Medal |
| Paul Wessel | Ian McHarg Medal |
| Michael J. Benton | Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal |
| Amilcare Porporato | John Dalton Medal |
| Julienne C. Stroeve | Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal |
| Valerio Lucarini | Lewis Fry Richardson Medal |
| Wenlu Zhu | Louis Néel Medal |
| Valérie Masson-Delmotte | Milutin Milankovic Medal |
| Rixiang Zhu | Petrus Peregrinus Medal |
| Georg Guggenberger | Philippe Duchaufour Medal |
| Claire J. Horwell | Plinius Medal |
| Thomas J. Coulthard | Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal |
| Holly J. Stein | Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal |
| John J. Clague | Sergey Soloviev Medal |
| Mathilde Cannat | Stephan Mueller Medal |
| Willi Freeden | Vening Meinesz Medal |
| Michael J. Prather | Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal |
| Pierre Friedlingstein | Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal |
The following individuals will receive 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards:
| Meng Gao | Atmospheric Sciences (AS) Division |
| Caitlin E. Hicks Pries | Biogeosciences (BG) Division |
| Anna E. Hogg | Cryospheric Sciences (CR) Division |
| Estanislao Pujades | Energy, Resources and the Environment (ERE) Division |
| Pilar Lecumberri-Sanchez | Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (GMPV) Division |
| Karina Wilgan | Geodesy (G) Division |
| Tobias Keller | Geodynamics (GD) Division |
| Georgina Bennett | Geomorphology (GM) Division |
| Vitor Silva | Natural Hazards (NH) Division |
| Ekaterina Didenkulova | Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences (NP) Division |
| Frédéric Le Moigne | Ocean Sciences (OS) Division |
| Sebastian Dötterl | Soil System Sciences (SSS) Division |
| Lauri Holappa | Solar-Terrestrial Sciences (ST) Division |
| Anna Joy Drury | Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (SSP) Division |
| Christoph von Hagke | Tectonics and Structural Geology (TS) Division |
This year the EGU Awards Committee received 160 eligible nominations, with 34% of them nominating female scientists (about 39% of this year’s awardees are female). These numbers represent an increase from last year, when 31% of nominations and 36% of awards went to female scientists. 2020 is the first year that the EGU is presenting two new honours: the Katia and Maurice Krafft Award for geoscience outreach and engagement as well as the Angela Croome Award, an honour established to recognise journalists working in the Earth, planetary and space sciences. 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 and PICO awards on 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 2019 OSPP Awards is now available online. For more information about the OSPP awards, including application criteria and how to apply in 2020, please check the OSPP page.
Contact
Özgür Karatekin
Chair of the EGU Awards Committee
Email awards.medals@egu.eu
Terri Cook
EGU Head of Media, Communications and Outreach
Munich, Germany
Phone +49-89-2050-76340
Email media@egu.eu