The European Geosciences Union (EGU) has named the 51 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 be celebrated during the EGU General Assembly 2021, which will be held from 25–30 April.

The following individuals will receive 2021 Union Medals and Awards:

Manfred R. Strecker	Alexander von Humboldt Medal
Angela M. Gurnell	Alfred Wegener Medal
Roland Pease	Angela Croome Award
Lucy Rowland	Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists
Mateja Dumbović	Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists
Carolyn J. Boulton	Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists
Anita L. Ganesan	Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists
Laurent Jolivet	Arthur Holmes Medal
Janet G. Luhmann	Jean Dominique Cassini Medal
Annie Ockelford	Katia and Maurice Krafft Award
Julia C. Hargreaves	Union Service Award

The following individuals will receive 2021 Division Medals:

Irina M. Artemieva	Augustus Love Medal
Malcolm Sambridge	Beno Gutenberg Medal
R. Giles Harrison	Christiaan Huygens Medal
Richard S. Lampitt	Fridtjof Nansen Medal
Sonia I. Seneviratne	Hans Oeschger Medal
Berit Arheimer	Henry Darcy Medal
Andreas Strasser	Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal
Brian Berkowitz	John Dalton Medal
Martyn Tranter	Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal
Volker Bothmer	Julius Bartels Medal
Bérengère Dubrulle	Lewis Fry Richardson Medal
Ayako Abe-Ouchi	Milutin Milankovic Medal
Kenneth P. Kodama	Petrus Peregrinus Medal
Donald L. Sparks	Philippe Duchaufour Medal
Giuliano Di Baldassarre	Plinius Medal
Joanna E. Bullard	Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal
Urs Schaltegger	Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal
Fausto Guzzetti	Sergey Soloviev Medal
R. Dietmar Müller	Stephan Mueller Medal
Christopher Jekeli	Vening Meinesz Medal
Spyros N. Pandis	Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal
Susan E. Trumbore	Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal

The following individuals will receive 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards:

Franziska A. Lechleitner	Climate: Past, Present & Future (CL) Division
Christine L. Batchelor	Cryospheric Sciences (CR) Division
Alice Fremand	Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) Division
François X. Passelègue	Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics (EMRP) Division
Giorgia Dalla Santa	Energy, Resources and the Environment (ERE) Division
Michael C. Jollands	Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (GMPV) Division
Anna Kłos	Geodesy (G) Division
Mark J. Hoggard	Geodynamics (GD) Division
Louise J. Slater	Geomorphology (GM) Division
Roberto Pierdicca	Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems (GI) Division
Matteo Giuliani	Hydrological Sciences (HS) Division
Maria Pregnolato	Natural Hazards (NH) Division
Niklas Boers	Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences (NP) Division
Marilena Oltmanns	Ocean Sciences (OS) Division
William Dunn	Planetary and Solar System Sciences (PS) Division
Eva P. S. Eibl	Seismology (SM) Division
Lucia Fuchslueger	Soil System Sciences (SSS) Division
Niels J. de Winter	Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (SSP) Division

This year the EGU Awards Committee received 232 eligible nominations, with 32% of them nominating female scientists. Approximately 49% of this year’s awardees are female, which represents an increase of 10% from last year.

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.

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