EGU announces its 2022 awards and medals!
3 November 2021
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) has named the 50 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 2022, which will be held from 3–8 April.
The following individuals will receive 2022 Union Medals and Awards:
| Günter Blöschl | Alfred Wegener Medal |
| Robin George Andrews | Angela Croome Award |
| Chao Yue | Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| Niko Wanders | Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| Fabian B. Wadsworth | Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| Jakob Zscheischler | Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| William Lowrie | Arthur Holmes Medal |
| Sarah K. Brown | Katia and Maurice Krafft Award |
| Susanne Buiter | Union Service Award |
The following individuals will receive 2022 Division Medals:
| David Bercovici | Augustus Love Medal |
| Yehuda Ben-Zion | Beno Gutenberg Medal |
| Emma J. Bunce | David Bates Medal |
| Monika Rhein | Fridtjof Nansen Medal |
| David J. McComas | Hannes Alfvén Medal |
| Doug Smith | Hans Oeschger Medal |
| Wouter Buytaert | Henry Darcy Medal |
| Mikhail Kanevski | Ian McHarg Medal |
| Elisabetta Erba | Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal |
| Martha C. Anderson | John Dalton Medal |
| Regine Hock | Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal |
| Ulrike Feudel | Lewis Fry Richardson Medal |
| David A. Lockner | Louis Néel Medal |
| Francesca Funiciello | Marie Tharp Medal |
| Hai Cheng | Milutin Milankovic Medal |
| Mary K. Firestone | Philippe Duchaufour Medal |
| Slobodan Nickovic | Plinius Medal |
| Paola Passalacqua | Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal |
| Janne Blichert-Toft | Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal |
| Anne Mangeney | Sergey Soloviev Medal |
| Peter J. G. Teunissen | Vening Meinesz Medal |
| Hugh Coe | Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal |
| Adina Paytan | Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal |
The following individuals will receive 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards:
| Karin van der Wiel | Atmospheric Sciences (AS) Division |
| Ana Bastos | Biogeosciences (BG) Division |
| Marlene Kretschmer | Climate: Past, Present & Future (CL) Division |
| Romain Millan | Cryospheric Sciences (CR) Division |
| Christopher Kadow | Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) Division |
| Richard K. Bono | Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics (EMRP) Division |
| Kristel Chanard | Geodesy (G) Division |
| Timothy J. Craig | Geodynamics (GD) Division |
| Nicoletta Leonardi | Geomorphology (GM) Division |
| Manuela I. Brunner | Hydrological Sciences (HS) Division |
| Tommaso Alberti | Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences (NP) Division |
| Céline Heuzé | Ocean Sciences (OS) Division |
| Gregory J. Hunt | Planetary and Solar System Sciences (PS) Division |
| Caroline M. Eakin | Seismology (SM) Division |
| Diana C. S. Vieira | Soil System Sciences (SSS) Division |
| Víctor M. S. Carrasco | Solar-Terrestrial Sciences (ST) Division |
| Yin Lu | Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (SSP) Division |
| Mojtaba Rajabi | Tectonics and Structural Geology (TS) Division |
This year the EGU Awards Committee received 207 eligible nominations, with 39% of these nominating female scientists. Approximately 42% 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 awards to students taking part in its annual General Assembly. These OSPP Awards (in 2021 called vOSPP) aim to further improve the overall quality of poster and PICO presentations and foster students’ excitement to present their research at a large scientific conference. The list of recipients of the 2021 OSPP Awards is now available online. For more information about the OSPP awards, including application criteria and how to apply in 2022, please check the OSPP page.
Contact
Thomas Blunier
Chair of the EGU Awards Committee
Email awards.medals@egu.eu
Hazel Gibson
EGU Head of Communications
Email communications@egu.eu