Menu

Awards & Medals

Most of the Awards and Medals listed below have been bestowed by the European Geophysical Society (EGS) and by the European Union of Geosciences (EUG) up to 2003. The European Geosciences Union (EGU), established by the Councils of the EGS and the EUG on 7 September 2002, has adopted their award & medal schemes and continues them since 2004.

For proposing a candidate, please click here.

Union Awards

Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership
Union

EGS

EUG

EGU

Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership
Union

EGS

EUG

EGU

Jean Dominique Cassini Medal & Honorary Membership
Union

EGS

 

EGU

Alexander von Humboldt Medal
Union

 

 

EGU

Union Fellowship
Union

EGS

EUG

 

Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists
(formerly Outstanding Young Scientist Award)
Union

 

EUG

EGU

Union Service Award
Union

EGS

 

EGU

Union Diamond Service Award
Union

 

 

EGU

Union Assembly Awards

Union Travel Awards
Union

 

 

EGU

Union YSOPP Awards
Union

 

 

EGU

Division Awards

Young Scientists' Publication Awards
Divisions

EGS

 

 

Division Medals

Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal
Atmospheric Sciences

EGS

 

EGU

Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal
Biogeosciences

EGS

 

EGU

Milutin Milankovic Medal
Climate: Past, Present & Future

EGS

 

EGU

Hans Oeschger Medal
Climate: Past, Present & Future

EGS

 

EGU

Louis Agassiz Medal
Cryospheric Sciences

 

 

EGU

Ian McHarg Medal
Earth and Space Science Informatics

 

 

EGU

Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal
Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

 

 

EGU

Vening Meinesz Medal
Geodesy

EGS

 

EGU

Augustus Love Medal
Geodynamics

 

 

EGU

Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal
Geomorphology

 

 

EGU

Christiaan Huygens Medal
Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems

 

 

EGU

John Dalton Medal
Hydrology as an Earth System Science

EGS

 

EGU

Petrus Peregrinus Medal
Magnetism & Palaeomagnetism

 

 

EGU

Plinius Medal
Natural Hazards

EGS

 

EGU

Sergey Soloviev Medal
Natural Hazards

EGS

 

EGU

Lewis Fry Richardson Medal
Nonlinear Geosciences

EGS

 

EGU

Fridtjof Nansen Medal
Ocean Sciences

EGS

 

EGU

David Bates Medal
Planetary & Solar System Sciences (Aeronomy)

EGS

 

EGU

Runcorn-Florensky Medal
Planetary & Solar System Sciences (Solid)

EGS

 

EGU

Louis Néel Medal
Rock Magnetism, Rock Physics & Geomaterials

EGS

 

EGU

Beno Gutenberg Medal
Seismology

EGS

 

EGU

Philippe Duchaufour Medal
Soil System Sciences

 

 

EGU

Julius Bartels Medal
Solar - Terrestrial Sciences

EGS

 

EGU

Hannes Alfvén Medal
Solar - Terrestrial Sciences & Planetary - Solar System Sciences

EGS

 

EGU

Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal
Stratigraphy, Sedimentology & Palaeontology

 

 

EGU

Stephan Mueller Medal
Tectonics & Structural Geology

EGS

 

EGU

Henry Darcy Medal
Water Resources Management & Engineering

EGS

 

EGU