EGU announces 2013 Awards and Medals
22 October 2012
The EGU has named the 41 recipients of next year’s Union Medals and Awards, Division Medals, and Division Outstanding Young Scientist Awards. These individuals, honoured for their important contributions to the Earth, planetary, and space sciences, will receive their prizes at the 2013 EGU General Assembly taking place in Vienna on 7-12 April.
The following individuals will receive 2013 Union Medals and Awards:
| Edouard Bard | Alfred Wegener Medal |
| Sierd Cloetingh | Arthur Holmes Medal |
| Roger-Maurice Bonnet | Jean Dominique Cassini Medal |
| Hang Su, Xavier Fettweis, Simon M. Mudd, and Alexis P. Rouillard | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists |
| Teodoro Miano | Union Service Award |
The following individuals will receive 2013 Division Medals:
| Michael Gurnis | Augustus Love Medal |
| Jeroen Tromp | Beno Gutenberg Medal |
| Harry Bryden | Fridtjof Nansen Medal |
| Göran Marklund | Hannes Alfvén Medal |
| Miryam Bar-Matthews | Hans Oeschger Medal |
| Georgia Destouni | Henry Darcy Medal |
| Alessandro Annoni | Ian McHarg Medal |
| Helmut Weissert | Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal |
| Michael Roderick | John Dalton Medal |
| Nikolai Tsyganenko | Julius Bartels Medal |
| Jürgen Kurths | Lewis Fry Richardson Medal |
| Florent Dominé | Louis Agassiz Medal |
| Mark Zoback | Louis Néel Medal |
| Didier Paillard | Milutin Milankovic Medal |
| Dominique Jault | Petrus Peregrinus Medal |
| William Shotyk | Philippe Duchaufour Medal |
| Justin Sheffield | Plinius Medal |
| James Kirchner | Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal |
| Catherine McCammon | Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal |
| Tilman Spohn | Runcorn-Florensky Medal |
| Emile Okal | Sergey Soloviev Medal |
| Leigh Royden | Stephan Mueller Medal |
| Zuheir Altamimi | Vening Meinesz Medal |
| John Burrows | Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal |
| Albertus J. Dolman | Vernadsky Medal |
The following individuals will receive 2013 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Awards:
| Division | |
| Nicolas Brantut | Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics (EMRP) |
| Juan Carlos Afonso | Geodynamics (GD) |
| Gabriele Villarini | Hydrological Sciences (HS) |
| Yongxiang Huang | Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences (NP) |
| Roham Bakhtyar | Ocean Sciences (OS) |
| Yong Wei | Planetary and Solar System Sciences (PS) |
| Raúl Zornoza Belmonte | Soil System Sciences (SSS) |
| Steven A. F. Smith | Tectonics and Structural Geology (TS) |
For more information on EGU’s honours, please check the Awards & Medals page on this website.