Annegret Henriette Thieken 2025 Plinius Medal The 2025 Plinius Medal is awarded to Annegret Henriette Thieken in recognition of outstanding contributions to the understanding and mitigation of flood risk, and the design of adaptation management strategies informed by the involvement of affected communities. Read more
Brandon Paul VanderBeek 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Brandon Paul VanderBeek for major achievements in seismic imaging of the Earth's interior, and geodynamic interpretation of its complex isotropic and anisotropic structure. Read more
Brice Noël 2025 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2025 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Brice Noël for outstanding research in the field of the surface mass budget of ice caps and ice sheets, based on regional climate modelling. Read more
Carolina Giorgetti 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Carolina Giorgetti for innovative experiments, meticulous data analysis and the ability to link rock deformation experiments with field structural geology and the physics of earthquakes. Read more
Cathy Quantin Nataf 2025 Runcorn-Florensky Medal The 2025 Runcorn-Florensky Medal is awarded to Cathy Quantin Nataf for groundbreaking contributions to the geology of ancient Mars through her research on sedimentary records and erosional history, and for her pivotal roles in the Mars 2020 and Exomars missions. Read more
Christopher D. Clark 2025 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal The 2025 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal is awarded to Christopher D. Clark for fundamentally advancing the understanding of glacial landscapes, landforms, and geomorphological processes. Read more
Claudia Jesus-Rydin 2025 Champion(s) for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award The 2025 Champion(s) for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award is awarded to Claudia Jesus-Rydin for playing an essential role in driving policy initiatives that reduce bias in equality, diversity and inclusion; creating fairer opportunities for funding and developing research careers. Read more
Corinne Le Quéré 2025 Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal The 2025 Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal is awarded to Corinne Le Quéré for development of research demonstrating the role of the oceans in the changing global carbon cycle, and leadership in the Global Carbon Project. Read more
Dominik Stolzenburg 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Dominik Stolzenburg for innovative contributions and dedication to the fields of atmospheric chemistry and physics, particularly in the areas of new particle formation and nanoparticle growth. Read more
Donald Ross Prothero 2025 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal The 2025 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal is awarded to Donald Ross Prothero in recognition of a strong research profile in terrestrial stratigraphy, and unwavering support and education of the next generation. Read more
Francesco Soldovieri 2025 Christiaan Huygens Medal The 2025 Christiaan Huygens Medal is awarded to Francesco Soldovieri for outstanding achievements in the field of electromagnetic modelling for radar imaging and its application to geosciences. Read more
Frederik Kratzert 2025 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2025 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Frederik Kratzert for outstanding research in hydrological modelling and open science, particularly through Artificial Intelligence-based approaches in large-sample hydrology studies. Read more
Getachew Agmuas Adnew 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Getachew Agmuas Adnew for exceptional scientific contribution to the biogeosciences, developing breakthrough techniques to improve our understanding of greenhouse gas exchange between the biosphere and atmosphere. Read more
Heather Handley 2025 Katia and Maurice Krafft Award The 2025 Katia and Maurice Krafft Award is awarded to Heather Handley for contributions to science communication in different media, and especially through her role in the foundation of the Earth Futures Festival and the Women in Earth and Environmental Sciences in Australasia (WOMEESA) Network. Read more
Heather Marie Stoll 2025 Hans Oeschger Medal The 2025 Hans Oeschger Medal is awarded to Heather Marie Stoll for pioneering contributions in both marine and terrestrial palaeoclimate research, which led to groundbreaking advancement in our understanding of rapid climate change, through forcings and feedbacks. Read more
Heidrun Kopp 2025 Marie Tharp Medal The 2025 Marie Tharp Medal is awarded to Heidrun Kopp for innovative research and groundbreaking discoveries in convergent margin systems, large earthquake processes, active fault slip, magmatic arc systems and geohazards. Read more
Iman Rahimzadeh Kivi 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Iman Rahimzadeh Kivi for outstanding contributions to the characterisation and modelling of coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes in geo-energy applications and enthusiastic community service. Read more
Iris van Zelst 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Iris van Zelst for a profound impact on the geodynamics community through outstanding scientific contributions, inspiring leadership, enthusiastic outreach, and fostering an inclusive and diverse work environment. Read more
Jana Eichel 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Jana Eichel for outstanding and innovative work on the feedbacks between plants and geomorphic processes in high mountains. Read more
Jan Seibert 2025 Henry Darcy Medal The 2025 Henry Darcy Medal is awarded to Jan Seibert for pioneering work promoting Open Science with hydrological models, and building bridges between experimentalists and modellers, between physical and conceptual approaches, and to citizen science. Read more
Jens Terhaar 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Jens Terhaar for outstanding research on the biogeochemistry of the ocean carbon cycle and its feedbacks on climate. Read more
Johannes Jakob Lohmann 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Johannes Jakob Lohmann for important contributions to our understanding of non-linear climate dynamics during the last glacial period. Read more
Kai Kornhuber 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Kai Kornhuber for outstanding research on extreme weather and climate dynamics, including circumglobal patterns in the jet stream, their relation to heatwaves and food security, and representation in climate models. Read more
Karin Dissauer 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Karin Dissauer for outstanding research in solar and extra-solar space weather research. Read more
Katerina Georgiou 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Katerina Georgiou for significant contributions to the understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of carbon cycling at a range of scales; from soil particle to field-scale, to global predictions. Read more
Lesley Wyborn 2025 Ian McHarg Medal The 2025 Ian McHarg Medal is awarded to Lesley Wyborn for achievements in enabling collaboration among international organisations and leadership with regard to global, multidisciplinary data infrastructure in the fields of Earth and space sciences. Read more
Mariana Madruga de Brito 2025 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2025 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Mariana Madruga de Brito for outstanding contributions to understanding of the socio-economic impacts and risk mitigation of extreme hydrological events, using natural language processing and social science computational methods. Read more
Marthe Klöcking 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Marthe Klöcking for contributions to advancing Open Data in the Earth Sciences. Read more
Matthias Schartner 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Matthias Schartner for commendable efforts to modernize one of the fundamental pillars of geodesy – Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). Read more
Neil M. Ribe 2025 Augustus Love Medal The 2025 Augustus Love Medal is awarded to Neil M. Ribe for outstanding and fundamental contributions to a wide range of geodynamical problems using rigorous mathematical approaches. Read more
Nils Olsen 2025 Petrus Peregrinus Medal The 2025 Petrus Peregrinus Medal is awarded to Nils Olsen for leadership in the field of continuous satellite geomagnetometry and analysis that has profoundly advanced our understanding of magnetic processes in Earth’s interior, ocean and space environments. Read more
Paolo D'Odorico 2025 John Dalton Medal The 2025 John Dalton Medal is awarded to Paolo D'Odorico for outstanding scholarship on water and its ties to environmental justice, energy, and food security. Read more
Paul Tackley 2025 Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership The 2025 Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership is awarded to Paul Tackley for important advances in modelling mantle dynamics that have resulted in a deeper understanding of mantle convection, plate tectonics, and the evolution of the Earth and other planets. Read more
Raymond Pierrehumbert 2025 Jean Dominique Cassini Medal & Honorary Membership The 2025 Jean Dominique Cassini Medal & Honorary Membership is awarded to Raymond Pierrehumbert for exceptional research on planetary science that includes fundamental work in the fields of Earth’s climate research, planetary atmospheric evolution, and exoplanet habitability. Read more
Renée Jade Tamblyn 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Renée Jade Tamblyn for groundbreaking work in petrochronology of subduction processes, komatiite hydration and production of H2 as an energy source for early life, as well as her role in developing a new in-situ method for Lu-Hf geochronology. Read more
René Forsberg 2025 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2025 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to René Forsberg for significant and impactful advancements in geodesy, geophysics, and cryosphere research, and for pioneering work, particularly in gravity field modelling and geoid determination. Read more
Renelle Dubosq 2025 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2025 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Renelle Dubosq for pioneering nanogeology research, advancing our understanding of plastic deformation in minerals, using innovative 2D and 3D analytical techniques in tectonics and structural geology. Read more
Richard Horne 2025 Julius Bartels Medal The 2025 Julius Bartels Medal is awarded to Richard Horne for outstanding work on understanding the acceleration and transport processes of charged particles in the inner magnetosphere, the formation of the radiation belts and their space weather effects. Read more
Sachchida Nand Tripathi 2025 Alexander von Humboldt Medal The 2025 Alexander von Humboldt Medal is awarded to Sachchida Nand Tripathi for outstanding and societally relevant research in the field of atmospheric science, directly affecting populations in rural and urban developing areas in India. Read more
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano 2025 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2025 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano for creating a novel drought indicator, which has become the benchmark for quantifying droughts, and for pioneering studies in the integration of different drought typologies. Read more
Shangchun Teng 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Shangchun Teng for outstanding contributions to the understanding of plasma wave generation and wave-particle interactions in planetary space plasmas. Read more
Shin Sugiyama 2025 Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal The 2025 Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal is awarded to Shin Sugiyama for outstanding work in the field of glacier dynamics and ice-water interactions, including seminal contributions to our understanding of lake-calving glaciers and ice-dammed lake outbursts. Read more
Tatiana Ilyina 2025 Fridtjof Nansen Medal The 2025 Fridtjof Nansen Medal is awarded to Tatiana Ilyina for distinguished research in oceanography to enhance our understanding of the ocean carbon cycle and its critical role in the climate system. Read more
Trevor John McDougall 2025 Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership The 2025 Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership is awarded to Trevor John McDougall for outstanding contributions to ocean science that have fundamentally changed how we understand the ocean and its role in shaping the Earth’s climate. Read more
Trevor Russell Ireland 2025 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal The 2025 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to Trevor Russell Ireland in recognition of his impact on understanding the history and processes of Earth and the Solar System through pioneering developments in spectroscopy instrumentation and his vision for applications. Read more
Ulrike Lohmann 2025 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal The 2025 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal is awarded to Ulrike Lohmann for outstanding research on cloud-climate interactions; integrating microscale processes and satellite data with global models to assess the radiative effects of clouds on the Earth system. Read more
Vincenzo Carbone 2025 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2025 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Vincenzo Carbone for outstanding contributions to the study of turbulence in magnetohydrodynamics, particularly in the solar wind and space plasmas, as well as its impact on the Earth’s magnetosphere and climate. Read more
Wulf Amelung 2025 Philippe Duchaufour Medal The 2025 Philippe Duchaufour Medal is awarded to Wulf Amelung for pioneering research in uncovering the mechanisms of soil degradation and efforts to restore soil functions, thereby enabling sustainable agriculture and land use. Read more
Zhengyu Liu 2025 Milutin Milanković Medal The 2025 Milutin Milanković Medal is awarded to Zhengyu Liu for outstanding contributions to our understanding of global climate change by combining theoretical approaches, the development and use of a hierarchy of models, and model-data comparisons. Read more
Abdallah Aoude 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Abdallah Aoude Design of a new laboratory earthquake experiment Read more
