Alberto Montanari 2018 Henry Darcy Medal The 2018 Henry Darcy Medal is awarded to Alberto Montanari for his physically based stochastic modelling and the major impact this had on water-resources engineering and management. Read more
A. M. Celâl Şengör 2018 Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership The 2018 Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership is awarded to A. M. Celâl Şengör in recognition of outstanding contributions to tectonics and palaeogeography, which have fundamentally changed our view on Earth’s history and the understanding of geological processes. Read more
Andrew Putnis 2018 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal The 2018 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to Andrew Putnis for outstanding contributions to our understanding of mineral transformations and mineral-fluid interactions. Read more
Anja Schmidt 2018 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2018 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Anja Schmidt for ground-breaking research in the field of volcanology and on the impacts of volcanic eruptions. Read more
Antje Boetius 2018 Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal The 2018 Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal is awarded to Antje Boetius for groundbreaking contributions to biogeosciences and spearheading research on methane-based metabolisms and the marine carbon cycle. Read more
Bruno Bézard 2018 David Bates Medal The 2018 David Bates Medal is awarded to Bruno Bézard for his pioneering analysis of spectroscopic observations to characterise planetary atmospheres. Read more
Christo Buizert 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Christo Buizert for his innovative contributions on the bi-polar phasing of climate change from polar ice-core data using an exceptional combination of experimental and theoretical approaches. Read more
Claudia Mohr 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Claudia Mohr for her seminal contributions in instrument development and aerosol-source characterisation. Read more
David A. Hodell 2018 Milutin Milankovic Medal The 2018 Milutin Milankovic Medal is awarded to David A. Hodell for fundamental contributions to reconstructing and understanding past climate cycles and the causes of the mid-Pleistocene transition. Read more
Davide Faranda 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Davide Faranda for his exceptional contributions to developing the theory of extreme values for dynamical systems and its use for analysing the underlying properties of the dynamics of the atmosphere and the climate system. Read more
Eckart Marsch 2018 Hannes Alfvén Medal The 2018 Hannes Alfvén Medal is awarded to Eckart Marsch for fundamental contributions to our understanding of the kinetic processes and plasma turbulence in the heliosphere, as well as for work that helped HELIOS become a successful mission and initiated the Solar Orbiter. Read more
Edgar M. Parmentier 2018 Augustus Love Medal The 2018 Augustus Love Medal is awarded to Edgar M. Parmentier for outstanding research in the fundamental geodynamical processes of sea-floor spreading, melt extraction and crustal formation, and the application of geodynamical principles to flow in the mantle. Read more
Fabio Corbi 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Fabio Corbi in recognition of his ground-breaking, multidisciplinary research, dealing both with subduction-related thrust-fault earthquakes and volcano-tectonic processes. Read more
Filippo Giorgi 2018 Alexander von Humboldt Medal The 2018 Alexander von Humboldt Medal is awarded to Filippo Giorgi for outstanding research on modelling regional climate change focusing on developing countries, including effective outreach in terms of joint education programmes and institution building. Read more
Frank Pattyn 2018 Louis Agassiz Medal The 2018 Louis Agassiz Medal is awarded to Frank Pattyn for his unsurpassed contributions to the understanding of large-scale ice-sheet dynamics and his leadership in the internationally coordinated efforts to improve ice-sheet models. Read more
Gabriel G. Katul 2018 John Dalton Medal The 2018 John Dalton Medal is awarded to Gabriel G. Katul for his fundamental contributions to the theory and measurement of evapotranspiration, canopy turbulence and ecosystem fluxes. Read more
Giovanni Ludeno 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Giovanni Ludeno for his outstanding contribution to the development of new radar methodologies for environmental monitoring. Read more
Giuseppe De Natale 2018 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2018 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Giuseppe De Natale for his fundamental contributions to the assessment and management of seismic and volcanic hazards and risk. Read more
Hannah L. Cloke 2018 Plinius Medal The 2018 Plinius Medal is awarded to Hannah L. Cloke for her outstanding research on uncertainties in modelling flood hazards and understanding risks in operational ensemble flood forecasting as well as climate impact assessments of future flood risks. Read more
Harry W. Green II 2018 Louis Néel Medal The 2018 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to Harry W. Green II for his seminal contributions to the mechanism of deep-focus earthquakes, rock rheology, mantle dynamics and the dramatic improvement of a solid pressure-medium apparatus. Read more
Haruo Sato 2018 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2018 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to Haruo Sato for outstanding contributions to seismology and the development of new insights into stochastic properties of Earth structure through theoretical and observational studies of scattered seismic waves. Read more
Hubertus Fischer 2018 Hans Oeschger Medal The 2018 Hans Oeschger Medal is awarded to Hubertus Fischer for his innovative development and use of analytical techniques to measure chemical compounds and gas concentrations and their isotopic compositions in polar ice cores. Read more
Ilya G. Usoskin 2018 Julius Bartels Medal The 2018 Julius Bartels Medal is awarded to Ilya G. Usoskin for his key contributions to long-term changes of cosmic rays and solar activity, qualifying him as a founder of the space climate discipline. Read more
James L. Best 2018 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal The 2018 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal is awarded to James L. Best for major contributions to our understanding of physical sedimentary processes and their products in the geological record. Read more
Jan D. Zika 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Jan D. Zika for outstanding research in ocean dynamics, including fundamental advances in our understanding of the ocean’s thermocline circulation and the ocean’s role in climate. Read more
John P. Platt 2018 Stephan Mueller Medal The 2018 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to John P. Platt for his pioneering research in structural geology, which has fundamentally increased our understanding of deformation processes at plate margins through careful linking of field studies with mechanical and analytical analyses. Read more
Jothiram Vivekanandan 2018 Christiaan Huygens Medal The 2018 Christiaan Huygens Medal is awarded to Jothiram Vivekanandan for his pioneering and ground-breaking work on the microphysical characterisation of clouds and precipitation by using advanced remote sensors. Read more
Kerstin A. Lehnert 2018 Ian McHarg Medal The 2018 Ian McHarg Medal is awarded to Kerstin A. Lehnert for exceptional contributions to the advancement of informatics and, in particular, her pioneering efforts on open, transparent and reproducible science. Read more
Liran Goren 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Liran Goren for her application of physical principles implemented with solid mathematical rigour into models of wide application in the Earth-surface sciences. Read more
Marco M. Scuderi 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Marco M. Scuderi for his exceptional seminal contributions to our understanding of fault mechanics and earthquake physics via important fundamental advances and high-quality papers on a broad range of problems on rock physics. Read more
Markus Rothacher 2018 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2018 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Markus Rothacher for his pioneering work in linking geometry, rotation and gravity to space geodetic observations and subsequently enhancing the understanding of the Earth system. Read more
Martin van Driel 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Martin van Driel for exceptional research in modelling and understanding global broadband seismic-wave propagation. Read more
Mathieu Morlighem 2018 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2018 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Mathieu Morlighem for his outstanding research in the field of ice-sheet modelling and his contribution to the dissemination of modelling methods and knowledge in the cryospheric community. Read more
Matthias Vanmaercke 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Matthias Vanmaercke for his outstanding research on understanding the rates and impacts of soil erosion and catchment sediment export at regional and continental scales. Read more
Meinrat O. Andreae 2018 Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership The 2018 Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership is awarded to Meinrat O. Andreae for his pioneering research, ground-breaking work and outstanding achievements in the atmospheric, biogeochemical, climate, and Earth system sciences. Read more
Mioara Mandea 2018 Petrus Peregrinus Medal The 2018 Petrus Peregrinus Medal is awarded to Mioara Mandea for defining the nature of the geomagnetic field, particularly abrupt changes in secular variation known as geomagnetic jerks, and for advancing observatory and satellite data collection and analysis. Read more
Natasha L. S. Jeffrey 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Natasha L. S. Jeffrey for her outstanding achievements in improving the standard model of fast electrons produced in solar flares, thereby eliminating the long-standing low-energy cut-off uncertainty. Read more
Pinhas Alpert 2018 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal The 2018 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal is awarded to Pinhas Alpert for his outstanding contributions to atmospheric dynamics and aerosol science. Read more
Rainer Feistel 2018 Fridtjof Nansen Medal The 2018 Fridtjof Nansen Medal is awarded to Rainer Feistel for creating the rigorous conceptual foundation of ocean thermodynamics through forming a Gibbs function for seawater. Read more
Sara Bruni 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Sara Bruni for her innovative contributions to global and regional reference-frame studies bridging the gap to other fields of geosciences, such as geodynamics. Read more
Thibault Duretz 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Thibault Duretz for his fundamental contributions to understanding slab detachment, shear zones, passive-margin formation, obduction and development of new numerical algorithms. Read more
Thomas Wahl 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Thomas Wahl for his fundamental contributions to the research on assessment of coastal-flood risk. Read more
Timothy N. Palmer 2018 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2018 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Timothy N. Palmer for his fundamental contributions to the conception and practical implementation of a system for ensemble weather prediction and the recent development of a similar probabilistic approach to climate. Read more
Todd A. Ehlers 2018 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal The 2018 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal is awarded to Todd A. Ehlers for original and fundamental contributions to our understanding of the coupling between climate, tectonics and erosion, and for outstanding community leadership in geomorphology. Read more
Victor Vilarrasa 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Victor Vilarrasa for significant contributions to the understanding of the thermo-hydro-mechanical processes inducing seismicity in geo-energy-related operations. Read more
Yakov A. Pachepsky 2018 Philippe Duchaufour Medal The 2018 Philippe Duchaufour Medal is awarded to Yakov A. Pachepsky for outstanding research in the field of soil hydraulic properties and the fate of pathogens in soils, which greatly influenced the development of soil science. Read more
Yoshihide Wada 2018 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2018 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Yoshihide Wada for his pioneering research on estimating global water use and water availability, and for capturing the effects of the human footprint on the global hydrological cycle. Read more
Yves Langevin 2018 Runcorn-Florensky Medal The 2018 Runcorn-Florensky Medal is awarded to Yves Langevin for his excellent contributions to a number of space missions in which he has played a decisive role from the very beginning. Read more
Zhonghua Yao 2018 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2018 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Zhonghua Yao for his crucial role in the identification of processes leading to the transfer and dissipation of energy in solar system planets, and for emphasising the importance of comparative planetary sciences. Read more
Adrian Metzgen 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards is awarded to Adrian Metzgen Impact of pH on hydrogen oxidizing redox processes in aquifers due to gas intrusions Read more
