Bradford Hager 2011 Augustus Love Medal The 2011 Augustus Love Medal is awarded to Bradford Hager for his outstanding contributions in modelling the geoid and large-scale mantle flow, and for his pioneering application of space-geodetic techniques to problems in tectonics. Read more
Catherine Nicolis 2011 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2011 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Catherine Nicolis for her highly original contributions to the understanding of the behaviour of stochastic and deterministic non-linear systems and the application of these ideas in meteorology and climate dynamics. Read more
Dmitriy V. Titov 2011 David Bates Medal The 2011 David Bates Medal is awarded to Dmitriy V. Titov for his exceptional contribution to the field of atmospheric sciences of the terrestrial planets and major role in the definition and outstanding success of the ESA Venus Express mission. Read more
Elias Roussos 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Elias Roussos for his outstanding work in Planetary Magnetospheres, the discovery of transient radiation belt structures in Saturn’s magnetosphere, and the detection of here-to-fore unknown rings and dust structures in the Saturnian system. Read more
Elifuraha Saria 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Elifuraha Saria A new velocity field for Africa from combined GPS and Doris Solutions: Contribution to Afref Read more
Ernest Henry Rutter 2011 Louis Néel Medal The 2011 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to Ernest Henry Rutter for his major experimental and field contributions to our fundamental understanding of the deformation behaviour of the Earth’s lithosphere. In particular, his systematic laboratory studies have led to a greatly improved understanding of natural rock deformation. Read more
Fatima El Atrassi 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Fatima El Atrassi Melting textures and microdiamonds preserved in graphite pseudomorphs from the Beni Bousera peridotite massif, Morocco. Read more
Felix C. Seidel 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Felix C. Seidel Sensitivity of aerosol retrieval to surface albedo Read more
Florian Pappenberger 2011 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists The 2011 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists is awarded to Florian Pappenberger for his contributions to hydrological modelling, operational hydrological forecasting and uncertainty assessment. Read more
Geert Vinken 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Geert Vinken Accounting for non-linear chemistry of shipping plumes in the GEOS-Chem global chemistry transport model Read more
Gerold Wefer 2011 Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership The 2011 Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership is awarded to Gerold Wefer for his pioneering contributions on the applicability of stable isotopes in marine calcareous organisms to reconstruction of the ocean history down to the seasonal scale and his exceptional devotion in serving the marine community. Read more
Guy Masters 2011 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2011 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to Guy Masters in recognition of his outstanding contributions in seismic investigations of Earth’s large-scale structure, including in particular the deep mantle and core. Read more
Harald Schuh 2011 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2011 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Harald Schuh for his work in the field of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and his important contribution to space geodetic research. Read more
Heli Hietala 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Heli Hietala Particle Acceleration in Shock-Shock Interaction – Multi-spacecraft In Situ Observations Read more
Herbert Summesberger 2011 Union Service Award The 2011 Union Service Award is awarded to Herbert Summesberger for his invaluable and unselfish contribution to the organization, the attractiveness and the success of the GIFT workshops for the last 7 years. Read more
Hermann Lühr 2011 Julius Bartels Medal The 2011 Julius Bartels Medal is awarded to Hermann Lühr for his leadership roles in ground and space magnetometry in Europe, in particular as Principal Investigator of the magnetic field investigation of the CHAMP mission that has yielded much new information on a wide range of terrestrial magnetic phenomena. Read more
Isabelle John 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Isabelle John Speleothems from the Balkan Peninsula (Serbia & Montenegro): Late-Quaternary Records of Atmospheric Circulation and Changing Seasonality since the last Interglacial Read more
István Kovács 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to István Kovács for his outstanding contribution to quantitative infrared spectroscopy of nominally anhydrous minerals and its application to the lithosphere-asthenosphere system. Read more
Jan Martin Brockmann 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Jan Martin Brockmann Use of massive parallel computing libraries in the context of global gravity field determination Read more
Ján Szolgay 2011 Henry Darcy Medal The 2011 Henry Darcy Medal is awarded to Ján Szolgay for outstanding contributions to regional hydrology and water resources management. Read more
Jean-Pierre Lebreton 2011 Jean Dominique Cassini Medal & Honorary Membership The 2011 Jean Dominique Cassini Medal & Honorary Membership is awarded to Jean-Pierre Lebreton for his scientific leadership in ESA’s Huygens mission to Titan, which made it an outstanding success, his involvement in the Rosetta and Venus Express missions, and his work as Co-Chair of the Europa Jupiter System Mission. Read more
João Pedro Nunes 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to João Pedro Nunes for his outstanding contribution to the understanding of the impact of global and climate change on soil hydrology at different scales. Read more
Johannes J. Fürst 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Johannes J. Fürst Effect of fast dynamics on the centennial mass loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet Read more
Julian A. Dowdeswell 2011 Louis Agassiz Medal The 2011 Louis Agassiz Medal is awarded to Julian A. Dowdeswell for outstanding contributions to the study of polar ice masses and to the understanding of the processes and patterns of sedimentation in glacier-influenced marine environments. Read more
Julian Skrotzki 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Julian Skrotzki The Accommodation Coefficient of Water Molecules on Ice and its Role for Cirrus Clouds Read more
Julia Palamarchuk 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Julia Palamarchuk Regional and local variability of precipitation in Europe Read more
Karin Bauch 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Karin Bauch Thermophysical Properties of Selected Lunar Study Regions Determined from LROC and Diviner Data Read more
Karin Labitzke 2011 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal The 2011 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal is awarded to Karin Labitzke in recognition of her fundamental achievements in the observational study of the stratosphere and mesosphere. She has made many important contributions to increasing our understanding of these regions of the atmosphere and has led the way in discovering the influence of the 11-year solar cycle on the Northern Hemisphere stratospheric polar vortex as modulated by the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation. Read more
Kendra Kaiser 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Kendra Kaiser Ecohydrology: Disturbance and the intersection of vegetation pattern and landscape structure Read more
Kirsten Kennedy 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Kirsten Kennedy Paleoenvironments of Early Devonian plants and fish in the Campbellton Formation, New Brunswick, Canada: invasion of the land at a classic locality Read more
Laura Gargiulo 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Laura Gargiulo Soil fauna activity and soil porosity: characterization by micromorphological image analysis Read more
Laurent Jolivet 2011 Stephan Mueller Medal The 2011 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to Laurent Jolivet for his contribution to a deeper understanding of the tectonic evolution of the lithosphere at convergent plate boundaries. Using rock mechanics and new concepts on coupling between metamorphic reactions and deformation he has generated new insights on how the crust deforms at depth and returns to the surface. Read more
Lukas Hörtnagl 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Lukas Hörtnagl Acetone and acetaldehyde exchange above a managed temperate mountain grassland Read more
Malcolm Barrie Hart 2011 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal The 2011 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal is awarded to Malcolm Barrie Hart the Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal is awarded to Malcolm Barrie Hart for his internationally acclaimed research on the taxonomy, evolution, ecology and applied biostratigraphy of foraminifera, including the origin of planktonic foraminifera, the causes and consequences of oceanic anoxia and mass extinction events, and the local biotic impact of volcanic eruptions. Read more
Marcel Thielmann 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Marcel Thielmann Shear heating and subduction initiation Read more
Martin Hürlimann 2011 Christiaan Huygens Medal The 2011 Christiaan Huygens Medal is awarded to Martin Hürlimann for his outstanding work in innovative instrumentation and analysis methods in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance to characterize fluidsaturated porous media with geophysical application to sub-surface measurements. Read more
Michael Manga 2011 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal The 2011 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to Michael Manga for his outstanding contribution to volcanology and to the physics of transport and eruption of multiphase magma. His contribution elegantly links observations, lab experiments and theory, and has significantly advanced physical volcanology. Read more
Michael Zellinger 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Michael Zellinger The Influence of Gravity on the Evolution of the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability around Venus Read more
Monique Petitdidier 2011 Ian McHarg Medal The 2011 Ian McHarg Medal is awarded to Monique Petitdidier for her exemplar work in support of African scientists and her recognition of the importance of outreach and ‘science citizenship’. Read more
Niklaus Merz 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Niklaus Merz Regional links between atmospheric variability and the sea-ice – ocean system in the Southern Ocean area Read more
Olivier Galland 2011 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists The 2011 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists is awarded to Olivier Galland for his remarkable contribution to the understanding of volcanic and magma emplacement processes. Read more
Patrick Klenk 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Patrick Klenk Towards reliable large scale soil water content estimation: GPR for measuring soil moisture in the Urumqi region Read more
Pauline Dieras 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Pauline Dieras Controls on initial oxbow sedimentation as observed within recently cut-off channels of the Ain River, France Read more
Peter A. Troch 2011 John Dalton Medal The 2011 John Dalton Medal is awarded to Peter A. Troch for his seminal contributions to hydrology in the areas of modelling, remote sensing and development of new ecohydrologic theories. Read more
Peter L. Olson 2011 Petrus Peregrinus Medal The 2011 Petrus Peregrinus Medal is awarded to Peter L. Olson for his insightful contributions to our understanding of the core mantle interactions by combining theory, numerical models and laboratory fluid dynamics model. Read more
Philip Benson 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Philip Benson for his innovative experimental simulations that have made an outstanding contribution to improving our understanding of volcano-seismic processes. Read more
Raphaël Paris 2011 Plinius Medal The 2011 Plinius Medal is awarded to Raphaël Paris in recognition and appreciation of his outstanding contributions to multidisciplinary research in the field of natural hazards and risk mitigation, with special focus on volcanic hazard, on volcanic slope instabilities, of tsunamigenic eruptive and gravitational processes, and on studies of tsunami onshore deposits. Read more
Raquel Nieto 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Raquel Nieto for her outstanding contribution to the understanding of the moisture sources and precipitation in the atmospheric system. Read more
Reik Volker Donner 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Reik Volker Donner for highly innovative contributions to new techniques of nonlinear time series analysis and their applications in the geosciences. Read more
Renata Gazdova 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Renata Gazdova Groundwater level variations in the seismo-active region of Western Bohemia in the years 2005–2010 Read more