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
