Awards & medals committees
Ex-officio members are not included; they are the relevant division president and the chair of the Union Awards Committee. Awards and medals committee members should declare at the beginning of the selection procedure any potential conflict of interest.
Union medals
Alexander von Humboldt Medal
Scientists who have performed research in developing regions
Carlo Laj (Chair)
Giuliana Panieri
Nick van de Giesen
Robyn Pickering
Sachchida Tripathi
Subimal Ghosh
Alfred Wegener Medal
Atmospheric, hydrological or ocean sciences
Marco Borga (Chair)
Angela M. Gurnell
Anne Marie Tréguier
Annica Ekman
Trevor McDougall
Victor Brovkin
Arthur Holmes Medal
Solid Earth geosciences
William Lowrie (Chair)
Boris Kaus
Claudio Faccenna
Mathilde Cannat
Paraskevi Nomikou
Paul Tackley
Jean Dominique Cassini Medal
Planetary and space sciences
Anders Johansen (Chair)
Raymond Pierrehumbert
Rosaly Lopes
Sara Russell
Veronique Dehant
Union awards
Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists
Achievements made by early career scientists in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences
Members of the Council
Angela Croome Award
Earth, space and planetary sciences journalism
Kirsten von Elverfeldt (Chair)
Gaia Vince
Pouria Nazemi
Sergio Vinciguerra
Champion(s) for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award
Significant contributions in advancing the values of EDI in the geoscience community
Daniel J. Conley (Chair)
Adeyemi Oludapo Olusola
Claudia Alves de Jesus-Rydin
David Bastviken
Jane K. Hart
Lisa Wingate
Maria-Helena Ramos
Michelle O’Grady
Katia and Maurice Krafft Award
Geoscience outreach and engagement
Miguel Gomez-Heras (Chair)
Christina Anna Orieschnig
Roberta Bellini
Sinelethu Hashibi
Science for Policy Award
Significant contributions to evidence-informed policymaking in Europe
Matthias Girod (Chair)
Emmanuel Salmon
Filipa Vala
Juha-Pekka Jäpölä
Kristian Krieger
Megan O'Donnell
Union Service Award
Outstanding services for the Union
Members of the Council
Division medals
Alina Kabata-Pendias Medal
Soil System Sciences
Cécile Quantin (Chair)
Anna Gunina
José María de la Rosa
Ravendra Naidu
Augustus Love Medal
Geodynamics
Jeroen van Hunen (Chair)
Ágnes Király
David Bercovici
Neil Ribe
Taras Gerya
Thorsten Becker
Beno Gutenberg Medal
Seismology
Malcolm Sambridge (Chair)
Hitoshi Kawakatsu
Jaroslava Plomerová
Philippe Jousset
Yehuda Ben-Zion
Christiaan Huygens Medal
Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems
Vincenzo Lapenna (Chair)
Francesco Soldovieri
Ilaria Catapano
Maurizio Fedi
Nemesio M. Pérez
David Bates Medal
Planetary and Solar System Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with Runcorn-Florensky Medal)
Franck Montmessin (Chair)
Beatriz Sanchez-Cano
Chrysa Avdellidou
Ricardo Hueso
Shangchun Teng
Fridtjof Nansen Medal
Ocean Sciences
Richard S. Lampitt (Chair)
Alberto C. Naveira-Garabato
Carsten Eden
Ingrid Puillat
Pierre-Yves Le Traon
Hannes Alfvén Medal
Solar-Terrestrial Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with Julius Bartels Medal)
Margit Haberreiter (Chair)
David J. McComas
Janet Luhmann
Mateja Dumbovic
Sandra C. Chapman
Hans Oeschger Medal
Climate: Past, Present & Future
Karol Tylmann (Chair)
Doug Smith
Heather Marie Stoll
Hugues Goosse
Michael Sigl
Henry Darcy Medal
Hydrological Sciences
Wouter Buytaert (Chair)
Alberto Guadagnini
Jan Seibert
Manuela Brunner
Marc F. P. Bierkens
Ian McHarg Medal
Earth and Space Science Informatics
Alice Fremand (Chair)
François Robida
Lesley Wyborn
Marthe Klöcking
Mikhail Kanevski
Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal
Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology
Alicia Fantasia (Chair)
David A. T. Harper
Donald Prothero
Shradha Menon
Silvia Frisia
John Dalton Medal
Hydrological Sciences
Martha C. Anderson (Chair)
Luis Samaniego
Paolo D'Odorico
Paul D. Bates
Taikan Oki
Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal
Cryospheric Sciences
Regine Hock (Chair)
Etienne Berthier
Gwenn E. Flowers
Ruzica Dadic
Shin Sugiyama
Julius Bartels Medal
Solar-Terrestrial Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with Hannes Alfvén Medal)
Volker Bothmer (Chair)
Erika Palmerio
Masatoshi Yamauchi
Qiugang Zong
(inactive for the 2025 call)
Lewis Fry Richardson Medal
Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences
Ulrike Feudel (Chair)
Angelo Vulpiani
Freddy Bouchet
Isabel de Lima
Kateryna Terletska
Louis Néel Medal
Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics
(attributed every other year, rotation with Petrus Peregrinus Medal)
Wen-lu Zhu (Chair)
David A. Lockner
Patrick Baud
Marie Tharp Medal
Tectonics and Structural Geology
Hemin Koyi (Chair)
Francesca Funiciello
Heidrun Kopp
Richard G. Gordon
Yann Klinger
Milutin Milanković Medal
Climate: Past, Present & Future
Ayako Abe-Ouchi (Chair)
Bette L. Otto-Bliesner
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Peter U. Clark
Zhengyu Liu
Petrus Peregrinus Medal
Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics
(attributed every other year, rotation with Louis Néel Medal)
Kenneth P. Kodama (Chair)
Jonathan Aurnou
Lisa Tauxe
Nils Olsen
(inactive for the 2025 call)
Philippe Duchaufour Medal
Soil System Sciences
Andreas A. Richter (Chair)
Friederike Lang
Jan Willem van Groenigen
Wulf Amelung
Plinius Medal
Natural Hazards
Philip Ward (Chair)
Giuliana Rossi
Mariana Madruga de Brito
Raphael Paris
Slobodan Nickovic
Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal
Geomorphology
Christian France-Lanord (Chair)
Christopher Clark
Dimitri Lague
Fiona Clubb
Jana Eichel
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal
Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology
Janne Blichert-Toft (Chair)
Chiara Maria Petrone
Jean-Francois Moyen
Judith Hannah
Kei Hirose
Trevor Ireland
Runcorn-Florensky Medal
Planetary and Solar System Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with David Bates Medal)
Franck Montmessin (Chair)
Beatriz Sanchez-Cano
Chrysa Avdellidou
Ricardo Hueso
Shangchun Teng
(inactive for the 2025 call)
Sergey Soloviev Medal
Natural Hazards
Andrea Di Muro (Chair)
Ankit Agarwal
Anne Mangeney
Jacopo Selva
Ricardo Trigo
Vening Meinesz Medal
Geodesy
Annette Eicker (Chair)
Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma
Jeffrey T. Freymueller
Jürgen Müller
Peter J. G. Teunissen
René Forsberg
Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal
Atmospheric Sciences
Hugh Coe (Chair)
Corinna Hoose
Dominik Stolzenburg
Ulrike Lohmann
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal
Biogeosciences
Michael Bahn (Chair)
Adina Paytan
Corinne Le Quéré
Daniel J. Conley
Richard Pancost