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
Tom Veldkamp (Chair)
Bojie Fu
Carlo Laj
Manfred R. Strecker
Silvia Peppoloni
Alfred Wegener Medal
Atmospheric, hydrological or ocean sciences
Karen Heywood (Chair)
Angela M. Gurnell
Harry Vereecken
Ingeborg Levin
Marco Borga
Arthur Holmes Medal
Solid Earth geosciences
Donald Bruce Dingwell (Chair)
Boris Kaus
Mathilde Cannat
Paraskevi Nomikou
Torgeir Andersen
William Lowrie
Jean Dominique Cassini Medal
Planetary and space sciences
Pascale Ehrenfreund (Chair)
Anders Johansen
Janet Luhmann
Rosaly Lopes
Rumi Nakamura
Sara Russell
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
Iain Stewart (Chair)
Lakshmi Supriya
Pouria Nazemi
Robin George Andrews
Roland Pease
Champion(s) for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award
Significant contributions in advancing the values of EDI in the geoscience community
Daniel Conley (Chair)
Caroline Slomp
Duncan Cameron
Ivica Vilibić
Maria-Helena Ramos
Munira Raji
Patric Jacobs
Katia and Maurice Krafft Award
Geoscience outreach and engagement
Sam Illingworth (Chair)
Jenny Turton
Katinka Bellomo
Rhian H. Meara
Union Service Award
Outstanding services for the Union
Members of the Council
Division medals
Alina Kabata-Pendias Medal
Soil System Sciences
Cécile Quantin
José María de la Rosa
Ravendra Naidu
Augustus Love Medal
Geodynamics
Laetitia Le Pourhiet (Chair)
Ágnes Király
David Bercovici
Harro Schmeling
Thorsten Becker
Beno Gutenberg Medal
Seismology
Barbara Romanowicz (Chair)
Malcolm Sambridge
Philippe Jousset
Yehuda Ben-Zion
Christiaan Huygens Medal
Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems
Vincenzo Lapenna (Chair)
Ilaria Catapano
Maurizio Fedi
Raffaele Persico
R. Giles Harrison
David Bates Medal
Planetary and Solar System Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with Runcorn-Florensky Medal)
Tristan Guillot (Chair)
Beatriz Sanchez-Cano
Emma J. Bunce
Joana S. Oliveira
Sébastien Charnoz
Fridtjof Nansen Medal
Ocean Sciences
Richard Lampitt (Chair)
Corinna Schrum
Jan Zika
Lynne Talley
Pierre-Yves Le Traon
Hannes Alfvén Medal
Solar-Terrestrial Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with Julius Bartels Medal)
Margit Haberreiter (Chair)
Daniel Baker
David J. McComas
Janet Luhmann
Julia Thalmann
Hans Oeschger Medal
Climate: Past, Present & Future
Karol Tylmann (Chair)
Doug Smith
Hugues Goosse
Kim Cobb
Sonia I. Seneviratne
Henry Darcy Medal
Hydrological Sciences
Xavier Sánchez-Vila (Chair)
Andreas Hartmann
Berit Arheimer
Marc F. P. Bierkens
Wouter Buytaert
Ian McHarg Medal
Earth and Space Science Informatics
(attributed every other year)
Kirsten Elger (Chair)
Alice Fremand
Kerstin Lehnert
Mikhail Kanevski
Paolo Diviacco
Stefano Nativi
Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal
Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology
Jorijntje Henderiks (Chair)
Andreas Strasser
David A. T. Harper
Elisabetta Erba
Madeleine Vickers
John Dalton Medal
Hydrological Sciences
Amilcare Porporato (Chair)
Brian Berkowitz
Luis Samaniego
Martha C. Anderson
Taikan Oki
Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal
Cryospheric Sciences
Martyn Tranter (Chair)
Etienne Berthier
Julienne Stroeve
Marie Dumont
Regine Hock
Julius Bartels Medal
Solar-Terrestrial Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with Hannes Alfvén Medal)
Norma B. Crosby (Chair)
Georgia Tsiropoula
Masatoshi Yamauchi
Qiugang Zong
Volker Bothmer
(inactive for the 2023 call)
Lewis Fry Richardson Medal
Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences
Ulrike Feudel (Chair)
Angelo Vulpiani
Bérengère Dubrulle
Ekaterina Didenkulova
Valerio Lucarini
Louis Néel Medal
Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics
(attributed every other year, rotation with Petrus Peregrinus Medal)
J. Michael Kosterlitz (Chair)
Chris Marone
David A. Lockner
Wen-lu Zhu
Marie Tharp Medal
Tectonics and Structural Geology
Mary Ford (Chair)
Francesca Funiciello
Mathilde Cannat
R. Dietmar Müller
Richard G. Gordon
Milutin Milankovic Medal
Climate: Past, Present & Future
Ayako Abe-Ouchi (Chair)
Bette L. Otto-Bliesner
Hai Cheng
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Valérie Masson-Delmotte
Petrus Peregrinus Medal
Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics
(attributed every other year, rotation with Louis Néel Medal)
Catherine Kissel (Chair)
Jonathan Aurnou
Kenneth P. Kodama
Lisa Tauxe
Rixiang Zhu
(inactive for the 2023 call)
Philippe Duchaufour Medal
Soil System Sciences
Mary K. Firestone (Chair)
Andreas A. Richter
Donald L. Sparks
Jose Antonio González-Pérez
Plinius Medal
Natural Hazards
Jadranka Šepić (Chair)
Fausto Guzzetti
Giuliana Rossi
Raphael Paris
Slobodan Nickovic
Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal
Geomorphology
Paola Passalacqua (Chair)
Dimitri Lague
Joanna E. Bullard
Nicoletta Leonardi
Tjalling de Haas
Tom Coulthard
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal
Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology
Marian Holness (Chair)
Janne Blichert-Toft
Jean-Francois Moyen
Judith Hannah
Massimo Chiaradia
Susan L. S. Stipp
Urs Schaltegger
Runcorn-Florensky Medal
Planetary and Solar System Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with David Bates Medal)
Tristan Guillot (Chair)
Beatriz Sanchez-Cano
Emma J. Bunce
Joana S. Oliveira
Sébastien Charnoz
(inactive for the 2023 call)
Sergey Soloviev Medal
Natural Hazards
Andrea Di Muro (Chair)
Giuliano Di Baldassarre
John J. Clague
Maria Pregnolato
Ricardo Trigo
Stephan Mueller Medal
Tectonics and Structural Geology
Mary Ford (Chair)
Francesca Funiciello
Mathilde Cannat
R. Dietmar Müller
Richard G. Gordon
Vening Meinesz Medal
Geodesy
Johannes Böhm (Chair)
Christopher Jekeli
Jürgen Müller
Kristel Chanard
Peter J. G. Teunissen
Willi Freeden
Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal
Atmospheric Sciences
Spyros N. Pandis (Chair)
Christoph Schär
Hugh Coe
Trude Storelvmo
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal
Biogeosciences
Susan E. Trumbore (Chair)
Adina Paytan
Pierre Friedlingstein
Richard Pancost