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
Filippo Giorgi (Chair)
Bojie Fu
Manfred R. Strecker
Ozlem Adiyaman Lopes
Tom Veldkamp
Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership
Atmospheric, hydrological or ocean sciences
Murugesu Sivapalan (Chair)
Angela M. Gurnell
Ingeborg Levin
Karen Heywood
Meinrat O. Andreae
Michael L. Bender
Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership
Solid Earth geosciences
Donald Bruce Dingwell (Chair)
Arwen Deuss
Dennis V. Kent
Laurent Jolivet
Taras Gerya
Jean Dominique Cassini Medal & Honorary Membership
Planetary and space sciences
Tuija Pulkkinen (Chair)
Francois Raulin
Janet Luhmann
Pascale Ehrenfreund
Yves Langevin
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
Martin Archer (Chair)
Jane Qiu
Maja Sojtaric
Roland Pease
Katia and Maurice Krafft Award
Geoscience outreach and engagement
Andreas Lang (Chair)
Annie Ockelford
Anouk Beniest
Rhian H. Meara
Union Service Award
Outstanding services for the Union
Members of the Council
Division medals
Alina Kabata-Pendias Medal
Soil System Sciences
Augustus Love Medal
Geodynamics
Paul Tackley (Chair)
Anne Davaille
Edgar M. Parmentier
Harro Schmeling
Irina M. Artemieva
Beno Gutenberg Medal
Seismology
Hitoshi Kawakatsu (Chair)
Barbara Romanowicz
Haruo Sato
Malcolm Sambridge
Paul Martin Mai
Christiaan Huygens Medal
Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems
Susana Barbosa (Chair)
Jothiram Vivekanandan
Lev Eppelbaum
Raffaele Persico
R. Giles Harrison
David Bates Medal
Planetary and Solar System Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with Runcorn-Florensky Medal)
Sushil Atreya (Chair)
Agustín Sánchez-Lavega
Bruno Bézard
Jessica Flahaut
Tim Van Hoolst
(inactive for the 2022 call)
Fridtjof Nansen Medal
Ocean Sciences
Stephen M. Griffies (Chair)
Anne Marie Tréguier
Jan Zika
Marilaure Gregoire
Richard Lampitt
Hannes Alfvén Medal
Solar-Terrestrial Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with Julius Bartels Medal)
Iannis Dandouras (Chair)
Daniel Baker
Janet Luhmann
Julia Thalmann
(inactive for the 2022 call)
Hans Oeschger Medal
Climate: Past, Present & Future
Gabriele Hegerl (Chair)
Edward Brook
Hubertus Fischer
Kim Cobb
Sonia I. Seneviratne
Henry Darcy Medal
Hydrological Sciences
Elena Toth (Chair)
Andreas Hartmann
Berit Arheimer
Petra Döll
Xavier Sánchez-Vila
Ian McHarg Medal
Earth and Space Science Informatics
(attributed every other year)
Lesley Wyborn (Chair)
Kerstin Lehnert
Paolo Diviacco
Paolo Mazzetti
Paul Wessel
Stefano Nativi
(inactive for the 2022 call)
Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal
Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology
Helmut Weissert (Chair)
Andreas Strasser
Isabel Montañez
Jorijntje Henderiks
Madeleine Vickers
Michael Benton
John Dalton Medal
Hydrological Sciences
Gabriel Katul (Chair)
Amilcare Porporato
Brian Berkowitz
Günter Blöschl
Lena Tallaksen
Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal
Cryospheric Sciences
Frank Pattyn (Chair)
Andreas Kääb
Julienne Stroeve
Marie Dumont
Martyn Tranter
Julius Bartels Medal
Solar-Terrestrial Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with Hannes Alfvén Medal)
Norma B. Crosby (Chair)
Georgia Tsiropoula
Masatoshi Yamauchi
Volker Bothmer
Yuri Shprits
Lewis Fry Richardson Medal
Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences
Shaun Lovejoy (Chair)
Bérengère Dubrulle
Ekaterina Didenkulova
Timothy Palmer
Valerio Lucarini
Louis Néel Medal
Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics
(attributed every other year, rotation with Petrus Peregrinus Medal)
Christopher J. Spiers (Chair)
Chris Marone
J. Michael Kosterlitz
Wen-lu Zhu
(inactive for the 2022 call)
Marie Tharp Medal
Tectonics and Structural Geology
Mary Ford (Chair)
John Platt
Mathilde Cannat
R. Dietmar Müller
Serge Lallemand
Milutin Milankovic Medal
Climate: Past, Present & Future
Marie-France Loutre (Chair)
Ayako Abe-Ouchi
David Hodell
Jacques Laskar
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
Mioara Mandea
Zhu Rixiang
Philippe Duchaufour Medal
Soil System Sciences
Claudia Alves de Jesus-Rydin (Chair)
Claire Chenu
Donald L. Sparks
Georg Guggenberger
Plinius Medal
Natural Hazards
Jadranka Sepic (Chair)
Bruno Merz
Claire Horwell
Fausto Guzzetti
Marijan Herak
Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal
Geomorphology
Peter van der Beek (Chair)
David Lundbek Egholm
Georgina Bennett
Joanna Bullard
Louise Slater
Tom Coulthard
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal
Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology
Mike Burton (Chair)
Andrew Putnis
Clare Warren
Daniela Rubatto
Holly J. Stein
Urs Schaltegger
Runcorn-Florensky Medal
Planetary and Solar System Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with David Bates Medal)
Sushil Atreya (Chair)
Agustín Sánchez-Lavega
Bruno Bézard
Jessica Flahaut
Tim Van Hoolst
Sergey Soloviev Medal
Natural Hazards
Maria-Carmen Llasat (Chair)
Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Giuseppe De Natale
John J. Clague
Maria Pregnolato
Stephan Mueller Medal
Tectonics and Structural Geology
Mary Ford (Chair)
John Platt
Mathilde Cannat
R. Dietmar Müller
Serge Lallemand
Vening Meinesz Medal
Geodesy
Johannes Böhm (Chair)
Christopher Jekeli
Markus Rothacher
Tonie van Dam
Willi Freeden
Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal
Atmospheric Sciences
Johannes Lelieveld (Chair)
Michael Prather
Spyros N. Pandis
Trude Storelvmo
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal
Biogeosciences
Gerd Gleixner (Chair)
Pierre Friedlingstein
Stephanie Henson
Susan E. Trumbore