Awards & medals committees

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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

Helen M. Glaves (Chair)
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

Helen M. Glaves (Chair)
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

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

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

Lesley Wyborn (Chair)
Kerstin Lehnert
Paolo Diviacco
Paolo Mazzetti
Paul Wessel
Stefano Nativi

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

(inactive for the 2021 call)

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

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

(inactive for the 2021 call)