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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

Irina M. Artemieva (Chair)
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

Irina M. Artemieva (Chair)
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


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

(inactive for the 2024 call)


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

(inactive for the 2024 call)


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

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


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

(inactive for the 2024 call)


Marie Tharp Medal

Tectonics and Structural Geology

Mary Ford (Chair)
Francesca Funiciello
Mathilde Cannat
R. Dietmar Müller
Richard G. Gordon


Milutin Milanković 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


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


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


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


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


Susan E. Trumbore (Chair)
Adina Paytan
Pierre Friedlingstein
Richard Pancost