Union awards & medals 2023

EGU celebrates its 2023 Union awardees and medallists, whom the community is honouring for their important contributions to the Earth, planetary and space sciences.

Harry Vereecken

2023 Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership

The 2023 Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership is awarded to Harry Vereecken for groundbreaking contributions to linking soil-plant-atmosphere processes across scales.

Mathilde Cannat

2023 Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership

The 2023 Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership is awarded to Mathilde Cannat for her contribution to the understanding of mid-ocean ridges in terms of tectonic processes and dynamics.

Athena Coustenis

2023 Jean Dominique Cassini Medal & Honorary Membership

The 2023 Jean Dominique Cassini Medal & Honorary Membership is awarded to Athena Coustenis for her major discoveries in the field of planetary atmospheres and surfaces and outstanding contribution to international space missions.

Jonathan Amos

2023 Angela Croome Award

The 2023 Angela Croome Award is awarded to Jonathan Amos for deep, authoritative, and impactful journalism that expertly breaks a broad range of cutting-edge geoscience topics to European and worldwide audiences, across multiple types of media.

Harry Zekollari

2023 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists

The 2023 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Harry Zekollari for outstanding research in the field of mass balance and glacier evolution modelling, and for his service to the cryosphere community.

Jessica McBeck

2023 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists

The 2023 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Jessica McBeck for developing a new and unique understanding of strain localization mechanisms that control failure across scales, with the application of novel investigation techniques and modelling tools.

Tjalling de Haas

2023 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists

The 2023 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Tjalling de Haas in recognition of their fundamental contributions to advancing the understanding of landslide-tsunami interactions and of mass flows more broadly on Earth and Mars, using a suite of innovative approaches.

Wim Thiery

2023 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists

The 2023 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Wim Thiery for his broad-ranging research contributions on the topics of extreme climate events, climate change impacts, energy meteorology, water resources, and land-atmosphere interactions.

Sam Illingworth

2023 Katia and Maurice Krafft Award

The 2023 Katia and Maurice Krafft Award is awarded to Sam Illingworth for visionary work in developing and implementing methods to communicate geoscience in an innovative and inclusive way, and with a diverse audience.