Anne Glerum 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Anne Glerum for her contributions in geodynamics, including providing new insight in the East African rift system, methodological advancement of geodynamic modelling techniques, and outstanding community service. Read more
Taras Gerya 2024 Augustus Love Medal The 2024 Augustus Love Medal is awarded to Taras Gerya for his novel approach in using computational geodynamics to address outstanding tectonic and geodynamic questions in a way that reaches out to petrologists, geochemists, and structural geologists. Read more
Ágnes Király 2023 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2023 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Ágnes Király for her significant contributions in geodynamics, including contributions on viscous anisotropy in the mantle and new interactions between subduction and geological deformation and volcanism. Read more
Philippa Slay 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Philippa Slay Observed Dynamic Topography and Cenozoic Magmatism of the Eastern Seaboard of Australia Read more
Thorsten W. Becker 2023 Augustus Love Medal The 2023 Augustus Love Medal is awarded to Thorsten W. Becker for outstanding research contributions in regional and global geodynamics, seismology, tectonics, and earthquake source processes, and for scientific leadership and selfless service. Read more
Tinghong Zhou 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Tinghong Zhou Did the dynamo cease during the Ediacaran Period prior to inner core nucleation? Read more
David Bercovici 2022 Augustus Love Medal The 2022 Augustus Love Medal is awarded to David Bercovici for fundamental and long-lasting contributions that advance our understanding of the dynamics and evolution of mantle convection, lithospheric rheology and plate tectonics. Read more
Kira Musiyachenko 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Kira Musiyachenko Secular change in the age of TTG sources during the Archean from in-situ Sr and Hf isotope analysis by LA-MC-ICPMS Read more
Michaël Pons 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Michaël Pons Variability of the shortening rate in Central Andes controlled by subduction dynamics and interaction between slab and overriding plate Read more
Timothy J. Craig 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Timothy J. Craig for fundamental and multi-disciplinary contributions to geodynamics, such as developing a new paradigm for intraplate earthquakes, and uniting disparate datasets in a single geodynamic framework. Read more
Irina M. Artemieva 2021 Augustus Love Medal The 2021 Augustus Love Medal is awarded to Irina M. Artemieva for her outstanding research contributions to our understanding of the complex processes that control the evolution, thermal structure, stability, and dynamic topography of the continental lithosphere. Read more
Mark J. Hoggard 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Mark J. Hoggard for outstanding research in connecting observations at the Earth’s surface to its deep interior. Read more
Sara Vulpius 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award The 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award is awarded to Sara Vulpius Effects on the volatile release from magmatic intrusions Read more
Zhibin Lei 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award The 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award is awarded to Zhibin Lei Impact of trench retreat rate on initiating focused back-arc extension within a mobile overriding plate Read more
Harro Schmeling 2020 Augustus Love Medal The 2020 Augustus Love Medal is awarded to Harro Schmeling for his outstanding contributions to understanding the dynamics of the mantle, lithosphere and two-phase flow. Read more
Tobias Keller 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Tobias Keller for outstanding scientific contributions related to understanding magma dynamics and igneous systems in the mantle and lithosphere, including the roles of volatiles and reactive flow. Read more
Anna Gülcher 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Anna Gülcher The effects of rheological and tectonic parameters on the preservation of primordial reservoirs in Earth’s lower mantle: a numerical study Read more
Anne Davaille 2019 Augustus Love Medal The 2019 Augustus Love Medal is awarded to Anne Davaille for innovative experiments and analysis in fluid mechanics, which have created a new understanding of convective regimes within the mantles of the Earth and other planets and of their magmatic systems. Read more
Mathew Domeier 2019 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2019 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Mathew Domeier for outstanding accomplishments in reconstructing tectonic plate evolution in the past 600 million years and in understanding the link between the evolution of plates and the deep Earth. Read more
Paul Beguelin 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Paul Beguelin Cerium -Hf-Nd-Sr-Pb isotope constraints on the Azores source composition and plume-rift interaction Read more
Antoniette G. Grima 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Antoniette G. Grima Mid-Mantle Orphan Slabs Read more
Edgar M. Parmentier 2018 Augustus Love Medal The 2018 Augustus Love Medal is awarded to Edgar M. Parmentier for outstanding research in the fundamental geodynamical processes of sea-floor spreading, melt extraction and crustal formation, and the application of geodynamical principles to flow in the mantle. Read more
Roland Neofitu 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Roland Neofitu Analysis of hiatal surfaces and the stratigraphic framework for the plume mode in the East African Rift System (EARS): Progress and Limitations Read more
Thibault Duretz 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Thibault Duretz for his fundamental contributions to understanding slab detachment, shear zones, passive-margin formation, obduction and development of new numerical algorithms. Read more
Barry E. Parsons 2017 Augustus Love Medal The 2017 Augustus Love Medal is awarded to Barry E. Parsons for his contributions to marine geophysics, mantle convection and continental tectonics. Read more
Ludovic Räss 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Ludovic Räss M2Di: MATLAB 2-D Stokes solvers using the Finite Difference method. Read more
Nicolas Flament 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Nicolas Flament for his contribution to understanding global mantle dynamics by combining geodynamic and seismic models with geological data and field observations. Read more
Andrea Licciardi 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Andrea Licciardi Crustal anisotropy along the North Anatolian Fault Zone from receiver functions Read more
Anouk Beniest 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Anouk Beniest Uplift of sedimentary basins in an extensional setting as a result of the migration of a thermal anomaly Read more
Grace E. Shephard 2016 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists The 2016 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists is awarded to Grace E. Shephard for notable contributions to understanding links between plate-tectonic processes and mantle dynamics. Read more
Jason P. Morgan 2016 Augustus Love Medal The 2016 Augustus Love Medal is awarded to Jason P. Morgan for his wide-ranging contributions to geodynamics, in particular for furthering our understanding of mid-ocean ridges, subduction zones and plumes and their interactions with the asthenosphere. Read more
Adam Holt 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Adam Holt Overriding plate thickness control on subducting slab curvature Read more
Gregory A. Houseman 2015 Augustus Love Medal The 2015 Augustus Love Medal is awarded to Gregory A. Houseman for his outstanding contributions to large-scale continental geodynamics and mantle convection. Read more
Manuele Faccenda 2015 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists The 2015 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists is awarded to Manuele Faccenda for notable contributions to understanding physical processes along convergent margins and their interaction across scales, from rock metamorphism to lithospheric faulting, seismicity, and mantle flow. Read more
Maurits Metman 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Maurits Metman The sensivity of geomagnetic reversal frequency to core-mantle boundary heat flux magnitude and heterogeneity. Read more
Benjamin Maunder 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Benjamin Maunder Fluid Release and the Deformation of Subducting Crust Read more
Helene A. Kraft 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Helene A. Kraft Central-east Greenland’s lithospheric structure from surface wave tomography and receiver functions Read more
Rhodri Davies 2014 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2014 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Rhodri Davies for fundamental contributions to the field of mantle dynamics. Read more
Shun-Ichiro Karato 2014 Augustus Love Medal The 2014 Augustus Love Medal is awarded to Shun-Ichiro Karato for outstanding wide-ranging contributions to geodynamics, epitomised by novel syntheses of theory with laboratory, geophysical and field data, and noted especially for pioneering studies of the anisotropy of Earth materials. Read more
Chase J. Shyu 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Chase J. Shyu The Thermal- Mechanical Evolution of Mid-Hsuehshan Range, Taiwan: Through Numerical Modeling and ZFT Ages Read more
Juan Carlos Afonso 2013 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2013 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Juan Carlos Afonso for integrated studies of the rheology and physical properties of the lithosphere. Read more
Michael C. Gurnis 2013 Augustus Love Medal The 2013 Augustus Love Medal is awarded to Michael C. Gurnis for fundamental contributions to geodynamics through studies of subduction zone dynamics, mantle flow induced long-term sea-level variations, and the thermo-chemical nature of the lower mantle. Read more
Elvira Mulyukova 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Elvira Mulyukova Numerical Modeling of the Deep Mantle Convection: Accuracy of the Tracer Methods Read more
Richard Foa Katz 2012 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2012 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Richard Foa Katz for his outstanding contributions to the understanding of the mechanics of Earth’s fluid-solid systems. Read more
Samuel M. Weatherley 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Samuel M. Weatherley Predicted transit times of melt extraction at a mid-ocean ridge compared with observed U-series disequilibria Read more
Tzu-Ying Huang 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Tzu-Ying Huang Multi-scale Isotropic/anisotropic tomography of Taiwan using seismic ambient noises Read more
Yanick Ricard 2012 Augustus Love Medal The 2012 Augustus Love Medal is awarded to Yanick Ricard for fundamental contributions to geodynamics through studies of how geoid, true polar wander, topography, seismic tomography and plate motions can be used to probe the mantle viscosity structure, mantle mixing and convective flow. Read more
Boris J.P. Kaus 2011 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists The 2011 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists is awarded to Boris J.P. Kaus for his contribution to the understanding of geodynamical processes over a wide range of scales from crystal mushes to the lithosphere and mantle. Read more
Bradford Hager 2011 Augustus Love Medal The 2011 Augustus Love Medal is awarded to Bradford Hager for his outstanding contributions in modelling the geoid and large-scale mantle flow, and for his pioneering application of space-geodetic techniques to problems in tectonics. Read more
Robert Myhill 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Robert Myhill Earthquake distributions and their relationship with structural, chemical and thermobaric heterogeneities in subducting slabs Read more