Ana Nap 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Ana Nap Intermediate-depth & Basal icequakes at Greenland's fastest outlet glacier Read more
Christian France-Lanord 2024 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal The 2024 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal is awarded to Christian France-Lanord for impactful work on the understanding of the influence of orogenesis and tectonics on geochemical cycles, and of the coupling between erosion and weathering processes. Read more
Fiona J. Clubb 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Fiona J. Clubb for contributions to the understanding of channel head formation and landscape evolution modelling, and the development of open-source code for the analysis of topographic data. Read more
Magdalena Lauermann 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Magdalena Lauermann Channel-floodplain connectivity drives vegetation dynamics in semiarid floodplains: a remote sensing analysis of the Naryn river corridor in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia Read more
Márton Pál 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Márton Pál Citizen science in geoheritage: who participates in community geosite assessments? Read more
Amalie Skålevåg 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Amalie Skålevåg Hydro-sediment event types and associated conditions and processes in an alpine catchment Read more
Dimitri Lague 2023 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal The 2023 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal is awarded to Dimitri Lague for impactful research in quantifying landscapes and their dynamics through a suite of innovative approaches, including new technologies and techniques, alongside outstanding leadership in open science. Read more
Dominique Townsend 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Dominique Townsend Linking nearshore morphological change to long term observed sand loss from a mixed sediment beach Read more
Gerardo Zegers 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Gerardo Zegers Large-scale estimation of surficial sediment size in alpine landforms using UAV photogrammetry and machine learning. Read more
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. Read more
Anne Guyez 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Anne Guyez Feldspar single grain luminescence of modern fluvial sediments as a new tool to study fluvial transport Read more
Davide Tognin 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Davide Tognin Salt-marsh sedimentation affected by storm surges and anthropogenic impacts Read more
Janbert Aarnink 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Janbert Aarnink Teaching Machines Instream Wood Read more
Nicoletta Leonardi 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Nicoletta Leonardi for contributions to a new understanding of the geomorphic evolution of coastal landscapes, and deconstructing the drivers of coastal change through development and application of novel modelling tools. Read more
Paola Passalacqua 2022 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal The 2022 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal is awarded to Paola Passalacqua for innovative and impactful research on landscape dynamics through a rigorous mathematical approach, including using network theory to study delta systems, alongside outstanding community service. Read more
Elisabeth Schönfeldt 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award The 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award is awarded to Elisabeth Schönfeldt Detect Giant Landslides with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) Read more
Jingtao Lai 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award The 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award is awarded to Jingtao Lai Climatic controls on mountain glacier basal thermal regimes dictate spatial patterns of glacial erosion Read more
Joanna E. Bullard 2021 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal The 2021 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal is awarded to Joanna E. Bullard for sustained innovative, perceptive, and productive studies of arid-land geomorphology, aeolian processes, and dust in the Earth system, alongside outstanding community leadership. Read more
Louise J. Slater 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Louise J. Slater for recognition of outstanding contributions in the field at the interface of river geomorphology and hydrology; exploring the drivers of changing flood hazard and risk over time and space. Read more
Maximillian Van Wyk de Vries 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award The 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award is awarded to Maximillian Van Wyk de Vries Resolving pre-collapse slope motion of the February 2021 Chamoli rock-ice avalanche via feature tracking of optical satellite imagery and DEM differencing Read more
Georgina Bennett 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Georgina Bennett for careful field measurements and aligned earth observation; Georgina’s innovative approaches have unlocked new understanding of key controls on landslide mechanics and resultant landscape evolution. Read more
Thomas J. Coulthard 2020 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal The 2020 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal is awarded to Thomas J. Coulthard for establishing landscape evolution modelling as a robust approach to geomorphological investigation, changing how geomorphology is studied and communicated, and promoting open research. Read more
David L. Egholm 2019 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal The 2019 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal is awarded to David L. Egholm for shaping our thinking about glacial landscape evolution by effectively addressing many topical, big-picture problems through the judicious use of numerical models. Read more
Elena Serra 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Elena Serra Late-glacial to Holocene sediment dynamics in high Alpine regions – Insights from multimethodological approach on aeolian deposits (Sanetsch Pass, Switzerland) Read more
Giulia Sofia 2019 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2019 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Giulia Sofia for developing cutting-edge techniques for understanding geomorphic processes and land-use history with high-resolution topographic data, and quantifying human impact on the landscape. Read more
Marco Tangi 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Marco Tangi CASCADE: a toolbox for network-scale sediment connectivity assessment Read more
Yvonne Smit 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Yvonne Smit Prediction of beach surface moisture with ModFlow modeled groundwater fluctuations for the purpose of aeolian sand transport Read more
Charlotte Lyddon 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Charlotte Lyddon Flood hazard assessment for a hyper-tidal estuary and river as a function of tide-surge-morphology interaction Read more
Liran Goren 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Liran Goren for her application of physical principles implemented with solid mathematical rigour into models of wide application in the Earth-surface sciences. Read more
Philip S. J. Minderhoud 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Philip S. J. Minderhoud Unraveling the relation between land use and subsidence. A case study from the Mekong delta, Vietnam Read more
Simon Mould 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Simon Mould Sociogeomorphic river recovery: integrating human and physical processes Read more
Stephen E. Watkins 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Stephen E. Watkins Quantifying sediment dynamics and intermittency of gravel bed rivers across the Corinth Rift, central Greece Read more
Todd A. Ehlers 2018 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal The 2018 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal is awarded to Todd A. Ehlers for original and fundamental contributions to our understanding of the coupling between climate, tectonics and erosion, and for outstanding community leadership in geomorphology. Read more
Antonius Golly 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Antonius Golly Landscape response to rare flood events: a feedback cycle in channel-hillslope coupling Read more
Dirk Scherler 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Dirk Scherler for his exceptional contributions to geomorphology that are forcing paradigm shifts and will have a long-lasting impact. Read more
Elizabeth Dingle 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Elizabeth Dingle Where does all the gravel go? Abrasion-set limits on Himalayan gravel flux Read more
Ellen Wohl 2017 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal The 2017 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal is awarded to Ellen Wohl for shaping our thinking on how river systems evolve and function, on the importance of legacy sediments and riverine carbon fluxes. Read more
Maï Bordiec 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Maï Bordiec Periodic bedforms generated by sublimation on terrestrial and martian ice sheets under the influence of the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer Read more
Luigi Lombardo 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Luigi Lombardo Landslide triggering-thickness susceptibility, a simple proxy for landslide hazard? A test in the Mili catchment (North-Eastern Sicily, Italy) Read more
Niels Hovius 2016 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal The 2016 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal is awarded to Niels Hovius for outstanding research in the field of Earth surface science, as well as for being a key figure in European geomorphology and a versatile interdisciplinary scientist. Read more
Pierre Valla 2016 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2016 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Pierre Valla for his contributions to the study of surface processes and landscape evolution through innovative dating approaches. Read more
Stefanie Tofelde 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Stefanie Tofelde Eccentricity-driven fluvial fill terrace formation in the southern-central Andes, NW Argentina Read more
Heather A. Viles 2015 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal The 2015 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal is awarded to Heather A. Viles for establishing the field of biogeomorphology and providing the foundation synthesis of the biological component of geomorphology in a range of climatic environments. Read more
Karoline Messenzehl 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Karoline Messenzehl Multidisciplinary investigations on coupled rockwall-talus-systems (Turtmann valley, Swiss Alps) Read more
Jana Eichel 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Jana Eichel Biogeomorphic interactions and patterns on Little Ice Age lateral moraines Read more
Peter A. van der Beek 2014 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal The 2014 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal is awarded to Peter A. van der Beek for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of landscape evolution in a wide range of environments including actively eroding mountain ranges, passive margin escarpments and continental plateaux. Read more
Robert Hilton 2014 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2014 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Robert Hilton for innovative contributions to the identification of the role of mountain belts in the global organic carbon cycle. Read more
James Kirchner 2013 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal The 2013 Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal is awarded to James Kirchner for his outstanding contributions to our understanding of geomorphological processes using innovation and rigor in data analysis and slicing through the complexity of Earth’s surface systems to uncover the underlying physics. Read more
Ping Fu 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Ping Fu Paleoglaciation of Shaluli Shan, Southeastern Tibetan Plateau Read more
Simon M. Mudd 2013 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists The 2013 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists is awarded to Simon M. Mudd for his exceptionally innovative modelling studies that combine chemical weathering and physical erosion processes to shed new light on how climate change and tectonic forcing determine hill-slope morphology and soil thickness. Read more