Awards & medals recipients

William F. McDonough

2012
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal

The 2012 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to William F. McDonough for his outstanding contribution to our understanding of the geochemical composition and evolution of the solid Earth. His ground-breaking research in defining the major and trace element composition of primitive mantle and of modern mantle reservoirs has become a cornerstone of geochemical investigation of the Earth’s interior and will form the basis for further investigations by generations of geochemists.

Barbara Kunz

2011
Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award

The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Barbara Kunz A mid-crustal metamorphic field gradient in Val Strona di Omegna, Italy: constraints from metabasic rocks

Fatima El Atrassi

2011
Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award

The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Fatima El Atrassi Melting textures and microdiamonds preserved in graphite pseudomorphs from the Beni Bousera peridotite massif, Morocco.

István Kovács

2011
Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award

The 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to István Kovács for his outstanding contribution to quantitative infrared spectroscopy of nominally anhydrous minerals and its application to the lithosphere-asthenosphere system.

Michael Manga

2011
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal

The 2011 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to Michael Manga for his outstanding contribution to volcanology and to the physics of transport and eruption of multiphase magma. His contribution elegantly links observations, lab experiments and theory, and has significantly advanced physical volcanology.

Anaïs Ferot

2010
Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award

The 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Anaïs Ferot High pressure experiments on water solubility in olivine and orthopyroxene: study on the effect of iron and aluminum

Ellen Kooijman

2010
Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award

The 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Ellen Kooijman The decoupling of the Zr- and U-Pb systematics in rutile during cooling from HT conditions

Jacqueline Owen

2010
Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award

The 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Jacqueline Owen The use of magmatic water to reconstruct palaeo-ice thicknesses during subglacial rhyolitic eruptions

Mark S. Ghiorso

2010
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal

The 2010 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to Mark S. Ghiorso for his outstanding contribution in the field of multiphase, multi-component silicate melt thermodynamics. Ghiorso substantially advanced knowledge and capabilities in that field by developing, updating and releasing computational resources representing the state-of-the-art during last twenty years. His work continues to represent a reference and inspiration for generations of scientists who make daily use of Mark’s codes to decipher their observations, test their hypotheses or develop new ones.