EGU announces its 2021 awards and medals!
21 October 2020
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) has named the 51 recipients of next year’s Union Medals and Awards, Division Medals, and Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards. These individuals are honoured for their important contributions to the Earth, planetary and space sciences. They will be celebrated during the EGU General Assembly 2021, which will be held from 25–30 April.
The following individuals will receive 2021 Union Medals and Awards:
| Manfred R. Strecker | Alexander von Humboldt Medal |
| Angela M. Gurnell | Alfred Wegener Medal |
| Roland Pease | Angela Croome Award |
| Lucy Rowland | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| Mateja Dumbović | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| Carolyn J. Boulton | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| Anita L. Ganesan | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| Laurent Jolivet | Arthur Holmes Medal |
| Janet G. Luhmann | Jean Dominique Cassini Medal |
| Annie Ockelford | Katia and Maurice Krafft Award |
| Julia C. Hargreaves | Union Service Award |
The following individuals will receive 2021 Division Medals:
| Irina M. Artemieva | Augustus Love Medal |
| Malcolm Sambridge | Beno Gutenberg Medal |
| R. Giles Harrison | Christiaan Huygens Medal |
| Richard S. Lampitt | Fridtjof Nansen Medal |
| Sonia I. Seneviratne | Hans Oeschger Medal |
| Berit Arheimer | Henry Darcy Medal |
| Andreas Strasser | Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal |
| Brian Berkowitz | John Dalton Medal |
| Martyn Tranter | Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal |
| Volker Bothmer | Julius Bartels Medal |
| Bérengère Dubrulle | Lewis Fry Richardson Medal |
| Ayako Abe-Ouchi | Milutin Milankovic Medal |
| Kenneth P. Kodama | Petrus Peregrinus Medal |
| Donald L. Sparks | Philippe Duchaufour Medal |
| Giuliano Di Baldassarre | Plinius Medal |
| Joanna E. Bullard | Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal |
| Urs Schaltegger | Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal |
| Fausto Guzzetti | Sergey Soloviev Medal |
| R. Dietmar Müller | Stephan Mueller Medal |
| Christopher Jekeli | Vening Meinesz Medal |
| Spyros N. Pandis | Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal |
| Susan E. Trumbore | Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal |
The following individuals will receive 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards:
| Franziska A. Lechleitner | Climate: Past, Present & Future (CL) Division |
| Christine L. Batchelor | Cryospheric Sciences (CR) Division |
| Alice Fremand | Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) Division |
| François X. Passelègue | Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics (EMRP) Division |
| Giorgia Dalla Santa | Energy, Resources and the Environment (ERE) Division |
| Michael C. Jollands | Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (GMPV) Division |
| Anna Kłos | Geodesy (G) Division |
| Mark J. Hoggard | Geodynamics (GD) Division |
| Louise J. Slater | Geomorphology (GM) Division |
| Roberto Pierdicca | Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems (GI) Division |
| Matteo Giuliani | Hydrological Sciences (HS) Division |
| Maria Pregnolato | Natural Hazards (NH) Division |
| Niklas Boers | Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences (NP) Division |
| Marilena Oltmanns | Ocean Sciences (OS) Division |
| William Dunn | Planetary and Solar System Sciences (PS) Division |
| Eva P. S. Eibl | Seismology (SM) Division |
| Lucia Fuchslueger | Soil System Sciences (SSS) Division |
| Niels J. de Winter | Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (SSP) Division |
This year the EGU Awards Committee received 232 eligible nominations, with 32% of them nominating female scientists. Approximately 49% of this year’s awardees are female, which represents an increase of 10% from last year.
For more information about the awards above, including application and selection criteria and how to apply, please check the Awards & Medals page on this website.
Contact
Thomas Blunier
Chair of the EGU Awards Committee
Emailawards.medals@egu.eu
Terri Cook
EGU Head of Media, Communications and Outreach
Emailmedia@egu.eu