EGU announces 2014 awards and medals
14 October 2013
The EGU has named the 43 recipients of next year’s Union Medals and Awards, Division Medals, and Division Outstanding Young Scientists Awards. These individuals, honoured for their important contributions to the Earth, planetary and space sciences, will receive their prizes at the EGU 2014 General Assembly, which will take place in Vienna on 27 April – 02 May. The EGU has also announced the winners of the Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Awards corresponding to the 2013 General Assembly.
The following individuals will receive 2014 Union Medals and Awards:
| Pradeep Mujumdar | Alexander von Humboldt Medal |
| Eric F. Wood | Alfred Wegener Medal |
| Matthias Huss | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists |
| Noé Lugaz | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists |
| Peter K. Bijl | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists |
| Sebastian F. L. Watt | Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists |
| Kevin C. A. Burke | Arthur Holmes Medal |
| Stamatios M. Krimigis | Jean Dominique Cassini Medal |
| Thomas Hofmann | Union Service Award |
The following individuals will receive 2014 Division Medals:
| Shun-Ichiro Karato | Augustus Love Medal |
| Gregory C. Beroza | Beno Gutenberg Medal |
| François Forget | David Bates Medal |
| Stephen M. Griffies | Fridtjof Nansen Medal |
| Karl Schindler | Hannes Alfvén Medal |
| Sherilyn C. Fritz | Hans Oeschger Medal |
| Upmanu Lall | Henry Darcy Medal |
| Isabella Premoli Silva | Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal |
| Hoshin V. Gupta | John Dalton Medal |
| Rumi Nakamura | Julius Bartels Medal |
| Olivier Talagrand | Lewis Fry Richardson Medal |
| Dorthe Dahl-Jensen | Louis Agassiz Medal |
| Ian Main | Louis Néel Medal |
| Maureen E. Raymo | Milutin Milankovic Medal |
| Rob Van der Voo | Petrus Peregrinus Medal |
| Johan Six | Philippe Duchaufour Medal |
| Hermann M. Fritz | Plinius Medal |
| Pieter A. van der Beek | Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal |
| Chris J. Hawkesworth | Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal |
| Costas E. Synolakis | Sergey Soloviev Medal |
| Claudio Faccenna | Stephan Mueller Medal |
| Reinhard Dietrich | Vening Meinesz Medal |
| Urs Baltensperger | Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal |
| Klaus Butterbach-Bahl | Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal |
The following individuals will receive 2014 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Awards:
| Nick J. Dunstone | Climate: Past, Present & Future (CL) Division |
| Tabea K. Lissner | Energy, Resources and the Environment (ERE) Division |
| Roelof Rietbroek | Geodesy (G) Division |
| Rhodri Davies | Geodynamics (GD) Division |
| Robert Hilton | Geomorphology (GM) Division |
| Fubao Sun | Hydrological Sciences (HS) Division |
| Nicolas Eckert | Natural Hazards (NH) Division |
| Christina Plainaki | Planetary and Solar System Sciences (PS) Division |
| Markus Steffens | Soil System Sciences (SSS) Division |
| Stacia M. Gordon | Tectonics and Structural Geology (TS) Division |
The EGU Awards Committee received 123 applications for the 2014 awards, with 20% of them nominating female scientists (about 19% of this year’s awardees are female). 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.
In addition to the Union and Division Awards and Medals, the EGU also gives away a number of poster awards to students taking part in its annual General Assembly. These OSP Awards aim to further improve the overall quality of poster presentations and foster students’ excitement to present posters at a large scientific conference. The list of recipients of the 2013 OSP Awards is now available online. For more information about the OSP awards, including application criteria and how to apply in 2014, please check the OSP page.
Contact
Alberto Montanari
Chair of the EGU Awards Committee
Email awards.medals@egu.eu
Bárbara Ferreira
EGU Media and Communications Manager
Munich, Germany
Phone +49-89-2180-6703
Email media@egu.eu