Benjamin P. Horton 2016 Plinius Medal The 2016 Plinius Medal is awarded to Benjamin P. Horton for outstanding research on the mechanisms and nature of past sea-level changes, their association with earthquakes, tsunamis and storms, and how these processes will impact future coastal environments. Read more
Irasema Alcántara-Ayala 2016 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2016 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Irasema Alcántara-Ayala for her outstanding contribution to the basic knowledge of natural hazards, vulnerability and prevention of disasters in developing countries. Read more
Martin Wronna 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Martin Wronna On the use of Paleo DEMS for Simulation of historical Tsunami Events Read more
Miguel A. Cabrera 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Miguel A. Cabrera Monodisperse granular flows in viscous dispersions in a centrifugal acceleration field Read more
Sara Hernandez-Barrera 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Sara Hernandez-Barrera Response of wheat yield in Spain to large-scale patterns Read more
Alfredo M. F. A. Lagmay 2015 Plinius Medal The 2015 Plinius Medal is awarded to Alfredo M. F. A. Lagmay for his outstanding interdisciplinary natural-hazard research and natural-disaster engagement in the Philippines, particularly with respect to volcanic hazards, earthquakes, typhoons, landslides and floods. Read more
Chiara Arrighi 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Chiara Arrighi Estimation of flood risk for cultural heritage in an art city Read more
John C. Eichelberger 2015 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2015 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to John C. Eichelberger for his outstanding contribution to basic knowledge of natural hazards, in particular, of volcano eruptions and associated phenomena, as well as to reliable multidisciplinary risk assessment leading to disaster mitigation. Read more
Maria De la Fuente 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Maria De la Fuente Permeability changes induced by microfissure closure and opening in tectonized materials. Effect on slope pore pressure regime. Read more
Perrine Freydier 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Perrine Freydier Internal dynamics of a free-surface viscoplastic flow down an inclined plane: experimental results through PIV measurements Read more
Catarina R. Lemos 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Catarina R. Lemos Tsunami Impact from a 1755-like event in the Aveiro Region, Portugal Read more
Costas E. Synolakis 2014 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2014 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Costas E. Synolakis for his superb research contributions to tsunami mitigation, combining theory, laboratory experiments, field surveys and the development of widely used numerical codes to improve tsunami mitigation. Read more
Hermann M. Fritz 2014 Plinius Medal The 2014 Plinius Medal is awarded to Hermann M. Fritz for his outstanding laboratory- and field-research achievements in the generation and propagation of tsunamis. Read more
Martin Braun 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Martin Braun Connecting a large database of debris flow events in Austria with daily precipitation data Read more
Moussa Waongo 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Moussa Waongo Crop planting date optimization: An approach for climate change adaptation in West Africa Read more
Nicolas Eckert 2014 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2014 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Nicolas Eckert for innovative findings on the impact of climate change on avalanche risk. Read more
Tiago Abreu 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Tiago Abreu Influence of nonlinear waves on sandbar migrations using Monte Carlo simulations Read more
Emile Okal 2013 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2013 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Emile Okal for his seminal contributions to the understanding of the physics of tsunamis and for establishing new methods of tsunami mitigation. Read more
Justin Sheffield 2013 Plinius Medal The 2013 Plinius Medal is awarded to Justin Sheffield for his outstanding research achievements in hydrologic and related aspects of droughts. Read more
Jean-François Breilh 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Jean-François Breilh Simulating coastal flooding during Xynthia : an improved static inundation method Read more
Lieven Clarisse 2012 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists The 2012 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists is awarded to Lieven Clarisse for his outstanding contribution to exploiting remote atmospheric sensing techniques to improve our understanding of emission and transport processes of ash and gases in relation to various natural hazardous processes. Read more
Péter Völgyesi 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Péter Völgyesi Long-term airborne contamination studied by attic dust in an industrial area: Ajka, Hungary Read more
Pietro Milillo 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Pietro Milillo Variation of altitude observed on the occasion of the Tohoku Earthquake occurred on March 11, 2011 Read more
Timothy Sullivan 2012 Plinius Medal The 2012 Plinius Medal is awarded to Timothy Sullivan for his outstanding research achievements in seismic engineering design, seismic assessment, seismic retrofit and mitigation of seismic risk. Read more
Asta Gregorič 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Asta Gregorič Radon concentration and ventilation in two different passages in the Postojna Cave Read more
Atitkagna Dok 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Atitkagna Dok Study of the Tertiary Creep Mechanism by Ring Shear Apparatus for Predicting Initiation Time of Rainfall-Induced Landslides Read more
Raphaël Paris 2011 Plinius Medal The 2011 Plinius Medal is awarded to Raphaël Paris in recognition and appreciation of his outstanding contributions to multidisciplinary research in the field of natural hazards and risk mitigation, with special focus on volcanic hazard, on volcanic slope instabilities, of tsunamigenic eruptive and gravitational processes, and on studies of tsunami onshore deposits. Read more
Renata Gazdova 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Renata Gazdova Groundwater level variations in the seismo-active region of Western Bohemia in the years 2005–2010 Read more
David Keefer 2010 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2010 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to David Keefer for his major scientific contribution to our understanding of the complex system of earthquake-induced landslides and for his innovative methods to assess landslide hazards for the benefit of society. Read more
Ira Didenkulova 2010 Plinius Medal The 2010 Plinius Medal is awarded to Ira Didenkulova in recognition of her outstanding contributions to solve complex problems of oceanography and coastal engineering by applying nonlinear wave theory to marine natural hazards, including tsunamis, freak waves and storm waves. Read more
James E. Daniell 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to James E. Daniell Open source Procedure for Assessment of Loss Read more
Maria Tous 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Maria Tous MEDICANES: database and environmental parameters Read more
Sezin Oeztan 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Sezin Oeztan Metal load of the crops depending on land use, land management and soil characteristics Read more
Adriano Pimentel 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Adriano Pimentel Numerical hazard zonation for pyroclastic density current scenarios at Faial and Terceira islands (Azores) Read more
Ashley Coles 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Ashley Coles Driving into danger: Perception and communication of flash flood risk from a cultural perspective Read more
Helen Crowley 2009 Plinius Medal The 2009 Plinius Medal is awarded to Helen Crowley in recognition of her outstanding contributions in the fields of earthquake risk assessment and seismic risk mitigation, and in the neighbouring fields of structural engineering and engineering seismology. Read more
Jochen Zschau 2009 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2009 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Jochen Zschau for his commitment and enthusiasm to bridge the gap between fundamental research related to the physics of natural hazards and the implementation of risk reduction technologies for the benefit of society. Read more
Mubashir Aziz 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Mubashir Aziz Effects of Negative Ageing on Deformation and Strength Response of Geomaterials Read more
Ufuk Hancilar 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Ufuk Hancilar Urban Earthquake Shaking and Loss Estimation by ELER Read more
Claudia Cecioni 2008 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2008 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Claudia Cecioni Full frequency dispersive numerical modelling of tsunamis. Large scale application to the South Tyrrhenian sea Read more
Dominika Pradzynska 2008 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2008 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Dominika Pradzynska Spatial and temporal variability of soil moisture patterns related to preferential flow measured using distributed temperature sensing in large scale infiltration experiment Read more
Fabrizio Romano 2008 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2008 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Fabrizio Romano Rupture process of the 25 September 2003 Tokachi-Oki (Hokkaido, Japan) Mw 8.3 earthquake from joint inversion of tsunami waveform and GPS data Read more
Olha Leontyeva 2008 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2008 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Olha Leontyeva Analysis of magnetic field polarization parameters before and after Koyna earthquakes Read more
Theo van Asch 2008 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2008 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Theo van Asch for his innovative research on modelling natural hazards, and for his leadership as President of the European Centre on Geomorphological Hazards and many other scientific organizations. Read more
Andrey Kurkin 2007 Plinius Medal The 2007 Plinius Medal is awarded to Andrey Kurkin in recognition of his contributions to studies of natural marine hazards, especially tsunamis, freak waves and anomalous edge waves. Read more
Gerhard Berz 2007 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2007 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Gerhard Berz for his visionary pioneer work over many years linking increased losses from loading, earthquakes and storms to human-induced climate change. Read more
Efim Pelinovsky 2006 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2006 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Efim Pelinovsky in recognition of his world leadership in predicting the consequences of tsunamis and rogue waves, and in the avoidance and mitigation of these severe natural hazards. Read more
Réjean Couture 2006 Plinius Medal The 2006 Plinius Medal is awarded to Réjean Couture in recognition of his contributions to the understanding of landslides using a combination of traditional and innovative techniques to help predict and mitigate the consequences of hazardous mass movements. Read more
Charles A. Doswell III 2005 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2005 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Charles A. Doswell III in recognition of his world leadership in predicting the consequences of severe storms and floods, and in the avoidance and mitigation of these severe natural hazards. Read more
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Nosov 2005 Plinius Medal The 2005 Plinius Medal is awarded to Mikhail Aleksandrovich Nosov for discovering the sea surface temperature anomalies above underwater earthquakes, and for estimating the contribution of nonlinear phenomena in tsunami generation. Read more