Alessandro Silvano 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Alessandro Silvano for outstanding research in the field of physical oceanography under ice, and ice-ocean interactions. Read more
Álvaro Cubas 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Álvaro Cubas Microplastic trajectories and fates in the Canary Current System using TrackMPD Read more
Stephanie Henson 2024 Fridtjof Nansen Medal The 2024 Fridtjof Nansen Medal is awarded to Stephanie Henson for outstanding research into the ocean’s role in the carbon cycle, built on her extraordinary ability to combine diverse observational data with novel biogeochemical models. Read more
Alberto Naveira Garabato 2023 Fridtjof Nansen Medal The 2023 Fridtjof Nansen Medal is awarded to Alberto Naveira Garabato for groundbreaking and pioneering research characterised by extraordinary insight and innovation that mechanistically revealed previously unseen key aspects of ocean mixing and ocean circulation. Read more
Florian Börgel 2023 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2023 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Florian Börgel for outstanding research in the field of long-term climate variability influence on regional seas. Read more
Hsin-I Lin 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Hsin-I Lin Buoy Observations of Turbulent Mixing in the northwestern subtropical Pacific Ocean Read more
Xiaoqing Chen 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Xiaoqing Chen Time-Lapse Volumetric Seismic Imaging of Water Masses at a Major Oceanic Confluence in the South Atlantic Ocean Read more
Alexandre Barboni 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Alexandre Barboni What can we learn from eddy-induced signatures on sea surface temperature? Read more
Céline Heuzé 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Céline Heuzé for outstanding research in the field of deep sea oceanography and cryosphere interactions. Read more
Manal Hamdeno 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Manal Hamdeno Spatio-temporal Variability of the Marine Heatwaves in the Mediterranean Sea over 39 years, and their Possible Physical Drivers Read more
Mia Sophie Specht 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Mia Sophie Specht Influence of Subsurface Tropical Instability Waves on Ocean Temperatures in the Tropical Atlantic Read more
Monika Rhein 2022 Fridtjof Nansen Medal The 2022 Fridtjof Nansen Medal is awarded to Monika Rhein for pioneering measurements and analysis of physical and chemical tracers furthering the understanding of ventilation and circulation in the Atlantic subpolar gyre and Deep Western Boundary Current. Read more
Channing Prend 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award The 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award is awarded to Channing Prend Zonal asymmetry of Southern Ocean air-sea carbon fluxes Read more
Marilena Oltmanns 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Marilena Oltmanns for outstanding research in the role of the oceans in the climate system. Read more
Richard S. Lampitt 2021 Fridtjof Nansen Medal The 2021 Fridtjof Nansen Medal is awarded to Richard S. Lampitt for transformative and interdisciplinary research concerning the ocean biological carbon pump, including measures of organic particle fluxes needed to close the carbon budget in the Twilight Zone. Read more
Frédéric Le Moigne 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Frédéric Le Moigne for outstanding research in ocean biogeochemistry, particularly the vertical exchanges of organic carbon between the surface and the ocean’s interior: the biological carbon pump. Read more
Richard J. Greatbatch 2020 Fridtjof Nansen Medal The 2020 Fridtjof Nansen Medal is awarded to Richard J. Greatbatch for pioneering contributions to geophysical fluid dynamics and theoretical oceanography, especially mesoscale eddy parameterisations. Read more
Anne-Marie Tréguier 2019 Fridtjof Nansen Medal The 2019 Fridtjof Nansen Medal is awarded to Anne-Marie Tréguier for leading contributions to the numerical modelling of the eddying ocean from the global to the regional scale, and for crucially advancing the understanding of the influence of mesoscale eddies. Read more
Audrey Delpech 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Audrey Delpech Mid-depth circulation in the tropical Pacific Ocean Read more
Peter Landschützer 2019 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2019 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Peter Landschützer for outstanding and game-changing contributions to the quantification of the evolving ocean carbon sink, its variation and its drivers. Read more
Verónica Morales-Márquez 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Verónica Morales-Márquez Relationship of extreme wave climate with long-term patterns in the North Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea Read more
Carine van der Boog 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Carine van der Boog Mechanisms Affecting the Life Cycle of Anticyclonic Eddies in the Caribbean Sea Read more
Félix Margirier 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Félix Margirier The next Deep Waters formed in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea will be warmer and saltier than ever! Read more
Jan D. Zika 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Jan D. Zika for outstanding research in ocean dynamics, including fundamental advances in our understanding of the ocean’s thermocline circulation and the ocean’s role in climate. Read more
Rainer Feistel 2018 Fridtjof Nansen Medal The 2018 Fridtjof Nansen Medal is awarded to Rainer Feistel for creating the rigorous conceptual foundation of ocean thermodynamics through forming a Gibbs function for seawater. Read more
Eleanor Frajka-Williams 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Eleanor Frajka-Williams for her outstanding work in observational physical oceanography contributing to the understanding of a wide range of ocean processes. Read more
Jess Mead Silvester 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Jess Mead Silvester Mixing and Water Mass Transformation along the Antarctic Continental Slope Read more
Lynne D. Talley 2017 Fridtjof Nansen Medal The 2017 Fridtjof Nansen Medal is awarded to Lynne D. Talley for innovative research and leadership in observing and understanding the global ocean circulation and its role in climate. Read more
Siren Rühs 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Siren Rühs Lateral eddy diffusivity estimates from simulated and observed drifter trajectories: a case study for the Agulhas Current system Read more
Svenja Ryan 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Svenja Ryan Seasonal hydrography at the eastern flank of the Filchner Trough Read more
Tyler Mixa 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Tyler Mixa Gravity Wave Interactions with Fine Structures in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Read more
Christoph Renkl 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Christoph Renkl The Alongshore Tilt of Mean Dynamic Topography and Implications for Nearshore Circulation and Regional Vorticity Balance. Read more
Erik van Sebille 2016 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2016 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Erik van Sebille for his applications of Lagrangian methods in oceanography to improve the understanding of a wide range of physical, chemical and biological oceanic phenomena. Read more
John Huthnance 2016 Fridtjof Nansen Medal The 2016 Fridtjof Nansen Medal is awarded to John Huthnance for his outstanding contribution to the dynamical understanding of coastal and shelf processes and their role in forming regional ocean conditions. Read more
Kristin Burmeister 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Kristin Burmeister What caused the 2009 cold event in the Atlantic cold tongue region? Read more
Laurie Perrot 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Laurie Perrot Seasonal and interannual variabilities of coccolithophore blooms in the Bay of Biscay and the Celtic Sea observed from a 18-year time-series of non-algal Suspended Particulate Matter images Read more
Marc Buckley 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Marc Buckley Structure of the airflow above surface waves Read more
Anna-Lena Deppenmeier 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Anna-Lena Deppenmeier The Bjerknes feedback in the tropical Atlantic from reanalysis and CMIP5 Read more
Benedikt Ehard 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Benedikt Ehard Combination of lidar and model data for studying deep gravity wave propagation Read more
Katrin Schroeder 2015 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists The 2015 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists is awarded to Katrin Schroeder for her achievements in the field of experimental oceanography, to which she has contributed original ideas on the understanding of the formation and spreading of Mediterranean deep waters. Read more
Peter A. E. M. Janssen 2015 Fridtjof Nansen Medal The 2015 Fridtjof Nansen Medal is awarded to Peter A. E. M. Janssen for his outstanding contribution to the understanding of ocean wave physics and for his leadership in wind wave modelling. Read more
Sergej S. Zilitinkevich 2015 Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership The 2015 Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership is awarded to Sergej S. Zilitinkevich for creating the fundamentals of the theory of stratified planetary boundary layers. Read more
Yao Fu 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Yao Fu Estimating the Meridional Ekman Transport at 14.5 N in the Atlantic Ocean Read more
Isabel Jalón Rojas 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Isabel Jalón Rojas Trends in turbidity in the fluvial section of a highly turbid macrotidal estuary, the Gironde in SW France, based on continuous in-situ monitoring Read more
Sören Thomsen 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Sören Thomsen The formation of an anticyclonic mode water eddy within the Peru-Chile Undercurrent Read more
Stephen M. Griffies 2014 Fridtjof Nansen Medal The 2014 Fridtjof Nansen Medal is awarded to Stephen M. Griffies for his outstanding contribution and leadership in ocean general circulation model development and critical insights in the physical nature and parameterisation of ocean processes. Read more
Young-Ha Kim 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Young-Ha Kim Contributions of equatorial planetary and gravity waves to the QBO evolution in a GCM with a parameterization of convective gravity waves Read more
Harry Bryden 2013 Fridtjof Nansen Medal The 2013 Fridtjof Nansen Medal is awarded to Harry Bryden for his long-term leadership in experimental physical oceanography and in understanding the mechanisms of the general ocean circulation and heat transport. Read more
Ivy Frenger 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Ivy Frenger Southern Ocean Eddies as Weather Makers Read more
Roham Bakhtyar 2013 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2013 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Roham Bakhtyar for the development and application of novel two-phase hydrodynamics models, based on the combination of hydrodynamic, contaminant and sediment transport, and coastal aquifer processes. Read more
