Jaroslava Plomerová 2024 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2024 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to Jaroslava Plomerová for contributions to the development of sophisticated methodologies in the characterisation of anisotropic domains in the upper mantle, and their application to imaging of the lithosphere in Europe. Read more
Nino Menzel 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Nino Menzel Strategies for geoelectrical monitoring of subsurface fluid transport processes using Optimized Experimental Design Read more
Pauline Georges 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Pauline Georges Improving the representation of apparent anelastic attenuation variability in regionalised Ground Motion Models in Europe with a focus in mainland France Read more
Stephen P. Hicks 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Stephen P. Hicks for exceptional contributions to seismology, including innovative seismic imaging techniques, studies of earthquake processes as well as Earth structure, science communication and community building. Read more
Jessica Allen 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Jessica Allen Spatiotemporal Variation in Low Frequency Earthquake Recurrence on the San Andreas Fault Read more
On Ki Angel Ling 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to On Ki Angel Ling Enhancement of Seismic Phase Identification using Polarization Filtering and Array Analysis Read more
Caroline M. Eakin 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Caroline M. Eakin for exceptional observational seismologist skills, developing unique seismological insights into the mantle expression of plate tectonics and plate boundary processes. Read more
Jannes Münchmeyer 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Jannes Münchmeyer Which picker fits my data? A quantitative evaluation of deep learning based seismic pickers Read more
Simone Francesco Fornasari 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Simone Francesco Fornasari A machine-learning approach for the reconstruction of ground shaking fields in real-time Read more
Yehuda Ben-Zion 2022 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2022 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to Yehuda Ben-Zion for outstanding contributions to earthquake seismology, particularly the understanding of the dynamics of earthquake rupture and earthquake fault systems. Read more
Eva P. S. Eibl 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Eva P. S. Eibl in recognition of her transformative contributions to our ability to understand, model, and monitor volcano-, geyser- and glacier-related processes using conventional and new seismological tools. Read more
Malcolm Sambridge 2021 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2021 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to Malcolm Sambridge for his outstanding and creative contributions to the development, implementation, and selfless dissemination of stochastic inverse methods in seismology and the Earth science community at large. Read more
Nikolaos Triantafyllis 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award The 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award is awarded to Nikolaos Triantafyllis Gisola: Real-Time Moment Tensor computation optimized for multicore and manycore architectures Read more
Weian Chao 2020 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2020 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Weian Chao in recognition of his major contributions to using existing seismic networks to improve landslide monitoring, allowing authorities to act quickly to mitigate landslide damage. Read more
Ángela María Gómez García 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Ángela María Gómez García Crustal structure of the Lesser and Leeward Antilles forearcs inferred from satellite Vertical Gravity Gradients Read more
Annie Souriau 2019 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2019 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to Annie Souriau in recognition of outstanding contributions to seismological studies of the Earth’s inner and outer cores. Read more
Janneke van Ginkel 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Janneke van Ginkel Ambivalent Amplifications – Using horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratios to characterise subsurface seismic properties Read more
Piero Poli 2019 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2019 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Piero Poli for innovative research in seismic interferometry and earthquake seismology. Read more
Haruo Sato 2018 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2018 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to Haruo Sato for outstanding contributions to seismology and the development of new insights into stochastic properties of Earth structure through theoretical and observational studies of scattered seismic waves. Read more
Josefine Umlauft 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Josefine Umlauft Towards 3D Noise Source Location using Matched Field Processing Read more
Kurama Okubo 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Kurama Okubo Overall energy budget of earthquake rupture with dynamically generated off-fault crack network Read more
Martin van Driel 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Martin van Driel for exceptional research in modelling and understanding global broadband seismic-wave propagation. Read more
Baptiste Gombert 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Baptiste Gombert A Bayesian analysis of the 2016 Mw=7.8 Pedernales (Ecuador) earthquake Read more
Elmer Ruigrok 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Elmer Ruigrok for pioneering contributions to the methodology of retrieving seismic-reflection responses from passive seismic data, including ambient noise, and to its application at global, regional and basin scale. Read more
Hitoshi Kawakatsu 2017 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2017 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to Hitoshi Kawakatsu for outstanding contributions to seismological studies of deep earthquakes, volcanoes, subduction zones, and the Earth’s mantle. Read more
Nienke Blom 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Nienke Blom Imaging density in the Earth and the construction of optimal observables Read more
Alessandro Lechmann 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Alessandro Lechmann Using Muon Radiography to map the bedrock geometry underneath an active glacier: A case study in the central Swiss Alps Read more
Jagdish Chandra Vyas 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Jagdish Chandra Vyas Distance and azimuthal dependence of ground-motion variability Read more
Joseph Doetsch 2016 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2016 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Joseph Doetsch for outstanding innovative research in the area of exploration, environmental and engineering geophysics. Read more
Roel Snieder 2016 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2016 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to Roel Snieder in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the theoretical foundations of modern methods of seismic imaging. Read more
Angélie Portal 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Angélie Portal Electrical resistivity tomography applied to a complex lava dome: 2D and 3D models comparison Read more
Elizabeth Entwistle 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Elizabeth Entwistle Constructing new seismograms from old earthquakes: Retrospective seismology at multiple length scales Read more
Göran Ekström 2015 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2015 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to Göran Ekström for contributions to the understanding of the elastic (particularly anisotropic) and anelastic structure of the Earth, and for understanding and characterising seismic sources, especially unusual ones such as ‘ice-quakes’ or the Earth’s low frequency ‘hum’. Read more
Gregory C. Beroza 2014 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2014 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to Gregory C. Beroza in recognition of his outstanding contributions to earthquake seismology. Read more
Krisztina Kelevitz 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Krisztina Kelevitz Long period GPS waveforms. What can GPS bring to Earth seismic velocity models? Read more
Marija Mustać 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Marija Mustać Kinematic point source moment tensor inversion using a hierarchical Bayesian approach Read more
Men-Andrin Meier 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Men-Andrin Meier A Filter Bank Approach to Earthquake Early Warning Read more
Jeroen Tromp 2013 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2013 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to Jeroen Tromp for his fundamental contributions in seismology and in geophysics, as well as for his vision and drive in making numerical wave field calculations and adjoint calculations available to all. Read more
Maik Neukirch 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Maik Neukirch On the effect of non stationary (synthetic) sources in the magnetotelluric method Read more
Philipp Kempf 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Philipp Kempf 1960 Valdivia earthquake tsunami deposits from two coastal lakes and preliminary results for an extended paleo-tsunami record of south-central Chile Read more
Galina Kulikova 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Galina Kulikova The 1911 Chon-Kemin (Mw 8.1) earthquake in the Tien-Shan region: preliminary investigation results by means of historical data Read more
Michel Campillo 2012 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2012 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to Michel Campillo in recognition of the outstanding contributions he has made to the study of earth structure and seismic sources using novel methods. Read more
Guy Masters 2011 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2011 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to Guy Masters in recognition of his outstanding contributions in seismic investigations of Earth’s large-scale structure, including in particular the deep mantle and core. Read more
Jean Paul Montagner 2010 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2010 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to Jean Paul Montagner for his influential contributions to the study of seismic anisotropy in the earth’s mantle and for services to global seismology. Read more
Rebekka Bratfisch 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Rebekka Bratfisch A 3D Moho depth model for the Tien Shan from EGM2008 gravity data Read more
John Woodhouse 2008 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2008 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to John Woodhouse for his pioneering and unselfish contributions to theoretical, observational and computational seismology, which led to major discoveries on the Earth’s internal structure and earthquake characteristics. Read more
Brian L.N. Kennett 2007 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2007 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to Brian L.N. Kennett for his theoretical work on the development of methods for understanding seismic wave propagation in complex media in physical terms. His publications show an unusual combination of observational and theoretical skills and geodynamic insight. Read more
Guust Nolet 2006 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2006 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to Guust Nolet for his pioneering role in the development of digital broadband seismology and for his outstanding contributions to geophysical inverse theory and seismic tomography, which have revolutionized our understanding of the structure of the Earth’s interior. Read more
Keiiti Aki 2005 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2005 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to Keiiti Aki for his combination of theoretical, experimental, and analytical contributions to seismology, and his outstanding ability as a teacher. Read more
Lev Vinnik 2004 Beno Gutenberg Medal The 2004 Beno Gutenberg Medal is awarded to Lev Vinnik for his pioneering studies in observational seismology and the introduction of widely used analysis techniques. Read more