EGU awards & medals
Every year, the EGU awards & medals programme recognises eminent scientists for their outstanding research contribution in the Earth, planetary and space sciences. In addition, it identifies the awardees as role models for the next generation of early career scientists to foster geoscience research.
The EGU awards & medals programme features Union medals, the most prestigious awards, for life-time achievements or exceptional contributions to science as well as Union awards, such as the Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists. At the division level, the EGU awards various medals for active scientists, as well as the Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Awards.
In relation with its General Assemblies, the Union presents a number of special awards, such as the Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards, to further improve the overall quality of poster and PICO presentations. Most importantly, these awards aim to develop early career researchers' excitement to present their work in the form of a poster and/or PICO.
In addition to their medal, recipients of the Alfred Wegener, Arthur Holmes and Jean Dominique Cassini medals also receive an honorary (life) membership. Other awardees (Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists, Union Service, and Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists) and medallists (Alexander von Humboldt and division) receive a complimentary membership for the year of their award.
Winners of EGU medals or awards can be nominated as EGU ambassadors. In this role, they are delegated to attend meetings hosted by other organisations, and to offer special presentations and lectures labelled as EGU contributions.
The list of all recipients of EGU awards and medals, including Union, division and General Assembly awards, is available in the past and present awardees section. For information on how to nominate scientists for EGU awards and medals, check our nominations page.
List of all EGU awards & medals
Union medals
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Alexander von Humboldt Medal
Scientists who have performed research in developing regions -
Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership
Atmospheric, hydrological or ocean sciences -
Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership
Solid Earth geosciences -
Jean Dominique Cassini Medal & Honorary Membership
Planetary and space sciences
Union awards
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Angela Croome Award
Earth, space and planetary sciences journalism -
Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists
Achievements made by early career scientists in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences -
Katia and Maurice Krafft Award
Geoscience outreach and engagement -
Union Service Award
Outstanding services for the Union
Division medals
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Augustus Love Medal
Geodynamics -
Beno Gutenberg Medal
Seismology -
Christiaan Huygens Medal
Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems -
David Bates Medal
Planetary and Solar System Sciences -
Fridtjof Nansen Medal
Ocean Sciences -
Hannes Alfvén Medal
Solar-Terrestrial Sciences -
Hans Oeschger Medal
Climate: Past, Present & Future -
Henry Darcy Medal
Hydrological Sciences -
Ian McHarg Medal
Earth and Space Science Informatics -
Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal
Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology -
John Dalton Medal
Hydrological Sciences -
Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal
Cryospheric Sciences -
Julius Bartels Medal
Solar-Terrestrial Sciences -
Lewis Fry Richardson Medal
Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences
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Louis Néel Medal
Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics -
Milutin Milankovic Medal
Climate: Past, Present & Future -
Petrus Peregrinus Medal
Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics -
Philippe Duchaufour Medal
Soil System Sciences -
Plinius Medal
Natural Hazards -
Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal
Geomorphology -
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal
Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology -
Runcorn-Florensky Medal
Planetary and Solar System Sciences -
Sergey Soloviev Medal
Natural Hazards -
Stephan Mueller Medal
Tectonics and Structural Geology -
Vening Meinesz Medal
Geodesy -
Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal
Atmospheric Sciences -
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal
Biogeosciences
Division awards
General Assembly awards
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Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards
Programme groups
Pre-EGU era (before 2002)
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) was established by the merger of the European Union of Geosciences (EUG) and the European Geophysical Society (EGS) on 7 September 2002, with the final stages of this transition completed on 31 December 2003.