Awards & medals committees
Ex-officio members are not included; they are the relevant division president and the chair of the Union Awards Committee. Awards and medals committee members should declare at the beginning of the selection procedure any potential conflict of interest.
Union medals
Alexander von Humboldt Medal
Scientists who have performed research in developing regions
Tom Veldkamp (Chair)
Bojie Fu
Carlo Laj
Manfred R. Strecker
Ozlem Adiyaman Lopes
Silvia Peppoloni
Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership
Atmospheric, hydrological or ocean sciences
Günter Blöschl (Chair)
Angela M. Gurnell
Ingeborg Levin
Karen Heywood
Marc Bierkens
Marco Borga
Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership
Solid Earth geosciences
Donald Bruce Dingwell (Chair)
Arwen Deuss
Dennis V. Kent
Laurent Jolivet
Taras Gerya
William Lowrie
Jean Dominique Cassini Medal & Honorary Membership
Planetary and space sciences
Pascale Ehrenfreund (Chair)
Anders Johansen
Janet Luhmann
Rosaly Lopes
Yves Langevin
Union awards
Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists
Achievements made by early career scientists in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences
Members of the Council
Angela Croome Award
Earth, space and planetary sciences journalism
Martin Archer (Chair)
Jane Qiu
Robin George Andrews
Roland Pease
Katia and Maurice Krafft Award
Geoscience outreach and engagement
Andreas Lang (Chair)
Anita Di Chiara
Annie Ockelford
Rhian H. Meara
Union Service Award
Outstanding services for the Union
Members of the Council
Division medals
Alina Kabata-Pendias Medal
Soil System Sciences
Paola Adamo (Chair)
Cécile Quantin
Hannes Schmidt
José María de la Rosa
Augustus Love Medal
Geodynamics
Paul Tackley (Chair)
Anne Davaille
David Bercovici
Harro Schmeling
Timothy Craig
Beno Gutenberg Medal
Seismology
Haruo Sato (Chair)
Barbara Romanowicz
Malcolm Sambridge
Paul Martin Mai
Yehuda Ben-Zion
Christiaan Huygens Medal
Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems
Susana Barbosa (Chair)
Ilaria Catapano
Lev Eppelbaum
Raffaele Persico
R. Giles Harrison
David Bates Medal
Planetary and Solar System Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with Runcorn-Florensky Medal)
Tim Van Hoolst (Chair)
Agustín Sánchez-Lavega
Emma J. Bunce
Sébastien Charnoz
Fridtjof Nansen Medal
Ocean Sciences
Stephen M. Griffies (Chair)
Anne Marie Tréguier
Corinna Schrum
Jan Zika
Richard Lampitt
Hannes Alfvén Medal
Solar-Terrestrial Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with Julius Bartels Medal)
Iannis Dandouras (Chair)
Daniel Baker
Janet Luhmann
Julia Thalmann
Hans Oeschger Medal
Climate: Past, Present & Future
Edward Brook (Chair)
Doug Smith
Karol Tylmann
Kim Cobb
Sonia I. Seneviratne
Henry Darcy Medal
Hydrological Sciences
Elena Toth (Chair)
Andreas Hartmann
Berit Arheimer
Wouter Buytaert
Xavier Sánchez-Vila
Ian McHarg Medal
Earth and Space Science Informatics
(attributed every other year)
Kirsten Elger (Chair)
Alice Fremand
Kerstin Lehnert
Mikhail Kanevski
Paolo Diviacco
Paul Wessel
Stefano Nativi
Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal
Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology
Jorijntje Henderiks (Chair)
Andreas Strasser
Elisabetta Erba
Madeleine Vickers
Michael Benton
John Dalton Medal
Hydrological Sciences
Lena Tallaksen (Chair)
Amilcare Porporato
Brian Berkowitz
Luis Samaniego
Martha C. Anderson
Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal
Cryospheric Sciences
Martyn Tranter (Chair)
Andreas Kääb
Julienne Stroeve
Marie Dumont
Regine Hock
Julius Bartels Medal
Solar-Terrestrial Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with Hannes Alfvén Medal)
Norma B. Crosby (Chair)
Georgia Tsiropoula
Masatoshi Yamauchi
Qiugang Zong
Volker Bothmer
(inactive for the 2023 call)
Lewis Fry Richardson Medal
Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences
Shaun Lovejoy (Chair)
Bérengère Dubrulle
Ekaterina Didenkulova
Ulrike Feudel
Valerio Lucarini
Louis Néel Medal
Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics
(attributed every other year, rotation with Petrus Peregrinus Medal)
J. Michael Kosterlitz (Chair)
Chris Marone
David A. Lockner
Wen-lu Zhu
Marie Tharp Medal
Tectonics and Structural Geology
Mary Ford (Chair)
Francesca Funiciello
Mathilde Cannat
R. Dietmar Müller
Serge Lallemand
Milutin Milankovic Medal
Climate: Past, Present & Future
Ayako Abe-Ouchi (Chair)
Hai Cheng
Jacques Laskar
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Valérie Masson-Delmotte
Petrus Peregrinus Medal
Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics
(attributed every other year, rotation with Louis Néel Medal)
Catherine Kissel (Chair)
Angelo De Santis
Chris Marone
Jonathan Aurnou
Kenneth P. Kodama
Mioara Mandea
Rixiang Zhu
(inactive for the 2023 call)
Philippe Duchaufour Medal
Soil System Sciences
Claudia Alves de Jesus-Rydin (Chair)
Donald L. Sparks
Georg Guggenberger
Mary K. Firestone
Plinius Medal
Natural Hazards
Jadranka Sepic (Chair)
Claire Horwell
Fausto Guzzetti
Marijan Herak
Slobodan Nickovic
Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal
Geomorphology
David Lundbek Egholm (Chair)
Joanna Bullard
Louise Slater
Nicoletta Leonardi
Paola Passalacqua
Tom Coulthard
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal
Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology
Mike Burton (Chair)
Clare Warren
Daniela Rubatto
Holly J. Stein
Jean-Francois Moyen
Urs Schaltegger
Runcorn-Florensky Medal
Planetary and Solar System Sciences
(attributed every other year, rotation with David Bates Medal)
Tim Van Hoolst (Chair)
Agustín Sánchez-Lavega
Emma J. Bunce
Sébastien Charnoz
(inactive for the 2023 call)
Sergey Soloviev Medal
Natural Hazards
Maria-Carmen Llasat (Chair)
Giuliano Di Baldassarre
John J. Clague
Maria Pregnolato
Ricardo Trigo
Stephan Mueller Medal
Tectonics and Structural Geology
Mary Ford (Chair)
Francesca Funiciello
Mathilde Cannat
R. Dietmar Müller
Serge Lallemand
Vening Meinesz Medal
Geodesy
Johannes Böhm (Chair)
Christopher Jekeli
Peter J. G. Teunissen
Tonie van Dam
Willi Freeden
Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal
Atmospheric Sciences
Michael Prather (Chair)
Hugh Coe
Spyros N. Pandis
Trude Storelvmo
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal
Biogeosciences
Susan E. Trumbore (Chair)
Adina Paytan
Pierre Friedlingstein
Stephanie Henson