Awards & medals committees

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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

Helen M. Glaves (Chair)
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

Helen M. Glaves (Chair)
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)