The 2019 section awardees and named lecturers have been selected, and AGU staff, leaders, and selection committees wholeheartedly congratulate these awardees!
Our colleagues have been selected for these prestigious honors for their sustained and unique contributions to advancing our understanding of Earth, its atmosphere and oceans, and planets and astral bodies beyond our own. The sciences encompassed by AGU are crucial for the health and well-being of our planet’s inhabitants. These awardees have contributed to both that understanding and the planetary health and well-being through their scientific advancements and outstanding service to the science and to AGU.
This year’s cohort of awardees reflects the diversity that is integral to the Earth and space sciences. Among the 25 sections of AGU there are 65 such awards; 21 are for early-career scientists (up to 10 years post-Ph.D.) and 6 are for midcareer (10 to 20 years post-Ph.D.). Twenty-seven awards provide named lectureships that offer unique opportunities to highlight the meritorious accomplishments of the awardees. AGU inaugurated the Bowie Lecture in 1989 to commemorate the 50th presentation of the William Bowie Medal, which is named for AGU’s first president and is the highest honor given by the organization. In the list below, asterisks denote Bowie lecturers. Named lectures offered by AGU sections recognize distinguished scientists with proven leadership in their fields of science. We look forward to attending as many of these lectures as possible at Fall Meeting 2019 and encourage everyone to mark their calendars with these events.
Many, many thanks to the nominators, nomination supporters, section leaders, and, particularly, the selection committees for their important work in selecting these well-deserving colleagues. We thank you all for your continued commitment to the AGU Honors Program. We look forward to recognizing the honorees and their achievements at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2019 in San Francisco, Calif.
—Robin Bell, President and Council Chair, AGU; and Mary Anne Holmes (AGU_Unionhonors@agu.org), Chair, Honors and Recognition Committee, AGU
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Atmospheric and Space Electricity Section
Benjamin Franklin Lecture
Joseph R. Dwyer, University of New Hampshire
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Atmospheric Sciences Section
Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award
Francina Dominguez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jennifer G. Murphy, University of Toronto
David Noone, Oregon State University
Armin Sorooshian, University of Arizona
Rainer M. Volkamer, University of Colorado Boulder
James R. Holton Award
Nadir Jeevanjee, Princeton University
Yoram J. Kaufman Outstanding Research and Unselfish Cooperation Award
Allen H. Goldstein, University of California, Berkeley
Jacob Bjerknes Lecture*
Cecilia M. Bitz, University of Washington
Jule Gregory Charney Lecture*
Neil McPherson Donahue, Carnegie Mellon University
Future Horizons in Climate Science: Turco Lectureship
Alex Hall, University of California, Los Angeles
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Biogeosciences Section
Thomas Hilker Early Career Award for Excellence in Biogeosciences
Kimberly A. Novick, Indiana University Bloomington
Sulzman Award for Excellence in Education and Mentoring
Rebecca T. Barnes, Colorado College
William S. and Carelyn Y. Reeburgh Lecture
Colleen Hansel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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Cryosphere Sciences Section
Cryosphere Early Career Award
Natalya Gomez, McGill University
John F. Nye Lecture
Helen Amanda Fricker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
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Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Section
G. K. Gilbert Award in Surface Processes
Kelin X. Whipple, Arizona State University
Luna B. Leopold Young Scientist Award
Joel S. Scheingross, University of Nevada, Reno
Robert P. Sharp Lecture
Joel S. Scheingross, University of Nevada, Reno
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Earth and Space Science Informatics Section
Greg Leptoukh Lecture
Barbara Jane Ryan, former director, Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
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Geodesy Section
John Wahr Early Career Award
Raphaël Grandin, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université de Paris
Ivan I. Mueller Award for Distinguished Service and Leadership
Frank Flechtner, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
William Bowie Lecture*
Véronique M. A. Dehant, Royal Observatory of Belgium
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Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism, and Electromagnetism Section
William Gilbert Award
Suzanne A. McEnroe, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Edward Bullard Lecture*
Gauthier Hulot, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université de Paris
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Global Environmental Change Section
Bert Bolin Global Environmental Change Award and Lecture
L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Global Environmental Change Early Career Award
Gretchen Keppel-Aleks, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Abigail L. S. Swann, University of Washington Seattle
Yangyang Xu, Texas A&M University
Piers J. Sellers Global Environmental Change Mid-Career Award
Katherine V. Calvin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Stephen Schneider Lecture
Andrew E. Dessler, Texas A&M University
Tyndall History of Global Environmental Change Lecture
William D. Collins, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley
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Hydrology Section
Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award
Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Di Long, Tsinghua University
Kaveh Madani, Yale University
Hydrologic Sciences Award
William P. Kustas, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Walter B. Langbein Lecture*
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, University of California, Irvine
Paul Witherspoon Lecture
Patrick M. Reed, Cornell University
Horton Research Grant
David Litwin, Johns Hopkins University
Magali Furlan Nehemy, University of Saskatchewan
Lorenzo Rosa, University of California, Berkeley
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Mineral and Rock Physics Section
Mineral and Rock Physics Early Career Award
Sergey S. Lobanov, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Mineral and Rock Physics Graduate Research Award
Kathryn M. Kumamoto, University of Oxford
Christopher Thom, University of Pennsylvania
John C. Jamieson Student Paper Award
Suyu Fu, University of Texas at Austin
Francesca Miozzi, Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC)
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Natural Hazards Section
Natural Hazards Section Award for Graduate Research
Sanne Muis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Gilbert F. White Distinguished Award and Lecture
Jeroen Aerts, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Near-Surface Geophysics Section
GSSI Near-Surface Geophysics Student Grant
Zachariah Seaman, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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Nonlinear Geophysics Section
Donald L. Turcotte Award
Vera Melinda Galfi, University of Hamburg
Ed Lorenz Lecture
Ian Main, University of Edinburgh
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Ocean Sciences Section
Ocean Sciences Early Career Award
Nicole S. Lovenduski, University of Colorado Boulder
Ocean Sciences Award
Paula S. Bontempi, NASA
Rachel Carson Lecture
Heidi M. Sosik, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Harald Sverdrup Lecture
Mary-Louise Timmermans, Yale University
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Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Section
Willi Dansgaard Award
Valerie Trouet, University of Arizona
Harry Elderfield Outstanding Student Paper Award
Jianghui Du, Oregon State University
Nanne Weber Early Career Award
Bronwen L. Konecky, Washington University in St. Louis
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Planetary Sciences Section
Ronald Greeley Early Career Award in Planetary Sciences
Xi Zhang, University of California, Santa Cruz
Fred Whipple Award and Lecture
Faith Vilas, Planetary Science Institute
Eugene Shoemaker Lecture*
S. Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute Boulder
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Seismology Section
Keiiti Aki Young Scientist Award
Zachary E. Ross, California Institute of Technology
Beno Gutenberg Lecture*
Emily E. Brodsky, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Space Physics and Aeronomy Section
Basu United States Early Career Award for Research in Sun-Earth Systems Science
Evan G. Thomas, Dartmouth College
Fred L. Scarf Award
Terry Zixu Liu, University of California, Los Angeles
Space Physics and Aeronomy Richard Carrington Education and Public Outreach Award
Nat Gopalswamy, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Sunanda and Santimay Basu (International) Early Career Award in Sun-Earth Systems Science
Ajeet Kumar Maurya, Doon University, India
Eugene Parker Lecture*
Margaret “Peggy” Ann Shea, Air Force Research Laboratory (Retired)
Marcel Nicolet Lecture*
Cora E. Randall, University of Colorado Boulder
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Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior Section
Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior Graduate Research Award
Neala Creasy, Yale University
Wenbo Wu, Princeton University and California Institute of Technology
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Tectonophysics Section
Jason Morgan Early Career Award
Jacqueline Austermann, Columbia University
Francis Birch Lecture*
Claudio Faccenna, Roma TRE University
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Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Section
Hisashi Kuno Award
Marion Garçon, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique–Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans Clermont-Ferrand
Daniel A. Stolper, University of California, Berkeley
Norman L. Bowen Award and Lecture
Graham Pearson, University of Alberta
Mary R. Reid, Northern Arizona University
Reginald Daly Lecture*
Marie Edmonds, University of Cambridge
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Joint Award: Geodesy, Seismology, and Tectonophysics Sections
Paul G. Silver Award
Judith Savaso Chester, Texas A&M University
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Joint Prize: Nonlinear Geophysics and Space Physics and Aeronomy Sections
Space Weather and Nonlinear Waves and Processes Prize
Michael Hesse, University of Bergen
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Joint Lecture: Biogeosciences and Planetary Sciences Sections
Carl Sagan Lecture
Penelope J. Boston, NASA Ames Research Center
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Joint Lecture: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology and Ocean Sciences Sections
Cesare Emiliani Lecture
Hai Cheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University
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Joint Student Grant: Atmospheric Sciences and Space Physics and Aeronomy Sections
Edmond M. Dewan Scholarship
Nikita Aseev, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
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1 August 2019: This article was updated to include the winner of the Sunanda and Santimay Basu (International) Early Career Award in Sun-Earth Systems Science.
19 August 2019: The article was updated to include the correct name of the Yoram J. Kaufman Outstanding Research and Unselfish Cooperation Award.
Citation:
Bell, R.,Holmes, M. A. (2019), 2019 AGU section awardees and named lecturers, Eos, 100, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EO130047. Published on 31 July 2019.
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