Thirty-eight scientists, in various stages of their careers, have been selected by AGU sections and focus groups to receive awards in 2014.
In addition, 24 individuals have been chosen to present lectures under the annual Bowie Lecture Series as well as the Section and Focus Group Named Lecture Series. The Bowie Lecture was inaugurated in 1989 to commemorate the fiftieth presentation of the William Bowie Medal, which is is named for AGU’s first president and is the organization’s highest honor. Named lectures are designated by sections and focus groups to honor and memorialize distinguished scientists in their respective fields of science.
Awardees and named lecturers are selected for contributing meritorious work or service toward the advancement and promotion of discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity.
The individuals listed below will be recognized during the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting, to be held 15–19 December in San Francisco, Calif. Bowie lecturers are denoted by asterisks. All lectures will be videotaped for on-demand viewing and posted on the Fall Meeting website.
—Danica Williams, Program Manager, Member Relations, AGU; email: dwilliams@agu.org
Joint Award: Geodesy, Seismology, and Tectonophysics Sections
Paul G. Silver Award for Outstanding Scientific Service
Stephen Hickman
Joint Lecture: Biogeosciences and Planetary Sciences Sections
Sagan Lecture
Microbial Communities: Tracing Growth Processes From Antarctic Lakes to Early Earth to Other Planets
Presented by Dawn Sumner
Joint Lecture: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Focus Group and Ocean Sciences Section
Emiliani Lecture
Climate and Life: A Human Retrospective
Presented by Peter B. deMenocal
Atmospheric Sciences Section
Ascent Award
Ken S. Carslaw
Meredith Galanter Hastings
Adam Sobel
Rodney J. Weber
James R. Holton Junior Scientist Award
Elizabeth Barnes
Timothy Merlis
Yoram J. Kaufman Unselfish Cooperation in Research Award
Zhanqing Li
Bjerknes Lecture*
Cross-Equatorial Flow and the Hadley Cell
Presented by Sir Brian Hoskins
Charney Lecture*
Grand Challenges in Understanding Clouds: From Ice Crystal Formation to Their Influence on Climate
Presented by Ulrike Lohmann
Biogeosciences Section
Sulzman Award for Excellence in Education and Mentoring
Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson
Cryosphere Focus Group
Cryosphere Early Career Award
Ian Hewitt
Nye Lecture
Abrupt Climate Change: The View From the Past, the Present, and the Future
Presented by James W. C. White
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Focus Group
G. K. Gilbert Award
Gary D. Parker
Luna B. Leopold Award
Guilio Mariotti
Sharp Lecture
Living Landscapes: Present and Past Interactions Between Coastal Sediments and Biota
Presented by Guilio Mariotti
Earth and Space Science Informatics Focus Group
Leptoukh Lecture
Trends in Computing for Climate Research
Presented by Bryan Lawrence
Geodesy Section
Geodesy Section Award
Tim Wright
Ivan I. Mueller Award for Service and Leadership
Carine Bruyninx
Bowie Lecture*
Global Change Geodesy: A Geophysical Perspective
Presented by Jerry Mitrovica
Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Section
William Gilbert Award
Nicholas Swanson-Hysell
Bullard Lecture*
Mercury’s Magnetic Field
Presented by Catherine L. Johnson
Global Environmental Change Focus Group
Schneider Lecture
From Climate Change Impacts to Climate Change Risks
Presented by Christopher B. Field
Tyndall Lecture
A Perspective on Accelerating Change
Presented by Kelly T. Redmond
Hydrology Section
Early Career Hydrologic Sciences Award
Stefano Manzoni
Horton Research Grant
Kevin Befus
Chris Gabrielli
Katherine Lininger
Hydrologic Sciences Award
Diane McKnight
Langbein Lecture*
Isotopes and Isoscapes: Tools for Testing Hydrological and Biogeochemical Models
Presented by Carol Kendall
Mineral and Rock Physics Focus Group
Mineral and Rock Physics Early Career Award
Arianna Gleason
Mineral and Rock Physics Graduate Research Award
Rebecca Fischer
Zachary Geballe
Natural Hazards Focus Group
Natural Hazards Focus Group Award for Graduate Research
Christoph Aubrecht
Nonlinear Geophysics Focus Group
Donald L. Turcotte Award
Woosok Moon
Lorenz Lecture
Random Musings on Stochastics
Presented by Koutsoyannis Demetris
Ocean Sciences Section
Ocean Sciences Voyager Award
Benjamin Horton
Carson Lecture
Nitrogen Loss Processes and Nitrous Oxide Turnover in Oceanic Oxygen Minimum Zones
Presented by Bess Ward
Sverdrup Lecture
Evaluating the Ocean’s Biological Carbon Pump
Presented by Steve Emerson
Planetary Sciences Section
Ronald Greeley Early Career Award in Planetary Science
Catherine Neish
Whipple Award
Larry Soderblom
Whipple Lecture
A Retrospective: Active Volatile-Driven Geologic Processes Across the Solar System—Lessons for Planetary Explorers
Presented by Larry Soderblom
Shoemaker Lecture*
Searching for Earth-like Planets in This Solar System and Beyond
Presented by Ellen Stofan
Seismology Section
Keiiti Aki Young Scientist Award
Gregory McLaskey
Gutenberg Lecture*
New and Evolving Seismic Images of the Central Andes and Subducting Nazca Slab: 20 Years of Portable Seismology Results
Presented by Susan Beck
Space Physics and Aeronomy Section
Basu United States Early Career Award
Rebekah M. Evans
Fred L. Scarf Award
Jianqi Qin
Space Physics and Aeronomy Richard Carrington Education and Public Outreach Award
Deborah Scherrer
Sunanda and Santimay Basu Early Career Award in Sun-Earth Systems Science
John Bosco Habarulema
Nicolet Lecture*
Revelations in the Study of Geospace Variability
Presented by Maura Hagan
Van Allen Lecture*
A Century After Van Allen’s Birth: Conclusion of Reconnaissance of Radiation Belts in the Solar System
Presented by Stamatios “Tom” Krimigis
Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior Focus Group
Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior Graduate Research Award
Andrew Schaeffer
Tectonophysics Section
Jason Morgan Early Career Award
Patrick Fulton
Birch Lecture*
On the Origin of Plate Tectonics
Presented by David Bercovici
Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Section
Hisashi Kuno Award
Matthew G. Jackson
Norman L. Bowen Award
Mark Ghiorso
Richard Sack
Bowen Lecture
On the Future of Thermochemical Databases, the Development of Solution Models, and the Practical Use of Computational Thermodynamics in Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology: Can Innovations of Modern Data Science Democratize an Oligarchy?
Presented by Mark Ghiorso
Hydrothermal Fluids, Nebular Vapors, and Silicate MELTS as Seen Through the Eyes of Minerals
Presented by Richard Sack
Daly Lecture*
A Chlorine-centric Perspective on Fluid-Mediated Processes at Convergent Plate Boundaries
Presented by Jane Selverstone
Citation: Williams, D. (2014), 2014 AGU section and focus group awardees and named lecturers, Eos Trans. AGU, 95(39), 355, doi:10.1002/2014EO390012.
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© 2014. American Geophysical Union. All rights reserved.