Each year since 1962, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) has elected as Fellows members whose visionary leadership and scientific excellence have fundamentally advanced research in their respective fields. This year, 61 members will join the 2017 class of Fellows.
They have expanded our understanding of the Earth and space sciences, from volcanic processes, solar cycles, and deep-sea microbiology to the variability of our climate and so much more.
AGU Fellows are recognized for their scientific eminence in the Earth and space sciences. Their breadth of interests and the scope of their contributions are remarkable and often groundbreaking. They have expanded our understanding of the Earth and space sciences, from volcanic processes, solar cycles, and deep-sea microbiology to the variability of our climate and so much more. Only 0.1% of AGU membership receives this recognition in any given year.
On behalf of AGU’s Honors and Recognition Committee, our Union Fellows Committee, our section and focus group Fellows committees, AGU leaders, and staff, we are immensely proud to present the 2017 class of AGU Fellows.
We appreciate the efforts of everyone who provided support and commitment to AGU’s honors program. Our dedicated AGU volunteers gave valuable time and energy as members of selection committees to elect this year’s Fellows. We also thank all the nominators and supporters who made all this possible through their dedicated efforts to nominate and recognize their colleagues.
Announcing the AGU College of Fellows
Today, AGU is also formally launching an initiative to better engage our nearly 1,400 living Fellows. The new College of Fellows’ mission is to foster excellence, integrity, and interdisciplinary collaboration in the Earth and space sciences, provide expert and strategic advice to the Union on global scientific issues, and support the professional development and engagement of scientists at all career stages and from all backgrounds. The program will engage AGU’s Fellows in the following four primary activities: a town hall session at the 2017 Fall Meeting, mentorship, a distinguished traveling lecture series, and participation in events and activities commemorating AGU’s Centennial in 2019.
Honor and Celebrate Eminence at Fall Meeting
At this year’s Honors Tribute to be held on Wednesday, 13 December, at the 2017 AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans, we will celebrate and honor the exceptional achievements, visionary leadership, talents, and dedication of 61 new AGU Fellows.
Please join us in congratulating our 2017 class of AGU Fellows, listed in alphabetical order:
M. Joan Alexander, Northwest Research Associates
Jeffrey Alt, University of Michigan
David D. Breshears, University of Arizona
Bonnie J. Buratti, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Wei-Jun Cai, University of Delaware
Josep Canadell, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Don P. Chambers, University of South Florida
Kelly Chance, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Marc Chaussidon, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Alan D. Chave, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Wang-Ping Chen, China University of Geosciences
Hai Cheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Peter G. DeCelles, University of Arizona
Gerald R. Dickens, Rice University
Paul A. Dirmeyer, George Mason University
Claudio Faccenna, Università Degli Studi Roma Tre
John C. Foster, MIT Haystack Observatory
Roger Francois, University of British Columbia
Arthur Frankel, Earthquake Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey
Helen Amanda Fricker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Jonathan Gregory, University of Reading
Stephen M. Griffies, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Nancy B. Grimm, Arizona State University
George R. Helffrich, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Susan S. Hubbard, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Erik R. Ivins, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Fortunat Joos, University of Bern
Samantha Benton Joye, University of Georgia
Yann H. Kerr, Centre d’Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, Centre National d’Études Spatiales
Alan Knapp, Colorado State University
Matthew J. Kohn, Boise State University
Ronald Kwok, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Upmanu Lall, Columbia University
Murli H. Manghnani, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Barry H. Mauk, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Klaus Mezger, University of Bern
Alberto Montanari, University of Bologna
Louis Noel Moresi, University of Melbourne
Scott Lawrence Murchie, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Teruyuki Nakajima, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Richard Norby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
John M. C. Plane, University of Leeds
John C. Raymond, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard University
Steven W. Roecker, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Eelco Johan Rohling, Australian National University
Ares J. Rosakis, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology
Yinon Rudich, Weizmann Institute of Science
Lynn M. Russell, University of California, San Diego
Daniel J. M. Schertzer, École des Ponts Paris Tech
Walter H. F. Smith, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Robert J. Stern, University of Texas at Dallas
Paul J. Tackley, ETH Zurich
Margaret S. Torn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley
Gregory E. Tucker, University of Colorado Boulder
Susan Ustin, University of California, Davis
Richard M. Vogel, Tufts University
Patricia L. Wiberg, University of Virginia
Teng-fong Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Roger V. Yelle, University of Arizona
Youxue Zhang, University of Michigan
Edward J. Zipser, University of Utah
—Eric A. Davidson, President, AGU; and Samuel Mukasa (email: [email protected]), Chair, Honors and Recognition Committee, AGU
Correction, 27 July 2017: An earlier version of this article incorrectly listed the affiliation of Stephen M. Griffies.
Citation:
Davidson, E.,Mukasa, S. (2017), 2017 class of AGU Fellows announced, Eos, 98, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO078447. Published on 27 July 2017.
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