The 2018 section awardees and named lecturers have been selected. AGU and its leaders wholeheartedly congratulate these awardees!
The selection of our colleagues for these prestigious awards and honors recognizes their sustained and unique contributions to enlightening our understanding of the Earth and its atmosphere and oceans, and of the solar system and exoplanets. The sciences encompassed by AGU are crucial for the health and well-being of our planet’s inhabitants. These honorees have contributed to that health and well-being through their scientific advancements and outstanding service to the science and to AGU.
Among the 24 sections of AGU, there are 65 awards; 21 are for early-career scientists (up to 10 years post-Ph.D.) and six are for midcareer scientists (10–20 years post-Ph.D.). Twenty-seven awards provide named lectureships to further disseminate an awardee’s meritorious accomplishments. Named lectures offered by AGU sections recognize distinguished scientists with proven leadership in their fields of science. AGU inaugurated the Bowie Lecture in 1989 to commemorate the fiftieth presentation of the William Bowie Medal, which is named for AGU’s first president and is the highest honor given by the organization. The 2018 Bowie Lecturers are denoted by asterisks in the list below. We look forward to attending as many of these lectures as possible at Fall Meeting 2018.
Many thanks to the nominators, nomination supporters, and section leaders, and particularly to 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, and we look forward to recognizing the honorees and their achievements at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2018 in Washington, D. C.
—Robin Bell, President-elect and Council Chair, AGU; and Mary Anne Holmes (email: AGU_Unionhonors@agu.org), Chair, Honors and Recognition Committee, AGU
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Atmospheric Sciences Section
Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award
Matthew Huber, Purdue University
Yi Ming, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
David M. Romps, University of California, Berkeley
Joel A. Thornton, University of Washington
James R. Holton Award
Angel Francisco Adames-Corraliza, University of Michigan
Yoram J. Kaufman Unselfish Cooperation in Research Award
Daniel Rosenfeld, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jacob Bjerknes Lecture*
Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jule Gregory Charney Lecture*
Paul A. Newman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Future Horizons in Climate Science: Turco Lectureship
Jennifer E. Kay, University of Colorado Boulder
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Biogeosciences Section
Sulzman Award for Excellence in Education and Mentoring
Emily M. Elliott, University of Pittsburgh
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Cryosphere Sciences Section
Cryosphere Early Career Award
Ludovic Brucker, Universities Space Research Association GESTAR and Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
John F. Nye Lecture
Jacqueline Richter-Menge, U.S. Arctic Research Commission and University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Section
G. K. Gilbert Award in Surface Processes
Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University
Luna B. Leopold Young Scientist Award
Jill A. Marshall, University of Arkansas
Robert P. Sharp Lecture
Jill A. Marshall, University of Arkansas
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Earth and Space Science Informatics Section
Greg Leptoukh Lecture
Benjamin J. K. Evans, Australian National University
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Geodesy Section
Geodesy Section Award
Thomas Hobiger, University of Stuttgart
Ivan I. Mueller Award for Distinguished Service and Leadership
Richard S. Gross, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
William Bowie Lecture*
Byron D. Tapley, University of Texas at Austin
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Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism, and Electromagnetism Section
William Gilbert Award
Lennart V. de Groot, Utrecht University
Edward Bullard Lecture*
Lisa Tauxe, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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Global Environmental Change Section
Bert Bolin Global Environmental Change Award and Lecture
Donald J. Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Global Environmental Change Early Career Award
George A. Ban-Weiss, University of Southern California
Rajan K. Chakrabarty, Washington University in St. Louis
Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Piers J. Sellers Global Environmental Change Mid-Career Award
Markus Reichstein, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Michael-Stifel-Center Jena for Data-Driven and Simulation Science
Stephen Schneider Lecture
Stephen E. Schwartz, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Tyndall History of Global Environmental Change Lecture
Inez Y. Fung, University of California, Berkeley
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Hydrology Section
Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award
Yoshihide Wada, International Institute for Applied Systems
Hydrologic Sciences Award
Bridget R. Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin
Walter B. Langbein Lecture*
Dani Or, ETH Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Paul Witherspoon Lecture
Elizabeth W. Boyer, Pennsylvania State University
Horton Research Grant
Frederick Y. Cheng, University of Waterloo
Caio Reis Costa Mattos, Rutgers University
Brianna R. Pagán, Ghent University
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Mineral and Rock Physics Section
Mineral and Rock Physics Early Career Award
Zhu Mao, University of Science and Technology of China
Mineral and Rock Physics Graduate Research Award
Earl F. O’Bannon III, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Esther Posner, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Universität Bayreuth
Natalia Solomatova, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
John C. Jamieson Student Paper Award
Christopher J. Cline II, NOVA Geotechnical
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Natural Hazards Section
Natural Hazards Section Award for Graduate Research
Edward Max Brooks, Northwestern University
Gilbert F. White Distinguished Award and Lecture
Lucile Jones, Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society
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Near-Surface Geophysics Section
GSSI Near-Surface Geophysics Student Grant
William Hardy Kochtitzky, University of Maine
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Nonlinear Geophysics Section
Donald L. Turcotte Award
Meredith Plumley, University of Colorado Boulder
Ed Lorenz Lecture
V. Krishnamurthy, George Mason University
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Ocean Sciences Section
Ocean Sciences Voyager Award
Andréa G. Grottoli, Ohio State University
Rachel Carson Lecture
Claire B. Paris-Limouzy, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
William S. and Carelyn Y. Reeburgh Lecture
Allan Devol, University of Washington
Harald Sverdrup Lecture
Raymond Schmitt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Section
Willi Dansgaard Award
Bärbel Hönisch, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
Harry Elderfield Outstanding Student Paper Award
Kassandra Costa, Columbia University
Nanne Weber Early Career Award
Haojia Abby Ren, National Taiwan University
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Planetary Sciences Section
Ronald Greeley Early Career Award in Planetary Sciences
Brandon C. Johnson, Brown University
Fred Whipple Award and Lecture
Philip R. Christensen, Arizona State University
Eugene Shoemaker Lecture*
Carol A. Raymond, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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Seismology Section
Keiiti Aki Young Scientist Award
Lingling Ye, Sun Yat-sen University
Beno Gutenberg Lecture*
William Ellsworth, Stanford University
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Space Physics and Aeronomy Section
Basu United States Early Career Award for Research in Sun-Earth Systems Science
Julia E. Stawarz, Imperial College London
Fred L. Scarf Award
Aleida K. Higginson, University of Michigan
Space Physics and Aeronomy Richard Carrington Education and Public Outreach Award
Patricia Doherty, Boston College
Sunanda and Santimay Basu (International) Early Career Award in Sun-Earth Systems Science
Zama T. Katamzi-Joseph, South African National Space Agency
Eugene Parker Lecture*
David J. McComas, Princeton University
James Van Allen Lecture*
Fran Bagenal, 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
Jie Deng, Yale University
Ross Maguire, University of Michigan
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Tectonophysics Section
Jason Morgan Early Career Award
Ylona van Dinther, ETH Zurich and Utrecht University
Francis Birch Lecture*
Carolina R. Lithgow-Bertelloni, University of California, Los Angeles
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Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Section
Hisashi Kuno Award
Leif Karlstrom, University of Oregon
Norman L. Bowen Award and Lecture
Timothy Druitt, University of Clermont-Auvergne
Steven Goldstein, Columbia University
Reginald Daly Lecture*
Nicolas Dauphas, University of Chicago
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Joint Award: Geodesy, Seismology, and Tectonophysics Sections
Paul G. Silver Award
Harold J. Tobin, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Washington
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Joint Prize: Nonlinear Geophysics and Space Physics and Aeronomy Sections
Space Weather and Nonlinear Waves and Processes Prize
Robert Bruno, Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali
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Joint Lecture: Biogeosciences and Planetary Sciences Sections
Carl Sagan Lecture
Ken Caldeira, Carnegie Institution for Science
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Joint Lecture: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology and Ocean Sciences Sections
Cesare Emiliani Lecture
Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Joint Student Grant: Atmospheric Sciences and Space Physics and Aeronomy Sections
Edmond M. Dewan Scholarship
Lena Heuscher, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Citation:
Bell, R.,Holmes, M. A. (2018), 2018 AGU section awardees and named lecturers, Eos, 99, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO103599. Published on 30 July 2018.
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