Congratulations to the 2020 section award recipients and named lecturers!
The discoveries and solutions you have collectively made are remarkable. Each of you made tremendous personal sacrifices and selflessly dedicated yourselves to advancing the Earth and space sciences.
You have achieved outstanding accomplishments in your disciplines despite the recent challenges that our global community has faced. You have made important contributions to the scientific community by challenging, reinforcing, or reinvigorating all of us to think bigger, broader, or differently. Like those before you, each of your contributions has served as a building block to and for others to advance our understanding of Earth, its atmosphere and oceans, and space, including the planets and beyond.
We hope you take time to celebrate your well-deserved recognition. We also know that for each of you, there is a group of people who were invaluable to your success. To those mentors, supportive colleagues, friends, and loved ones, we are greatly appreciative of their efforts.
2020 awardees details:
- 22 AGU sections gave 85 awards and honors
- 7 awards are for students and postdocs
- 24 winners are early-career scientists (up to 10 years post-Ph.D.)
- 9 winners are midcareer (10–20 years post-Ph.D.)
- 2 winners are senior scientists (experienced and an established leader)
- 8 awards are given to honorees in the midcareer or senior career stage
- 1 award is given to all career stages
- 29 awards are for named lectureships. These are offered by AGU sections to recognize distinguished scientists with proven leadership in their fields of science.
- 5 grants and scholarships
The 29 named lectureships offer unique opportunities to highlight the remarkable accomplishments of the awardees. AGU inaugurated the Bowie Lectures in 1989 to commemorate the 50th presentation of the William Bowie Medal, the highest honor given by the organization and named for AGU’s first president. This year’s Bowie Lecturers have an asterisk by their names in the list below. Please make sure to add these named lecturers to your calendars for #AGU20.
Finally, we are grateful to the nominators, nomination supporters, section leaders, and selection committees for selecting these well-deserving colleagues. Your volunteer hours are invaluable to our community.
Again, congratulations to the 2020 section awardees and named lecturers!
—Robin Bell, President and Council Chair, AGU; and LaToya Myles ([email protected]), Chair, Honors and Recognition Committee, AGU
Atmospheric and Space Electricity Section
Atmospheric and Space Electricity Early Career Award
Keri Nicoll, University of Reading
Atmospheric Sciences Section
Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award
Yafang Cheng, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Tracey Holloway, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Pavlos Kollias, Stony Brook University
Tristan S. L’Ecuyer, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Randall Martin, Washington University in Saint Louis
James R. Holton Award
Alexander Turner, University of California, Berkeley
Megan D. Willis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Yoram J. Kaufman Outstanding Research and Unselfish Cooperation Award
Abdelwahid Mellouki, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Jacob Bjerknes Lecture*
L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jule Gregory Charney Lecture*
Venkatachalam “Ram” Ramaswamy, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Future Horizons in Climate Science: Turco Lectureship
Elizabeth A. Barnes, Colorado State University
Biogeosciences Section
Thomas Hilker Early Career Award for Excellence in Biogeosciences
Kelly C. Wrighton, Colorado State University
Sulzman Award for Excellence in Education and Mentoring
Nandita B. Basu, University of Waterloo
Cryosphere Sciences Section
Cryosphere Early Career Award
Helene L. Seroussi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
John F. Nye Lecture
Isabella Velicogna, University of California, Irvine
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Section
G. K. Gilbert Award in Surface Processes
Suzanne P. Anderson, University of Colorado Boulder
Luna B. Leopold Young Scientist Award
Jaap Nienhuis, Utrecht University
Marguerite T. Williams Award
Jane K. Willenbring, Stanford University
Robert P. Sharp Lecture
Jaap Nienhuis, Utrecht University
Earth and Space Science Informatics Section
Greg Leptoukh Lecture
Erin Robinson, Foundation for Earth Science
Geodesy Section
John Wahr Early Career Award
John R. Elliott, University of Leeds
William Bowie Lecture*
Maria T. Zuber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism, and Electromagnetism Section
William Gilbert Award
Roger R. Fu, Harvard University
Edward Bullard Lecture*
Andrew P. Roberts, Australian National University
Global Environmental Change Section
Bert Bolin Global Environmental Change Award and Lecture
Benjamin D. Santer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Global Environmental Change Early Career Award
Rebecca R. Hernandez, University of California, Davis
Nathan Mueller, Colorado State University
Ning Lin, Princeton University
Piers J. Sellers Global Environmental Change Mid-Career Award
Hong Liao, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Stephen Schneider Lecture
Michael E. Mann, Pennsylvania State University
Tyndall History of Global Environmental Change Lecture
Gordon B. Bonan, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Hydrology Section
Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award
Simone Fatichi, National University of Singapore
Veronica L. Morales, University of California, Davis
Ir. Niko Wanders, Utrecht University
Hydrologic Sciences Award
James S. Famiglietti, Global Institute for Water Security
Walter Langbein Lecture*
Rafael L. Bras, Georgia Institute of Technology
Paul A. Witherspoon Lecture
Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Uppsala University
Horton Research Grant
Molly R. Cain, Indiana University, Bloomington
Quincy Faber, University of Florida
Hyunglok Kim, University of Virginia
Mineral and Rock Physics Section
Mineral and Rock Physics Early Career Award
Marco Maria Scuderi, Sapienza University of Rome
Mineral and Rock Physics Graduate Research Award
Martin Lesueur, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Francesca Miozzi, University of Milan
Leif Tokle, Brown University
John C. Jamieson Student Paper Award
Rajkrishna Dutta, Princeton University
Cara Vennari, University of California, Santa Cruz
Natural Hazards Section
Natural Hazards Section Award for Graduate Research
Elise Monsieurs, Royal Museum for Central Africa
Natural Hazards Early Career Award
Ning Lin, Princeton University
Gilbert F. White Distinguished Award and Lecture
Augusto Neri, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy
Near-Surface Geophysics Section
Near-Surface Geophysics Early Career Achievement Award
Anja Klotzsche, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
GSSI Student Grant
Mackenzie Vecchio, Florida Atlantic University
Nonlinear Geophysics Section
Donald L. Turcotte Award
Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, University of Delaware; currently at Princeton University
Ed Lorenz Lecture
Sandra C. Chapman, University of Warwick
Ocean Sciences Section
Ocean Sciences Voyager Award
Galen A. McKinley, Columbia University and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Rachel Carson Lecture
Drew Harvell, Cornell University
William S. and Carelyn Y. Reeburgh Lecture
Dennis A. Hansell, University of Miami
Harald Sverdrup Lecture
Arnold L. Gordon, Columbia University
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Section
Willi Dansgaard Award
James M. Russell, Brown University
Harry Elderfield Student Paper Award
Weiqi Yao, University of Toronto
Nanne Weber Early Career Award
David De Vleeschouwer, MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
Planetary Sciences Section
Ronald Greeley Early Career Award in Planetary Sciences
Juan Manuel Lora, Yale University
Fred Whipple Award and Lecture
Robert O. Pepin, University of Minnesota
Eugene Shoemaker Lecture*
Jack H. Waite Jr., Southwest Research Institute
Seismology Section
Keiiti Aki Young Scientist Award
Weisen Shen, Stony Brook University
Beno Gutenberg Lecture*
Malcolm Sambridge, Australian National University
Space Physics and Aeronomy Section
Basu United States Early Career Award for Research in Sun–Earth Systems Science
Meghan Burleigh, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Fred L. Scarf Award
Parisa Mostafavi, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Space Physics and Aeronomy Richard Carrington Education and Public Outreach Award
Charles William Smith, University of New Hampshire
Sunanda and Santimay Basu International Early Career Award in Sun–Earth Systems Science
Shiyong Huang, Wuhan University
William B. Hanson Lecture*
Roderick A. Heelis, University of Texas at Dallas
Marcel Nicolet Lecture*
Kristina A. Lynch, Dartmouth College
James Van Allen Lecture*
Robert L. McPherron, University of California, Los Angeles
Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior Section
Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior Section Award for Graduate Research
Sarah M. Arveson, Yale University
Carver Jay Bierson, Arizona State University
Tectonophysics Section
Jason Morgan Early Career Award
Carolyn J. Boulton, Victoria University of Wellington
Francis Birch Lecture*
Christie Rowe, McGill University
Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Section
Hisashi Kuno Award
Claire E. Bucholz, California Institute of Technology
Norman L. Bowen Award and Lecture
Bradley R. Hacker, University of California, Santa Barbara
Reginald Daly Lecture*
Maud Boyet, University of Clermont Auvergne
Joint Award: Geodesy, Seismology, and Tectonophysics Sections
Paul G. Silver Award for Outstanding Scientific Service
Ramon Arrowsmith, Arizona State University
Douglas R. Toomey, University of Oregon
Joint Lecture: Biogeosciences and Planetary Sciences Sections
Carl Sagan Lecture
Compton James Tucker III, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Joint Lecture: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology and Ocean Sciences Sections
Cesare Emiliani Lecture
Elisabeth L. Sikes, Rutgers University
Joint Student Grant: Atmospheric Sciences and Space Physics and Aeronomy Sections
Dr. Edmond M. Dewan Young Scientist Scholarship
Michaela M. Rogers, Ohio State University
23 October 2020: This article was updated to include the winner of the Willi Dansgaard Award.
Citation:
Bell, R.,Myles, L. (2020), 2020 AGU section awardees and named lecturers, Eos, 101, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EO149870. Published on 30 September 2020.
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