AGU sections recognize outstanding work within their fields by annually hosting numerous awards and lectures. Individuals are selected as section honorees on the basis of meritorious work or service toward the advancement and promotion of discovery and solution science. Each one of you made tremendous personal sacrifices and selflessly dedicated yourselves to advancing Earth and space sciences. Your discoveries and solutions are simply remarkable.
We hope you take some time to celebrate your well-deserved recognition. We also know that for each one of you there is a group of people who were invaluable to your success. We greatly appreciate the efforts of those mentors, supportive colleagues, friends, and loved ones.
2021 awardees details:
- 23 AGU sections gave 80 awards/honors
- 5 awards are for students/postdocs
- 29 winners are early-career scientists (up to 10 years post-Ph.D.)
- 17 winners are midcareer (10–20 years post-Ph.D.)
- 19 winners are senior scientists (experienced and an established leader)
- 9 awards are given to honorees in the midcareer or senior career stage
- 1 award is given to all career stages
- 30 awards are for named lectureships, offered by AGU sections to recognize distinguished scientists with proven leadership in their fields of science
The 30 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, which is named for AGU’s first president and is the highest honor given by the organization. This year’s Bowie Lectures have an asterisk by their names in the list below. Please add these named lectures to your calendars for #AGU21.
Finally, we are grateful to the nominators, nomination supporters, section leaders, and selection committees for selecting these deserving colleagues. Your volunteer hours are invaluable to our community.
Again, congratulations to the 2021 section awardees and named lecturers!
—Susan Lozier, President, AGU; and LaToya Myles (honors@agu.org), Chair, Honors and Recognition Committee, AGU
Atmospheric and Space Electricity Section
Benjamin Franklin Lecture
Donald R. MacGorman, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
Atmospheric Sciences Section
Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award
Benjamin John Murray, University of Leeds
Kerri Pratt, University of Michigan
Nicole Riemer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Isla Simpson, National Center for Atmospheric Research
James R. Holton Award
Marysa M. Laguë, Coldwater Lab, University of Saskatchewan
Yoram J. Kaufman Outstanding Research and Unselfish Cooperation Award
Oleg Dubovik, University of Lille 1
Jacob Bjerknes Lecture*
Joyce Penner, University of Michigan
Jule Gregory Charney Lecture*
Wayne H. Schubert, Colorado State University
Future Horizons in Climate Science: Turco Lectureship
Yuan Wang, California Institute of Technology
Biogeosciences Section
Thomas Hilker Early Career Award for Excellence in Biogeosciences
Jennifer B. Glass, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sulzman Award for Excellence in Education and Mentoring
Susan Natali, Woodwell Climate Research Center
William S. and Carelyn Y. Reeburgh Lecture
Edward J. Brook, Oregon State University
Cryosphere Sciences Section
Cryosphere Early Career Award
Brooke Medley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
John F. Nye Lecture
Andrew Fowler, University of Limerick
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Section
G. K. Gilbert Award in Surface Processes
David C. Mohrig, University of Texas at Austin
Luna B. Leopold Early Career Award
Mathieu G. A. Lapôtre, Stanford University
Marguerite T. Williams Award
Nicole M. Gasparini, Tulane University
Robert Sharp Lecture
Mathieu G. A. Lapôtre, Stanford University
Earth and Space Science Informatics Section
Greg Leptoukh Lecture
Charles S. Zender, University of California, Irvine
Education Section
Dorothy LaLonde Stout Education Lecture
Emily H. G. Cooperdock, University of Southern California
Geodesy Section
John Wahr Early Career Award
Lin Liu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Surendra Adhikari, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
William Bowie Lecture*
Glenn A. Milne, University of Ottawa
GeoHealth Section
GeoHealth Section Award
Geoffrey S. Plumlee, U.S. Geological Survey
Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism, and Electromagnetism Section
William Gilbert Award
Richard J. Blakely, U.S. Geological Survey
Edward Bullard Lecture*
Barbara Maher, Lancaster University
Global Environmental Change Section
Bert Bolin Global Environmental Change Award and Lecture
Thomas L. Delworth, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA
Global Environmental Change Early Career Award
Alexandra G. Konings, Stanford University
Bin Zhao, Tsinghua University
Kimberly A. Novick, Indiana University Bloomington
Piers J. Sellers Global Environmental Change Mid-Career Award
Charles D. Koven, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Stephen Schneider Lecture
Alan Robock, Rutgers University
Tyndall History of Global Environmental Change Lecture
Michael D. Dettinger, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Hydrology Section
Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award
Laura E. Condon, University of Arizona
Adrian Adam Harpold, University of Nevada, Reno
Scott Jasechko, University of California, Santa Barbara
Pamela L. Sullivan, Oregon State University
Hydrologic Sciences Award
Jiri Simunek, University of California, Riverside
Walter Langbein Lecture*
John W. Pomeroy, University of Saskatchewan
Paul A. Witherspoon Lecture
Junguo Liu, Southern University of Science and Technology
Mineral and Rock Physics Section
Mineral and Rock Physics Early Career Award
Takayuki Ishii, Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research
Mineral and Rock Physics Graduate Research Award
Kosuke Yabe, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo
John C. Jamieson Student Paper Award
Mingda Lv, Argonne National Laboratory
Natural Hazards Section
Natural Hazards Section Award for Graduate Research
Leah Salditch, Northwestern University
Natural Hazards Early Career Award
Chia-Ying Lee, Columbia University
Daniel Wright, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Gilbert F. White Distinguished Award and Lecture
Gerald E. Galloway, University of Maryland
Near-Surface Geophysics Section
Near-Surface Geophysics Early Career Achievement Award
Ryan Smith, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Nonlinear Geophysics Section
Ed Lorenz Lecture
Valerio Lucarini, University of Reading
Ocean Sciences Section
Ocean Sciences Early Career Award
Malte Jansen, University of Chicago
Ocean Sciences Award
Alistair Adcroft, Princeton University and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA
Rachel Carson Lecture
Andrea G. Grottoli, Ohio State University
Harald Sverdrup Lecture
Verena Tunnicliffe, University of Victoria
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Section
Willi Dansgaard Award
Aradhna Tripati, University of California, Los Angeles
Harry Elderfield Student Paper Award
Jordan T. Abell, University of Arizona
Nanne Weber Early Career Award
Clara L. Blättler, University of Chicago
Planetary Sciences Section
Ronald Greeley Early Career Award in Planetary Sciences
Timothy A. Goudge, University of Texas at Austin
Fred Whipple Award and Lecture
Paul Schenk, Lunar and Planetary Institute
Eugene Shoemaker Lecture*
Athena Coustenis, Laboratoire d’Etudes Spatiales et d’Instrumentation en Astrophysique, Paris Observatory, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris Sciences et Lettres University
Seismology Section
Keiiti Aki Early Career Award
Yihe Huang, University of Michigan
Beno Gutenberg Lecture*
Gregory C. Beroza, Stanford University
Space Physics and Aeronomy Section
Eugene Parker Lecture*
James A. Klimchuk, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Fred L. Scarf Award
Luisa Capannolo, Boston University
Space Physics and Aeronomy Richard Carrington Education and Public Outreach Award
Keith M. Groves, Institute for Scientific Research, Boston College
Elizabeth MacDonald, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Sunanda and Santimay Basu International Early Career Award in Sun-Earth Systems Science
Chao Yue, Peking University
Basu U.S. Early Career Award for Research Excellence in Sun-Earth Systems Science
Trevor Bowen, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
William B. Hanson Lecture*
Jonathan J. Makela, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James Van Allen Lecture*
Mei-Ching Hannah Fok, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior Section
Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior Section Award for Graduate Research
Mingda Lv, Argonne National Laboratory
Tectonophysics Section
Jason Morgan Early Career Award
Juliane Dannberg, University of Florida
Francis Birch Lecture*
Taras Gerya, ETH Zurich
Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Section
Hisashi Kuno Award
Ming Tang, Peking University
Norman L. Bowen Award and Lecture
Catherine Chauvel, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
George W. Bergantz, University of Washington
Reginald Daly Lecture*
Anat Shahar, Carnegie Institution for Science
Joint Award: Geodesy, Seismology, and Tectonophysics Sections
Paul G. Silver Award for Outstanding Scientific Service
Richard W. Allmendinger, Cornell University
Joint Lecture: Biogeosciences and Planetary Sciences Sections
Carl Sagan Lecture
Sarah Stewart Johnson, Georgetown University
Joint Lecture: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology and Ocean Sciences Sections
Cesare Emiliani Lecture
Baerbel Hoenisch, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
19 November 2021: This article has been updated to include the recipients of the GeoHealth Section Award and the Basu U.S. Early Career Award for Research Excellence in Sun-Earth Systems Science.