Suzanne A. McEnroe received the 2019 William Gilbert Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2019 Honors Ceremony, held 9–13 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes “outstanding and unselfish work in magnetism of Earth materials and of the Earth and planets.”
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Kumamoto and Thom Receive 2019 Mineral and Rock Physics Graduate Research Award
Kathryn M. Kumamoto and Christopher A. Thom received the 2019 Mineral and Rock Physics Graduate Research Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2019, held 9–13 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award is “presented annually to one or more promising young scientists and recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of mineral and rock physics achieved during the honoree’s Ph.D. research.”
Lobanov Receives 2019 Mineral and Rock Physics Early Career Award
Sergey S. Lobanov received the 2019 Mineral and Rock Physics Early Career Award at AGU‘s Fall Meeting 2019, held 9–13 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award is given to early-career scientists in recognition of “outstanding contributions by an early-career scientist in the broadly defined area of mineral and rock physics.”
Kustas Receives 2019 Hydrologic Sciences Award
William P. Kustas received the 2019 Hydrologic Sciences Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2019, held 9–13 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award is for “outstanding contributions to the science of hydrology.”
Konar, Long, and Madani Receive 2019 Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award
Megan Konar, Di Long, and Kaveh Madani received the Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2019, held 9–13 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes “scientists who demonstrate outstanding contributions to hydrologic sciences, education, or societal impacts and show exceptional promise of continued contributions to hydrology throughout their career.”
Keppel-Aleks, Swann, and Xu Receive 2019 Global Environmental Change Early Career Award
Gretchen Keppel-Aleks, Abigail L. S. Swann, and Yangyang Xu received the Global Environmental Change Early Career Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2019, held 9–13 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes an early-career scientist “for outstanding contributions in research, educational, or societal impacts in the area of global environmental change,” especially through an interdisciplinary approach.
Calvin Receives 2019 Piers J. Sellers Global Environmental Change Mid-Career Award
Katherine Calvin received the Piers J. Sellers Global Environmental Change Mid-Career Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2019, held 9–13 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes a scientist or team of midcareer scientists “for outstanding contributions in research, educational, or societal impacts in the area of global environmental change, especially through interdisciplinary approaches.”
Leung Receives 2019 Bert Bolin Global Environmental Change Award
L. Ruby Leung has been selected as the 2019 Bert Bolin awardee and lecturer of the AGU Global Environmental Change section. She received the award and presented this lecture at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2019, held 9–13 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes an Earth scientist for “groundbreaking research and/or leadership in global environmental change through cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research in the past 10 years.”