Meredith Plumley will receive the 2018 Donald L. Turcotte Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2018, to be held 10–14 December in Washington, D. C. This award is given annually to a recent Ph.D. recipient for “outstanding dissertation research that contributes directly to nonlinear geophysics.”
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Celebrating the 2018 Class of Fellows
AGU President-elect Robin Bell will present the newly elected class at the upcoming AGU Fall Meeting.
Jones Receives 2018 Gilbert F. White Award
Lucile Jones will be awarded the 2018 Gilbert F. White Award. She will be formally presented with the award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2018, to be held 10–14 December in Washington, D. C. This award is given in recognition of original contributions to the basic knowledge of natural hazards and/or disaster risks.
Brooks Receives 2018 Natural Hazards Section Award for Graduate Research
Edward Brooks will be awarded the 2018 Natural Hazards Section Award for Graduate Research. He will be formally presented with the award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2018, to be held 10–14 December in Washington, D. C. The award recognizes “one or more promising young scientists engaged in studies of natural hazards and risks” and is given “in recognition of outstanding contributions achieved during their Ph.D. (or highest equivalent terminal degree) research.”
O’Bannon, Posner, and Solomatova Receive 2018 Mineral and Rock Physics Graduate Research Award
Earl O’Bannon, Esther Posner, and Natalia Solomatova will receive the 2018 Mineral and Rock Physics Graduate Research Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2018, to be held 10–14 December in Washington, D. C. This award is given annually to one or more promising young scientists for outstanding contributions achieved during their Ph.D. research.
Mao Receives 2018 Mineral and Rock Physics Early Career Award
Zhu Mao will receive the 2018 Mineral and Rock Physics Early Career Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2018, to be held 10–14 December in Washington, D. C. The award is given to early-career scientists “in recognition of outstanding contributions in the broadly defined area of mineral and rock physics.”
Scanlon Receives 2018 Hydrologic Sciences Award
Bridget Scanlon will receive the 2018 Hydrologic Sciences Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2018, to be held 10–14 December in Washington, D. C. The award is for “outstanding contributions to the science of hydrology.”
Wada Receives 2018 Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award
Yoshihide Wada will receive the 2018 Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2018, to be held 10–14 December in Washington, D. C. The award “acknowledges early career prominence and promise of continued contributions to hydrologic science.”
Reichstein Receives 2018 Piers J. Sellers Global Environmental Change Mid-Career Award
Markus Reichstein will receive the 2018 Piers J. Sellers Global Environmental Change Mid-Career Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2018, to be held 10–14 December in Washington, D. C. 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.”
Ban-Weiss, Chakrabarty, and Guan Receive 2018 Global Environmental Change Early Career Award
George Ban-Weiss, Rajan Chakrabarty, and Kaiyu Guan will receive the Global Environmental Change Early Career Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2018, to be held 10–14 December in Washington, D. C. 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 interdisciplinary approach.”