A series of awards and Medals have been presented during the last EGU General Assembly 2010 in Vienna in recognition of outstanding academic performance and scientific excellence in the Earth and Planetary sciences.
UNION AWARDS
Arthur Holmes Medal: Roland von Huene
In addition to being made an Honorary Member of the EGU, Roland von Huene has been awarded the Arthur Holmes Medal for gaining extraordinary international standing in solid earth geosciences. He is a world-class leader in the collection of observational data and has led fundamental new research on the quantification of geological processes such as subduction zones.
Alfred Wegener Medal: Jean-Yves Parlange
In addition to being made an Honorary Member of the EGU, Jean-Yves Parlange has been awarded the Alfred Wegener Medal for his lifetime achievements in fundamentally improving the understanding and description of geophysical aspects of transport in porous media. Many of Parlange’s collaborators comment on his fine personality, great enthusiasm and inspiring expertise. Parlange’s outstanding contributions and his tireless dedication to scholarship and teaching put him at the very top of his profession.
Jean Dominique Cassini Medal: Gerhard Haerendel
In addition to being made an Honorary Member of the EGU, Gerhard Haerendel has been awarded the Jean Dominique Cassini Medal for his indispensable and prominent role in the European exploration of space. Haerendel has held many prominent scientific positions and has more than thirty years of experience in space research, being a principal investigator of several international rocket and satellite projects.
Alexander von Humboldt Medal: Carlos A. Nobre
The Alexander von Humboldt Medal, reserved for outstanding scientists from developing countries, has been awarded to Carlos A. Nobre. He plays a prominent role in Amazonian rainforest research, focusing much of his attention on biosphere-atmosphere interactions. Nobre is one of the most respected and influential South American scientists in atmospheric sciences.
EGU Service Award: Jelle Bijma
Each year the EGU presents a unique award in recognition of an individual’s outstanding service and exceptional efforts in the promotion, growth and running of the Union. This year the EGU wishes to pay tribute to Jelle Bijma, who served as the President of the division on Biogeosciences from 2004-2009 and has been the editor of the EGU open access journal “ Biogeosciences” since 2004, as well as serving on the EGU Outreach Committee.
OUTSTANDING YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARDS
Valerio Lucarini
Valerio Lucarini has been awarded the Outstanding Young Scientist Award for his influential contributions to many facets of meteorology. The 33-year-old Professor is already the author of more than thirty peer-reviewed articles, published in journals ranging from highly theoretical one, those devoted to applying theory and numerical modelling to climate and meteorology, to those concerned with very practical applications. Lucarini already enjoys an international reputation, collaborating with many well-known scientists.
Jasper Vrugt
The 2010 Outstanding Young Scientist Award has been awarded to Jasper Vrugt in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the field of hydrology. The ability to make hydrological predictions in the context of global change is one of the biggest challenges the hydrology science is facing today and Jasper Vrugt’s research on model development, diagnostics and improvement is devoted to this challenge. His accomplishments rank him among the most insightful and influential scientists of his generation.
Alexander Barth
In recognition of his already impressive resume, the 31-year-old Alexander Barth received this year’s Outstanding Young Scientist Award for his fundamental improvements to data assimilation. He is continually working on new techniques for the improvement of data assimilation. His scientific ideas have lead to an impressive number of presentations and publications in peer-reviewed journals.
YOUNG SCIENTIST OUTSTANDING POSTER PAPER AWARDS
YSOPP laureate for the ERE Division: Alfonso José Lag Brotons
DIVISION MEDALS
Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal: Akio Arakawa
The 2010 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal has been awarded to Akio Arakawa in recognition of his pioneering and fundamental contributions to atmospheric and oceanic modelling. With his innovative representations and discretisation techniques for airflow and convective clouds, he took the modelling business one step forward.
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal: Donald Canfield
The 2010 Vernadsky Medal has been awarded to Donald Canfield for his outstanding contributions to biogeochemistry, encompassing the Earth as a whole in the perspective of the entire expanse of geological time.
Milutin Milankovic Medal: James D. Hays
The Milutin Milankovitch Medal has been awarded to James D. Hays for his pioneering, fundamental and continuous work on the reconstruction of Cenozoic climates and for his Science 1976 seminal paper on the astronomical theory of palaeoclimates.
Hans Oeschger Medal: Françoise Gasse
The Hans Oeschger Medal has been awarded to Françoise Gasse for her contribution to the reconstruction of climate variability during the Holocene from continental archives and for providing a better understanding of climate mechanisms involved during this period.
Louis Agassiz Medal: Hajo Eicken
The Louis Agassiz Medal has been awarded to Hajo Eicken for his outstanding contribution to the study of the physical and biological properties of sea ice through a combination of novel experimental techniques and theory.
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal: Mark S. Ghiorso
Mark S. Ghiorso has been awarded the 2010 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal for his outstanding contribution in the field of multi-component silicate melt thermodynamics. His state-of-the-art computational resources are used worldwide by many scientists in the fields of petrochemistry and volcanology.
Vening Meinesz: Philip Woodworth
The 2010 Vening Meinesz Medal has been awarded to Philip Woodworth in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of geodesy. His extensive work on sea level variations serves as the foundation for many research opportunities. He is THE expert in the world on the topic of “historical” sea level variations.
Augustus Love Medal: Philip England
The Augustus Love Medal has been awarded to Philip England for his outstanding contributions to the field of large-scale continental deformation. His method of using applied mathematics in model mountain building became a standard one for many other geoscientists.
Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal: Friedhelm von Blanckenburg
The Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal has been awarded to Friedhelm von Blanckenburg for the innovative nature and breadth of his geomorphological studies using cosmogenic isotopes.
Christian Huygens Medal: Jean-Loup Bertaux
The EGU has awarded the 2010 Christian Huygens Medal to Jean-Loup Bertaux for his significant and innovative achievements in the development of space-borne spectrometers and related instrumentation for investigating the atmospheres of planets and interplanetary medium.
John Dalton Medal: Martinus Th. van Genuchten
The John Dalton medal has been awarded to Martinus Th. van Genuchten for outstanding contributions to the understanding of flow and transport processes in the unsaturated zone. Van Genuchten’s contributions have impacted the soil and hydrology professions in major ways throughout the world.
Petrus Peregrinus Medal: Jean-Pierre Valet
The Petrus Peregrinus Medal has been awarded to Jean-Pierre Valet for his outstanding contribution to palaeomagnetic data acquisition from sediments and lavas, which is essential for interpretation of palaeosecular, excursional and transitional regimes of the Earth’s magnetic field over the last millions of years.
Plinius Medal: Ira Didenkulova
The Plinius Medal has been awarded to Ira Didenkulova in recognition of her outstanding contributions to solve complex problems of oceanography and coastal engineering by applying nonlinear wave theory to marine natural hazards, including tsunamis, freak waves and storm waves.
Sergey Soloviev Medal: David Keefer
The 2010 Sergey Soloviev Medal has been awarded to David Keefer for his major scientific contribution to our understanding of the complex system of earthquake-induced landslides and for his innovative methods to assess landslide hazards.
Lewis Fry Richardson Medal: Klaus Fraedrich
The Lewis Fry Richardson Medal has been awarded to Klaus Fraedrich for diverse and lasting contributions to the applications of non-linear and stochastic concepts and methods to the atmospheric and oceanic sciences, and for the development of highly valuable modelling suites of broad use and easy access.
Fridtjof Nansen Medal: Michael J. McPhaden
Michael J. McPhaden has been awarded the Fridtjof Nansen Medal for his leadership in developing ocean observing systems for climate research and forecasting and for fundamental contributions to our understanding of the ocean’s role in climate.
David Bates Medal: Thérèse Encrenaz
Thérèse Encrenaz has been awarded the David Bates Medal for her outstanding work in Atmospheric Physics, Planetary Sciences, Infrared Molecular Spectroscopy, as well as for her editorial tasks and services for the planetary and space science community.
Runcorn-Florensky Medal: James W. Head III
James W. Head III has been awrded the Runcorn-Florensky Medal for his outstanding work on volcanism and tectonism in planetary sciences and for developing remarkable US-European research collaborations in Earth and planetary sciences.
Louis Néel Medal: Teng-fong Wong
The Louis Néel Medal has been awarded to Teng-fong Wong for his outstanding contributions in rock mechanics and his efforts to promote scientific exchange in the fields of rock mechanics and rock physics.
Beno Gutenberg Medal: Jean Paul Montagner
The Beno Gutenberg Medal has been awarded to Jean Paul Montagner for his influential contributions to the study of seismic anisotropy in the earth’s mantle and for his services to global seismology.
Philippe Duchaufour Medal: Georges Stoops
The Philippe Duchaufour Medal has been awarded to Georges Stoops for his internationally recognised achievements in the field of soil science, with special emphasis on his contributions to soil micromorphology and for the promotion of soil education and research in developing countries.
Julius Bartels Medal: Karl-Heinz Glassmeier
The Julius Bartels Medal has been awarded to Karl-Heinz Glassmeier for his versatile contributions to the field of solar-terrestrial sciences. He is one of the few scientists worldwide who have worked in all of the sub-fields of geomagnetism, from ground to space, and thus can be called a true ‘Geomagnetiker’ in the sense of Bartels. His work on magnetic pulsations on Earth and in the magnetospheres of other planets, on magnetic induction below the surface of Earth and other planets, his cometary research and his work on paleo-magnetospheres has received worldwide recognition.
Hannes Alfvén Medal: Donald Farley
The Hannes Alfvén Medal has been awarded to Donald Farley for his pioneering work on the theory of incoherent scattering of radio waves in plasma and the application of incoherent scattering to the study of the ionosphere.
Jean Baptiste Lamarck medal: Felix Gradstein
The Jean Baptiste Lamarck medal has been awarded to Felix Gradstein for his outstanding research in stratigraphy, micropalaeontology and geochronology. He is renowned for coordinating the development of the international geological time scale: over the last 25 years, Gradstein et al.’s Time Scales and most recently the 2004 “Geologic Time Scale” (GTS2004) have become a ubiquitous “gold standard” for all Earth Scientists.
Stephan Mueller Medal: Seth Stein
The 2010 Stephan Mueller Medal has been awarded to Seth Stein in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the study of the kinematics and dynamics of plate boundaries and plate interiors based on innovative applications of seismology and space-geodesy, and for his role in establishing the first Plate Boundary Observatory.
Henry Darcy medal: Renzo Rosso
The Henry Darcy medal has been awarded to Renzo Rosso for his fundamental contributions to hydrology and water resources management. His research has led to better risk assessment and useful hydrological models.
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