AGU Names 2015 Section and Focus Group Awardees and Named Lecturers
By Eric Davidson, President-elect, American Geophysical Union (AGU) and Chair, AGU Council, and Sam Mukasa, Chair, 2015-2016 Honors and Recognition Committee
On behalf of AGU leaders and staff, we give our heartfelt congratulations to all of this year’s Section and Focus Group awardees and named lecturers.
Listed below are the scientists, in various stages of their careers, who have been selected by AGU sections and focus groups to receive awards in 2015. Also listed are those individuals chosen to present lectures under the annual Bowie Lecture Series as well as the Section and Focus Group Named Lecture Series. The Bowie Lecture was inaugurated in 1989 to commemorate the fiftieth presentation of the William Bowie Medal, which is named for AGU’s first president and is the highest honor given by AGU. The Bowie lecturers are denoted by asterisks. Named lecturers are designated by sections and focus groups to honor distinguished scientists in their respective fields of science.
We thank all Sections and Focus Groups for giving these recognitions to their well-deserving colleagues. These awardees/lecture recipients represent some of the most innovative minds in their fields. We recognize their continuing meritorious work and service towards the advancement and promotion of discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity.
We thank you and look forward to recognizing their achievements at the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting, to be held 14-18 December in San Francisco.
Atmospheric Sciences Section
Ascent Award
Andrew Gettelman, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Jiwan Fan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Allen Robinson, Carnegie Mellon University
Allison Steiner, University of Michigan
James R. Holton Junior Scientist Award
Chunsong Lu, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
Yoram J. Kaufman Unselfish Cooperation in Research Award
Brent Holben, NASA
Christos Zerefos, University of Athens
Bjerknes Lecture*
Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Charney Lecture*
Meinrat Andreae, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Atmospheric and Space Electricity Focus Group
Franklin Lecture
Paul Krehbiel, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Biogeosciences Section
Sulzman Award for Excellence in Education and Mentoring
Ruth Varner, University of New Hampshire
William and Carelyn Reeburgh Lecture
Gary King, Louisiana State University
Cryosphere Focus Group
Cryosphere Early Career Award
Sarah Kapnick, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Nye Lecture
Eric Rignot, University of California, Irvine
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Focus Group
G.K. Gilbert Award in Surface Processes
Robert Anderson, University of Colorado, Boulder
Luna B. Leopold Award
Vamsi Ganti, California Institute of Technology
Sharp Lecture
Vamsi Ganti, California Institute of Technology
Earth and Space Science Informatics Focus Group
Leptoukh Lecture
Dawn Wright, Environmental Systems Research Institute
Geodesy Section
Geodesy Section Award
Matt Pritchard, Cornell University
Ivan I. Mueller Award for Service and Leadership
Charles Meertens, UNAVCO
William Bowie Lecture*
Daniel Dzurisin, USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory
Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Section
William Gilbert Award
Michael Jackson, University of Minnesota
Bullard Lecture*
Steven Constable, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Global Environmental Change Focus Group
Schneider Lecture
Donald Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana
Tyndall Lecture
Julie Brigham-Grette, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Hydrology Section
Early Career Hydrologic Science Award
Tom Gleeson, University of Victoria
Horton Research Grant
Laura Stevens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emily Voytek, Colorado School of Mines
Adam Wlostowski, Colorado State University
Hydrologic Sciences Award
Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Langbein Lecture*
Tissa Illangasekare, Colorado School of Mines
Mineral and Rock Physics Focus Group
Mineral and Rock Physics Early Career Award
Nicolas Brantut, University College London
Mineral and Rock Physics Graduate Research Award
Yun-Yuan Chang, Academica Sinica
Zhang Dongzhou, California Institute of Technology
Natural Hazards Focus Group
Natural Hazards Focus Group Award for Graduate Research
Cheng Linyin, University of California, Irvine
Gilbert F. White Lecture
Susan Cutter, University of South Carolina
Nonlinear Geophysics Focus Group
Donald L. Turcotte Award
Behzad Ghanbarian-Alavijeh, University of Texas at Austin
Jezabel Curbelo, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Space Weather and Nonlinear Waves and Processes Prize
Gurbax Lakhina, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism
Lorenz Lecture
Shaun Lovejoy, McGill University
Ocean Sciences Section
Ocean Sciences Early Career Award
Angel White, Oregon State University
Ocean Sciences Award
Don Rice, National Science Foundation
Carson Lecture
Mary Jane Perry, University of Maine
Sverdup Lecture
Fiamma Straneo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Focus Group
Dansgaard Award
Adina Paytan, University of California, Santa Cruz
Planetary Sciences Section
Ronald Greeley Early Career Award in Planetary Science
Ian Garrick-Bethell, University of California, Santa Cruz
Whipple Award and Lecture
Alfred McEwen, University of Arizona
Sagan Lecture
John Asher Johnson, Harvard University
Shoemaker Lecture*
William Bottke, Southwest Research Institute
Seismology Section
Keiiti Aki Young Scientist Award
Sanne Cottar, University of Cambridge
Gutenberg Lecture*
Kazushige Obara, University of Tokyo
Space Physics and Aeronomy Section
Basu United States Early Career Award
Timothy Duly, University of Illinois at Urbana
Fred L. Scarf Award
Majd Matta, Boston University
Space Physics and Aeronomy Richard Carrington Education and Public Outreach Award
Charles Chappell, Vanderbilt University
Sunanda and Santimay Basu Early Career Award in Sun-Earth Systems Science
Chaowei Jiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Eugene Parker Lecture
Phil Scherrer, Stanford University
James Van Allen Lecture*
Michelle Thomsen, Planetary Institute Tucson
Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior Focus Group
Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior Graduate Research Award
Matt Weller, Rice University
Tectonophysics Section
Jason Morgan Early Career Award
Lijun Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana
Birch Lecture*
Kelin Wang, Geological Survey of Canada
Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology Section
Hisashi Kuno Award
Chris Huber, Georgia Institute of Technology
Norman L. Bowen Award and Lecture
Tom Sisson, United States Geological Survey
Daly Lecture*
Katharine Cashman, University of Bristol
Joint Award: Geodesy, Seismology, and Tectonophysics Sections
Paul G. Silver Award
Robert Smith, University of Utah
Joint Lecture: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology (PP) and Ocean Sciences (OS)
Emiliani Lecture
Alan Mix, Oregon State University
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