Medal and Award Recipients — Historical List

Union Medals • Union Awards • Section and Focus Group Awards

Union Medals

Bowie • Macelwane • Smith • Fleming • Bucher • Ewing • Hess • Horton • Lehmann • Whitten • Revelle

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William Bowie Medalists

William Bowie 1939 A.E. Ringwood 1974
Arthur Louis Day 1940 Edward Bullard 1975
John Adam Fleming 1941 Jule G. Charney 1976
Nicholas Hunter Heck 1942 James A. Van Allen 1977
Oscar Edward Meinzer 1943 Helmut E. Landsberg 1978
Henry Bryant Bigelow 1944 Frank Press 1979
Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes 1945 Charles A. Whitten 1980
Reginald Aldworth Daly 1946 Herbert Friedman 1981
Felix Andries Vening Meinesz 1947 Henry M. Stommel 1982
James Bernard Macelwane 1948 Syun-iti Akimoto 1983
Walter Davis Lambert 1949 Marcel Nicolet 1984
Leason Heberling Adams 1950 H. William Menard 1985
Harald Ulrik Sverdrup 1951 James C. I. Dooge 1986
Harold Jeffreys 1952 Robert N. Clayton 1987
Beno Gutenberg 1953 Hannes Alfven 1988
Richard Montgomery Field 1954 Walter H. Munk 1989
Walter Hermann Bucher 1955 Eugene N. Parker 1990
Weikko Aleksanteri Heiskanen 1956 Don L. Anderson 1991
William Maurice Ewing 1957 Alfred O. Nier 1992
Johannes Theodoor Thijsse 1958 Irwin I. Shapiro 1993
Walter M. Elsasser 1959 Peter S. Eagleson 1994
Francis Birch 1960 Claude Allégre 1995
Keith Edward Bullen 1961 Eugene Shoemaker 1996
Sydney Chapman 1962 Raymond Hide 1997
Merle Antony Tuve 1963 Richard M. Goody 1998
Julius Bartels 1964 J. Freeman Gilbert 1999
Hugo Benioff 1965 John A. Simpson 2000
Louis B. Slichter 1966 Dan McKenzie 2001
Lloyd V. Berkner 1967 Adam M. Dziewonski 2002
Roger Revelle 1968 Donald L. Turcotte 2003
Walter B. Langbein 1969 Keiiti Aki 2004
Bernhard Haurwitz 1970 Johannes Geiss 2005
Inge Lehmann 1971 Carl Wunsch 2006
Carl Eckart 1972 Susan Solomon 2007
George P. Woollard 1973 Gerald J. Wasserburg 2008

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James B. Macelwane Medalists

James N. Brune 1962 Steven M. Gorelick 1990
Alexander J. Dessler 1963 Paul Segall 1990
Klaus F. Hasselmann 1964 Thomas A. Herring 1991
Gordon J.F. MacDonald 1965 Roderic L. Jones 1991
Don L. Anderson 1966 Thorne Lay 1991
Manik Talwani 1967 Eric Kunze 1992
Michael B. McElroy 1968 David G. Sibeck 1992
Richard S. Lindzen 1969 Terry C. Wallace 1992
Lynn R. Sykes 1970 Michael Gurnis 1993
Carl I. Wunsch 1971 David J. McComas 1993
John Michael Wallace 1972 Margaret A. Tolbert 1993
R. Allan Freeze 1973 Jeremy Bloxham 1994
Amos M. Nur 1974 Daniel J. Jacob 1994
Dan McKenzie 1975 John E. Vidale 1994
Vytenis M. Vasyliunas 1975 Stephen Fuselier 1995
Gerald Schubert 1975 Jonathan I. Lunine 1995
John S. Lewis 1976 Jason Phipps Morgan 1995
Kurt Lambeck 1976 David Bercovici 1996
Robert L. Parker 1976 Dara Entekhabi 1996
Paul G. Richards 1977 David Roy Hanson 1996
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe 1977 Edouard Bard 1997
Christopher T. Russell 1977 Marc Parlange 1997
John M. Edmond 1978 Robert van der Hilst 1997
Thomas E. Holzer 1978 Tuija I. Pulkkinen 1998
Ralph J. Cicerone 1979 Lars P. Stixrude 1998
Michael C. Kelley 1979 Jeroen Tromp 1999
R. Keith O'Nions 1979 Rainer Hollerbach 1999
Lawrence Grossman 1980 Kenneth A. Farley 1999
Thomas Westfall Hill 1980 Scott Doney 2000
Norman H. Sleep 1980 Erik Hauri 2000
Ronald G. Prinn 1981 Quentin Williams 2000
David J. Southwood 1981 Vassilis Angelopoulos 2001
Donald J. Weidner 1981 Daniel P. Schrag 2001
Rafael Luis Bras 1982 Azadeh Tabazadeh 2001
Donald W. Forsyth 1982 George Katul 2002
Steven C. Wofsy 1982 John M. Eiler 2002
William L. Chameides 1983 Michael Manga 2002
Donald J. DePaolo 1983 Kurt M. Cuffey 2003
Thomas H. Jordan 1983 Guido Salvucci 2003
Mary K. Hudson 1984 Lianxing Wen 2003
Raymond Jeanloz 1984 Robin M. Canup 2004
John H. Woodhouse 1984 Daniel Sigman 2004
William H. Matthaeus 1985 David W. J. Thompson 2004
Susan Solomon 1985 Paul Asimow 2005
John M. Wahr 1985 A. Hope Jahren 2005
Bradford H. Hager 1986 James T. Randerson 2005
Edward M. Stolper 1986 Daniel J. Frost 2006
Robert A. Weller 1986 Jerry Goldstein 2006
J. Leslie Smith 1987 Jun Korenaga 2006
Toshio Terasawa 1987 Amy C. Clement 2007
Mary Lou Zoback 1987 Jeanne Hardebeck 2007
Douglas R. MacAyeal 1988 Francis Nimmo 2007
Marcia McNutt 1988 James Badro 2008
Kevin B. Quest 1988 Emily E. Brodsky 2008
Richard G. Gordon 1989 Diane E. Pataki 2008
Seth A. Stein 1989
William R. Young 1989
Ellen M. Druffel 1990

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Waldo E. Smith Medalists

Waldo E. Smith 1983
Thomas F. Malone 1986
Philip H. Abelson 1988
Naoshi Fukushima 1990
Earl G. Droessler 1992
Cecil H. Green 1994
Ned Ostenso 1996
Margaret A. Shea 1998
Rosina Bierbaum 2000
Ivan I. Mueller 2002
J. Michael Hall 2004
John A. Knauss 2006
Harsh K. Gupta 2008

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John Adam Fleming Medalists

Lloyd V. Berkner 1962 Donald A. Gurnett 1989
James A. Van Allen 1963 Kenneth M. Creer 1990
Edward O. Hulburt 1964 James W. Dungey 1991
Norman F. Ness 1965 Stanislav I. Braginsky 1992
Scott E. Forbush 1966 Alexander J. Dessler 1993
Ernest Henry Vestine 1967 John A. Jacobs 1994
Eugene N. Parker 1968 Alexander Dalgarno 1995
Allan Verne Cox 1969 Neil Opdyke 1996
Joseph Kaplan 1970 Jean-Louis LeMouel 1997
Walter M. Elsasser 1971 Donald M. Hunten 1998
William Ian Axford 1972 Paul H. Roberts 1999
Victor Vacquier 1973 John T. Gosling 2000
Carl E. McIlwain 1975 Martin A. Uman 2001
Francis S. Johnson 1977 Ronald T. Merrill 2002
Syun-Ichi Akasofu 1979 Christopher T. Russell 2003
Thomas M. Donahue 1981 David Gubbins 2004
S. Keith Runcorn 1983 Margaret Kivelson 2005
William B. Hanson 1985 Subir K. Banerjee 2006
George E. Backus 1986 Janet G. Luhmann 2007
David R. Bates 1987 Robert L. Parker 2008
Michael W. McElhinny 1988

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Walter H. Bucher Medalists

J. Tuzo Wilson 1968 William F. Brace 1987
James Gilluly 1969 Arthur H. Lachenbruch 1989
David T. Griggs 1970 Seiya Uyeda 1991
Robert S. Dietz 1971 Aleksey N. Khramov 1993
William Jason Morgan 1972 Patrick Hurley 1995
Maurice Ewing 1974 Hiroo Kanamori 1996
Lynn Sykes 1975 Norman H. Sleep 1998
Bruce C. Heezen 1977 James H. Dieterich 2000
Edward Irving 1979 Stuart Ross Taylor 2002
Jack E. Oliver 1981 Mervyn S. Paterson 2004
John W. Handin 1983 E. Bruce Watson 2006
John G. Sclater 1985 Mark D. Zoback 2008

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Maurice Ewing Medalists

Walter H. Munk 1976 Kirk Bryan 1993
Henry Stommel 1977 John A. Orcutt 1994
Edward Bullard 1978 Jean-Guy Schilling 1995
Wallace Smith Broecker 1979 Walter C. Pitman III 1996
J. Tuzo Wilson 1980 Karl K. Turekian 1997
Manik Talwani 1981 Richard P. Von Herzen 1998
John I. Ewing 1982 Arnold L. Gordon 1999
Fred Noel Spiess 1983 Joseph L. Reid 2000
Xavier Le Pichon 1984 Richard G. Fairbanks 2001
Kenneth O. Emery 1985 Nicholas Shackleton 2002
John Imbrie 1986 Gerard C. Bond 2003
William Jason Morgan 1987 Bruce A. Warren 2004
Wolfgang H. Berger 1988 Francois M. M. Morel 2005
Klaus Wyrtki 1989 G. Michael Purdy 2006
Carl I. Wunsch 1990 Marcia Kemper McNutt 2007
Charles David Keeling 1991 Miriam Kastner 2008
Charles S. Cox 1992

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Robert E. Horton Medalists

Walter B. Langbein 1976 Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe 1998
Harold A. Thomas, Jr. 1978 Wilfried H. Brutsaert 1999
William C. Ackermann 1980 M. Gordon Wolman 2000
John R. Philip 1982 Donald R. Nielsen 2001
Charles V. Theis 1984 Jean-Yves Parlange 2002
Abel Wolman 1986 Shlomo P. Neuman 2003
Peter S. Eagleson 1988 Garrison Sposito 2004
Paul A. Witherspoon 1990 Gedeon Dagan 2005
Luna B. Leopold 1992 Thomas Schmugge 2006
Mikhail I. Budyko 1994 Rafael L. Bras 2007
Don Kirkham 1995 Vijay K. Gupta 2008
Mark Meier 1996
John D. Bredehoeft 1997

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Harry H. Hess Medalists

Gerald J. Wasserburg 1985 Ikuo Kushiro 1999
Julian R. Goldsmith 1987 Albrecht W. Hofmann 2001
A.G.W. Cameron 1989 Gerald Schubert 2002
George W. Wetherill 1991 David L. Kohlstedt 2003
Alfred E. Ringwood 1993 Adolphe Nicolas 2004
Edward Anders 1995 Sean C. Solomon 2005
Thomas J. Ahrens 1996 Alexandra Navrotsky 2006
Stanley Hart 1997 Michael John O'Hara 2007
David J. Stevenson 1998 H. Jay Melosh 2008

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Charles A. Whitten Medalists

Charles A. Whitten 1985
William M. Kaula 1987
James C. Savage 1989
Irwin I. Shapiro 1991
Kurt Lambeck 1993
Donald Turcotte 1995
Gordon Pettengill 1997
Richard I. Walcott 1999
Byron D. Tapley 2001
Wayne Thatcher 2004
John M. Wahr 2006
Charles C. Counselman III 2008

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Roger Revelle Medalists

Edward N. Lorenz 1992 James R. Holton 2000
Syukuro Manabe 1993 James Hansen 2001
F. Sherwood Rowland 1994 Ralph J. Cicerone 2002
Wallace Broecker 1995 Jean Jouzel 2003
Robert E. Dickinson 1996 Inez Fung 2004
Hans A. Oeschger 1997 John E. Kutzbach 2006
Harold S. Johnston 1998 Richard B. Alley 2007
John Michael Wallace 1999 Michael L. Bender 2008

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Inge Lehmann Medalists

Donald Helmberger 1997
Richard J. O'Connell 2000
John H. Woodhouse 2001
Francis A. Dahlen, Jr. 2003
Thomas H. Jordan 2005
Ho-Kwang Mao 2007



Union Awards

Flinn • International • Education • Cowen • Sullivan • Perlman • Spilhaus • Falkenberg

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Edward A. Flinn III Awardees

 
Robert Watson 1991 Vinod K. Gaur 2001
William Quaide 1992 Daniel F. Weill 2002
William J. Best 1993 Robert H. Higgs 2003
Richard A. Carrigan 1994 Joseph H. King 2004
Vládimír Cermák 1995 Yvon Balut 2005
Raymond G. Walker 1996 Pembroke J. Hart 2006
Jack Fellows 1997 Diane Wickland 2007
Robert W. Corell 1998 Judy C. Holoviak 2008
John W. Townsend, Jr. 1999 Jay S. Fein 2009
Juan Roederer 2000

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Excellence in Geophysical Education Awardees

Robert D. Ballard 1997
Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience (SAGE) Program 1998
George M. Hornberger 1999
David Mogk 2000
Dorothy L. Stout 2001
Hall of Planet Earth (HoPE) 2002
Jacob Bear 2003
Cathryn Manduca 2004
Uppugunduri Aswathanarayana 2005
Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training (COMET) Program 2006
Michael Mayhew 2007
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program 2008
Kim Anne Kastens 2009

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International Awardees

Uppugunduri Aswathanarayana 2007
Laike Mariam Asfaw 2008
Alik Ismail-Zadeh 2009

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AGU Awardees for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism

Richard Kerr 1993
David Perlman 1997

Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism

Robert C. Cowen 2001
Paula S. Apsell 2004
Tom Siegfried 2006
J. Kelly Beatty 2009

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Walter Sullivan Awardees for Excellence in Science Journalism

Walter Sullivan 1989 Robert Lee Hotz 1995
Joel Achenbach 1990 Michael Parfit 1996
Eugene Linden 1991 Jon Krakauer 1997
Cory Dean 1992 Kevin Krajick 1998
John McPhee 1993 David Sington 1999
Robert Kunzig 1994

Walter Sullivan Awardees for Excellence in Science Journalism - Features

Alexandra Witze 2000
Richard Stone 2001
Diane C. Tennant 2002
Patric Senson 2003
James Handman 2003
Kevin Krajick 2004
Tim Appenzeller 2005
Michelle Nijhuis 2006
Kenneth R. Weiss and Usha Lee McFarling 2007
Richard Smith 2008
Jim Lebans, Jim Handman, Zerah Lurie and
Bob McDonald		 2009

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David Perlman Awardees for Excellence in Science Journalism - News

Richard L. Hill 2000
Glennda Chui 2001
Richard Monastersky 2002
Charles Petit 2003
J. Madeleine Nash 2004
Jeffrey Kluger 2005
Dan Vergano 2006
Betsy Mason 2007
Margaret Munro 2008

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Athelstan Spilhaus Awardees

Robert H. Eather 2006
Patricia Hofer Reiff 2009

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Charles S. Falkenberg Awardees

Charles S. Falkenberg 2002
Jeff de La Beaujardiere 2003
George Tselioudis 2004
Dave Jones 2006
Daniel E. Irwin 2008



Section and Focus Group Awards

Hydrologic Sciences • VGP • Ocean Sciences • Ocean Sciences Early Career Award • Planetary Sciences • Atmospheric Sciences • Cryosphere • Geodesy • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism • Nonlinear Geophysics • Seismology • Space Physics and Aeronomy

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Hydrologic Sciences Awardees

Known as the Robert E. Horton Awardees until May 27, 1998.

Charles L. Hosler 1956 David L. Schrieber 1976
C. Robert Hosler 1956 Eric F. Wood 1977
W.J. Kaufman 1957 Hsieh W. Shen 1978
G.T. Orlob 1957 Peter S. Eagleson 1979
John R. Philip 1958 Samuel C. Colbeck 1980
Daniel A. deVries 1958 Rafael L. Bras 1981
W.B. Langbein 1959 Lynn W. Gelhar 1982
S.A. Schum 1959 David A. Woolhiser 1983
J.C.I. Dooge 1960 Gedeon Dagan 1984
Francis A. Kohout 1961 John A. Cherry 1985
J. Weertman 1962 Roger E. Smith 1986
I.G. Donaldson 1963 Thomas Dunne 1987
Andrew E. Reisenauer 1964 Wilfried Brutsaert 1988
Floyd A. Huff 1965 William W.G. Yeh 1989
Stanley A. Changnon, Jr 1965 Garrison Sposito 1990
James R. Wallis 1966 Keith John Beven 1991
C.H.M. van Bavel 1967 Fred J. Molz III 1992
N.C. Matalas 1968 George Hornberger 1993
G.F. Pinder. 1969 Ghislain de Marsily 1994
John D. Bredehoeft 1969 William E. Dietrich 1995
S.P. Neuman 1970 Richard B. Alley 1996
P.A. Witherspoon 1970 Jean-Yves Parlange 1997
R. Allan Freeze 1971 Roni Avissar 1998
James Banner 1971 Andrea Rinaldo 1999
Chih Ted Yang 1972 Dennis P. Lettenmaier 2000
R. Allan Freeze 1973 W. James Shuttleworth 2001
J. Amorocho 1974 Thomas J. Jackson 2003
B. Espildora 1974 Yoram Rubin 2004
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe 1975 Michael A. Celia 2005
Jose M. Mejia 1975 John L. Wilson 2006
Roland W. Jeppson 1976 Efi Foufoula-Georgiou 2007
Walter J. Rawls 1976 Desmond E. Walling 2008
Russel Hamon 1976

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Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology Section
N.L. Bowen Awardees

Richard A. Yund 1981 Frank M. Richter 1995
T.N. Irvine 1982 Charles H. Langmuir 1996
Lionel Wilson 1983 Frank S. Spear 1997
Robert C. Newton 1984 Alexander Halliday 1998
Michael J. O'Hara 1984 Charles R. Bacon 1999
Richard V. Fisher 1985 Francis Albarede 2000
Edward Wesley Hildreth 1985 Alfred T. Anderson, Jr. 2001
H.U. Schmincke 1985 William I. Rose 2002
Ian S.E. Carmichael 1986 John W. Valley 2003
Fred A. Frey 1986 Peter B. Kelemen 2004
John Barry Dawson 1987 Robert J. Bodnar 2005
S. Ross Taylor 1988 Paul R. Renne 2005
Alexander R. McBirney 1990 Roberta Rudnick 2006
Eric Essene 1991 Katharine Cashman 2006
Robert O. Fournier 1991 Eiji Ohtani 2007
Bruce D. Marsh 1993 Hugh O'Neill 2007
Timothy L. Grove 1993 Rick Carlson 2008
Alan Bruce Thompson 1994
Harry W. Green II 1994
T. Mark Harrison 1995

Hisashi Kuno Awardees

Cin-Ty Lee 2008

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Ocean Sciences Section Awardees

Eugene C. LaFond 1982 Neil R. Andersen 1994
Richard C. Vetter 1983 Robert Heinmiller 1995
Robert E. Wall. 1983 Mary Hope Katsouros 1996
Feenan D. Jennings 1984 Donald F. Heinrichs 1996
Wayne V. Burt 1984 Polly A. Penhale 1997
W. Stanley Wilson 1984 Richard B. Lambert, Jr. 1999
Curtis A. Collins 1985 Thomas Kinder 2002
J. Michael Hall 1986 Bilal Haq 2004
Gordon R. Hamilton 1987 Worth D. Nowlin, Jr. 2006
John A. Knauss 1988 H. Lawrence Clark 2008
Nicholas Paul Fofonoff 1989
Ned A. Ostenso 1992

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Ocean Sciences Early Career Awardees

Craig Carlson 2002 Claudia Benitez-Nelson 2006
Adina Paytan 2004 Kelly Benoít-Bird 2008
Andreas Schmittner 2006    

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Planetary Sciences Section
Whipple Awardees

Fred L. Whipple 1990
Eugene M. Shoemaker 1993
David J. Stevenson 1994
Gordon H. Pettengill 1995
John B. Adams 1998
Bruce Murray 1999
Thomas B. McCord 2002
John A. Wood 2004
John T. Wasson 2005
Raymond E. Arvidson 2007
Roger Phillips 2008

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Atmospheric Sciences Section
James R. Holton Junior Scientist Awardees

Tapio Schneider 2004
Arlene Fiore 2005
Noah Diffenbaugh 2006
Alfonso Saiz-Lopez 2007
Courtenay Strong 2008

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Atmospheric Sciences Section
Yoram J. Kaufman Unselfish Cooperation in Research Award

Ralph A. Kahn 2009
Ross J. Salawitch 2009

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Cryosphere Focus Group
Young Investigator Awardees

Alan Rempel 2005
Ian Howat 2007
Jessica Lundquist 2008

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Geodesy Section Award

Kristine Larson 2005
R. Steven Nerem 2006
Mark E. Tamisiea 2007
Don P. Chambers 2008

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Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Section
William Gilbert Awardees

Subir K. Banerjee 2003
Andrew Jackson 2004
James E. T. Channell 2005
Richard Harrison 2006
Robert S. Coe 2007
France Lagroix 2008

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Nonlinear Geophysics Focus Group
Donald L. Turcotte Awardees

Irina Rypina 2008

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Seismology Section
Keiiti Aki Young Scientist Award

David R. Shelly 2008

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Space Physics and Aeronomy Section
Sunanda and Santimay Basu Early Career
Award in Sun-Earth Systems Science Recipients

Yao Chen 2008