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Former AGU president and two AGU members honored by National Academy of Sciences
Marcia Neugebauer
AGU President (1994–1996)
Marcia Neugebauer, the first woman to serve as AGU President (1994–1996), and AGU members Sallie “Penny” Chisholm and Alan D. Howard have been chosen for awards by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of their extraordinary scientific achievements. They are among 17 individuals selected by NAS for awards in 2010.
Neugebauer, who's currently an adjunct research scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona, is the recipient of the Arctowski Medal for “definitively establishing the existence of the solar wind, critical to understanding the physics of the heliosphere, and for elucidating many of its key properties.” Neugebauer was also chosen earlier this month by the American Astronomical Society for the 2010 George Ellery Hale Prize.
Chisholm, the Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an AGU Fellow, is the recipient of the Alexander Agassiz medal in oceanography “for pioneering studies of the dominant photosynthetic organisms in the sea and for integrating her results into a new understanding of the global ocean.”
Howard, a professor in the department of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and the vice-chair of AGU's Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Focus Group, has won the G.K. Warren prize “for his seminal contributions on the theory of fluvial erosion, sedimentation, and landscape evolution.”
The awards will be presented at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. on April 25 during the NAS annual meeting.