The Geodesy Section Award is intended to honor young members (40 years of age or younger) of AGU's Geodesy Section who show the potential to become AGU Fellows in the future, but who are not yet Fellows. The Geodesy Section Award is given in recognition of major advances in geodesy. These advances can be in geodetic science, technology, applications, observations, or theory.

Type of award

The award will consist of an appropriate memento with a modest price which will be given to the awardee. The cost will be covered by the Geodesy Section funds.

Selection process

The Section President will distribute a request for nominations six months before the Fall AGU meeting each year (before the first of June).
Nominations should be forwarded to the President-Elect of the Section at least three months before the Fall AGU meeting each year (due date August 31). Nominations should include :

• a brief CV with list of significant publications
• a nominating statement not to exceed one page
• one supporting letter from someone reputable who knows well the nominee

The President-Elect will discuss nominations with the Fellows Committee, and the President-Elect and Fellows Committee will vote to select one candidate to receive the award. The result of the election must then be approved by the President of the Geodesy section. The awardee will be notified by the President three months prior to the Fall AGU meeting. The Geodesy Section members will be notified by email before the AGU meeting and invited to attend a brief ceremony at the reception-business meeting. The awardee will be honored and a certificate and memento will be presented at the reception-business meeting of the Section.

Past Awardees
 

Year	Awardees
2009	Shin-Chan Han <Shin-Chan.Hannasa.gov>, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (for innovative studies of satellite gravity measurements with wide-ranging applications to hydrology, seismology, and oceanography)
2008	Don Chambers <chamberscsr.utexas.edu>, University of Texas at Austin (for pioneering satellite geodetic investigations of global ocean circulation and sea level change)
2007	Mark Tamisiea <mtampol.ac.uk>, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (for bridging the solid Earth, geodesy, and sea level communities)
2006	R. Steven Nerem <neremcolorado.edu>, University of Colorado (for broad and significant contributions to satellite geodesy and its applications to planetary gravity studies, solid Earth physics, ocean dynamics, and related climate sciences)
2005	Kristine Larson <kristine.larsoncolorado.edu>, University of Colorado (for her innovative research into Global Positioning System techniques and their applications to a wide range of geophysical problems)