2020 Section Award & Lecture Recipients

2020 Section Awardees & Named Lectures

AGU Section Honors Overview

AGU sections recognize the outstanding work of individuals in their scientific discipline every year by hosting nearly 30 named lecture presentations and presenting more than 40 awards and prizes. Awardees are chosen for their meritorious work or service toward the advancement and promotion of Earth and space sciences. These individuals, in various career stages, represent some of the most innovative minds in their disciplines.

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Atmospheric and Space Electricity Section

Atmospheric and Space Electricity Early Career Award

Keri Nicoll

University of Reading

Atmospheric Sciences Section

Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award

Yafang Cheng

Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

Tracey Holloway

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Pavlos Kollias

Stony Brook University

Tristan S. L’Ecuyer

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Randall Martin

Washington University in Saint Louis

Future Horizons in Climate Science: Turco Lectureship

Elizabeth A. Barnes

Colorado State University

Jacob Bjerknes Lecture

L. Ruby Leung

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

James R. Holton Award

Alexander Turner

University of California, Berkeley

Megan D. Willis

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Jule Gregory Charney Lecture

Venkatachalam “Ram” Ramaswamy

NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Yoram J. Kaufman Outstanding Research and Unselfish Cooperation Award

Abdelwahid Mellouki

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

Biogeosciences Section

Sulzman Award for Excellence in Education and Mentoring

Nandita B. Basu

University of Waterloo

Thomas Hilker Early Career Award for Excellence in Biogeosciences

Kelly C. Wrighton

Colorado State University

Cryosphere Sciences Section

Cryosphere Early Career Award

Helene L. Seroussi

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

John F. Nye Lecture

Isabella Velicogna

University of California, Irvine

Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Section

G. K. Gilbert Award in Surface Processes

Suzanne P. Anderson

University of Colorado Boulder

Luna B. Leopold Young Scientist Award

Jaap Nienhuis

Utrecht University

Marguerite T. Williams Award

Jane K. Willenbring

Stanford University

Robert P. Sharp Lecture

Jaap Nienhuis

Utrecht University

Earth and Space Science Informatics Section

Greg Leptoukh Lecture

Erin Robinson

Foundation for Earth Science

Geodesy Section

John Wahr Early Career Award

John R. Elliott

University of Leeds

William Bowie Lecture

Maria T. Zuber

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism, and Electromagnetism Section Awards

Edward Bullard Lecture

Andrew P. Roberts

Australian National University

William Gilbert Award

Roger R. Fu

Harvard University

Global Environmental Change Section

Bert Bolin Global Environmental Change Award and Lecture

Benjamin D. Santer

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Global Environmental Change Early Career Award

Rebecca R. Hernandez

University of California, Davis

Nathan Mueller

Colorado State University

Ning Lin

Princeton University

Piers J. Sellers Global Environmental Change Mid-Career Award

Hong Liao

Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

Stephen Schneider Lecture

Michael E. Mann

Pennsylvania State University

Tyndall History of Global Environmental Change Lecture

Gordon B. Bonan

National Center for Atmospheric Research

Hydrology Section

Horton Research Grant

Molly R. Cain

Indiana University, Bloomington

Quincy Faber

University of Florida

Hyunglok Kim

University of Virginia

Hydrologic Sciences Award

James S. Famiglietti

Global Institute for Water Security

Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award

Simone Fatichi

National University of Singapore

Veronica L. Morales

University of California, Davis

Niko Wanders

Utrecht University

Paul A. Witherspoon Lecture

Giuliano Di Baldassarre

Uppsala University

Walter Langbein Lecture

Rafael L. Bras

Georgia Institute of Technology

Mineral and Rock Physics Section

John C. Jamieson Student Paper Award

Rajkrishna Dutta

Princeton University

Cara Vennari

University of California, Santa Cruz

Mineral and Rock Physics Early Career Award

Marco Maria Scuderi

Sapienza University of Rome

Mineral and Rock Physics Graduate Research Award

Martin Lesueur

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Francesca Miozzi

University of Milan

Leif Tokle

Brown University

Natural Hazards Section

Gilbert F. White Distinguished Award and Lecture

Augusto Neri

Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy

Natural Hazards Early Career Award

Ning Lin

Princeton University

Natural Hazards Section Award for Graduate Research

Elise Monsieurs

Royal Museum for Central Africa

Near-Surface Geophysics Section

GSSI Student Grant

Mackenzie Vecchio

Florida Atlantic University

Near-Surface Geophysics Early Career Achievement Award

Anja Klotzsche

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH

Nonlinear Geophysics Section

Donald L. Turcotte Award

Riddhi Bandyopadhyay

University of Delaware; currently at Princeton University

Ed Lorenz Lecture

Sandra C. Chapman

University of Warwick

Ocean Sciences Section

Harald Sverdrup Lecture

Arnold L. Gordon

Columbia University

Ocean Sciences Voyager Award

Galen A. McKinley

Columbia University and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Rachel Carson Lecture

Drew Harvell

Cornell University

William S. and Carelyn Y. Reeburgh Lecture

Dennis A. Hansell

University of Miami

Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Section

Harry Elderfield Student Paper Award

Weiqi Yao

University of Toronto

Nanne Weber Early Career Award

David De Vleeschouwer

MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences

Willi Dansgaard Award

James M. Russell

Brown University

Planetary Sciences Section

Eugene Shoemaker Lecture

Jack H. Waite Jr.

Southwest Research Institute

Fred Whipple Award and Lecture

Robert O. Pepin

University of Minnesota

Ronald Greeley Early Career Award in Planetary Sciences

Juan Manuel Lora

Yale University

Seismology Section

Beno Gutenberg Lecture

Malcolm Sambridge

Australian National University

Keiiti Aki Young Scientist Award

Weisen Shen

Stony Brook University

Space Physics and Aeronomy Section

Basu United States Early Career Award for Research in Sun–Earth Systems Science

Meghan Burleigh

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Fred L. Scarf Award

Parisa Mostafavi

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

James Van Allen Lecture

Robert L. McPherron

University of California, Los Angeles

Marcel Nicolet Lecture

Kristina A. Lynch

Dartmouth College

Space Physics and Aeronomy Richard Carrington Education and Public Outreach Award

Charles William Smith

University of New Hampshire

Sunanda and Santimay Basu International Early Career Award in Sun–Earth Systems Science