Named Lectures
#AGU20 features 28 awards given by AGU sections to recognize distinguished scientists with proven leadership in their fields of science. Many consider these lectures to be a highlight of the Fall Meeting, a showcase of the breadth and depth of discovery and solution science that AGU members are spearheading.
Lecturers
Michael E. Mann
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
Stephen Schneider Memorial Lecture
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Benjamin D. Santer
Revisiting the IPCC’s “Discernible Human Influence” Finding: History and Lessons Learned
Bolin Lecture
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Rafael L. Bras
So Much Data and So Few Ways to Use It: The Era of Data Rich Hydrology
Walter B. Langbein Lecture
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V. Ramaswamy
Aerosols and their Gaming of the Climate System: Microscale presence to Macroscopic impacts
Jule Gregory Charney Lecture
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Sandra C. Chapman
Multiscale, Nonlinear Space Physics ‘In the Wild’: From Fundamental Physics to Quantifying Risk
Lorenz Lecture
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Christie D. Rowe
Walking the seismogenic zone: A field geology perspective on earthquakes
Birch Lecture
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Jaap Nienhuis
Testing morphodynamic theories by comparing and contrasting river deltas
Sharp Lecture
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Arnold L. Gordon
Tropical Ocean to Southern Ocean coupling: Indonesian Throughflow and Weddell Sea
Sverdrup Lecture
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L. Ruby Leung
A Quest to Understand and Model Regional Precipitation and Their Future Changes
Bjerknes Lecture
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Elisabeth Sikes
The Southern Ocean’s role in glacial cycles: Engine not caboose?
Emiliani Lecture
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Gordon B. Bonan
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Forests, Climate Change, and Our Future
Tyndall Lecture
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Augusto Neri
Modeling explosive eruption dynamics and hazards: achievements and future challenges
White Distinguished Lecture
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Erin Robinson
Putting Data to Work: Moving science forward together beyond where we thought possible!
Leptoukh Lecture
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Andrew P. Roberts
Mineral Magnetism: Some Surprises And Future Challenges
Bullard Lecture
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