Elizabeth Cochran has made transformative scientific advances in earthquake early warning, induced seismicity, and fault zone structure, and she has provided outstanding service to science and society. Elizabeth’s pioneering approaches to earthquake ...

For transformative contributions to understanding permafrost carbon feedbacks, exceptional leadership in Arctic science, and outstanding commitment to integrating Indigenous Knowledge with Western science to inform climate policy. Dr. Susan Natali i...

Yoshihide Wada has redefined global hydrology for the Anthropocene through pioneering, quantitative modeling of the human footprint on the water cycle. Trained across political science, environmental studies, and global hydrology on three continents ...

Dr. Li Li is the Barry and Shirley Isett Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State University. She has pioneered the use of big data, machine learning and reactive transport models to deepen our understanding of Earth's surface ...

Dr. Jun Wang’s exceptional record of scholarship and service within the AGU community epitomizes the qualities recognized by the Joanne Simpson Medal. Since earning his Ph.D. in 2005, he has made groundbreaking contributions to advance satellite algo...

Dr. Nandita Basu is a professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Water Sustainability and Ecohydrology at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Basu is internationally renowned for her work to measure and model drivers of water quality degradatio...

Dalia began her research journey in the early 2000s when the possibility of having global and high-frequency observations of precipitation data was becoming very real with the planning of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission built on th...