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Union Fellows Committee and Section Review Committees

 

Union Fellows Committee Members

Roberta L Rudnick 01 January 2022 - 31 December 2023

University of California Santa Barbara

Chair

Jim Best 01 January 2021 - 31 December 2023

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Member

Gabriel J Bowen 01 January 2021 - 31 December 2023

University of Utah

Member

Uri S ten Brink 01 January 2021 - 31 December 2023

USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole

Member

Rajdeep Dasgupta 01 January 2022 - 31 December 2023

Rice University

Member

Fabio Florindo 01 January 2022 - 31 December 2023

National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology

Member

Bo Qiu 01 January 2022 - 31 December 2023

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Member

Christian Schoof 01 January 2022 - 31 December 2023

University of British Columbia

Member

Aradhna Tripati 01 January 2022 - 31 December 2023

University of California Los Angeles

Member

Yan Zheng 01 January 2022 - 31 December 2023

Southern University of Science and Technology

Member

Committee charge and work plan

The Union Fellows Committee is charged with selecting from among the membership those individuals who should be honored with the designation of Fellow in recognition of their acknowledged eminence in Earth and space science. Committee members have the following responsibilities:

  • 1
    Annually selecting eminent Union Fellows, making sure that the number of Fellows each year does not exceed 0.1 percent of the total membership.
  • 2
    Determining policies and procedures to meet the committee charge in a manner consistent with AGU’s bylaws, values and other relevant policies and procedures.
  • 3
    Assuming responsibility for vetting candidates prior to the final selection and protecting the confidentiality of the newly-elected Fellows until appropriate time for announcement.
  • 4
    Providing feedback to section committees regarding promising nominations that are not successful in a given year.
  • 5
    Working with the Honors and Recognition Committee to recommend AGU-wide policies to enhance the effectiveness of the Fellows program.
  • 6
    Promoting excellence and transparency and allowing broad input and recognition beyond disciplinary awards.
  • 7
    Promoting diversity and commitment to equity to ensure that all awards are sufficiently representative of underrepresented groups.
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Section Fellows Review Committees

Every honor within AGU’s honors program, including Union awards, medals, and prizes, Fellows, and section honors, has a selection committee. The Fellows Program includes a multi-step review process. Each of AGU's 25 Sections has a review committee dedicated to reviewing Fellows nomination packages. Each of these committees is responsible for forwarding on the most qualified candidate(s) from their Section to the final selection committee for consideration. 

Committee name (by section)

Atmospheric and Space Electricity Fellows Committee

Atmospheric Sciences Fellows Committee

Biogeosciences Fellows Committee

Cryosphere Sciences Fellows Committee

Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Fellows Committee

Education Fellows Committee

Geodesy Fellows Committee

GeoHealth Fellows Committee

Global Environmental Change Fellows Committee

Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism, and Electromagnetism Fellows Committee

Hydrology Fellows Committee

Informatics Fellows Committee

Mineral and Rock Physics Fellows Committee

Natural Hazards Fellows Committee

Near-surface Geophysics Fellows Committee

Nonlinear Geophysics Fellows Committee

Ocean Sciences Fellows Committee

Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Fellows Committee

Planetary Sciences Fellows Committee

Science and Society Fellows Committee

Study of the Earth's Deep Interior Fellows Committee

Seismology Fellows Committee

Space Physics and Aeronomy Fellows Committee

Tectonophysics Fellows Committee

Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Fellows Committee