AGU - American Geophysical Union

2021 Section Awardees & Named Lectures

AGU Section Honors Program 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.

Section Awards and Lectures

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Atmospheric and Space Electricity Section

Benjamin Franklin Lecture

Donald R. MacGorman

Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies

Atmospheric Sciences Section

Atmospheric Sciences Ascent Award

Benjamin John Murray

University of Leeds

Kerri Pratt

University of Michigan

Nicole Riemer

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Isla Ruth Simpson

Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Future Horizons in Climate Science Turco Lectureship

Yuan Wang

California Institute of Technology

Jacob Bjerknes Lecture

Joyce E Penner

University of Michigan

James R. Holton Award

Marysa M. Laguë

Coldwater Lab, University of Saskatchewan

Jule Gregory Charney Lecture

Wayne H. Schubert

Colorado State University

Yoram J. Kaufman Outstanding Research and Unselfish Cooperation Award

Oleg Dubovik

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/University of Lille

Biogeosciences Section

Sulzman Award for Excellence in Education and Mentoring

Susan Natali

Woodwell Climate Research Center

Thomas Hilker Early Career Award for Excellence in Biogeosciences

Jennifer B. Glass

Georgia Institute of Technology

William S. and Carelyn Y. Reeburgh Lecture

Edward Brook

Oregon State University

Cryosphere Sciences Section

Cryosphere Early Career Award

Brooke Medley

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

John F. Nye Lecture

Andrew Fowler

University of Limerick

Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Section

G. K. Gilbert Award in Surface Processes

David Mohrig

The University of Texas at Austin

Luna B. Leopold Early Career Award

Mathieu G. A. Lapôtre

Stanford University

Marguerite T. Williams Award

Nicole M. Gasparini

Tulane University

Robert Sharp Lecture

Mathieu G. A. Lapôtre

Stanford University

Earth and Space Science Informatics Section

Greg Leptoukh Lecture

Charles Sutton Zender

University of California, Irvine

Education Section

Dorothy LaLonde Stout Education Lecture

Emily H. G. Cooperdock

University of Southern California

Geodesy Section

John Wahr Early Career Award

Lin Liu

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Surendra Adhikari

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

William Bowie Lecture

Glenn A. Milne

University of Ottawa

GeoHealth Section Award

Geoffrey Plumlee

U.S. Geological Survey Director's Office

Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism, and Electromagnetism Section

Edward Bullard Lecture

Professor Barbara A Maher

Lancaster University

William Gilbert Award

Richard Blakely

U.S. Geological Survey

Global Environmental Change Section

Bert Bolin Global Environmental Change Award and Lecture

Thomas L. Delworth

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA

Global Environmental Change Early Career Award

Alexandra G. Konings

Stanford University

Bin Zhao

Tsinghua University

Global Environmental Change Section

Kimberly A. Novick

Indiana University Bloomington

Piers J. Sellers Global Environmental Change Mid-Career Award

Charles D. Koven

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Stephen Schneider Lecture

Alan Robock

Rutgers University

Tyndall History of Global Environmental Change Lecture

Michael D. Dettinger

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Hydrology Section

Hydrologic Sciences Award

Jiří Šimůnek

University of California Riverside

Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award

Laura Condon

University of Arizona

Adrian Harpold

University of Nevada, Reno

Scott Jasechko

University of California, Santa Barbara

Pamela L. Sullivan

Oregon State University

Paul A. Witherspoon Lecture

Junguo Liu

Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)

Walter Langbein Lecture

John W. Pomeroy

University of Saskatchewan

Mineral and Rock Physics Section

John C. Jamieson Student Paper Award

Mingda Lv

Argonne National Laboratory

Mineral and Rock Physics Early Career Award

Takayuki Ishii

Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research

Mineral and Rock Physics Graduate Research Award

Kosuke Yabe

Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo

Natural Hazards Section

Gilbert F. White Distinguished Award and Lecture

Gerald E. Galloway

University of Maryland

Natural Hazards Early Career Award

Chia-Ying Lee

Columbia University

Daniel Wright

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Natural Hazards Section Award for Graduate Research

Leah Salditch

Northwestern University

Near-Surface Geophysics Section

Near-Surface Geophysics Early Career Achievement Award

Ryan Smith

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Nonlinear Geophysics Section

Ed Lorenz Lecture

Valerio Lucarini

University of Reading

Ocean Sciences Section

Harald Sverdrup Lecture

Verena Tunnicliffe

University of Victoria

Ocean Sciences Award

Alistair Adcroft

Princeton University and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA

Ocean Sciences Early Career Award

Malte Jansen

University of Chicago

Rachel Carson Lecture

Andrea G. Grottoli

Ohio State University

Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Section

Harry Elderfield Student Paper Award

Jordan T. Abell

University of Arizona

Nanne Weber Early Career Award

Clara L. Blättler

University of Chicago

Willi Dansgaard Award

Aradhna Tripati

University of California, Los Angeles

Planetary Sciences Section

Eugene Shoemaker Lecture

Athena Coustenis

Laboratoire d’Etudes Spatiales et d’Instrumentation en Astrophysique, Paris Observatory, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris Sciences et Lettres University

Fred Whipple Award and Lecture

Paul Schenk

Lunar and Planetary Institute

Ronald Greeley Early Career Award in Planetary Sciences

Timothy A. Goudge

University of Texas at Austin

Seismology Section

Beno Gutenberg Lecture

Gregory C. Beroza

Stanford University

Keiiti Aki Early Career Award

Yihe Huang

University of Michigan

Space Physics and Aeronomy Section

Basu U.S. Early Career Award for Research Excellence in Sun-Earth Systems Science

Trevor Bowen

Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

Eugene Parker Lecture

James A. Klimchuk

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Fred L. Scarf Award

Luisa Capannolo

Boston University

James Van Allen Lecture

Mei-Ching Hannah Fok

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Space Physics and Aeronomy Richard Carrington Education and Public Outreach Award

Elizabeth MacDonald

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Keith M. Groves

Institute for Scientific Research, Boston College

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

Chao Yue

Peking University

William B. Hanson Lecture

Jonathan J. Makela

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior Section

Study of the Earth’s Deep Interior Section Award for Graduate Research

Mingda Lv

Argonne National Laboratory

Tectonophysics Section

Francis Birch Lecture

Taras Gerya

ETH Zurich

Jason Morgan Early Career Award

Juliane Dannberg

University of Florida

Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Section

Hisashi Kuno Award

Ming Tang

Peking University

Norman L. Bowen Award and Lecture

Catherine Chauvel

Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

George W. Bergantz

University of Washington

Reginald Daly Lecture

Anat Shahar

Carnegie Institution for Science

Joint Award: Geodesy, Seismology, and Tectonophysics Sections

Paul G. Silver Award for Outstanding Scientific Service

Richard W. Allmendinger

Cornell University

Joint Lecture: Biogeosciences and Planetary Sciences Sections

Carl Sagan Lecture

Sarah Stewart Johnson

Georgetown University

Joint Lecture: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology and Ocean Sciences Sections

Cesare Emiliani Lecture

Baerbel Hoenisch

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University