![](/-/media/Feature/Common/Agu/Images/honors-db/section-awards-4c4862_65_percent_overlay.jpg?h=875&w=1314&hash=192D1B6D019CAB4668CA44B96B402C92)
Congratulations 2023 Section Award and Lecture Honorees!
View Honorees
Past Recipients
Filters
Clear All
2023 RECIPIENT
Susan L Beck
![](/-/media/Feature/Common/Agu/Images/ProfilePhoto/C890B0E6-6C5C-4093-B313-39A3EE0DDF6D/bc57274e-3a28-45d7-b693-e12dd484ec1b.jpg?h=150&w=150&hash=DF6B4258B3F10B84D32CC417A3D92BE7)
Susan
Beck personifies all of the attributes articulated in the intent of the Paul G.
Silver Award: exemplary contributions in leadership, mentorship, collaboration,
community involvement, and research. She has had a distinguished academic
career at ...
Read Complete Citation
2022 RECIPIENT
Lucy M Flesch
Dr. Lucy Flesch demonstrates excellence in all of the areas that the Paul G. Silver Award for Outstanding Scientific Service addresses: mentorship, leadership on community initiatives, and collaborative research. Her contributions in the area of comm...
Read Complete Citation
2021 RECIPIENT
Richard W Allmendinger
2020 RECIPIENT
Ramon Arrowsmith
![](-/media/Feature/Common/Agu/Images/Honors/Sections/Arrowsmith_Ramon_Headshot-1.jpg)
2020 RECIPIENT
Douglas R Toomey
![](-/media/Feature/Common/Agu/Images/Honors/Sections/toomey_Doug1-1.jpg)
2019 RECIPIENT
Judith Savaso Chester
![](-/media/Feature/Common/Agu/Images/Headshots/Honor-Winners-Headshots/chester_judith-s_2019-paul-silver-award-winner.jpg)
Prof. Judith (“Judi”) S. Chester is an outstanding scientist who uses a powerful combination of experiments and field observations to understand earthquake faulting; however, this award recognizes her exemplary efforts on behalf of the br...
Read Complete Citation
2018 RECIPIENT
Harold J Tobin
![](-/media/Feature/Common/Agu/Images/Headshots/Honor-Winners-Headshots/tobin_harold-j_paul-g-silver-award-recipient.jpg)
Harold Tobin recently became the new director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) at the University of Washington. Over the past 17 years, Harold has devoted the better part of his career to leading the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Expe...
Read Complete Citation
2017 RECIPIENT
David Mainprice
![](-/media/Feature/Common/Agu/Images/Headshots/Honor-Winners-Headshots/mainprice_david_paul-silver-award.jpg)
As befits a Silver awardee, David Mainprice’s scholarship transcends boundaries of mineral physics, tectonophysics, and seismology, enabling improved understanding of S wave splitting, thermal diffusivity, phase transitions, and relations among...
Read Complete Citation