The Honors and Recognition Committee and the Union Awards, Medals and prize selection committees honor these individuals whose passion for scientific excellence and outstanding achievements in advancing and communicating science significantly contributes to a better future for us all.
AGU will celebrate their breakthrough achievements and exceptional work at an annual Honors Ceremony and Banquet to be held on 17 December 2014 at the Fall Meeting in San Francisco.
Join AGU in congratulating the following 2014 AGU Union Medals, Awards and Prize Recipients:
Medals
Hiroo Kanamori, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
Rajdeep Dasgupta, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Christian Frankenberg, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
J. Taylor Perron, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
David Shuster, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif.
Jessica Tierney, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass.
Gary Glatzmaier, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Calif.
Bryan Isacks, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
John Andrews Whitehead, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass.
W. James Shuttleworth, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.
Donald DePaolo, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif.
Christopher Field, Carnegie Institute of Science, Stanford, Calif.
Thorne Lay, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Calif.
Paul Segall, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Prize
Katharine Hayhoe, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Awards
Ghassem Asrar, Joint Global Research Institute, College Park, Md.
Paul Hsieh, United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif.
Scott Mandia, Suffolk County Community College, Selden, N.Y.
James Overland, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, Wash.
Michael Wysession, Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, Mo.
Daniel Fornari, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass.
Meinrat Andreae, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
Curt Tilmes, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, Md.
Simon Lamb, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Mioara Mandea, CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Paris, France
Excellence in Geophysical Education Award
R. Heather Macdonald, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.
Chigomezyo Ngwira, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism–Features
Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker
David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism–News Award
Andrew Grant, Science News