The James B. Macelwane Medal is awarded annually by the American Geophysical Union to three to five early career scientists (no more than 10 years beyond having received their Ph.D.). It is named after James B. Macelwane, a Jesuit priest and one of the pioneers of seismology. The medal is regarded as the highest honor for young scientists in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. In 1984, Mary Hudson became the first woman to receive the award.
Medal recipients Source: AGU
Year Recipient 1962 James N. Brune 1963 Alexander J. Dessler 1964 Klaus Hasselmann 1965 Gordon J. F. MacDonald 1966 Don L. Anderson 1967 Manik Talwani 1968 Michael B. McElroy 1969 Richard S. Lindzen 1970 Lynn Sykes 1971 Carl I. Wunsch 1972 John Michael Wallace 1973 R. Allan Freeze 1974 Amos M. Nur 1975 Dan McKenzie; Vytenis M. Vasyliunas; Gerald Schubert 1976 John S. Lewis; Kurt Lambeck; Robert L. Parker 1977 Paul G. Richards; Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe; Christopher T. Russell 1978 John M. Edmond; Thomas E. Holzer 1979 Ralph J. Cicerone; Michael C. Kelley; R. Keith O'Nions 1980 Lawrence Grossman; Thomas Westfall Hill; Norman H. Sleep 1981 Ronald G. Prinn; David J. Southwood; Donald J. Weidner 1982 Rafael L. Bras; Donald W. Forsyth; Steven C. Wofsy 1983 William L. Chameides; Donald J. DePaolo; Thomas H. Jordan 1984 Mary K. Hudson; Raymond Jeanloz; John H. Woodhouse 1985 William H. Matthaeus; Susan Solomon; John M. Wahr 1986 Bradford H. Hager; Edward M. Stolper; Robert A. Weller 1987 J. Leslie Smith; Toshio Terasawa; Mary Lou Zoback 1988 Douglas R. MacAyeal; Marcia McNutt; Kevin B. Quest 1989 Richard G. Gordon; Seth A. Stein; William Roy Young 1990 Ellen R.M. Druffel; Steven M. Gorelick; Paul Segall 1991 Thomas A. Herring; Roderic L. Jones; Thorne Lay 1992 Eric Kunze; David G. Sibeck; Terry C. Wallace 1993 Michael Gurnis; David J. McComas; Margaret A. Tolbert 1994 Jeremy Bloxham; Daniel J. Jacob; John E. Vidale 1995 Stephen Fuselier; Jonathan I. Lunine; Jason Phipps Morgan 1996 David Bercovici; Dara Entekhabi; David Roy Hanson 1997 Edouard Bard; Marc Parlange; Robert van der Hilst 1998 Tuija I. Pulkkinen; Lars P. Stixrude; 1999 Jeroen Tromp; Rainer Hollerbach; Kenneth A. Farley 2000 Scott Doney; Erik Hauri; Quentin Williams 2001 Vassilis Angelopoulos; Daniel P. Schrag; Azadeh Tabazadeh 2002 George Katul; John M. Eiler; Michael Manga 2003 Kurt M. Cuffey; Guido Salvucci; Lianxing Wen 2004 Robin M. Canup; Daniel Sigman; David W. J. Thompson 2005 Paul Asimow; A. Hope Jahren; James T. Randerson 2006 Daniel J. Frost; Jerry Goldstein; Jun Korenaga 2007 Amy C. Clement; Jeanne Hardebeck; Francis Nimmo 2008 James Badro; Emily E. Brodsky; Diane E. Pataki 2009 Peter Huybers; Miaki Ishii; Benjamin P. Weiss 2010 David B. Lobell; Rosalind E. Rickaby; Jasper A. Vrugt 2011 Tanja Bosak; Nicolas Dauphas; Arlene Fiore; Adam Maloof; Christian Schoof 2012 David Richard Shelly; Gabriel J. Bowen; Josef Dufek; 2013 Jesse Kroll; Motohiko Murakami; Sonia I. Seneviratne; 2014 Rajdeep Dasgupta; Christian Frankenberg; J. Taylor Perron; David Shuster; Jessica Tierney 2015 Paul Cassak; Bethany L. Ehlmann; Colette L. Heald; Matthew G. Jackson; Katharine Maher 2016 Andy Hooper; Appy Sluijs; Gabriele Villarini; Maureen D. Long; Toshi Nishimura 2017 Yan Lavallée; Wen Li; Tiffany A. Shaw; Michael P. Lamb; Robert E. Kopp 2018 Steven J. Davis; Walter W. Immerzeel; Isaac R. Santos; Drew L. Turner; Caroline Ummenhofer 2019Amir AghaKouchak; Anton Artemyev; Emily V. Fischer; Francis A. Macdonald; Erik van Sebille2020Kyle Armour; Sarah M. Horst; Brandon Schmandt; Yoshihide Wada; Kelly C Wrighton2021Elizabeth A Barnes; Christopher H.K. Chen; Ciaran J Harman; Christopher T. Reinhard; Anja Schmidt2022Jessica Creveling; Pierre Gentine; Lars N. Hansen; Scott Jasechko; Zhongwen Zhan 2023 Alice-Agnes Gabriel; Natalya A. Gomez; Kaiyu Guan; Allison N. Jaynes; Yuan Wang2024 C. Brenhin Keller; Megan Konar; Alexandra G. Konings; Dustin M. Schroeder; Malte F. Stuecker2025 Laura E. Condon; Roger R. Fu; Anna T. Trugman; Niko Wanders; Lei Zhao 2026Leander D.L. Anderegg; Jacqueline Austermann; Mojtaba Sadegh; César Terrer; Alexander J. Turner
See also List of geophysicists List of geophysics awards List of prizes named after people
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