IUGG Early Career Scientist Award

2023

for his efforts to raise Indian glaciology to international levels, for his boundless interest in Himalayan glacio-hydrology leading to reference review articles and long-term glacier monitoring.

for her contributions to electromagnetic geophysics and laboratory-based petrophysics for understanding complex environments and reactive systems.

for her path-breaking contributions to understanding low-latitude phenomena in the magnetosphere.

for his seminal work on snow avalanche modeling from the initial crack in the snowpack to the full slope release and for interdisciplinary and innovative studies of geophysical mass flows.

for her seminal contributions to our understanding of the connections between the cryosphere and sea level change, at the border of geophysical and climate sciences.

for his pioneering and innovative approaches for studying the degassing and eruptive behavior of volcanoes by combining remote sensing, numerical modeling and machine learning.

for his transdisciplinary work which bridges meteorology, acoustics, and seismology, laying the foundation for future research in his field.

for her significant contributions to understanding El Niño spatiotemporal diversity and associated impacts, from paleoclimate to modern times through multidisciplinary international collaborations.

for his innovative contributions in improving GNSS precise positioning and orbit determination, significantly extending the high-precision GNSS applications in geosciences.

for his innovative research using seismic ambient noise by pioneering a high-resolution body-wave tomography and finding time-lapse changes of subsurface elastic parameters.

2019

for revolutionizing the interpretation of seismic data by developing a unique holistic interdisciplinary approach based on Bayesian methodology, incorporating geophysical, geochemical and petrophysical datasets.

for her outstanding contributions to the characterization of climate dynamic from ice core analyses through a collaborative international approach involving links with other archives and modelling.

for her outstanding achievements in coastal oceanography with applications to marine hazards and international research cooperation.

for her seminal work on radiative properties of snow and ice leading to an improved understanding of the mass and energy budget of Earth’s snow, glaciers, and ice sheets.

for fundamental and innovative contributions to the study of hydrologic extremes including droughts, coastal floods and compound natural hazards.

for his outstanding work to advance current understanding of the fundamental roles of wave-particle interactions in the radiation belt particle dynamics and of the origins of Earth’s diffuse aurora.

for successful promotion of international cooperation in physical and biogeochemical oceanography and developing field programmes with a growing network of young scientists.

for pioneering the development of novel hydrological measurement systems and fostering international cooperation.

for constructing a physical model to infer pore pressure and stress state based on structure analysis of the Nankai Trough using full-wave seismic tomography, a cutting-edge technology.

for the quality and originality of her exceptional scientific achievements in the interdisciplinary study of climate changes and for her active service to the international geophysical community.

2015

for his outstanding contributions to weather and climate predictability.

for his accomplishments in computational seismology, building the most thorough non-linear waveform inversion currently available.

for his outstanding work in improving our understanding of climate variability through quantification of the impacts of salinity, mixed layer dynamics, and dust aerosol forcing on the tropical ocean.

for his outstanding contributions in the field of catchment hydrology.

for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and modelling of glacier mass balance leading to an increased understanding of the sensitivity of glaciers to climate change and their potential contribution to future sea level rise.

for advancing understanding of observed and expected responses of the Earth system to natural and human-induced perturbations to climate forcing and coordination of the international GeoMIP project.

for developing a glacier–climate model, which demonstrates that well informed and carefully controlled modelling of relevant processes can help ameliorate the problem of inadequate data.

for advancing our knowledge of new particle formation in the atmosphere, the contribution of organic vapors to the global aerosol population and the role of organic aerosols in the climate system.

for significant contributions to our understanding of impact structures, and for fundamental research in palaeomagnetism and rock magnetism.

for his contribution to understanding geo and planetary dynamos through numerical simulations, and to international collaboration in geodynamo benchmark and planetary exploration.