22 August 2019
AGU Press Contact:
Joshua Speiser, +1 202-777-7444, [email protected]
WASHINGTON, DC—The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has announced its 2019 Fellows, an honor given to individual AGU members who have made exceptional scientific contributions and gained prominence in their respective fields of Earth and space sciences. Since the AGU Fellows program was established in 1962, and according to the organization’s bylaws, no more than 0.1 percent of the total membership of AGU is recognized annually. This year’s class of Fellows are geographically diverse coming from 12 countries.
“The remarkable scholarship of the AGU 2019 Fellows is helping advance our understanding of our complex planet and the planetary space around us. Their discoveries are key foundations to the knowledge that will underpin our future sustainability on this planet and beyond,” said Robin Bell, AGU President. “The rich diversity of this year’s Fellows exemplifies the cutting edge scholarship, deep knowledge and boundless scientific curiosity that characterizes AGU global membership or more than 60,000. We are honored to welcome these 62 scientists as AGU Fellows for their critical contributions to Earth and Space Science.”
The 2019 class of Fellows will be recognized during the Honors Tribute on Wednesday, 12 December, Wednesday, 11 December, held during 2019 AGU Fall Meeting 2019 in San Francisco, Calif.
This year’s class of 62 elected Fellows are as follows:
Zuheir Altamimi, Institut National de l’Information Géographique et Forestière and Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris du Globe de Paris
Ronald Amundson, University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan Bamber, University of Bristol
Barbara A. Bekins, U.S. Geological Survey
Jayne Belnap, Southwest Biological Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey
Thomas S. Bianchi, University of Florida
Jean Braun, GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, and Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Potsdam University of Potsdam
Ximing Cai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ken Carslaw, University of Leeds
Sinica Benjamin F. Chao, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica
Patrick Cordier, Université de Lille
Rosanne D’Arrigo, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
Eric A. Davidson, Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Gert J. de Lange, Utrecht University
Andrew Dessler, Texas A&M University
Michele K. Dougherty, Imperial College London
Joseph R. Dwyer, University of New Hampshire
James Farquhar, University of Maryland, College Park
Mei-Ching Fok, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Piers Forster, University of Leeds
Christian France-Lanord, CNRS Université de Lorraine
Antoinette B. Galvin, University of New Hampshire
Peter R. Gent, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Taras Gerya, ETH Zurich
Dennis Hansell, University of Miami
Ruth A. Harris, Earthquake Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey
Robert M. Hazen, Carnegie Institution for Science
Kosuke Heki, Hokkaido University
Karen Heywood, University of East Anglia
Russell Howard, United States Naval Research Laboratory
Alan G. Jones, Complete MT Solutions Inc. and Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Kurt O. Konhauser, University of Alberta
Sonia Kreidenweis, Colorado State University
Technology Kitack Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology
Zheng-Xiang Li, Curtin University
Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, Georgia Institute of Technology
Kuo-Fong Ma, National Central University and Academia Sinica
Reed Maxwell, Colorado School of Mines
John W. Meriwether, Clemson University (Emeritus) and New Jersey Institute of Technology
Son V. Nghiem, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Yaoling Niu, Durham University
Thomas H. Painter, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Technology, University of California, Los Angeles California, Los Angeles
Beth Parker, University of Guelph
Ann Pearson, Harvard University
Graham Pearson, University of Alberta
Lorenzo M. Polvani, Columbia University in the City of New York
Peter Reiners, University of Arizona
Yair Rosenthal, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Osvaldo Sala, Arizona State University
Edward (Ted) Schuur, Northern Arizona University
Sybil Seitzinger, University of Victoria
Toshihiko Shimamoto, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration
Adam Showman, University of Arizona
Alexander V. Sobolev, Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Université Grenoble Alpes, and Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences
Carl Steefel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
John Suppe, University of Houston
Karl E. Taylor, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Meenakshi Wadhwa, Arizona State University
Michael Walter, Carnegie Institution for Science
John Wettlaufer, Yale University and Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics
Chunmiao Zheng, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen
Tong Zhu, Peking University
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