Awards & Honors

Section Awards

John C. Jamieson Student Paper Award

Established in 2015, the John C. Jamieson Student Paper Award is given annually to one or more AGU Mineral and Rock Physics Section student members and promotes the memory of John Calhoun Jamieson, formerly Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, and the contributions that he’s made to the field of mineral physics research.

This award is granted to a student from the Mineral and Rock Physics Section community who has published the most outstanding paper in the field of high-pressure and high-temperature research in the previous year.

In order to be considered by the selection committee, nominations should be received by before March 13. As this award specifically recognizes scientific achievements during student research, eligibility is restricted to current undergraduate and Ph.D. students.

Nominations should include a letter of support from an advisor, the research paper, a curriculum vitae, and a 500-word blog post.

*Submit nominations online*

Early Career Award

The Mineral and Rock Physics Early Career Award is given annually to one early career scientist (no more than ten years post-terminal degree) in recognition of outstanding contributions in the broadly defined area of Mineral and Rock Physics. The award includes a $500 monetary prize, an award certificate, an announcement in Eos, and recognition at the AGU Fall Meeting. In order to be considered by the selection committee, nominations should be received by March 13.

Nominations should include a letter of nomination, the nominee’s curriculum vitae, two supporting letters, and up to three reprints or preprints of the nominee’s work.

Submit nominations online via AGU Honors.

Graduate Research Award

This award recognizes one or more promising young scientists for outstanding contributions achieved during their Ph.D. research. Nominees may be members of any AGU section. They should be engaged in experimental and/or theoretical studies of Earth and planetary materials with the purpose of unraveling the physics and chemistry that govern their origin and physical properties. The award consists of $500 for support of travel or other professional expenses, a certificate and public recognition at the annual Mineral and Rock Physics Reception at the AGU Fall Meeting. Contributions by AGU members in the Mineral and Rock Physics community finance the award.

In order to be considered by the selection committee, nominations should be received by before March 13. As this award specifically recognizes scientific achievements during Ph.D. research, eligibility is restricted to current Ph.D. students and those who have completed the requirements for a Ph.D. degree up to 12 months prior to the nomination deadline.

Nominations should include a letter of nomination, a curriculum vitae, two supporting letters, and up to three reprints or preprints of the nominee’s work.

Submit nominations online via AGU Honors.

AGU fellows with MRP affiliation

Denis Andrault, Class of 2020
Jay D Bass, Class of 2009
Peter M Bell, Class of 1969
J Michael Brown, Class of 2000
Gordon E. Brown, Class of 2020
Ronald E Cohen, Class of 2002
Reid F Cooper, Class of 2005
Patrick Cordier, Class of 2019
Alfred G Duba, Class of 1997
Thomas S. Duffy, Class of 2013
William B Durham, Class of 2003
J Brian Evans, Class of 2004
Yingwei Fei, Class of 2010
Kei Hirose, Class of 2009
Raymond Jeanloz, Class of 1984
Paul A Johnson, Class of 2011
Bijaya Karki, Class of 2022
Tomoo Katsura, Class of 2018
Shun-ichiro Karato, Class of 2000
David L Kohlstedt, Class of 1989
Robert C Liebermann, Class of 1996
Murli H. Manghnani, Class of 2017
Hokwang Mao, Class of 1986
Wendy Mao, Class of 2021
Chris Marone, Class of 2014
Motohiko Murakami, Class of 2013
Alexandra Navrotsky, Class of 1988
Eiji Ohtani, Class of 2006
Charles T Prewitt, Class of 1991
Geoffrey David Price, Class of 2005
Laura J. Pyrak-Nolte, Class ofd 2020
Thomas J Shankland, Class of 1994
Joseph R Smyth, Class of 2007
Lars P Stixrude, Class of 1998
Yasuko Takei, Class of 2022
Yanbin Wang, Class of 2015
Michael Walter, Class of 2019
Donald J Weidner, Class of 1981
Hans-Rudolf Wenk, Class of 2001
Teng-Fong Wong, Class of 2017
Takehiko Yagi, Class of 2011

Honorees

John C. Jamieson Student Paper Award

2023 Jiejun Jing
2022 Giacomo Criniti, Wen-Yi Zhou
2021 Mingda Lv
2020 Raj, Dutta, Cara Vennari
2019 Suyu Fu, Francesca Miozzi
2018 Christopher J. Cline II
2017 Christopher Langrand
2016 Ting Chen, Xintong Qi, Xuebing Wang

Early Career Award

2023 Baptiste Journaux, Jin Zhang
2022 Melody French
2021 Takayuki Ishii
2020 Marco Maria Scuderi
2019 Sergey S. Lobanov
2018 Zhu Mao
2017 Lowell Miyagi
2016 Heather Savage
2015 Nicolas Brantut
2014 Arianna Gleason

Graduate Research Award

2023 JunJie Dong, Wen-Yi Zhou
2022 Ye Peng, Ming Hao
2021 Kosuke Yabe
2020 Francesca Miozzi, Martin Lesueur, Leif Tokle
2019 Kathryn M. Kumamoto, Christopher Thom
2018 Earl O'Bannon
2018 Esther Posner
2018 Natalia Solomatova
2017 Harrison Lisabeth
2017 Joshua P. Townsend
2016 Jeffrey Pigott
2016 Lucas Pimienta
2015 Yun-Yuan Chang
2015 Dongzhou Zhang
2014 Rebecca Fischer
2014 Zachary Geballe
2013 Lars N. Hansen
2013 Caitlin A. Murphy
2012 Richard Kraus
2011 Zhicheng Jing
2011 Daniel King
2010 Krystle Catalli
2010 Marshall Sundberg
2009 Nicholas J. Austin
2009 Yonggang Yu
2008 Innokenty Kantor, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Germany
2007 Yasuhiro Kuwayama, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2006 Wendy Mao, University of Chicago
2006 Junfeng Zhang, University of California, Riverside
2005 Jennifer Jackson, Carnegie Institution of Washington
2004 Motohiko Murakami, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2004 Sergio Speziale, Princeton University
2003 Annette Kleppe, University of Oxford
2002 Sébastien Merkel, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
2002 Gerd Steinle-Neumann, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
2001 Nathalie Bolfan-Casanova, Bayreuth Geoinstitut
2001 Sang-Heon Dan Shim, Princeton University
2000 Steven D. Jacobsen, University of Colorado
1999 Tomoaki Kubo, Tohoku University, Japan
1999 Daisuke Yamazaki, University of Tokyo
1998 Tye Gribb, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1998 Abby Kavner, University of California, Berkeley
1997 Ljuba Kerschhofer, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Bayreuth, Germany
1997 Wenlu Zhu, State University of New York, Stony Brook
1996 Baosheng Li, State University of New York, Stony Brook
1995 Nicholas Beeler, Brown University
1995 Nobumasa Funamori, University of Tokyo
1994 Andy Hsi-Tien Shen, Cornell University
1994 Andrei Zerr, Max Planck Institute, Mainz
1993 Kathleen J. Kingma, Johns Hopkins University
1992 Michael Kruger, University of California, Berkeley
1991 Thomas Duffy, California Institute of Technology
1990 Donald Isaak, University of California, Los Angeles

Outstanding Student Presentation Award winners

2022 Michelle Devoe, Sofia Michail, Aindrila Pal, Wenjing Wang
2021 Isabel Ashman, Damanveer S. Grewal, Shidong Yu, Ningli Zhao
2020 Ethan Mark Conrad, Barbara de Farias Esteves, Tommaso Mandolini, Kazumasa Sueyoshi
2019 Zachary Smith, Chiara Cornelio, Monica Barbery, Giulia Magnarini
2018 Will Steinhardt, Sarah Marie Arverson, Richard Jayne
2017 Claire Zurkowski, Joshua Martin, Sean McGovern, Yuto Sasaki
2016 John Kratz, Kathryn Kumnanoto, Roberto Rizzo, Ryan McCarty
2015 Satoru Asayama, Bethany Chidester, Tess Caswell
2014 Kevin J. Miller, Alisha Clark
2013 Lyme S. Tone, Marwen Chaouachi, Tanvi Dhiren Chhenda
2012 Aaron Wolf, Corliss Kin I Sio
2011 Lars Hansen, Rebecca Fischer, Waruntorn Kanitpanyacharoen
2010 Bastian Joachim, Julia Schneider, Richard Kraus
2009 Amanada Dillman, Christine McCarthy, Maribel Nunez Valdez, Zhcheng Jing