Honors

2001
Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Fractals as a Measure of Roughness in Earth Sciences

2002
Donald L. Turcotte
Self-Organized Complexity in Geophysics

2003
Rafael Bras
Wonders of Planet Earth: Complexity and Order in Earth Systems

2004
John Rundle
Process, Pattern, Prediction: Understanding Complexity in Driven Earth Systems

2005
Michael Ghil
The Earth as a complex system, and a simple way of looking at it

2006
Bach L. Hua
Nonlinear Dynamics of Zonal Jets in Planetary Atmospheres and Oceans

2007
Vijay PrasadDimri
Role of Fractals in Solid Earth Geophysics

2008
Daniel Schertzer
Predictability and Uncertainties in Geophysics: from the Butterfly Effect to Ensemble Predictions, Multifractal Predictability and the Anthropocene

2009
Surjalal Sharma
Complexity of Earth’s Magnetosphere: Coherence in a Multiscale Open System Presented

2010
Didier Sornette
Dragon-Kings, Black-Swans and Prediction

2011
Alvaro Corral
Criticality and Self-Organization in Atmospheric Processes

2012
Eugenia Kalnay
Fighting Chaos: Applications of Breeding

2013
Daniel Lathrop
Linear and nonlinear dynamics of liquid planetary cores

2014
Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Random musings on stochastics

2015
Shaun Lovejoy
Why the warming can’t be natural: the nonlinear geophysics of climate closure

2016
Vladimir Zakharov
Analytic theory of wind-driven seas (AGU On Demand Video – requires login)

2017
Richard Klein
Ergodicity and Phase Transitions and Their Implications for Earthquake Forecasting 

2018
Venkat Krishnamurthy
Predictability Beyond Weather

2019
Ian Main
Catastrophic failure of geological materials - how and when?

2020
Sandra Chapman
Catastrophic failure of geological materials - how and when?