Awards

Emiliani Lecture

Nomination information can be found HERE.

2023: Peter Clark "Cracking the Benthic δ¹⁸O Nut: Global Temperature and Sea-Level Change Over the Last 4.5 Myr"

2022: Kim Cobb  "Mobilizing for Equitable Climate Futures - Pathways for Geoscientists"

2021: Baerbel Hoenisch "Community Efforts to Document and Refine Paleoreconstruction“

2020: Elizabeth Sikes, “The Southern Ocean’s role in glacial cycles: Engine not caboose?“

2019: Hai Cheng, “Isotopes in Speleothems and Global Climate Change“

2018: Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, “Geostrophic Motion in the Ice Age Ocean“

2017: Thomas F Stocker, “Reconstructing Climate Change: The Model-Data Ping-Pong“

2016: Bette Otto-Bliesner, “Resolving Some Puzzles of Climate Evolution Since the Last Glacial Maximum: A Melding of Paleoclimate Modeling and Data“

2015: Alan Mix, “Searching for tipping points in Pleistocene climate: Are they real? Are they portents for the future?“

2014: Peter DeMenocal, “Climate & Life: A Human Retrospective”

2013: Howie Spero, “The Paleoceanography Frontier: Proxies, New Technologies and Novel Questions”

2012: Richard Zeebe, “No future without a past” or “History will teach us nothing”?

2011: Henry Elderfield, “What a Single Celled Organism Can Tell Us About Climate History: A Status Report On Paleocean Proxies With Examples”

2010: David Hodell, “Abrupt climate change during the Last Ice Age from the perspective of 17°N, 90°W”

2009: Delia Oppo, “Tropical Climate: Insights from Sediment and Modeling Studies”

2008: Christina Ravelo, “Lessons from the Pliocene Warm Period and the Onset of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation”

2007: David W. Lea, “Changes in Attitude on Equatorial Latitudes: Tropical Climate Evolution During the Ice Ages”

2006: James C. Zachos, “Tempo and Magnitude of Greenhouse Warming and Ocean Acidification at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary”

2005: Maureen E. Raymo, “On Glaciations and Their Causes”

2004: Lonnie G. Thompson, “Tropical Ice Core Evidence for Rapid Holocene Climate Change and Asynchronous Glaciation”

2003: William F. Ruddiman, “The Anthropogenic Era Began Thousands of Years Ago”

2002: Richard B. Alley, “Prepare Immediately for Whatever is Going to Happen Next: A Paleoclimatic View of the Future”

2001: Wallace S. Broecker, “Reconstructions of the CO3 Ion Distribution in the Glacial Deep Ocean”

2000: James Kennett, “Role of methane Hydrate in Late Quaternary Climate Change”

1999: Nicholas Shackleton, “Will Oxygen Isotope Stratigraphy Survive the Next Millennium?”