Benedikt Soja 2019 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award The 2019 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Benedikt Soja for original research and contributions to the fields of very long baseline interferometry and terrestrial reference frames. Read more
Tonie van Dam 2019 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2019 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Tonie van Dam for pioneering work on the deformations of the solid Earth under a variety of surface loads and on their measurements using space geodetic observation techniques. Read more
Markus Rothacher 2018 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2018 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Markus Rothacher for his pioneering work in linking geometry, rotation and gravity to space geodetic observations and subsequently enhancing the understanding of the Earth system. Read more
Saniya Behzadpour 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Saniya Behzadpour Error modeling validation of GRACE gravity data Read more
Sara Bruni 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Sara Bruni for her innovative contributions to global and regional reference-frame studies bridging the gap to other fields of geosciences, such as geodynamics. Read more
William Durkin 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to William Durkin Impact of local crustal variations and ice mass balance uncertainties on interpreting regional GIA in southeast Alaska Read more
Florian Andritsch 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Florian Andritsch Comparing tracking scenarios to LAGEOS and Etalon by simulating realistic SLR observations Read more
Isabella Velicogna 2017 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2017 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Isabella Velicogna in recognition of her pioneering and groundbreaking work on the application of time-variable gravity for ice-sheet mass balance and land-water hydrology studies. Read more
Xingxing Li 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award The 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Xingxing Li for his innovative contributions in improving the performance of precise point positioning, significantly extending the high-rate GNSS applications in geosciences. Read more
Matthias Ellmer 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Matthias Ellmer Numerically stable approach for high-precision orbit integration using Encke’s method and equinoctial elements Read more
Srinivas Bettadpur 2016 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2016 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Srinivas Bettadpur in recognition of his outstanding contributions to precise orbit determination and ocean-tide modelling, and his pioneering developments in the field of time-variable gravity field determination from satellite-to-satellite tracking data. Read more
Witold Rohm 2016 Division Outstanding Young Scientists Award The 2016 Division Outstanding Young Scientists Award is awarded to Witold Rohm for his innovative contributions in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) meteorology research, advancing our understanding of meteorological processes that impact on GNSS signals. Read more
Christoph Bamann 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Christoph Bamann Detector Data Simulation and Filtering Strategy for the European Laser Timing (ELT) Experiment On-board ACES Read more
Geoffrey Blewitt 2015 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2015 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Geoffrey Blewitt for his pioneering developments in geodetic theory, for advancing the Global Positioning System (GPS) for scientific research and applications, and for his outstanding contributions in applying geodesy to study geophysical and climate processes. Read more
Krzysztof Sośnica 2015 Division Outstanding Young Scientists Award The 2015 Division Outstanding Young Scientists Award is awarded to Krzysztof Sośnica for his innovative contributions in combining Satellite Laser Ranging and Global Navigation Satellite Systems to improve the quality of geodetic key parameter estimates. Read more
Wolfgang Szwillus 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Wolfgang Szwillus Depth sensitivity of satellite gravity gradients inferred from a density model of North America Read more
Adria Rovira-Garcia 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Adria Rovira-Garcia Fast-PPP assessment in European and equatorial region near the Solar Cycle maximum Read more
Reinhard Dietrich 2014 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2014 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Reinhard Dietrich for his outstanding accomplishments in the application of terrestrial and satellite geodesy to study cryospheric change and the glacial isostatic adjustment process, and his pioneering quantitative studies of the current state of the polar ice sheets. Read more
Roelof Rietbroek 2014 Division Outstanding Young Scientists Award The 2014 Division Outstanding Young Scientists Award is awarded to Roelof Rietbroek for providing methodological solutions to the problem of integrating GRACE data, together with GPS, altimetry, and model data into estimates of mass redistribution. Read more
Bas de Boer 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Bas de Boer Simulating regionally varying sea-level changes over the past glacial cycles with a coupled ice-sheet sea-level model Read more
Verena Lieb 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Verena Lieb Using the full tensor of GOCE gravity gradients for regional gravity field modelling Read more
Zuheir Altamimi 2013 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2013 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Zuheir Altamimi for his invaluable research in the development and continuous improvement of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame and for his important contributions to space geodetic research. Read more
Che-Kwan Shum 2012 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2012 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Che-Kwan Shum for his pioneering work on the recent developments in geodetic techniques that have made profound contributions to the Earth Sciences through the precise measurement of mass transports within the Earth system. Read more
Eszter Szűcs 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Eszter Szűcs Effect of the difference between surface and terrain models on gravity field related quantities Read more
Grace Nield 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Grace Nield The effect of recent accumulation changes in the Antarctic Peninsula upon Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Read more
Xavier Collilieux 2012 Division Outstanding Young Scientists Award The 2012 Division Outstanding Young Scientists Award is awarded to Xavier Collilieux for his significant contributions towards improved methods and procedures in computing global terrestrial reference frames and for his studies of surface loading effects therein. Read more
Elifuraha Saria 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Elifuraha Saria A new velocity field for Africa from combined GPS and Doris Solutions: Contribution to Afref Read more
Harald Schuh 2011 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2011 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Harald Schuh for his work in the field of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and his important contribution to space geodetic research. Read more
Jan Martin Brockmann 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Jan Martin Brockmann Use of massive parallel computing libraries in the context of global gravity field determination Read more
Thomas Hobiger 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientists Award The 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientists Award is awarded to Thomas Hobiger for his outstanding contribution in improvement of accuracy of space geodetic applications. Read more
András Zlinszky 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to András Zlinszky First, Second and Third Habsburg Military Surveys: documents of the transition of Lake Balaton from natural to artificial hydrologic regime Read more
Enrico Kurtenbach 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Enrico Kurtenbach Using Kalman smoother to derive daily gravity field solutions Enrico Kurtenbach is a PhD student at the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation (Department of Astronomical, Physical, and Mathematical Geodesy) at the University of Bonn, Germany. His research focuses on the determination of the temporal variations of the Earth’s gravity field using the satellite mission GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment). Within his work he developed a new approach (GRACE Kalman filter) to analyse these satellite data by introducing temporal correlation and to provide snapshots of the Earth’s gravity field with an unprecedented temporal resolution (daily mean values). from GRACE L1B data Read more
Philip L. Woodworth 2010 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2010 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Philip L. Woodworth in recognition of his outstanding contributions to sea level research. Read more
Basem Elsaka 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Basem Elsaka Simulated Multiple Formation Flights for Future Gravity Field Recovery Read more
Gabriele Cambiotti 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Gabriele Cambiotti Self-gravitating compressible Maxwell Earth models: the role of the self compression and the compositional initial density gradient Read more
Gerassimos Manoussakis 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Gerassimos Manoussakis Determination of the gradient of curvature of the plumblines of the normal gravity field and the local study of its isocurvature lines Read more
Susanna Zerbini 2009 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2009 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Susanna Zerbini for her important contributions to the development of modern satellite geodesy and its applications to geodesy and geodynamics. Read more
Carl-Christian Tscherning 2008 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2008 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Carl-Christian Tscherning for his fundamental contributions to physical geodesy and his unselfish involvement within the international association of geodesy. Read more
Thomas Herring 2007 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2007 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Thomas Herring for his outstanding contributions to the advancement of space geodetic techniques for geodynamic studies. Read more
Gerhard Beutler 2006 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2006 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Gerhard Beutler in recognition of his notable contributions to the international application of the Global Positioning System in geodesy and geophysics. Read more
Martine Feissel-Vernier 2005 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2005 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Martine Feissel-Vernier for her outstanding accomplishments in the field of Earth rotation, geodynamics and geodesy, and for her devoted services to the scientific geodetic community. Read more
John Wahr 2004 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2004 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to John Wahr for his outstanding and far-ranging contributions in the field of global geodesy. Read more
