Awards and Honors

AGU Fellows The following SPA members have been honored with the designation of Fellow in recognition of their significant scientific contributions:
Mario Acuna Syun-Ichi Akasofu Kinsey A. Anderson V. Angelopoulos Spiro Antiochos Roger L. Arnoldy Maha Ashour-Abdalla W.I. Axford Daniel N. Baker Samuel J. Bame Frances Bagenal Peter M. Banks Charles A. Barth Siegfried I. Bauer Joachim Birn Bernard Blake Sidney A. Bowhill Guy Brasseur James L. Burch Len Burlaga Laurence J. Cahill Jr. Donald L. Carpenter Joseph W. Chamberlain (deceased) Ferdinand V. Coroniti Stan Cowley Thomas E. Cravens Nancy U. Crooker Alexander Dalgarno Alexander J. Dessler Thomas M. Donahue James W. Dungey Donald H. Fairfield Jules A. Fejer (deceased) Bill C. Feldman Lennard A. Fisk Jane Fox Louis A. Frank Herbert Friedman (deceased) Naoshi Fukushima Stephen Fuselier Johannes Geiss Marvin Geller George Gloeckler	Melvyn Goldstein Tamas Gombosi John T. Gosling Raymond A. Greenwald Donald A. Gurnett Gerhard Haerendel Roderick A. Heelis Thomas W. Hill Colin O. Hines David J. Hofmann Joseph V. Hollweg Thomas E. Holzer Edward W. Hones Jr. Mary K. Hudson Bengt K.G. Hultqvist Donald M. Hunten Francis S. Johnson Jack R. Jokipii Yohsuke Kamide Paul J. Kellogg Michael C. Kelly Charles F. Kennel Margaret G. Kivelson Janet Kozyra Stamatios M. Krimigis Louis J. Lanzerotti Judith L. Lean Robert P. Lin J. Virginia Lincoln Janet G. Luhmann Glenn Mason Hiroshi Matsumoto William Matthaeus David J. McComas Frank B. McDonald Christopher P. McKay Robert L. McPherron Carl E. McIlwain Robert R. Meier Stephen B. Mende Michael J. Mendillo Forrest S. Mozer Andrew F. Nagy Norman F. Ness	Fritz M. Neubauer Marcia Neugebauer Marcel M. Nicolet (deceased) Atsuhiro Nishida Eugene N. Parker Goetz Paschmann Tuija I. Pulkkinen Kevin B. Quest Manfred H. Rees George C. Reid Pat Reiff Arthur D. Richmond Raymond G. Roble Juan G. Roederer Edmond C. Roelof Gary Rottman Christopher T. Russell Karl Schindler Manfred Scholer Bob Schunk Alan H. Shapley Margaret A. Shea Gordon G. Shepherd David G. Sibeck J.A. Simpson (deceased) George L. Siscoe Edward J. Smith Charles P. Sonett Bengt U.O. Sonnerup David J. Southwood John R. Spreiter (deceased) Edward C. Stone Darrell F. Strobel Masahisa Sugiura Toshio Terasawa Michelle F. Thomsen Richard M. Thorne James A. Van Allen Vytenis M. Vasyliunas Donald J. Williams John R. Winckler (deceased) Richard A. Wolf

SPA Recipients of Union Awards

James B. Macelwane Medal
For Recognition of significant contributions to the geophysical sciences by a young scientist of outstanding ability.

A. Dessler - 1963
V. Vasyliunas - 1975
C. Russell - 1977
T. Holzer 1978
M. Kelley - 1979
T. Hill - 1980
D. Southwood - 1981
M. Hudson - 1984
W. Matthaeus - 1985
T. Terasawa - 1987
K. Quest - 1989
D. Sibeck - 1992
D. McComas - 1993
S. Fuselier - 1995
T. Pulkkinen - 1998
V. Angelopoulos - 2001
J. Goldstein - 2006

John Adam Fleming Medal
For original research and technical leadership in geomagnetism, atmospheric electricity, aeronomy, space physics, and related sciences.

J. Van Allen - 1963
N. Ness - 1965
E. Parker - 1968
W. I. Axford - 1972
C. McIlwain - 1975
F. Johnson - 1977
S. Akasofu - 1979
T. Donahue - 1981
W. Hanson - 1985
D. Bates - 1987
D. Gurnett - 1989
J. Dungey - 1991
A. Dessler - 1993
A. Dalgarno - 1995
D. Hunten - 1998
J. Gosling - 2000
C. Russell - 2003
M. Kivelson - 2005
J. Luhmann - 2007

William Bowie Medal
For outstanding contributions to fundamental geophysics and for unselfish cooperation in research

J. Fleming - 1941
S. Chapman - 1962
J. Bartels - 1964
J. Van Allen - 1977
H. Friedman - 1981 (deceased)
M. Nicolet - 1984
H. Alfven - 1988
E. Parker - 1990
A. Nier - 1992
J. Simpson - 2000 (deceased)
J. Geiss - 2005

Waldo E. Smith Medal
For extraordinary service to geophysics

N. Fukushima - 1990
M. A. Shea - 1998

E. Flinn III Award
For individuals who personify the Union's motto "Unselfish Cooperation in Research" through their facilitating, coordinating and implementing activities

R. Walker - 1990
J. Roederer - 2000
J. King - 2004

SPA Section Awards and Honors

Bowie Lectureships
Bowie Lectureships were created to recognize achievement in the fields of SPA. One is held at every AGU meeting on a rotating basis. The lecturers are selected by the Section officers and committee chairs.

Nicolet Lecture (Aeronomy)

M. Nicolet - Spring 1990
P. Banks - Fall 1991
T. Donahue - Spring 1993
H. Rishbeth - Spring 1995
R. Roble - Fall 1996
A. Nagy - Spring 1998
C. Barth - Fall 1999
G. Reid - Spring 2001
B. Schunk - Fall 2002
J. Forbes - Fall 2004
R. Heelis - Spring, 2006

Van Allen Lecture (Magnetospheric Physics)

J. Van Allen - Fall 1989
G. L. Siscoe - Spring 1991
C. F. Kennel - Fall 1992
S. W. H. Cowley - Spring 1994
G. Haerendel - Fall 1995
D. Gurnett - Spring 1997
M. G. Kivelson - Fall 1998
A. Nishida - Spring 2000
J. Burch - Fall 2001
G. Paschmann - Fall, 2003
L. Lanzerotti - Spring 2005
M. Hudson - Fall, 2006

Parker Lecture (Solar and Heliospheric Physics)

E. N. Parker - Fall 1990
J. Simpson - Spring 1992
E. Stone - Fall 1993
A. Hundhausen - Fall 1994
J. Leibacher - Spring 1996
M. Neugebauer - Fall 1997
L. Fisk - Spring 1999
I. Axford - Fall 2000
B. Lin - Spring, 2002
J. Gosling - Spring, 2004
R. Jokipii - Fall, 2005
E. Smith - Spring, 2007
M. Lee - Spring, 2008

Present and past Parker Lecturers gathered at the 2008 Joint Assembly in Fort Lauderdale on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Eugene Parker.s famous paper predicting the existence of the supersonic solar wind: Randy Jokipii (2005), Ed Stone (1993), Len Fisk (1999), Gene Parker (1990), Marty Lee (2008), stand-in for Marcia Neugebauer (1997), Bob Lin (2002), and John Leibacher (1996). Missing are John Simpson (deceased, 1992), Art Hundhausen (1994), Ian Axford (2000), Jack Gosling (2004), and Ed Smith (2007).

The Scarf Award

The Space Physics and Aeronomy Section presents this award annually to a recent recipient of a Ph.D. (or equivalent degree) for outstanding dissertation research that contributes directly to solar-planetary science. The awardee is expected to deliver an invited paper on the dissertation topic at the Spring or Fall AGU meeting.

Recipients of the Scarf Award:

M. Chen, 1991
M. Zhang, 1992
V. Angelopoulos, 1993
Yu. Taranenko, 1994
No award 1995
No award 1996
G. Delory, 1997
J. A. Valdivia, 1998
D. Lario, 1999
M. G. Linton, 2000
K. Seki, 2001
E. L. Kepko, 2002
M. E. Hill, 2003
D. L. Murr, 2004
J. Burchill, 2005
J. Dombeck, 2006
Y. Ma, 2007

Outstanding Student Papers

Outstanding Student Paper Awards for 2007 Joint Assembly

Outstanding Student Paper Awards for 2006 Fall AGU Meeting