Earth Science and Applications Award

The Earth Science and Applications Award recognizes an outstanding achievement in Earth or Environmental Sciences.

Award Criteria

Recipients:

  • 2025 – No Award Given
  • 2024- No Award Given
  • 2023 – Terra/Aqua MODIS Science and Instrument Teams

Terra/Aqua MODIS: Earth’s Indispensable Instrument

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  • 2022 – No Award Given
  • 2021 – Geostationary Lightning Mapper Instrument Team

For providing a novel and unique observational capability that has directly contributed to the nation’s weather forecasting by improving severe weather observations, predictions, and warning lead-times, and having created new interdisciplinary research opportunities for the Earth and planetary sciences

 

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  • 2020 – Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Team

For breakthrough instrumentation and spacecraft flight technology, mission navigation, and scientific research on magnetic reconnection, a fundamental process that controls space plasmas

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  • 2019 – No Award Given
  • 2018 – Nazzareno Diodato

For his courage in promoting the interdisciplinarity in earth science and creative solutions to important international researches, despite facing difficulty of his remote place of work.

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  • 2017 – No Award Given
  • 2016 – SERVIR

For over ten years SERVIR has provided the best of satellite technology and geospatial data to countries that need it most, empowering them to better monitor risks and respond to pressing environmental issues.

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  • 2015 – Michael Pavolonis

For developing cutting-edge methods to convert satellite data into actionable information for mitigating hazards caused by volcanic eruptions and severe convection.

Picture courtesy of NOAA

  • 2014 – R. Steven Nerem

For outstanding scientific, engineering and leadership contributions towards expanding knowledge and understanding of global sea-level rise and its origins.

Picture courtesy of the University of Colorado Boulder