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HEAD Innovation Prize

2024-01-11

Recipients:Timothy R Kallman (662), Javier A Garcia (662)

Tim Kallman and Javier Garcia (662) have been awarded the 2024’s AAD HEAD Innovation Prize! They share the award with Thomas Dauser “for the development of novel models to describe emission in the strong gravity regime from accreting compact objects.”
The HEAD Innovation Prize

NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) Award

2024-01-04

Recipients:Kenneth G Carpenter (667)

Awarded to perform a study for an optical-UV interferometry on the Moon, "A Lunar Long-Baseline Optical Imaging Interferometer: Artemis-enabled Stellar Imager (AeSI)"
NIAC 2024 Selections

2025 Benjamin Franklin Birthday Celebration

2024-01-01

Recipients:John C Mather (660)

John Mather has been selected as the Honoree for the 2025 Benjamin Franklin Birthday Celebration: Every year the Franklin Birthday Committee selects a theme linked with Benjamin Franklin and honors a person who has done extraordinary work in this field. Recent honorees include Dr. Syliva Earle (Health of the Oceans), Wendell Berry (The Future of Food), and this year Frank Gehry (Craftsmanship).

Wallops Individual Science Award

2022-01-01

Recipients:David B Wolff (612)

For "Outstanding leadership over Code 610W through ever changing priorities, leading GPM Ground Validation, and supporting the IMPACTS mission"

Wallops Group Science Award

2022-01-01

Recipients:Michael R Watson (612), Carl Schirtzinger (612), Charanjit Singh Pabla (612), Alexey Vasilyevich Chibisov (615), E.T. Hickman (612)

For "Outstanding scientific and technical support to the GPM Ground Validation program"

Best Paper Award

2023-12-07

Recipients:Chelsea L Parker (615)

Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland

John C. Lindsay Memorial Award for Space Science

2023-01-01

Recipients:Geronimo Villanueva (he/his) (690), Michael Doyle Smith (693)

Dr. Lindsay, who joined the Goddard Space Flight Center on December 28, 1958, served as Associate Chief of the Space Sciences Division and headed the Goddard solar physics program. He pioneered in the exploration of the Sun by both satellite and rocket-borne experiments. He was awarded NASA's Medal of Exceptional Scientific Achievement for "the achievement of a major scientific advance in the study of the Sun and for significant technological progress in highly precise satellite attitude control." In addition to his scientific contributions, Dr. Lindsay conceived and directed the Orbiting Solar Observatory Project and was manager of several Explorer and Pioneer missions. The John C. Lindsay Memorial Award was established to recognize Goddard scientists who exemplify the same level of scientific achievement as Dr. Lindsay.

Planetary Science Early Career Award (ECA)

2023-01-01

Recipients:Lynnae C. Quick (698)

Program Element C.19 of ROSES-2020, the Planetary Science Early Career Award (ECA) Program supports the professional development of outstanding early-career scientists in areas relevant to the Planetary Science Division.

AGU International Award

2023-12-01

Recipients:John D. Bolten (617)

For dedication to improving lives in Southeast Asia and Africa through development and training in the use of hydrological datasets and tools
AGU International Award Recipients

AGU Joanne Simpson Medal for Mid-Career Scientists

2023-12-01

Recipients:Dalia B Kirschbaum (610)

For sustained leadership to advance landslide hazard prediction and practical application of novel earth observations for societal benefit
AGU Joanne Simpson Medal Recipients

AGU Outstanding Reviewer

2023-09-25

Recipients:Michael J. Croteau (he/him) (61A)

AGU Outstanding Reviewer - JGR Research: Solid Earth
American Geophysical Union Eos science magazine

Editor Award - Journal of Hydrometeorology

2023-09-01

Recipients:Andrew Feldman (618)

American Meteorological Society

NASA Software of the Year Award

2023-09-01

Recipients:Dalia B Kirschbaum (610), Thomas Stanley (617), Robert Alexander Emberson (617), Pukar Man Amatya (617)

Goddard Team Wins NASA 2023 Software of the Year Award

AAS Claudia J Alexander Prize

2023-01-01

Recipients:Amy A Simon (690)

The Claudia J. Alexander Prize recognizes a mid-career scientist who has made and continues to make outstanding contributions that have significantly advanced our knowledge of planetary systems, including our solar system. These contributions can be experimental, observational, and/or theoretical in nature and achieved in the laboratory, office, and by observations with ground-based and space-based instruments and telescopes.
AAS 2023 Prize Recipients

William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Science

2023-08-15

Recipients:Steven E Platnick (610)

For pushing the envelope of innovation in cloud property remote retrieval, interpretation, and worldwide dissemination.
The William Nordberg Memorial Awards and Lectures

Excellence in Mentoring

2023-01-01

Recipients:Kimberly A Weaver (662), Jeremy David Schnittman (663), W. Dean Pesnell (671), Carl Richard DeVore (674), Mahmooda Sultana (699)

Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA)

2023-01-01

Recipients:Trena M Ferrell (610), Robert C Levy (613), Marc J Kuchner (667), Luoth Chou (699)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Mission & Enabling Support

2023-01-01

Recipients:Glenn M Wolfe (614)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Engineering

2023-01-01

Recipients:Joseph B. Nicholas (61A), IMPACTS Microwave Instrument Team (612), IMPACTS Microwave Instrument Team (619)

Robert H. Goddard Award - Safety

2023-01-01

Recipients:Shannon Reynier Sankar (663)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Merit

2023-01-01

Recipients:Joanna Joiner (614), Charles W Bowers (667), Randy A Kimble (667)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Quality and Process Improvement

2023-01-01

Recipients:Code 600 Foreign Travel LSS (612), Swift Mission Operations Center (661)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Supervision

2023-01-01

Recipients:EFTYHIA ZESTA (673)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Secretarial & Clerical

2023-01-01

Recipients:Victor E Freeman (610), Susan Teates (667)