Awards: How to Nominate

Royal Astronomical Society prizes:

(July 31) http://www.ras.org.uk/awards-and-grants/awards

Various Sponsors:

Jansky Lectureship: (February 1) http://www.nrao.edu/jansky/ The Shaw Prize in Astronomy: (September) http://www.shawprize.org/ The Nobel Prize: (February 1) http://nobelprize.org/ Templeton Prize: (July 1) http://www.templetonprize.org/

External Awards and Prizes

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Awards & Honors:

See http://www.agu.org/about/honors/

• William Bowie Medal (Geophysics)
• James B. Macelwane Medal (Young Geophysicist)
• Waldo E. Smith Medal (Leadership)
• John Adam Fleming Medal (Geomagnetism, Atmospheric Electricity, Aeronomy, Space Physics)
• Walter H. Bucher (Earth's Crust)
• Maurice Ewing Medal (Marine Sciences, Instrumentation)
• Robert E. Horton Medal (Hydrology)
• Harry H. Hess Medal (Terrestrial Planet Evolution)
• Charles A. Whitten Medal (Planetary Dynamics)
• Roger Revelle Medal (Atmospheric Processes)
• Inge Lehmann Medal (Earth's Interior)
• Edward A. Flinn III Award (Research Infrastructure)
• International Award (Earth & Space Sciences)
• Excellence in Geophysical Education Award (Geophysics Education)
• Athelstan Spilhaus Award (Public Outreach, Earth & Space Sciences)
• Charles S. Falkenberg Award (Public Outreach, Earth Science)

AGU Fellows

See http://www.agu.org/about/honors/fellows/nominations/.

American Meteorological Society Awards

See http://www.ametsoc.org/awards/descriptions/index.cfm.

American Astronomical Society (AAS) Awards:

See http://aas.org/grants/
Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (Lifetime Achievement) Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy (Early Career, Observational) Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (Early Career, Observational or Theoretical) Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize (Especially Innovative Research) Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation (Instrumentation) Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (Mid-career) George Van Biesbroeck Prize (Extraordinary Service) Education Prize (Contribution to Education) Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy (Distinguished Contribution) Astronomy Achievement Student Awards (Exemplary Research) Brouwer Award (Dynamical Astronomy) Rossi Prize (High Energy) (October 15) Schramm Prize (Writing about High Energy) (June 15) Doggett Prize (Historical Astronomy) (announced annually) Hale Prize (Solar Astronomy) Harvey Prize (Solar Astronomy, under age of 36) (fall)

AAS Division of Planetary Sciences Awards:

See http://www.aas.org/~dps/prizes_contact.html
Kuiper Prize (Lifetime Achievement) Urey Prize (Young Scientist) Masursky (Service) Sagan (Public Communication) (April 20)

American Physical Society (APS) Physics prizes:

http://www.aps.org/praw/index.cfm

Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) Prizes:

See http://www.astrosociety.org/membership/awards/awards.html
Richard H. Emmons Award (College astronomy teaching) 1 Jan 2013 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal (Lifetime contributions to astronomy) Robert J. Trumpler Award (PhD thesis) 1 Jan 2013 Klumpke-Roberts Award (Contributions to the public understanding of astronomy) 1 Jan 2013 Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award (Recent significant observational results made possible by innovative advances in astronomical instrumentation, software, or observational infrastructure.) 1 Jan 2013 Thomas J. Brennan Award (High school astronomy teaching) 1 Jan 2013 Amateur Achievement 1 Jan 2013 Las Cumbres Amateur Outreach 1 Jan 2013

NASA-wide Awards

• Agency Award Programs page

Goddard Awards

• GSFC Office of Human Capital Awards Program pages.
  The OHCM page hosts nomination forms for awards including:
  • the Excellence in Information Science & Technology (IS&T) Award,
  • the John C. Lindsay Memorial Award for Space Science,
  • the Moe I. Schneebaum Memorial Award for Engineering,
  • the William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Science, and
  • the Robert H. Goddard Honor Awards.

SED Prize & Awards Committees

+ Common Charter

Earth Sciences (610)

No Division-level awards programs. See Lab-level awards.

Astrophysics (660)

Annual Peer Awards
Announcements are sent out to staff via email in May. Awardees from previous two years are ineligible. Send nominations to peer-awards_at_milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov.

Heliophysics (670)

Annual Peer Awards
Announcements are sent out to staff via email in late spring or early summer.

Solar System (690)

Annual Peer Awards
Announcements are sent out to staff via email in late spring. Nominations are done via a webform. See this internal site for more information

Laboratory awards given in 610 only.

GMAO (610.1)

Peer awards for contractor/university personnel.

GISS (611)

Yearly nominations solicited for most popular journal publication and best publilc science.
No formal peer award program, though occasionally given.

Atmospheres Group (610.W, 612, 613, 614)

Peer awards for contractor/university personnel. Award categories:

• Best Senior Author Publication
• Outstanding Performance
  • Science
  • Engineering
  • Technical Support
  • Instrumentation
  • IT Security
  • Software Development
  • Administrative Support

Climate and Radiation Laboratory (613)

Annual peer awards at the beginning of the calendar year. Award categories:

• Best first-authored paper
• Scientific Leadership Award
• Outstanding technical or science support/achievement
• Outstanding Administrative Support
• Special Award for an act of exceptional merit, beyond the call of duty

Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences (615-619)

Annual awards ceremony in the summer. Award categories:

• Scientific Achievement - (civil servants and contractors)
• Scientific, Technical, or Outreach support (civil servants and contractors)
• Administrative Business Support - (civil servants and contractors)
• Career Achievement (Civil Servants)
• Outstanding Publication