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About the Geochemistry Fellow Honor

In 1996, the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry established the honorary title of Geochemistry Fellow, to be bestowed upon outstanding scientists who have, over some years, made a major contribution to the field of geochemistry. Recipients of the Urey, Goldschmidt, Treibs, Patterson and Science Innovation Awards become Fellows automatically.

Scientific excellence is a core value of both the Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry, and it is our privilege, by rewarding it, to take a leading role in its definition. In awarding Geochemistry Fellows, our societies believe it is important to recognize the broad spectrum of scientific achievements that advance geochemistry. Excellence should not be limited to major discoveries and ideas that change paradigms, and not solely evaluated on the basis of the number of papers published in high-impact journals; the nominee’s h-index and previously obtained distinctions; nor the amount of funding acquired. Instead, we recognize that scientific eminence, achievement and impact also encompass sustained and proven contributions that create a dynamic environment essential for scientific progress. Examples of these include:

  • improvements to infrastructure and techniques;
  • capacity building, especially in developing countries or emerging disciplines;
  • exceptional editorial contributions;
  • curation of sample collections and databases of long-term scientific significance;
  • communication of the intrinsic excitement of our field to the general public;
  • work with policy makers to ensure that their decisions are grounded in rigorous science;
  • training the next generation of geochemists; and advancing ethics, inclusiveness, and social justice in science.

By recognizing the full diversity of the geochemical community and its many varied contributions we hope to provide a wide range of examples that young scientists can strive to emulate.

We are committed to promoting the diversity of our awardees, to recognizing a wide range of different types of exceptional contribution, and we acknowledge the different career paths that lead to the achievement of such contributions.
Nominations of underrepresented groups are encouraged.

2024 Geochemistry Fellows

Fellows by year

Year Name
2024 Dereje Ayalew, Jochen Josef Brocks, Peter A. Cawood, Kent C. Condie, Evelyn FüriSI, Tetsuo Irifune, Fabrizio Nestola, Christine V. Putnis, Mark Rehkämper, Urs Schaltegger, Fang-Zhen Teng, Satoshi UtsunomiyaP, Jeffrey Vervoort, Paul J. Wallace, Helen M. Williams, Youxue Zhang
2023 Alessandro Aiuppa, Karim Benzerara, Antje Boetius, Maud Boyet, Elizabeth Cottrell, Andrew M. Davis, Hailiang Dong, Danielle Fortin, Penny L. King, Thorsten Kleine, Daniel Ochieng’ Olago, Clive Oppenheimer, Clare E. Reimers, Rosalind E. M. RickabySI, Myrna J.  SimpsonP, Neil Colrick Sturchio, Shucheng XieT
2022 Marly Babinski, Christopher Ballentine, Simon Brassell, Ken Buesseler, Marie Edmonds, Stephen Foley, Gideon Henderson, Jörg Hermann, Noriko Kita, Xiang-dong LiP, Harue Masuda, Tamsin Mather, Ann Pearson, Laurie Reisberg, Lenny WinkelSI, Yi-Gang Xu
2021 Sachiko AmariU, Wei-Jun Cai, Thure Cerling, Fabrice GaillardSI, Janet Hergt, Fumio Inagaki, Jan Kramers, Wendy Mao, Graham Pearson, Simon Poulton, Alexander Sobolev, Marta E. Torres, Aradhna Tripati, Simon Turner, Meenakshi Wadhwa, Martin Whitehouse
2020 Edouard Bard, Liane G. Benning, J. Kirk Cochran, Christian France-Lanord, Baohua Gu, Sidney Hemming, Trevor R. Ireland, Andreas Kappler, Syed Wajih A. Naqvi, Kevin RossoSI, Caroline Slomp, Naohiro Yoshida
2019 Nicolas Dauphas, Sylvie DerenneT, Melinda Darby Dyar, Jean Jouzel, Cin-Ty A. Lee, Shuguang Li, Jack Middelburg, Eric OelkersU, Daniela Rubatto, Yuji Sano, Barbara Sherwood LollarP, William Shotyk, Mordechai Stein
2018 Jess AdkinsSI, Michael ArthurG, Miryam Bar-Matthews, Robert J. Bodnar, Daniel Frost, Jérôme Gaillardet, Sigurður Reynir GíslasonP, George R. Helz, Janet G. Hering, Catherine Jeandel, Craig Manning, William S. Reeburgh, Niels Revsbech, Zachary Sharp, Susan Trumbore, Fu-Yuan Wu
2017 Thomas Bianchi, Catherine Chauvel, James Davis, Scott E. Fendorf, Steven L. Goldstein, Kai-Uwe HinrichsP, Kimitaka Kawamura, Kurt O. Konhauser, Peter H. Santschi, Bo ThamdrupSI, Jon Woodhead, Yong-Fei Zheng
2016 Yemane Asmerom, Bernard Bourdon, Jon BlundySI, Elizabeth Canuel, Sun-Lin Chung, Carol Frost, Patrick HatcherT, Jochen Hoefs, Cong-Qiang Liu, Isabel Patricia Montañez, Jay Quade, Friedhelm von Blanckenburg, Edward Young
2015 Ariel Anbar, Hai Cheng, Timothy Elliott, Monica M. Grady, Erik Hauri, Karen JohannessonP, Gert de Lange, Timothy W. Lyons, Kathryn L. Nagy, Eiji Ohtani, Philippe Van CappellenSI, Holly Stein
2014 Yuri Amelin, Robert AndersonP, Richard Arculus, Kenneth BrulandP, R. Lawrence EdwardsP, William F. FitzgeraldP, Shan Gao, Robert Hazen, Kei HiroseSI, Marc Hirschmann, Rebecca Lange, Stephen R. LarterT, George W. Luther IIIP, Bernard Marty, Hiroko Nagahara, Martin Palmer, Adina Paytan, Christopher ReddyP, Stefan SchoutenP, Daniel SigmanSI, Jeffrey P. SeveringhausP, William SundaP
2013 Victoria Bennett, Jérôme Chappellaz, John Eiler, Kenneth A. Farley, Yingwei Fei, Guillaume Fiquet, Kliti Grice, Peter Kelemen, Richard Pancost, Frank Richter, Hisayoshi Yurimoto
2012 Susan L. Brantley, James Farquhar, Andrew JW Gleadow, Timothy L. Grove, Bjørn Jamtveit, Hans Keppler, Lee R. Kump, Mark D. Kurz, Kevin D. McKeegan, Andrew Putnis
2011 Samuel Bowring, Zhenhao Duan, Steven Emerson, Katherine Freeman, J. M. MoldowanT, Terry Plank, David Rubie, Susan Stipp, Dimitri Sverjensky, John Valley, Dominique Weis
2010 Janne Blichert-Toft, Joel Blum, Danielle Cherniak, Patricia Dove, William McDonough, Scott McLennan, Robert Raiswell, Rick Ryerson, William Seyfried, Steven Shirey, John VolkmanT
2009 Georges Calas, Sumit Chakraborty, C. Page Chamberlain, Rod Ewing, Klaus Mezger, Sam Savin, Everett Shock, Jonathan Stebbins, Richard Walker
2008 William L. Griffin, James F. Kasting, Malcolm McCulloch, Bjorn O. Mysen, Pascal RichetU, Roberta L. Rudnick, Donald L. Sparks, Karen L. Von Damm
2007 Jill Banfield, Don Canfield, Marc Chaussison, Jitendra Nath Goswami, T. Mark Harrison, Frank C. Hawthorne, Michael F. Hochella, Jr., Boaz Luz, Catherine McCammon, Judith A. McKenzie, Walter MichaelisT, Hugh O’Neill, Robert Pepin, Mark Thiemens, David Vaughan, Arthur White
2006 William Casey, Bor-ming Jahn, Brian Popp, Jacques Schott, Bernd SimoneitT, Susan SolomonG
2005 Nicholas T. Arndt, Stein B. Jacobsen, Alexandra NavrotskyU, Jaap S. Sinninghe DamsteT, Stuart G. Wakeham, Lynn M. Walter
2004 Cindy Lee, Stephen A. Macko, Bhamidipati L.K. Somayajulu
2003 Robert Aller, Richard Carlson, Marilyn Fogel, Seth Krishnaswami, John W. Morse, Herbert Palme, David Rickard, Roger E. SummonsT
2002 David Des Marais, Archie DouglasT, Michael Drake, Irving Friedman, Christopher Martens, Phil Meyers, Garrison Sposito, and John Wasson
2001 Alex Halliday, Chris Hawkesworth, Bill Jenkins, Bo Joergensen, John W. SmithT, Igor Tolstikhin, Rolland Wollast
2000 Harry Elderfield, Gunter Faure, Fred A. Frey, Gilbert Hanson, Frank J. Millero, Francois Morel, Minoru Ozima, Douglas Rumble II, Terry M. Seward, G. Alan Zindler
1999 Hubert L. Barnes, James L. BischoffG, Gordon E. Brown, C. Wayne Burnham, William S. Fyfe, Nobumichi Shimizu
1998 Thomas J. Ahrens, Francis Albarède, Michael L. Bender, Edward A. Boyle, Eric M. Galimov, John I. Hedges, Miriam Kastner, Yehoshua Kolodny, Charles H. Langmuir, Antonio C. Lasaga, James R. O’Neil, George Parks, Jan Veizer, David Walker, E. Bruce Watson, Bernard J. Wood, Ernst Zinner
1997 Philip Abelson, Jan Bottinga, Ian Carmichael, Donald DePaolo, BrunoJ. Giletti, Tom Krogh, Ikuo Kushiro, Devendra LalG, Gunter W. Lugmair, Fred McKenzie, Alexandra Navrotsky, Michael O’Hara, Keith O’Nions, Denis M. Shaw, Edward M. Stolper, James C.G. Walker, George Wetherill, Derek York
1996 William Compston, Willi Dansgaard, John Edmond, John M. Hayes, Albrecht W. HofmannG, Marc Javoy, Ho-Kwang Mao, Stephen Moorbath, John Reynolds, Jean-Guy Schilling, Nicholas Shackleton, Werner Stumm, Mitsunobu Tatsumoto, George Tilton, Grenville Turner, Heinrich Wänke, William White
<1996 Pierre AlbrechtT, Claude AllègreG, Edward AndersG, Robert A. BernerG, Wallace S. BroeckerGU, Robert N. ClaytonGU, Harmon CraigG, Geoffrey EglintonT, Samuel EpsteinGU, Hans P. EugsterG, Robert M. GarrelsG, Paul W. GastG, Samuel S. GoldichG, Stanley R. HartG, Harold C. HelgesonG, T.C. HoeringT, Heinrich D. HollandG, John M. HuntT, Isaac R. KaplanT, Konrad B. KrauskopfG, Keith A. KvenvoldenT, Jan W. de LeeuwT, James R. MaxwellT, Alfred O.C. NierG, Hans OeschgerU, Clair C. PattersonG, Ted PhilippiT, Ted RingwoodG, Wolfgang K. SeifertT, Hans E. SuessG, Hugh P. Taylor Jr.U, S. Ross TaylorG, James B. Thompson Jr.G, Bernard TissotT, Karl K. TurekianG, Harold C. UreyG, Gerald J. WasserburgG, Dietrich H. WelteT

G Fellow by Goldschmidt Medal
P Fellow by Patterson Medal
SI Fellow by Science Innovation Award
T Fellow by Treibs Medal
U Fellow by Urey Medal

Fellows by name

A B C D
Philip Abelson
Jess Adkins
Thomas Ahrens
Alessandro Aiuppa
Francis Albarède
Pierre Albrecht
Claude Allègre
Robert Aller
Sachiko Amari
Yuri Amelin
Ariel Anbar
Edward Anders
Robert F. Anderson
Richard Arculus
Nicholas Arndt
Michael Arthur
Yemane Asmerom
Dereje Ayalew
Marly Babinski
Christopher Ballentine
Jill Banfield
Edouard Bard
Miryam Bar-Matthews
Hubert Barnes
Michael Bender
Victoria Bennett
Liane G. Benning
Robert Berner
Karim Benzerara
Thomas Bianchi
James Bischoff
Janne Blichert-Toft
Joel Blum
Jon Blundy
Robert Bodnar
Antje Boetius
Jan Bottinga
Bernard Bourdon
Samuel Bowring
Maud Boyet
Edward Boyle
Susan Brantley
Simon Brassell
Jochen Josef Brocks
Gordon Brown
Kenneth Bruland
Ken Buesseler
Wayne Burnham
Wei-Jun Cai
Georges Calas
Don Canfield
Elizabeth Canuel
Richard Carlson
Ian Carmichael
William Casey
Peter A. Cawood
Thure Cerling
Sumit Chakraborty
Page Chamberlain
Jérôme Chappellaz
Marc Chaussidon
Catherine Chauvel
Hai Cheng
Daniele Cherniak
Sun-Lin Chung
Robert Clayton
J. Kirk Cochran
William Compston
Kent C. Condie
Elizabeth Cottrell
Harmon Craig
Willi Dansgaard
Nicolas Dauphas
Andrew M. Davis
James Davis
Donald DePaolo
Sylvie Derenne
David Des Marais
Hailiang Dong
Archie Douglas
Patricia Dove
Michael Drake
Zhenhao Duan
Melinda Darby Dyar
E F G H
John Edmond
Marie Edmonds
R. Lawrence Edwards
Geoffrey Eglinton
John Eiler
Harry Elderfield
Timothy Elliott
Steven Emerson
Samuel Epstein
Hans Eugster
Rod Ewing
Kenneth Farley
James Farquhar
Gunter Faure
Yingwei Fei
Guillaume Fiquet
Scott E. Fendorf
William F. Fitzgerald
Marilyn Fogel
Stephen Foley
Danielle Fortin
Christian France-Lanord
Katherine Freeman
Fred Frey
Irving Friedman
Carol Frost
Daniel Frost
Evelyn Füri
William S. Fyfe
Fabrice Gaillard
Jérôme Gaillardet
Eric Galimov
Shan Gao
Robert Garrels
Paul Gast
Andrew Gleadow
Bruno Giletti
Sigurður R. Gíslason
Samuel Goldich
Steven L. Goldstein
Jitendra Nath Goswami
Monica M. Grady
Kliti Grice
William Griffin
Timothy L. Grove
Baohua Gu
Alex Halliday
Gilbert Hanson
Mark Harrison
Stanley Hart
Patrick Hatcher
Erik Hauri
Chris Hawkesworth
Frank Hawthorne
John Hayes
Robert Hazen
John Hedges
Harold Helgeson
George Helz
Sidney Hemming
Gideon Henderson
Janet Hergt
Janet Hering
Jörg Hermann
Kai-Uwe Hinrichs
Kei Hirose
Marc Hirschmann
Michael Hochella
Jochen Hoefs
T.C. Hoering
Albrecth Hofmann
Heinrich Holland
John Hunt
I-J K L M
Fumio Inagaki
Trevor R. Ireland
Tetsuo Irifune
Stein Jacobsen
Bor-ming Jahn
Bjørn Jamtveit
Marc Javoy
Catherine Jeandel
Bill Jenkins
Bo Barker Joergensen
Karen Johannesson
Jean Jouzel
Issac Kaplan
Andreas Kappler
James Kasting
Miriam Kastner
Kimitaka Kawamura
Peter Kelemen
Hans Keppler
Penny L. King
Noriko Kita
Thorsten Kleine
Yehoshua Kolodny
Kurt O. Konhauser
Jan Kramers
Konrad B. Krauskopf
Seth Krishnaswami
Tom Krogh
Lee R. Kump
Mark D. Kurz
Ikuo Kushiro
Devendra Lal
Gert de Lange
Rebecca Lange
Charles Langmuir
Antonio Lasaga
Cindy Lee
Cin-Ty A. Lee
Jan de Leeuw
Shuguang Li
Xiang-dong Li
Cong-Qiang Liu
Gunter Lugmair
George W. Luther, III
Boaz Luz
Timothy W. Lyons
Fred Mackenzie
Stephen Macko
Craig Manning
Ho-Kwang Mao
Wendy Mao
Chris Martens
Bernard Marty
Harue Masuda
Tamsin Mather
James Mawell
Catherine McCammon
Malcolm McCullogh
Kevin McKeegan
Judith McKenzie
William McDonough
Scott McLennan
Phil Meyers
Klaus Mezger
Walter Michaelis
Jack Middelburg
Frank Millero
J.M. Moldowan
Isabel P. Montañez
Stephen Moorbath
François Morel
John Morse
Bjorn Mysen
N O P Q
Hiroko Nagahara
Kathryn L. Nagy
Syed Wajih A. Naqvi
Alexandra Navrotsky
Fabrizio Nestola
Alfred Nier
Eric Oelkers
Hans Oeschger
Michael O’Hara
Eiji Ohtani
Daniel Ochieng Olago
James O’Neill
Hugh O’Neill
Keith O’Nions
Clive Oppenheimer
Minoru Ozima
Herbert Palme
Martin Palmer
Richard Pancost
George Parks
Clair Patterson
Adina Paytan
Ann Pearson
Graham Pearson
Robert Pepin
Ted Philippi
Terry Plank
Brian Popp
Simon Poulton
Andrew Putnis
Christine V. Putnis
Jay Quade
R Sa-Sh Si-Sz T-U
Rob Raiswell
William Reeburgh
Mark Rehkämper
Clare E. Reimers
Laurie Reisberg
Niels Revsbech
John Reynolds
Pascal Richet
Frank Richter
Rosalind Rickaby
David Rickard
A.E. (Ted) Ringwood
Kevin Rosso
Daniela Rubatto
David Rubie
Roberta Rudnick
Douglas Rumble
F.J. (Rick) Ryerson
Yuji Sano
Peter H. Santschi
Sam Savin
Urs Schaltegger
Jean-Guy Schillin
Martin Schoell
Jacques Schott
Stefan Schouten
Jeffrey P. Severinghaus
Terry Seward
Wolfgang Seifert
William Seyfried
Zachary Sharp
Denis Shaw
Nicolas Shackleton
Barbara Sherwood Lollar
Nobumichi Shimizu
Steven Shirey
Everett Shock
William Shotyk
Daniel Sigman
Jaap S. Sinninghe-D.
Bernd Simoneit
Myrna J. Simpson
Caroline Slomp
John Smith
Alexander Sobolev
Susan Solomon
Bhamidipati L.K. Somayajulu
Donald Sparks
Garrison Sposito
Jonathan Stebbins
Holly Stein
Mordechai Stein
Susan Stipp
Edward Stolper
Werner Stumm
Neil Sturchio
Hans Suess
Roger Summons
William Sunda
Dimitri Sverjensky
Mitsunobu Tatsumoto
Hugh Taylor Jr.
S. Ross Taylor
Fang-Zhen Teng
Bo Thamdrup
Mark Thiemens
James B. Thompson, Jr.
George Tilton
Bernard Tissot
Igor Tolstikhin
Marta E. Torres
Aradhna Tripati
Susan Trumbore
Karl K. Turekian
Grenville Turner
Simon Turner
Harold C. Urey
Satoshi Utsunomiya
V W X-Y Z
John Valley
Philippe Van Cappellen
David Vaughan
Jan Veizer
Jeffrey Vervoort
John Volkman
F. von Blanckenburg
Karen L. Von Damm
Meenakshi Wadhwa
Stuart Wakeham
David Walker
James Walker
Richard Walker
Paul J. Wallace
Lynn Walter
Heinrich Wanke
Gerald Wasserburg
John Wasson
E. Bruce Watson
Dominique Weis
Dietrich Welte
George Wetherill
Arthur White
William White
Martin Whitehouse
Helen M. Williams
Lenny Winkel
Rolland Wollast
Bernard J. Wood
Jon Woodhead
Fu-Yuan Wu
Shucheng Xie
Yi-Gang Xu
Derek York
Naohiro Yoshida
Edward Young
Hisayoshi Yurimoto
Youxue Zhang
Yong-Fei Zheng
G. Alan Zindler
Ernst Zinner