Recipient of the 2019 Science Innovation Award:
Ariel Anbar, Arizona State University, USA
Ariel Anbar is a scientist and educator interested in Earth’s past and future as an inhabited world, and the prospects for life beyond. He is a President’s Professor at Arizona State University on the faculty of the School of Earth & Space Exploration and the School of Molecular Sciences, and a Distinguished Sustainability Scholar in ASU’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. In education, Ariel directs ASU’s Center for Education Through Exploration, which is reinventing digital learning around curiosity, exploration, and discovery. Read more
The 2019 EAG Science Innovation Award was named in honor of Samuel Epstein for his work in isotope geochemistry.
About the EAG Science Innovation Award
The EAG Science Innovation Award recognizes scientists who have recently made a particularly important and innovative breakthrough in geochemistry. The geochemical research must be highly original and contribute in a significant fashion to our understanding of the natural behaviour of the Earth or planets. Such a contribution must be in the form of a widely recognized important piece of innovative scientific research published in a peer-reviewed journal.
The EAG Science Innovation Award is bestowed annually to a scientist within 30 years from the start of PhD, which must be completed. Eligibility is determined by the status of the candidate at the close of the year in which nominations are received and not the year the award is presented; hence, for the 2019 Science Innovation Award, candidates should have started their PhD in 1988 at the earliest.
The award is presented annually at the Goldschmidt Conference. The award consists of an engraved medal, an honorarium (1000 Euros), a certificate and inclusion as a Geochemical Fellow.
The EAG Science Innovation Award is bestowed annually but the subject area differs from year to year, according to the following five-year cycle:
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Samuel Epstein Medal honoring his work in isotope geochemistry |
 Werner Stumm Medal honoring his work in low temperature and surface geochemistry |
 Alfred Edward “Ted” RingwoodMedal honoring his work in petrology and mineral physics |
 Heinz Lowenstam Medal honoring his work in biogeochemistry |
 Nicholas ShackletonMedal honoring his work in climatology |
Former recipients of the Science Innovation Award
- 2018 Jess Adkins, Caltech, USA – Shackleton Medal
- 2017 Bo Thamdrup, University of Southern Denmark – Heinz Lowenstam Medal
- 2016 Jon Blundy, University of Bristol, UK – Ted Ringwood Medal
- 2015 Philippe Van Cappellen, University of Waterloo, Canada – Werner Stumm Medal
- 2014 James Farquhar, University of Maryland, USA – Samuel Epstein Medal
- 2013 Jérôme Chappellaz, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France – Shackleton Medal
- 2012 Katherine Freeman, PennState University, USA and Daniel Sigman, Princeton University, USA – Heinz Lowenstam Medal
- 2011 Kei Hirose, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan – Ted Ringwood Medal
- 2010 William H. Casey, UC Davis, USA – Werner Stumm Medal
- 2009 John M. Eiler, Caltech, USA – Samuel Epstein Medal
- 2008 R. Lawrence Edwards, University of Minnesota, USA – Shackleton Medal
