Awards & Medals
Most of the Awards and Medals listed below have been bestowed by the European Geophysical Society (EGS) and by the European Union of Geosciences (EUG) up to 2003. The European Geosciences Union (EGU), established by the Councils of the EGS and the EUG on 7 September 2002, has adopted their award & medal schemes and will continue them from 2004 onwards as indicated below.
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Union Awards
| Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership | EGS | EUG | EGU | Union |
| Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership | EGS | EUG | EGU | Union |
| Jean Dominique Cassini Medal & Honorary Membership | EGS | | EGU | Union |
| Alexander von Humboldt Medal | | | EGU | Union |
| Union Fellowship | EGS | EUG | | Union |
| Outstanding Young Scientist Award | | EUG | EGU | Union |
| Union Service Award | EGS | | EGU | Union |
Union Assembly Awards
| Union Travel Awards | | | EGU | Union |
| Union YSOPP Awards | | | EGU | Union |
Division Awards
| Young Scientists' Publication Awards | EGS | | | Divisions |
Division Medals
| Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal | EGS | | EGU | Atmospheric Sciences |
| Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal | EGS | | EGU | Biogeosciences |
| Milutin Milankovic Medal | EGS | | EGU | Climate: Past, Present & Future |
| Hans Oeschger Medal | EGS | | EGU | Climate: Past, Present & Future |
| Louis Agassiz Medal | | | EGU | Cryospheric Sciences |
| TBD | | | EGU | Energy Resources and the Environment |
| Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal | | | EGU | Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology |
| Vening Meinesz Medal | EGS | | EGU | Geodesy |
| Augustus Love Medal | | | EGU | Geodynamics |
| Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal | | | EGU | Geomorphology |
| Christiaan Huygens Medal | | | EGU | Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems |
| John Dalton Medal | EGS | | EGU | Hydrology as an Earth System Science |
| Henry Darcy Medal | EGS | | EGU | Water Resources Management & Engineering |
| Louis Néel Medal | EGS | | EGU | Magnetism, Palaeomagnetism, Rock Physics & Geomaterials |
| Petrus Peregrinus Medal | | | EGU | Magnetism, Palaeomagnetism, Rock Physics & Geomaterials |
| Plinius Medal | EGS | | EGU | Natural Hazards |
| Sergey Soloviev Medal | EGS | | EGU | Natural Hazards |
| Lewis Fry Richardson Medal | EGS | | EGU | Nonlinear Geosciences |
| Fridtjof Nansen Medal | EGS | | EGU | Ocean Sciences |
| David Bates Medal | EGS | | EGU | Planetary & Solar System Sciences (Aeronomy) |
| Runcorn-Florensky Medal | EGS | | EGU | Planetary & Solar System Sciences (Solid) |
| Beno Gutenberg Medal | EGS | | EGU | Seismology |
| Philippe Duchaufour Medal | | | EGU | Soil System Sciences |
| Julius Bartels Medal | EGS | | EGU | Solar - Terrestrial Sciences |
| Hannes Alfvén Medal | EGS | | EGU | Solar - Terrestrial Sciences & Planetary - Solar System Sciences |
| Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal | | | EGU | Stratigraphy, Sedimentology & Palaeontology |
| Stephan Mueller Medal | EGS | | EGU | Tectonics & Structural Geology |
