Awardees
2023 - Announcement
![]() | Bea Baharier (Open University) for Terrestrial Aqueously Altered Magmatic Dike Forming Sulfate-Rich Hydrothermal Fluids to Constrain Martian Habitability at 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, March 13-17, 2023. |
![]() | Sarah Henderson (University of Iowa) for Influence of Magnetic Fields on Precipitating Solar Wind Hydrogen at Mars at the European Geophysical Union in Vienna, Austria, April 23-28, 2023. |
2022 - Announcement
![]() | Pim Kaskes (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) for The drill core diary: Unravelling the rapid emplacement of suevite and impact melt phases within the Chicxulub impact structure and High-resolution chemostratigraphy of the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary interval in the US Western Interior: implications for Chicxulub impact ejecta dynamics at the 53st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, March 7-11, 2022. |
![]() | Ophélie McIntosh (University Paris-Saclay) for Thermal reactivity of organic molecules with chloride salts: consequences for the chemical composition of Mars samples analyzed in situ with the GCMS, SAM, and MOMA instruments at the Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon) in Atlanta, Georgia, May 15-20, 2022. |
![]() | Joseph McNeil (Open University) for Windows into Noachian Mars: Eroded landforms in Chryse Planitia and the ExoMars rover landing site at the 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference at The Woodlands, Texas, March 7-11, 2022. |
![]() | Suchitra Narayanan (University of Hawaii at Manoa) for Analyzing the Substructure and Dynamics and Sulfur Organics Inventory of Oph IRS43 at the Protostars and Planets VII conference in Kyoto, Japan, September 2022. |
2021 SUSPENDED DUE TO COVID
2020 - Announcement
![]() | Malena Rice (Yale University), for Probing the Solar System with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) at the Expanding the Science of TESS Workshop in Sydney, Australia, Feb. 10-14, 2020. |
![]() | Lucy Kissick (Oxford University), for The Sedimentary Archive of Atmospheric CO2 on Mars and Sample Return from a Relic Ocean World: the Calathus Mission to Occator Crater, Ceres at the 51st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, March 16-20, 2020. |
2019 - Announcement
![]() | Ying (Katherina) Feng (University of California, Santa Cruz), for Probing the Phase Dependence of Atmospheric Inference for Hot Jupiters at the Exoclimes V conference at Oxford, the United Kingdom, Aug. 12-15, 2019. |
![]() | Sammy Griffin (University of Glasgow), for New Insights into the Magmatic and Shock History of the Naklite Meteorites from Electron Backscatter Diffraction at the 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas. March 18-22, 2019. |
2018 - Announcement
![]() | Gregory J. Gilbert (University of Chicago) for A Universal Framework for Classifying Exoplanet Systems at the Exoplanets II conference at Cambridge, the United Kingdom, July 2-6, 2018. |
![]() | Lauren Mc Keown (Trinity College Dublin) for A Quantitative Comparison Between Theory And Experiment for CO2 Sublimation on a Granular Surface under Terrestrial and Martian Conditions at the 49th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, March 19-23, 2018. |
2017 - Announcement
![]() | Katherine de Kleer (University of California, Berkeley) for The Impact of Io’s Volcanism on the Jovian Extended Neutral Environment at the joint Japan Geoscience Union – American Geophysical Union meeting in Chiba, Japan May 20-25, 2017. |
![]() | Frances Butcher (Open University in the United Kingdom) for Eskers Associated with Extant Glaciers in Mid-Latitude Graben on Mars: Evidence for Geothermal Controls upon Recent Basal Melting of Glaciers on Mars at the 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas March 20-24, 2017. |
2016 - Announcement
![]() | Sheridan Ackiss (Purdue University) for "Mineralogical Evidence for Subglacial Volcanoes in the Sisyphi Montes Region of Mars at the 6th International Conference on Mars Polar Science and Exploration in Reykjavik, Iceland Sept. 5-9, 2016. |
![]() | Christy Caudill (Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration at the University of Western Ontario, Canada) for Large Basin Impact Cratering Processes as Understood Through Martian and Terrestrial Impact Studies at the American Geophysical Union Fall 2016 Meeting in San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 12-16, 2016. |
![]() | Edgar Steenstra (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for a presentation on core formation in Vesta and the Moon at the 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, March 16-20, 2015. Watch award ceremony on YouTube |
Caroline Morely (University of California, Santa Cruz) for Modeling and Observing the Effects of Clouds and Hazes in Exoplanets to be presented at Planetary Systems: A Synergistic View, in Quy Nhon, Vietnam, July 19-25, 2015. |
![]() | Jacob A. Richardson (University of South Florida) for LiDAR Observations of an Earth Magma Plumbing System as an Analog for Venus and Mars Distributed Volcanism to be presented at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, April 27 - May 2, 2014. |
![]() | Jakob Deller (University of Kent, UK, and Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany) for SPH Modeling of Impact Events on Non-Spherical Rubble-Pile Asteroid Simulants to be presented at the 46th Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society in Tucson, Arizona, November 9-14, 2014. |
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