The Meteoritical Society is delighted to be honoring some of our distinguished members with the society's annual awards. An Awards Ceremony will be held on July 31 during the annual meeting being held in Brussels, Belgium. Citations have been published in Meteoritics and Planetary Science and are linked below. The Awards Ceremony will also recognize the previously announced 2024 Meteoritical Society Fellows and awardees of the 2024 Pellas-Ryder Award and the 2023 McKay and Wiley Awards. Congratulations to the highly deserving awardees, and thank you to all our members who took the time to nominate our colleagues for consideration and who serve on award committees.
Leonard Medal Recipient: Monica Grady
The Leonard Medal is given to individuals who have made outstanding original contributions to the science of meteoritics or closely allied fields. The Meteoritical Society presents the 2024 Leonard Medal to Monica Grady for her major contributions to understanding the light element geochemistry, abundances, and origins of extraterrestrial materials such as presolar and solar carbonaceous phases in chondrites, which contribute to the volatile inventories of the terrestrial planets and the evolution of Mars. Full citation: https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.14230
Barringer Medal Recipient: John Spray
The Barringer Medal is given for outstanding work in the field of impact cratering and/or work that has led to a better understanding of impact phenomena. The Meteoritical Society presents the 2024 Barringer Medal to John Spray for his highly innovative theoretical and applied research on a range of topics, from high strain rate deformation of crustal rocks to meteorites and regolith formation, and for which he has combined field, analytical, and experimental aspects. Full citation: https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.14232
Nier Prize Recipient: Elishevah van Kooten
The Nier Prize is given for significant research in the field of meteoritics and closely related fields by an early career scientist under the age of 35 or whose PhD was awarded <7 years ago. The Meteoritical Society presents the 2024 Alfred O. Nier Prize for a distinguished young scientist to Elishevah van Kooten for her broad-based perspective that uses well-chosen observations and a team approach to constrain longstanding puzzles about the origins of the first planetesimals; and for developing advanced new high-precision analytical methods in two different isotopic systems. Full citation: https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.14226
Service Award Recipient: Richard Greenwood
The Service Award honors members who have advanced the goals of the Society to promote research and education in meteoritics and planetary science in ways other than by conducting scientific research. The Meteoritical Society presents the 2024 Service Award to Richard Greenwood for his extensive education and public outreach work, and his service to the Society and community, and on his large contribution to classification and curation of extraterrestrial samples. Full citation: https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.14231