Two international geophysical societies offer awards each year which are named in honor of Maurice Ewing; these are the American Geophysical Union and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
AGU Ewing Medal
The Maurice Ewing Medal is awarded by the American Geophysical Union for "significant original contributions to the understanding of physical, geophysical, and geological processes in the ocean; to those who advance oceanographic engineering, technology, and instrumentation; and to those who perform outstanding service to the marine sciences". The award was instituted in 1974 and is jointly sponsored by the United States Navy.
+ Recipients Year Recipient1976Walter H. Munk1977Henry Stommel1978Edward Bullard1979Wallace Smith Broecker1980J. Tuzo Wilson1981Manik Talwani1982John I. Ewing1983Fred Noel Spiess1984Xavier Le Pichon1985Kenneth O. Emery1986John Imbrie1987William Jason Morgan1988Wolfgang H. Berger1989Klaus Wyrtki1990Carl I. Wunsch1991Charles David Keeling1992Charles Shipley Cox1993Kirk Bryan1994John A. Orcutt1995Jean-Guy Schilling1996Walter C. Pitman III1997Karl Turekian1998Richard P. Von Herzen1999Arnold L. Gordon2000Joseph L. Reid2001Richard G. Fairbanks2002Nicholas Shackleton2003Gerard C. Bond2004Bruce A. Warren2005Francois M. M. Morel2006G. Michael Purdy 2007Marcia Kemper McNutt2008Miriam Kastner2009Thomas Rossby2010William J. Jenkins2011Joseph Pedlosky2012Ellen Thomas2013Mark Cane2014John Andrews Whitehead2015Russ E. Davis2016Peter George Brewer2017Donald W. Forsyth2018Nicklas G. Pisias2019Maureen E. Raymo2020Anthony Brian Watts2021Eelco J. Rohling2022Ana Christina Ravelo2023Charles H Langmuir2024Alan C Mix2025Zvi Ben-Avraham
SEG Ewing Medal
The Maurice Ewing Medal of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists is awarded to one who is “deserving of SEG’s highest honor through having made distinguished contributions both to the advancement of the science and to the profession of exploration geophysics”.
+ Recipients Year Recipient1978Cecil Howard Green1979C. Hewitt Dix1981J. Tuzo Wilson1982Frank Press1983Harry Mayne1984L. L. Nettleton1985Nigel Anstey1986J. E. White1987Arthur A. Brant1988Franklyn K. Levin1989Sven Treitel1990Milo M. Backus1991Theodore C. Krey1992Jon Claerbout1993M. Turhan Taner1995Harold O. Seigel1996Ken Larner1997Thomas R. LaFehr1998Robert E. Sheriff1999Gerald H. F. Gardner2000Stanley H. Ward2001Enders A. Robinson2002Gordon F. West2003Guus Berkhout2004Vlastislav Cervený2005Robert J. Graebner2006Fred Hilterman2007Roy Oliver Lindseth2008John W. C. Sherwood2009David Strangway2010Anthony R. Barringer2010M. Nafi Toksöz2011Amos M. Nur2012George A. McMechan2013Peter Hubral2014Norman Bleistein2015Manik Talwani2016Arthur Weglein2017Samuel Gray2018Albert Tarantola2019Robert H. Stolt2020Leon Thomsen2021Rosemary Knight2022Öz Yılmaz2023Kurt J. Marfurt2024Mark Zoback2025Gary Mavko2026Craig Beasley See also List of geophysicists List of geophysics awards List of prizes named after people
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