AMS Awards & Honors
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Nominations are now being accepted through 1 May 2025.
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Awards & Honors Recipients
Please join us in congratulating the most recent group of outstanding leaders of the weather, water, and climate community!
Awards
Nominations accepted through 1 May 2025
With over 35 awards spanning science to journalism and more, help us recognize those whose work and dedication have had a profound impact on the weather, water, and climate science community.
Fellows
Nominations accepted through 1 May 2025
Those eligible for election to Fellow shall have made outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences or their applications during a substantial period of years.
Honorary Members
Nominations accepted through 1 May 2025
Honorary Members shall be persons of acknowledged preeminence in the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences, either through their own contributions to the sciences or their application or through furtherance of the advance of those sciences in some other way.
Lectureships
Nominations accepted through 1 May 2025
The Society’s lectureships are now intended to recognize outstanding mid-career scientists. Mid-career is nominally taken to include scientists who are within 10 to 20 years beyond earning their highest graduate degree or within 15 to 25 years beyond earning their baccalaureate.
Named Symposia
Nominations accepted through 1 May 2025
Recognition of scientists in the fields served by the AMS, living or deceased, in the form of a named conference or symposium or a named special collection in the Society's journals is an honor reserved for only the most outstanding of our colleagues.
Named Sessions
Nominations closed 1 May 2024
A named session honoring an individual may be held within an existing specialty conference or symposium on the recommendation of the STAC Commissioner and approval by the Executive Committee.