2004:

Andrea Ghez, Member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Sackler Prize, Tel-Aviv University

Michael Ghil, Lewis Fry Richardson Medal, EGU; ISI Web of Science Highly Cited Scientist

Brad Hansen, Sloan Fellowship

Mark Harrison, Director, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University

Leon Knopoff, Docteur Honoris Causa, Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg; Honorary Professor, Institute of Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Bruce Runnegar, Fellow, California Academy of Sciences

Gerald Schubert, President, AGU’s Planetary Sciences Section (2004–2006)

Friedrich Busse, Miller Professorship, UCB

Andrea Ghez, UCLA Faculty Research Lecturer

Nicholas Gruber, Rosenstiel Award, University of Miami

Leon Knopoff, Associate, Royal Astronomical Society

J. David Neelin, Fellow, Royal Meteorological Society

Alan Rubin, IGPP Distinguished Research Lecturer, UCLA

Bruce Runnegar, Director, NASA’s Astrobiology Institute

Christopher T. Russell, John Adam Fleming Medal, AGU

J. William Schopf, Member, Scientific Curatorium, Geo-Bio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Gerald Schubert, Walter M. Elsasser Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship

Didier Sornette, UCLA Science Faculty Colloquium Series of the College of Sciences and Letters, December 1, 2003

John T. Wasson, J. Lawrence Smith Medal, National Academy of Science

Friedrich Busse, Lewis Fry Richardson Medal, EGU

Michael Ghil, Associate, Royal Astronomical Society

Mark Harrison, ISI Web of Science Highly Cited Scientist

Isaac Kaplan, President’s Award, Division of Environmental Geosciences, AAPG

Jim McWilliams, Member, National Academy of Sciences

J. David Neelin, Fellow, American Meteorological Society

Christopher T. Russell, National Associate, National Academy of Sciences; COSPAR Space Science Award; ISI Web of Science Highly Cited Scientist

Gerald Schubert, Birch Lecture, “A Geophysicist’s Journey to the Center of the Earth”, Fall Meeting American Geophysical Union; Member, National Academy of Sciences; Harry N. Hess Medal, AGU; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; President-elect, AGU’s Planetary Science Section (2002 – 2004); ISI Web of Science Highly Cited Scientist

Didier Sornette, Risque-les Echos Prize for his work on “Predictability of catastrophic events: material rupture, earthquakes, turbulence, financial crashes and human birth” (Les Echos is the most important economic and financial journal in France)

Richard Turco, ISI Web of Science Highly Cited Scientist

Indira Venkatesan, IGPP Distinguished Research Lecturer, UCLA

John Vidale, President, AGU’s Seismology Section (2002 – 2004)

John T. Wasson, Fellow, Geochemical Society

Margaret Kivelson, Fellow, American Physical Society

Leon Knopoff, Golden Badge, European Geophysical Society

Paul O’Brien, IGPP Fellow

Paul Roberts, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Gerald Schubert, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Friedrich Busse, Fluid Dynamics Prize, American Physical Society

Elizabeth Catlos, IGPP Fellow

Leon Knopff, 75th Birthday Symposium, UCLA; Festschrift Volume, Geophysical Journal International, v. 143, no. 2

Frank Kyte, IGPP Distinguished Research Lecturer, UCLA

J. William Schopf, Phi Beta Kappa Science Award for “Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth’s Earliest Fossils”; Award for Excellence, Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles; UCLA-CSEOL, Distinguished Scientist Award

Gerald Schubert, Chair, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA
Thomas A. Mutch Lecturer, Brown University

Didier Sornette, Research McDonnell Award: Studying Complex Systems, the Scientific Prediction of Crises

John Vidale, Chair, Gordon Research Conference on the Interior of the Earth

Orson Anderson, Fellow, Mineralogical Society of America; AGU Special 70th Birthday Symposium

Andrea Ghez, Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award, American Physical Society

Margaret Kivelson, Member, National Academy of Sciences; Full Member, International Academy of Astronautics

J. David Neelin, NSF Special Creativity Award (1999–2000)

Paul Roberts, John Adams Fleming Medal, AGU; Special 70th Birthday Symposium, Exeter University

Christopher T. Russell, Full Member, International Academy of Astronautics

J. William Schopf, Foreign Member, Linnean Society of London; Among California’s 50 leading scientist of the 20th century, Los Angeles Times; President, International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life; Chair, Gordon Research Conference on the Origin of Life

Gerald Schubert, AGU Special 60th Birthday Session “Dynamics of the Atmospheres and Interiors of the Terrestrial Planets”; Visiting Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK

Friedrich Busse, Emil Wiechert Medal, German Geophysical Society

Andrea Ghez, Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, American Astronomical Society; UCLA Physics Department Teaching Award

Michael Ghil, Foreign Member, Academia Europea

Charles Kennel, Director, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UCSD

Isaac Kaplan, Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Natural Science

Vladimir Keilis-Borok, Lewis Fry Richardson Medal, EGU

Margaret Kivelson, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Van Allan Lecturer, American Geophysical Union

Bruce Runnegar, Fellow, Geological Society of America

Gerald Schubert, NASA Group Achievement Award, Project Galileo

J. William Schopf, Member, National Academy of Sciences

Maha Ashour-Abdalla, Founding Co-Director, Center for Digital Innovation, UCLA

Richard Dickerson, Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor, Oxford, UK

Andrea Ghez, UCLA Physics Department Teaching Award

Michael Ghil, Visiting Chair and Medal of the Collège de France

Margaret Kivelson, UCLA Faculty Research Lecturer

Charles Marshall, Guggenheim Fellow

Mark Moldwin, Research Corporation Cotrell Scholar

Paul Roberts, Charles Amick Lecturer, University of Chicago

J. William Schopf, Senior Research Prize, Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation; Group Achievement Award, NASA

Maha Ashour-Abdalla, Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA.

Andrea Ghez, Packard Fellowship; Sloan Fellowship

Michael Ghil, Elf-Aquitaine/CNRS Visiting Professor, Académie des Sciences, Paris.

Mark Harrison, Fellow, American Geophysical Union (AGU); Outstanding Contributions in Geoscience Research Awards, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Department of Energy.

Isaac Kaplan, Fellow, Geochemical Society and the European Association for Geochemistry

William Kaula, Kaula 5485: asteroid named by the COSPAR ACM.

Margaret Kivelson, Physical Sciences Commencement Speaker, UCLA; Honoree in Science, Academy of Silver Achievers, YWCA of Greater Los Angeles.

Leon Knopoff, Honorary Member of Phi Beta Kappa; UCLA Physics Department Outstanding Teaching Awards (2)

Mark Moldwin, National Science Foundation Career Award

J. David Neelin, C.L. Meisinger Award of the American Meteorological Society.

Paul Roberts, Keith Stewartson Lecturer, British Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Meeting.

Bruce Runnegar, Honorary Research Professor at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland

Amira Saunders, IGPP Fellow (one of the first five in the Institute’s Systemwide history.)

J. William Schopf, Fellow, International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life.

David Schriver, Outstanding Teaching Award, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA.

Gerald Schubert, NASA Group Achievement Award.

Raymond Walker, 1996 Edward A. Flinn III Award, AGU.

Lin Yin, Outstanding Student Paper Award, AGU.

Andrea Ghez, Fullam/Dudley Award

Michael Ghil, Fellow, American Geophysical Union; Condorcet Visiting Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris; Appointment to the Board of Governors and the Scientific and Academic Advisory Committee of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel; Chair, International Program Committee, International Symposium on Assimilation of Observations in Meteorology and Oceanography, Tokyo, JAPAN

T. Mark Harrison, Bowen Award, American Geophysical Union

Kayo Ide, Scientific Secretary, International Program Committee, International Symposium on Assimilation of Observations in Meteorology and Oceanography, Tokyo, JAPAN

Gregory Kallemeyn, Research Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution

Frank Kyte, Visiting Researcher, Alfred Wegener Institut, Bremerhaven, GERMANY

Robert McPherron, Fellow, American Geophysical Union

James McWilliams, Appointment to the Visiting Committee for Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, MIT Corporation

J. William Schopf, Honorary Foreign Member, Scientific Council of the A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences

Gerald Schubert, Associate Editor, Fluid Mechanics Research; Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Composition, Structure, and Dynamics of the Earth’s Interior; National Research Council Space Science Board Advisory Committee COMPLEX (Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration)

Andrea Ghez, National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award; Annie Jump Cannon Award, American Astronomical Society & American Association of University Women

Gregory Kallemeyn, Fellow, Meteoritical Society

Charles Kennel, Associate Administrator, NASA’s Mission to Planet Earth, 1994-1997

Margaret Kivelson, Corresponding Member, International Academy of Astronautics

J. David Neelin, Houghton Lectureship Department of Earth , Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT (1994–1995)

Bruce Runnegar, Shell Distinguished Lecturer, University of Cambridge

John Vidale, Fellow, American Geophysical Union; Macelwane Medal, AGU

John Wasson, Foreign Member, Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

An Yin, Donath Medal of the Geological Society of America

Maha Ashour-Abdalla, Fellow, American Geophysical Union

Friedrich Busse, Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences

Michael Ghil, NSF Special Creativity Award 1993-95

Isaac Kaplan, Alfred E. Triebs Award of the Geochemical Society for contributions in Organic Geochemistry

Charles Kennel, UCLA Faculty Research Lecturer

Leon Knopoff, UCLA Physics Department Outstanding Teaching Award

Bruce Runnegar, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Sloan Fellow

Richard Turco, Fellow, American Geophysical Union

Stanislav Braginsky, Senior U.S. Scientist (Humboldt) Award, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiffung Foundation; Fleming Medal, American Geophysical Union

Margaret Kivelson, Fellow, American Geophysical Union

Leon Knopoff, Member, American Philosophical Society; Inaugural Beno Gutenberg Lecturer, American Geophysical Union

Christopher Russell, Associate, Royal Astronomical Society

J. William Schopf, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award, Association of American Publishers (for The Proterozoic Biosphere, A Multidisciplinary Study); UCLA Gold Shield Faculty Prize for Academic Excellence

Ronald Shreve, Guggenheim Fellow

Richard Turco, UCLA Faculty Research Lecturer

John Wasson, Leonard Medal, Meteoritical Society

Michael Ghil, Guggenheim Fellow

Charles Kennel, Member, National Academy of Sciences

J. David Neelin, Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991–1996)

Maha Ashour-Abdalla, UCLA Physics Outstanding Teaching Award

C. Rainer Berger, Silver Anniversary Decoration, American Geophysical Union

Leon Knopoff, Society Medal, Seismological Society of America; ; Honorary Member, Seismological Society of America

Alan Rubin, Fellow, Meteoritical Society

J. William Schopf, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Michael Ghil, Fellow, American Meteorological Society; UCLA Atmospheric Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching

J. William Schopf, A.I. Oparin Medal, International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life

Friedrich Busse, Honorary Foreign Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Richard Dickerson, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

William Kaula, Brouwer Medal, American Astronomical Society

Charles Kennel, Full Member, International Academy of Astronautics

Margaret Kivelson, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Leon Knopoff, UCLA Physics Department Outstanding Teaching Award

Christopher T. Russell, President, AGU Solar Planetary Relations Section

J. William Schopf, Guggenheim Fellow; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

William Kaula, Charles A. Whitten Medal, American Geophysical Union; Member, National Academy of Science

Charles Kennel, Guggenheim Fellow

Paul Roberts, Fellow, American Geophysical Union

Bruce Runnegar, Fellow, Australian Academy of Science

Christopher Russell, Harold Jeffreys Lecturer, Royal Astronomical Society

Maha Ashour-Abdalla, UCLA Woman of Science

Isaac Kaplan, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow, Geological Society of America

Leon Knopff, Fellow, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge

Bruce Runnegar, Membre d’Honneur, Groupe Francais d’Etude du Gondwana

J. William Schopf, Mary Clark Thompson Medal, National Academy of Science

Richard Turco, MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

Paul Warren, Fellow, Meteoritical Society

Maha Ashour-Abdalla, Fellow, American Physical Society

Paul Coleman, Member, President’s National Commission on Space (1985-87)

Richard Dickerson, Member, National Academy of Science; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Science

T. Mark Harrison, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award

J. William Schopf, Member, American Philosophical Society

Karl Stetter, German Society of Microbiology Award

Richard Turco, Leo Szilard Prize for Physics in the Public Interest, American Physical Society

Maha Ashour-Abdalla, Fellowship, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science

Margaret Kivelson, UCLA Woman of Science

Christopher T. Russell, Chair, Space Science Board, Committee on Data Management and Computation

J. William Schopf, UCLA Faculty Research Lecturer

J. William Schopf, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award, Association of American Publishers (for Earth's Earliest Biosphere, Its Origin and Evolution)

Friedrich Busse, Fellow, American Geophysical Union; Fellow; American Physical Society

Bruce Runnegar, Inaugural Mawson Lecturer, Australian Academy of Science

Christopher Russell, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

J. William Schopf, Member, American Academy of Achievement

Margaret Kivelson, California Museum of Science and Industry, Muses, Woman of the Year

Leon Knopoff, Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society

Paul Roberts, Fellow, Royal Society of London

J. William Schopf, Special Recognition Award, NASA

Leon Knopoff, Emil Wiechert Medal, German Geophysical Society

Leon Knopoff, Harold Jeffreys Lecturer, Royal Astronomical Society

Christopher Russell, Fellow, American Geophysical Union; Macelwane Award, American Geophysical Union

J. William Schopf, Alan T. Waterman Medal, National Science Board; UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award

Isaac Kaplan, Chairman, Organic Geochemical Division of Geochemical Society

Leon Knopoff, Guggenheim Fellow

Orson Anderson, Fellow, Geological Society of America

Paul Coleman, Fellow, International Academy of Astronautics; Senior Fulbright Scholar; Guggenheim Fellow

Gerald Schubert, Macelwane Award, American Geophysical Union; Fellow, American Geophysical Union

J. William Schopf, Charles Schuchert Award, The Paleontological Society

J. William Schopf, Guggenheim Fellow; Fellow, Geological Society of America

Margaret Kivelson, Guggenheim Fellow

Friderich Busse, Guggenheim Fellow

Leon Knopoff, UCLA Faculty Research Lecturer

Gerald Schubert, Guggenheim Fellow

Isaac Kaplan, Fellow, American Institute of Chemists

Vladimir Keilis-Borok, Foreign Associate, National Academy of Science

J. William Schopf, Outstanding Paper Award, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists

John Wasson, Guggenheim Fellow

Orson Anderson, Fellow, Physical Society

Isaac Kaplan, Guggenheim Fellow

J. William Schopf, Group Achievement Award, NASA

Orson Anderson, Ross Coffin Purdy Award (jointly with Naohiro Soga), American Ceramic Society

J. William Schopf, Outstanding Paper Award, Honorable Mention, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogist

Orson Anderson, Fellow, American Geophysical Union

J. William Schopf, New York Botanical Garden Award, Botanical Society of America

Orson Anderson, Fellow, American Ceramic Society

Leon Knopoff, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Science

Leon Knopoff, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Leon Knopoff, Member, National Academy of Sciences

Leon Knopoff, Fellow, American Geophysical Union

Leon Knopoff, NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellow

Orson Anderson, National Lecturer, American Society of Mechanical Engineering

Stanislav Braginsky, Lenin Prize

Orson Anderson, S.B. Meyer, Jr. Award (jointly with Derald A. Stuart), American Ceramic Society