The Maurice Ewing Medal is awarded by the American Geophysical Union

American Geophysical Union

The American Geophysical Union is a nonprofit organization of geophysicists, consisting of over 50,000 members from over 135 countries. AGU's activities are focused on the organization and dissemination of scientific information in the interdisciplinary and international field of geophysics...

 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

United States Navy

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. The award is named in honor of Maurice Ewing

Maurice Ewing

William Maurice "Doc" Ewing was an American geophysicist and oceanographer.Ewing has been described as a pioneering geophysicist who worked on the research of seismic reflection and refraction in ocean basins, ocean bottom photography, submarine sound transmission , deep sea coring of the ocean...

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Recipients

	Recipient
1976	Walter H. Munk
1977	Henry Stommel Henry Stommel Henry Melson Stommel was a major contributor to the field of physical oceanography. Beginning in the 1940s, he advanced theories about global ocean circulation patterns and the behavior of the Gulf Stream that form the basis of physical oceanography today...
1978	Edward Bullard Edward Bullard Sir Edward "Teddy" Crisp Bullard FRS was a geophysicist who is considered, along with Maurice Ewing, to have founded the discipline of marine geophysics...
1979	Wallace Smith Broecker
1980	J. Tuzo Wilson
1981	Manik Talwani
1982	John I. Ewing
1983	Fred Noel Spiess Fred Spiess Dr. Fred Noel Spiess was an oceanographer and marine explorer who helped create the FLIP floating laboratory....
1984	Xavier Le Pichon Xavier Le Pichon Xavier Le Pichon is a French geophysicist. Among many other contributions, he is known for his comprehensive model of plate tectonics .He is professor at the Collège de France.-Biography:Le Pichon holds a doctorate in physics....
1985	Kenneth O. Emery
1986	John Imbrie John Imbrie John Imbrie is an American paleoceanographer best known for his work on the theory of ice ages.After serving with the 10th Mountain Division in Italy during World War II, Imbrie earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton University. He then went on to receive a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1951...
1987	William Jason Morgan
1988	Wolfgang H. Berger
1989	Klaus Wyrtki Klaus Wyrtki Klaus Wyrtki is an American physical oceanographer.Born on February 7, 1925 in Tarnowitz, Upper Silesia, Poland, he attended the University of Marburg in Germany, in 1945-1948, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Kiel in 1950...
1990	Carl I. Wunsch Carl Wunsch Carl Wunsch is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his early work in internal waves and more recently for research into the effects of ocean circulation on climate.- Career :Wunsch received his Ph. D. in...
1991	Charles David Keeling Charles David Keeling Charles David Keeling was an American scientist whose recording of carbon dioxide at the Mauna Loa Observatory first alerted the world to the possibility of anthropogenic contribution to the "greenhouse effect" and global warming...
1992	Charles S. Cox
1993	Kirk Bryan Kirk Bryan (oceanographer) Kirk Bryan is an American oceanographer who is considered to be the founder of numerical ocean modeling. Starting in the 1960s at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, then located in Washington, D.C., Bryan worked with a series of colleagues to develop numerical schemes for solving the...
1994	John A. Orcutt
1995	Jean-Guy Schilling
1996	Walter C. Pitman III
1997	Karl K. Turekian
1998	Richard P. Von Herzen
1999	Arnold L. Gordon
2000	Joseph L. Reid
2001	Richard G. Fairbanks
2002	Nicholas Shackleton Nicholas Shackleton Sir Nicholas John Shackleton FRS was a British geologist and climatologist who specialised in the Quaternary Period...
2003	Gerard C. Bond Gerard C. Bond Gerard Clark Bond was a widely and highly respected American geologist. Bond received his Bachelor of Science degree at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, where his father Ralph Bond was a Professor of Geology...
2004	Bruce A. Warren
2005	Francois M. M. Morel
2006	G. Michael Purdy G. Michael Purdy Graham Michael "Mike" Purdy is a British geophysicist and oceanographer who specializes in marine seismology. He is the current Director of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.-Education:...
2007	Marcia Kemper McNutt Marcia McNutt Marcia Kemper McNutt is an American geophysicist. She is director of the United States Geological Survey and science adviser to the United States Secretary of the Interior....
2008	Miriam Kastner
2009	Thomas Rossby
2010	William J. Jenkins
2011	Joseph Pedlosky Joseph Pedlosky Joseph Pedlosky is an American physical oceanographer. He is currently a scientist emeritus at the Woods Hole Oceanography Institute.Pedlosky was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1985...