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Every year DEES bestows two awards to students in our graduating class. The first is Departmental Honors, and the second is the Walter C. Pitman III award. 

DEES Ph.D. student, Elise Myers, was selected by the Columbia University Trustees and Columbia Alumni Association as a winner of the 2021 Campbell Award. Read more about Elise and the award here. 

DEES Professor and Lamont researcher Sidney Hemming was the winner of the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship. Read her interview about this achievement on Columbia's State of the Planet

DEES Professor and Lamont researcher Jacky Austermann was selected as a 2021 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Earth System Science.

DEES Professor and Lamont scientist Ryan Abernathey was one of three recipients to receive the Early Career Award from The Oceanography Society. 

Two DEES faculty received awards at the 2020 AGU Fall Meeting. Galen McKinley received the Ocean Sciences Voyager award, and Arnold Gordon the Harald Sverdrup Lecture

AGU 2020 Section Awardees & Named Lectures

Lamont Research Professor and DEES faculty member Gisela Winckler was awarded the Excellence in Research Award by the Petersen Foundation in a virtual award ceremony this week.