Award

The award consists of a certificate and a cheque of 1000 Euros. Presentation of the awards will be made at each IAG General Assembly and each IAG Scientific Assembly. Up to two awards will be presented on each occasion for the two-year period corresponding to the annual volumes specified above.

Nomination and criteria

For each two-year period the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Geodesy will propose a minimum of three candidates for the award. In addition, proposals made by at least three IAG Fellows or Associates will be considered for the competition. The voting members of the IAG Executive Committee will make the final selection. It will be based on the importance of the scientific contribution, which may be either theoretical or practical, and on the quality of the presentation. The name and picture of the award winner and a short biography will be published in the Journal of Geodesy.

Procedure

Each year the conditions for the award will be announced in the Journal of Geodesy. Nominations should be sent to the General Secretary of the IAG, giving name, address, and age of the author (at date of submission), the title of the paper on which nomination is based, and a brief justification. Nominations must be received by March 1 of the year in which either an IAG General Assembly or an IAG Scientific Assembly takes place.

Winners of the IAG Young Authors Award

Year	Author’s Name	Country	Title of the Publication
2024	Justyna Śliwińska-Bronowicz	Poland	Assessment of length-of-day and universal time predictions based on the Second Earth Orientation Parameters Prediction Comparison Campaign, Journal of Geodesy, 98
2023	Safoora Zaminpardaz	Australia	Detection-only versus detection and identification of model misspecifications, Journal of Geodesy, 97
2022	Matthias Willen	Germany	Feasibility of a global inversion for spatially resolved glacial isostatic adjustment and ice sheet mass changes. J. Geod., 96: 75
2021	Radoslaw Zajdel	Poland	Sub-daily polar motion from GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo. J. Geod., 95: 3
2020	Khosro Ghobadi-Far	Unknown	GRACE gravitational measurements of tsunamis after the 2004, 2010, and 2011 great earthquakes. Journal of Geodesy, 94: 65
2019	Susanne Glaser	Germany	On the impact of local ties on the datum realization of global terrestrial reference frames, Journal of Geodesy, 93: 655–667
2018	Athina Peidou	Canada	On the feasibility of using satellite gravity observations for detecting large-scale solid mass transfer events. J. of Geodesy, 92: 517–528
2017	Minghui Xu	China	The impacts of source structure on geodetic parameters demonstrated by the radio source 3C371. Journal of Geodesy, 91: 767-781
2016	Olga Didova	Netherlands	An approach for estimating time-variable rates from geodetic time series. Journal of Geodesy, 90: 1207–1221
2015	Xingxing Li	Germany	Accuracy and reliability of multi-GNSS real-time precise positioning: GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, and Galileo. J. of Geodesy, 89: 607-635
2014	Alvaro Santamaría Gómez	France	Long-term vertical land motion from double-differenced tide gauge and satellite altimetry data. Journal of Geodesy, 88: 207-222
2013	Krzysztof Sośnica	Switzerland	Impact of loading displacements on SLR-derived parameters and on the consistency between GNSS and SLR results. J. of Geodesy, 87: 751-769
2012	Manuela Seitz	Germany	The 2008 DGFI realization of the ITRS: DTRF2008. Journal of Geodesy, 86: 1097-1123
2011	Thomas Artz	Germany	Assessment of periodic sub-diurnal Earth rotation variations at tidal frequencies through VLBI normal equations. J. of Geodesy, 85: 565-584
2010	Elizabeth Petri	UK	A first look at the effects of ionospheric signal bending on a globally processed GPS network. Journal of Geodesy, 84: 491-499
2008	Franziska Wild-Pfeiffer	Germany	A comparison of different mass elements for use in gravity gradiometry. Journal of Geodesy, 82: 637-653
2006	Steffen Schön	Germany	Uncertainty in GPS networks due to remaining systematic errors: the internal approach (with H. Kutterer). Journal of Geodesy, 80: 150-162
2005	Roland Pail	Austria	A parametric study on the impact of satellite attitude errors on GOCE gravity field recovery. Journal of Geodesy, 79: 231-241
2004	Shfaqat Abbas Khan	Pakistan	Shallow water loading tides in Japan from superconducting gravity (with J.L. Hoyer). Journal of Geodesy, 78: 245-250
2003	Michael Kern	Germany	A study on the combination of satellite, airborne and terrestrial gravity data. Journal of Geodesy, 77: 217-225
2001	Susan Skone	Canada	The impact of magnetic storms on GPS receiver performance. J. of Geodesy, 75: 457-468
2000	Rüdiger Lehmann	Germany	Altimetry-gravimetry problems w. free vertical datum. J.Geod 74:327-334
2000	Christopher Kotsakis	Canada	The multiresolution character of collocation. J. of Geodesy, 74: 275-290
1999	Peiliang Xu	China	Biases and accuracy of, and an alternative to, discrete nonlinear filters. J. of Geodesy, 73: 35-46
1998	Cheinway Hwang	Taiwan	Inverse Vening-Meinesz formula and deflection-geoid formula: applications to the predictions of gravity and geoid over the South China Sea. J. of Geodesy, 72: 304-312
1996	Giovanna Sona	Italy	Numerical problems in the computation of ellipsoidal harmonics. J. of Geodesy, 70: 117-126
1995	Srinivas V. Bettadpur	India	Hotine’s geopotential formulation revisited. Bull. Géod. 69: 135-142
1994	Jean-Pierre Barriot	France	Line of sight operators in planetary geodesy. Manuscr. Geod., 19: 269-283
1993	Hussein A. Abd-Elmotaal	Egypt	Vening-Meinesz Moho depths: traditional, exact and approximated. Manuscripta Geodaetica, 18: 171-181