The George Walker award is awarded every 2 years at both the IAVCEI Scientific Assembly and at the IAVCEI General Assembly to Early Career Researchers (ECR) as defined in paragraph 4.2 of Statutes & By-Laws (Nominees must be ECR at the time of nomination submission).
*Excluding Career Breaks as defined in paragraph 4.3 of Statutes & By-Laws
The George Walker Award honours the memory of Professor George Walker, who was born on 2 March 1926 and died on 17 January 2005. Professor Walker’s discoveries pioneered a modern quantitative approach to physical volcanology and greatly accelerated understanding of volcanic processes. The award recognizes achievements of a recent outstanding graduate in the fields of research encompassed by IAVCEI, or also a recent graduate whose achievements in volcanology involved operating in difficult circumstances.
Previous GEORGE WALKER award winners
- 2004 – Costanza BONADONNA
- 2008 – Diana C. ROMAN
- 2008 – Fukashi MAENO
- 2011 – Josef DUFEK
- 2013 – Heather WRIGHT
- 2015 – Anja SCHMIDT
- 2017 – Sébastien BIASS
- 2017 – Alexa VAN EATON
- 2019 – Damien GAUDIN
- 2019 – Fabian WADSWORTH
- 2023 – Emma NICHOLSON (LIU)
- 2023 – Andrea BEVILACQUA
- 2023 – Thomas JONES
- 2025 – Claire HARNETT