After a hiatus associated with the creation of the Hohmann Wannamaker Trust (HWT) we would like to draw your attention to the following call for nominations:

Call for Nominations for the 2025 Gerald W. Hohmann Award in Electromagnetic Geophysics

The 2025 GWH Award will be given to an early-career scientist who is 10 or fewer years from their advanced degree at the close of nominations. Nominations, consisting of a brief description of accomplishments (two pages maximum), references to published work, and up to three additional supporting letters, should be sent to hohmannwannamakertrust@gmail.com.

The deadline for nominations is January 30th 2025.

The Award, sponsored by the Hohmann Wannamaker Trust, is conferred on a colleague nominated from the global geophysics community, and voted on by the HWT Trustees. The selection criteria have varied from Award to Award covering topics such as (but not restricted to): 

• Best paper

• Outstanding educator

• Humanitarian applications

• Resource exploration and management 

• Numerical computation

• Solid Earth studies

• Instrumentation

The Award, commemorated with an engraved silver bowl, is a tribute from the community for excellence in our profession. The geophysics community has supplied the previous GWH Trustees with many outstanding nominations since the initial award in 1997, and the HWT Trustees look forward to your participation in this process going forward.

GWH Award History

• 1997: Misac Nabighian, for lifetime achievement in the field of electrical methods and potential theory

• 1998: David Alumbaugh,  for an outstanding young scientist working in electrical geophysics

• 1999: Douglas Oldenburg and Yaoguo Li, for outstanding recent publications in the field of electrical geophysics

• 2000: Stanley Ward, in support of the SEG Ewing Award

• 2001: Ulrich Schmucker, for being an outstanding educator

• 2002: Kurt Sorensen and Max Meju, for outstanding work in humanitarian applications of electrical geophysics

• 2003: Steven Constable and Gerald Minerbo, for innovations in electrical methods of petroleum exploration

• 2004: Yves Lamontagne, for development of novel methods of mineral exploration by electrical methods

• 2005: Nigel Edwards, for lifetime achievement in modeling of electrical methods in geophysics

• 2006: Adele Manzella and Toshihiro Uchida, for applications of electrical methods in geothermal exploration

• ​​2007: Art Raiche, for lifetime achievement in mineral exploration by electrical methods

• 2017: Frank Morrison and Arnold Orange, for lifetime achievement in applications of electrical methods in diverse settings

• 2019: Jana H. Börner and Lindsey J. Heagy, for outstanding young scientists working in electrical geophysics

• 2021: Paul Bedrosian and Max Moorkamp, for exceptional mid-career scientists working in electromagnetic geophysics