We are pleased to call for nominations for the 2025 ‘Applied Hydrogeology Award’. This award aims to recognise those who have made an outstanding contribution to the application of hydrogeology, resulting in an increase in living standards in low and middle income countries. We would especially like to receive nominations for our many colleagues who have less opportunity to publish papers in scientific journals and whose work is perhaps less well-publicised but nonetheless essential.
A panel appointed by IAH Council will review the nominations and it is intended that the award will be presented in September at the 52nd IAH World Groundwater Congress in Melbourne, Australia.
Candidates do not need to be members of IAH but non-IAH members must be nominated by an IAH member. We are also willing to consider nominees from previous years.
IAH members may put themselves forward and they can submit the information that is requested themselves. In this case we also request details for a referee who would be prepared to provide additional information to the assessment panel, if required.
The information provided for candidates should include:
- An explanatory statement by the person submitting the nomination (up to 300 words);
- A brief career history of the candidate (up to 300 words);
- A list of projects the candidate has carried out, including aims, region and period of time;
- A list of projects (planned or accepted), patents, publications or equivalent information.
- For candidates who are not IAH members, a letter of recommendation from an IAH member (up to 300 words).
- And finally, if you had just 1 minute to persuade the panel why your nomination deserves the award, tell us what you would say, using not more than 100 words!
Your proposal must be in total no longer than 5 pages of text in a single pdf-file. This should preferably be in English. Although we are happy to accept nominations in other languages such as Spanish, French, German, Chinese or Arabic, the judging will be based on an English version. It should reach the IAH Secretariat by e-mail (info@iah.org) before Tuesday July 1st 2025. We look forward to receiving nominations from all our IAH Regions, to reflect the work of applied hydrogeologists across the world.
