Awards
Mann was awarded the Phillip M. Orville Prize in 1997 for an outstanding dissertation in the earth sciences at Yale University. His co-authorship of a scientific paper published by Nature won him an award from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in 2002, and another co-authored paper published in the same year won the NOAA's outstanding scientific publication award. He was named by Scientific American as one of fifty "leading visionaries in science and technology." The Association of American Geographers awarded him the John Russell Mather Paper of the Year award in 2005 for a co-authored paper published in the Journal of Climate. The American Geophysical Union awarded him its Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing in 2006 to recognize his contributions in reviewing manuscripts for its Geophysical Research Letters journal.
As a scientist who had contributed substantially to the preparation of IPCC reports, Mann received a personalized certificate from the IPCC for "contributing to the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC". The certificate features a copy of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize diploma. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly in 2007 to the IPCC and to Al Gore, and these certificates were issued by the IPCC to coordinating lead authors, lead authors, review editors, Bureau members, staff of the technical support units and staff of the secretariat. In his 2012 book Mann noted an IPCC meeting in 2009 celebrating the prize, where Working Group 1 co-chair Susan Solomon highlighted the personal sacrifice that he and Benjamin D. Santer had made in the name of the IPCC.
In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union. He has been elected by the American Meteorological Society to become a new Fellow of the society in 2013, as one of the small number selected each year.
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