Dr. Kunal Chakraborty has been awarded the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) 2025 Devendra Lal Memorial Medal in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Earth and space sciences.The medal is given annually to an early- or mid-career scientist in recognition of outstanding research in Earth and/or space sciences by a scientist belonging to and working in a developing country. The award is named in honor of Professor Devendra Lal, a distinguished geophysicist whose pioneering contributions spanned diverse areas of Earth and space sciences. He is best known for his role in founding and developing the field in which cosmic rays produce isotopes on Earth that are now widely used as tracers to investigate a broad range of Earth science problems.