2007 Guggenheim Fellowship - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2006 Augustus Love Medal - European Geosciences Union
2005 Fellow - American Geophysical Union
2004 Named, Director - Earth Systems Evolution Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
2004 Visiting Miller Professor, Earth & Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley
2002 Young Explorer Prize - CIAR
2002 E. W. R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, NSERC
2001 Steacie Prize in the Natural Sciences, National Research Council - Canada
2001 McLean Award, University of Toronto
2001 Named, J. Tuzo Wilson Professor of Geophysics, University of Toronto
2000 Rutherford Memorial Medal - Physics, Royal Society of Canada
1999 Premier's Research Excellence Award
1998 American Geophysical Union Editor's Citation for Excellence in Refereeing (Geophysical Research Letters)
1998 Outstanding Teaching Award, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Toronto