John Dombeck has been awarded the F. L. Scarf Award, which is given annually to a recent Ph.D. recipient for outstanding dissertation research that contributes directly to solar-planetary sciences. Dombeck's thesis is entitled "Properties of Alfv¿n waves in the magnetotail below 9 RE and their relation to auroral acceleration and major geomagnetic storms." He will be formally presented with the award during the 2006 AGU Fall Meeting, which will be held 11-15 December in San Francisco, Calif., at the Space Physics and Aeronomy Section dinner.