Founding members
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) was founded on 7 September 2002 in the Hotel Platzl in Munich by the following Members of Council of both the European Geophysical Society (EGS) and the European Union of Geosciences (EUG):
- Jan Backman
- Jonathan Bamber
- Ray Bates
- Günter Blöschl
- Lars Clemmensen
- Max Coleman
- Peter Fabian
- Gerald Ganssen
- Jean-Pierre Gattuso
- David Gee
- Fausto Guzzetti
- Albrecht Hofmann
- Jürgen Kurths
- Yves Langevin
- John Ludden
- Arne Richter
- Michael Rycroft
- W. Schlager
- Roland Schlich
- Isabella Premovi Silva
- Christopher Spotl
- Håkan Svedhem
- Hans Thybo
- Bert Vermeersen
- David Webb
- Jerzy Weber
- Richard Worden
Absent: E. Bard, A. Berger, A. Cazenave, M. Hapgood, C. Hawkesworth, A. Myrhe, J. Phipps Morgan, J. P. Valet