Awards & Medals

Hang Su (hsu@mpch-mainz.mpg.de)

for the poster entitled:
Cloud parcel modeling of CCN activation in megacity air based on observations from Beijing
by Su, Hang, P. Reutter, J. Trentmann, D. Rose, S. Gunthe, M. Simmel, A. Nowak, P. Achtert, Y.F. Cheng, A. Wiedensohler, M. Hu, M. Shao, T. Zhu, Y.H. Zhang and U. Pöschl

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Hang Su is a postdoctor at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Department of Biogeochemistry. He got his PhD from the Peking University, where he performed budge studies of atmospheric nitrous acid and proposed photo-enhanced mechanisms producing HONO. He is now focusing on the coupling of field measurements and numerical modeling results. The main interest is the response of cloud characteristics and precipitation processes to increasing anthropogenic aerosols.

Katerina Goubanova (goubanova@lmd.jussieu.fr)

for the poster entitled:
Relation between large-scale circulation and
European winter temperature: Does it hold under warmer climate?
by K. Goubanova, L. Li, P. Yiou and F. Codron

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Katerina is a postdoc at "Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales" (Toulouse, France). Her research focus on the downscaling of atmospheric forcing over the Peru-Chile upwelling region. The EGU poster presents a result of her PhD thesis that she got at "Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique" (Paris, France).

Rachel Pike (rachel.pike@atm.ch.cam.ac.uk)

for the poster entitled:
CO2 Suppression, Land Use Change, and Anthropogenic Forcing: Impacts on Isoprene and the Chemical Composition of the Troposphere
by Rachel Pike, Juliette Lathière, Paul Young, Oliver Wild, David Beerling, Nick Hewitt and John Pyle

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Mauro A. Werder (werder@vaw.baug.ethz.ch)

for the poster entitled:
Diurnal variability of tracer flow speeds simulated by a two component model of the glacial drainage system
by Mauro A. Werder, Thomas V. Schuler and Martin Funk

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Mauro A. Werder is starting a postdoc at Simon Fraser University, Canada, having just finished his PhD at the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.  The focus of his thesis were the hydraulic and hydrologic aspects of the glacier dammed lake outburst floods of Gornersee in the Swiss Alps.  He investigated the lake drainages during four field seasons with tracer experiments and other accompanying hydrologic measurements and interpreted them with hydraulic models of the glacial drainage system.

Christian Vogt (c.vogt@geophysik.rwth-aachen.de)

for the poster entitled:
Quantifying Uncertainties in Geothermal Energy Exploration
by C. Vogt, D. Mottaghy, V. Rath, A. Wolf, R, Pechnig and C. Clauser

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Christian Vogt is a PhD student at the Institute of Applied Geophysics and Geothermal Energy, E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University (Germany). He is supervised by Prof. Dr. Christoph Clauser.
Currently, his research focuses on stochastic numerical modeling of geothermal reservoirs in all states of exploration and development. The poster on the EGU 2009 presented a methodical workflow using Monte Carlo simulations of rock property distributions (here: thermal conductivity and permeability) and constraining post-processing with temperature data to reduce temperature forecast uncertainties. Additionally, it shows the application of the workflow to a study of a geothermal reservoir in The Hague, Netherlands.

Gabriele Cambiotti (cambiottigabriele@hotmail.it)

for the poster entitled:
Self-gravitating compressible Maxwell Earth models: the role of the self compression and the compositional initial density gradient
by Cambiotti, G.

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Gabriele Cambiotti is a PhD student at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Milan, Italy, supervised by Roberto Sabadini. His research is dealing with compressible viscoelastodynamics, Post Glacial Rebound and True Polar Wander. His poster presents a closed solution of a self-gravitating compressible viscoelastic Earth model. Specifically the roles played by compressional and compositional stratification are discriminated and
consequently thoroughly investigated.

Basem Elsaka (elsaka@geod.uni-bonn.de)

for the poster entitled:
Simulated Multiple Formation Flights for Future Gravity Field
Recovery
by Basem Elsaka, Karl Heinz Ilk and Jürgen Kusche

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Basem Elsaka is a PhD student at the Department of Astronomical Physical and Mathematical Geodesy, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation at the University of Bonn, Germany. The objective of his research supervised by Univ. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karl Heinz Ilk is to study the static and the temporal variations of the gravity field using different satellite configurations flying in a formation.

His investigation should give a motivation of the future satellites’ clusters as a step for substantially improving the Earth’s gravity field recovery results. His poster presented at EGU 2009 realizes this objective and presents an overview of the feasibility of the combination of satellite formation flights for providing improved static and temporal gravity field solutions.

Gerassimos Manoussakis (gmanous@survey.ntua.gr)

for the poster entitled:
Determination of the gradient of curvature of the plumblines of the normal gravity field and
the local study of its isocurvature lines
by Gerassimos Manoussakis and Demitris Delikaraoglou

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Dr. Gerassimos Manoussakis obtained his Ph.D. on July of 2005 from the  Department of Surveying Engineering, National Technical University of Athens. His research area is Theoretical Geodesy and his poster deals with new geometrical objects i.e. the isocurvature lines and isocurvature surfaces. Along these lines / surfaces the curvature of the plumblines of the gravity field is constant. The application is done for the normal gravity field of the Earth and shows besides the interesting general geometric properties of the isocurvature lines and surfaces it is possible to define and study additional  geometrical objects related to invariant quantities such as the plumbline curvature. These new geometrical objects may reveal new properties of the normal gravity field and thus contribute to a better understanding of the Earth's gravity field.

Jakob Heyman (jakob.heyman@natgeo.su.se)

for the poster entitled:
Constraining the glacial chronology of Bayan Har Shan, NE Tibetan Plateau - Cosmogenic exposure dating of boulders, surface pebbles/cobbles and sediment depth profiles
by J. Heyman, A. P. Stroeven, M. W. Caffee, Y. Li, J. Harbor, C. Hättestrand, H. Alexanderson and L. Zhou

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Jakob is a PhD student at Stockholm University (Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology) working on the paleoglaciology of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Remote sensing, field investigations and numerical dating techniques are used to arrive at a paleoglaciological reconstruction for the Bayan Har Shan, the source area of the Yellow River. The EGU poster 2009 presents cosmogenic Be-10 exposure ages from 66 glacial deposit samples which constrain the glacial chronology of central Bayan Har Shan. Three types of samples have been used: boulders, surface pebbles/cobbles and sediment depth profiles. The exposure ages range up to
c. 160 ka and indicate very restricted glaciation (glaciers <10 km long or absent) over the last 60 ka.

Encarnación Ruiz-Agudo (eruiz_01@uni-muenster.de)

for the poster entitled:
An AFM study of calcite dissolution in concentrated electrolyte solutions
by Ruiz-Agudo, E.; Putnis, C.V.; Putnis, A. and Rodriguez-Navarro, C.

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Encarnación Ruiz Agudo obtained the PhD degree with the dissertation entitled “Prevention of salt damage to the built cultural heritage by the use of crystallization inhibitors” at the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Granada, Spain. She is a posdoctoral researcher at the Institute für Mineralogie at the University of Münster, Germany.
Her main research interests are crystal growth and dissolution processes at the nanoscale, with special emphasis on the effects of additives and electrolytes.My current research activities are focussed on fluid induced mineral replacement reactions, within the EU Initial Training Network Delta-Min.

Dan Asael (danasael@yahoo.com)

for the poster entitled:
Fluid speciation controls of redox-sensitive non-traditional stable isotope systems
by Asael, D.

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Dan Asael is a PhD student at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, supervised by Prof. Alan Matthews and Dr. Mira Bar-Matthews. His research deals with copper stable isotope fractionation at low temperature geological systems, where he found that redox reactions play an important role. His EGU poster shows that a fluid speciation approach for interpreting copper isotopic compositions (presented in detail at Asael et al., 2009, Chemical Geology) can also be applied to other similar isotopic systems such as Mo and Cr.

Andrea Niedermayr (a.niedermayr@tugraz.at)

for the poster entitled:
Strontium Incorporation and Calcium Isotopic Fractionation during Calcium Carbonate Precipitation

(the poster is not yet available)

Andrea Niedermayr is currently a PhD student at the Institute of Applied Geosciences at the University of Technology in Graz (Austria), supervised by Martin Dietzel. Her study deals with the crystallization of the calcium carbonate polymorphs calcite, aragonite and vaterite. The focus is given on Mg and Sr incorporation and fractionation of calcium, magnesium, carbon and oxygen isotopes during CaCO₃ precipitation. Main objective of EGU 2009 poster was to decipher the impact of precipitation rate and temperature on Sr incorporation behaviour and calcium isotope fractionation during CaCO₃ formation.

Enrico Peruzzo (e.peruzzo@sns.i)

for the poster entitled:
Merging deterministic and probabilistic approaches to forecast volcanic scenarios
by E. Peruzzo, L. Bisconti, M. Barsanti, F. Flandoli and P. Papale

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Enrico Peruzzo is a PhD student in Mathematics for Industrial Technologies at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy, under the supervision of prof. Franco Flandoli. His research activity is carried out in collaboration with the research group of prof. Paolo Papale (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Pisa) and deals with the use of probabilistic methods in modelling volcanic processes. The poster presented at the EGU 2009 is focused on the stochastic quantization method for the approximation of a continuous probability density function with a discrete one; this technique reduces the number of numerical simulations required to get a reasonably complete picture of the possible eruptive conditions at a considered volcano.

Joseph Doetsch (doetschj@ethz.ch)

for the poster entitled:
Joint Inversion Improves Zonation for Aquifer Characterization
by J. Doetsch, N. Linde and A. Green

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Joseph Doetsch is a PhD student at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) under the supervision of Niklas Linde and Alan Green. His research concentrates on hydrogeophysical characterization of active gravel aquifers in restored and unrestored river environments. The awarded poster presents results of an aquifer zonation approach that uses  joint inversion of three cross-borehole methods (ground-penetrating radar, seismics and electrical tomography) to define aquifer units with similar physical properties.

Ke Zhu (k.zhu@uni-tuebingen.de)

for the poster entitled:
Sustainable Management of Urban Heat Islands
by K. Zhu, S. Rumohr, K.-D. Balke, P. Bayer, P. Blum

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Ke Zhu received her M.Sc. in Applied Environmental Geoscience in 2008, and currently she is a PhD student at the Center of Applied Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Germany. The focus of her PhD study is set on sustainable geothermal use in large and densely populated areas, which are called “urban heat islands”. The poster presented at EGU 2009 gives an overview of this study and presents the first case study in the city of Frankfurt am Main.

Guido Sciuto (guidosciuto@geographie.uni-bonn.de)

for the poster entitled:
QUALITY CONTROL OF DAILY PRECIPITATION DATA THROUGH NEURAL NETWORKS
by G. Sciuto, B. Bonaccorso, A. Cancelliere and G. Rossi

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Guido Sciuto is currently PhD student, within  the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 32: “Patterns in Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Systems: Monitoring, Modelling and Data Assimilation”, at Bonn University, Germany, supervised by Prof. Dr. Bernd Diekkrüger. His research focuses on the 3-D modelling of water and solute transport. The main objective of his research is to develop methods for a scale dependent treatment of patterns in properties and boundary conditions while simulating water, CO2 and solute transport from micro- to mesoscale catchments. The EGU 2009 poster presents a method for statistical quality control of daily precipitation data, developed within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Catania, Italy. This method reduce significantly the amount of the data to be processed by a further manual control.

Tobias Vogt (Tobias.Vogt@eawag.ch)

for the poster entitled:
Investigation of Bank Filtration in Gravel and Sand Aquifers using Time-Series Analysis
by T. Vogt, E. Hoehn, P. Schneider and O. A. Cirpka

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Tobias Vogt is a PhD student at the Department Water Resources and Drinking Water of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology (EAWAG), supervised by Olaf A. Cirpka and Mario Schirmer. His research is focused on using time series of natural tracers (temperature, electrical conductivity) to quantify river - groundwater interaction. The poster presented at EGU 2009 shows how cross-correlation and non-parametric deconvolution of electrical conductivity time series facilitate determination of residence times and mixing ratios of infiltrated river water at a prealpine losing river.

Mubashir Aziz (mubashir_uet@yahoo.com)

for the poster entitled:
Effects of Negative Ageing on Deformation and Strength Response of Geomaterials
by M. Aziz, I. Towhata, S. Yamada, M. U. Qureshi and K. Kawano (The University of Tokyo, Japan) 

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Mubashir Aziz is a final year PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ikuo Towhata at the Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory, Civil Engineering Department, the University of Tokyo, Japan. The objectives of his PhD research is to elucidate the possible mechanisms responsible for negative ageing of granular soils and its effects on the engineering properties of soils.
The EGU poster presented focuses on exploring the physical phenomena controlling the time-dependent geotechnical properties of naturally occurring granular soils because in conventional risk assessment approach for slope failures and other geohazards, the ageing effects of soils are often ignored.

Ashley Coles (coles@email.arizona.edu)

for the poster entitled:
Driving into danger: Perception and communication of flash flood risk from a cultural perspective
by Ashley R. Coles, Katherine K. Hirschboeck, Stephanie A. Fryberg

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Ashley Coles is a doctoral student in Geography at the University of Arizona.  She received her Bachelor of Science in Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University and her Master of Arts in Geography at the University of Arizona.  Her poster summarizes the key findings from her master's thesis regarding perception of flash flood hazards and people's decisions to drive through flooded roadways.  Contrary to the assumptions of many hazard managers, most individuals are aware of the dangers of driving through flooded roadways and usually take the risk after carefully considering their situation.  Ashley's current research further examines issues of expertise and the production of hazard knowledge within participatory forms of hazard management.

Ufuk Hancilar (hancilar@boun.edu.tr)

for the poster entitled:
Urban Earthquake Shaking and Loss Estimation by ELER
by Ufuk HANCILAR, Yaver KAMER, Erkan ABDÜLHAMİTBİLAL, Cem YENİDOĞAN, Cüneyt TÜZÜN, Eser DURUKAL, Mustafa ERDİK, Karin ŞEŞETYAN, A. Can ZÜLFİKAR and Mine B. DEMİRCİOĞLU

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Ufuk Hancilar currently works as a researcher in Earthquake Engineering Department of Bogazici University, KOERI. He graduated as a Civil Engineer and obtained both Master’s and PhD degrees in Earthquake Engineering. His research interests focus on urban earthquake risk and loss assessments, nonlinear modeling and analysis of structures, earthquake performance/vulnerability evaluation and retrofit of existing buildings and, assessment of design basis earthquake ground motion. He has been involved in several EU funded projects, such as LessLoss, NERIES and TRANSFER, for the past five years. He worked as a visiting researcher at PEER Center of University of California, Berkeley. He has also professional experience as a seismic/structural engineer in the construction industry.

Adriano Pimentel (adriano.hg.pimentel@azores.gov.pt)

for the poster entitled:
Numerical hazard zonation for pyroclastic density current scenarios at Faial and Terceira islands (Azores)
by A. Pimentel, J.M. Pacheco and S. Self

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Adriano Pimentel is a PhD student at Centre for Volcanology and Geological Risk Assessment of the University of Azores, Portugal. His PhD research is focused on the transport and depositional processes of pyroclastic density currents in the Azores and assessment of the associated volcanic hazards, supervised by Prof. S. Self and Dr. J.M. Pacheco. Other research interests include: physical volcanology and numerical modelling of felsic lavas; petrology of peralkaline magmas; and applied geological hazard assessments. The EGU 2009 poster presents the application of a GIS-integrated energy cone model to estimate areas affected by pyroclastic density currents in Faial and Terceira islands (Azores), and produce probabilistic hazard maps for different eruptive scenarios.

Irina I. Rypina (irypina@whoi.edu)

for the poster entitled:
Transport in an idealized three-gyre system with
application to the Adriatic Sea
by I. I. RYPINA, L. J. PRATT, M. G. BROWN, I. A. UDOVYDCHENKOV, AND H. KOCAK

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Irina received her B.S. in plasma physics from Nizhniy Novgorod State University, Russia in 2002, a M.S. in physics from University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2003, and a Ph.D. in applied marine physics from University of Miami in 2007. She is currently working as a postdoctoral investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Her main research interests are dynamical systems theory and transport and mixing processes in oceanic and atmospheric flows. Irina’s other research interests include Hamiltonian dynamics, underwater acoustics, and magnetic confinement of plasmas.

ZiYuan Hu (ziyuan.hu@univmed.fr)

for the poster entitled:
Coastal (Sub) Mesoscale Eddies in the Gulf of Lion
by Ziyuan Hu, Andrea M. Doglioli, Anne Petrenko, Patrick Marsaleix, Ivan Dekeyser and, LATEX group

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ZiYuan is a PhD student at the Centre d'Oceanologie de Marseille (COM), in the Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Physique et Biogeochimique (LOPB) under the supervision of  Pr. I.Dekeyser, Dr. A. Petrenko and Dr. A. Doglioli. Her PhD research focuses on the study of eddy and filamentrary structures in the Gulf of Lion, and the impact of such structures on the coast-offshore exchanges. The study presented at the EGU 2008 shows the investigation of the formation of (sub) mesoscale eddies in the gulf, combining use of data from numerical modelling, satellite observations and in situ measurements.

João Trabucho Alexandre

for the poster entitled:
Ocean circulation as mechanism and Pacific nutrients as fuel for OAE 2
by J. Trabucho Alexandre, E. Tuenter, G. A. Henstra, K. J. van der Zwan, R. S. W. van de Wal, H. A. Dijkstra and P. L. de Boer

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João Trabucho Alexandre is a PhD student at the Faculty of Earth Sciences of the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. He studies Mesozoic marine sediments and his research deals with organic-rich fine grained facies in particular. The research is supervised by Poppe L. de Boer. The poster presented at EGU 2009 shows how an estuarine circulation pattern with introduction of nutrient-rich water from the Pacific into the Atlantic can explain the observed characteristics of sediments associated with OAE 2.

Qinghe Zhang (qinghe.zhang@stfc.ac.uk)

for the poster entitled:
Comparisons of eight years magnetic field data from Cluster with Tsyganenko models 
by Qinghe Zhang, M. W. Dunlop, R. Holme, E. E. Woodfield, and Z. J. Hu

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Qinghe Zhang is a Research Associate of Geomagnetic Earth Observation from Space (GEOSPACE) group in the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Liverpool, and a visiting scientist of Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, under Prof. Malcolm Dunlop (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)’s and Dr. Richard Holme’s guidance. His poster is focusing on the comparisons between Cluster observations and the Tsyganenko model of the magnetic field in order to investigate the external current systems in the magnetosphere, and to distinguish them from the internal Earth field.