President: Kerstin Treydte
(Emailcl@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Gabriele Messori
(Email)
ECS Representative: Shalenys Bedoya Valestt
(Emailecs-cl@egu.eu)
The Division on Climate: Past, Present & Future (CL) is one of the larger divisions of the European Geosciences Union. It pools from many disciplines and consequently has many co-organised sessions with other divisions at the EGU General Assembly. The division is very interdisciplinary and covers climate variations on all time scales. CL includes the study of any kind of climate archive from rocks to ocean cores, speleothems, ice cores, chronicles, to instrumental records to name a few. Besides observations, climate modelling on all time scales from the deep past to the future are areas covered by the division. Any aspect of the climate system falls into the realm of the division e.g. atmosphere, ocean, biosphere, cryosphere, and geology. Themes focus on the climate on Earth but may also expand other planets or the Sun.
Latest posts from the CL blog
20 years of Climate of the Past: A journey through two decades of paleoclimate research
Twenty years ago, a small group of scientists set out to create a journal dedicated entirely to understanding Earth’s climate history. That journal, Climate of the Past (CP), was launched in 2005 as an international open-access journal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), and over the past two decades it has become a cornerstone for the paleoclimate community. From geological eras to the last few centuries, CP publishes studies covering all timescales of climate change, including research articles, reviews, rapid …
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The North Sea Is Heating Up: What Marine Heatwaves Tell Us About Climate Change?
As scientists, we are acutely aware that our planet’s climate is changing, but the speed and severity of these changes can still surprise us. As global temperatures rise, certain regions become hotspots experiencing more intense and amplified warming. As a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Liège, I have been closely studying amplified warming and marine heatwaves in the North Sea under a warming climate and their impacts. The North Sea is a vital and relatively shallow shelf sea in …
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Writing Climate: a blog at the crossroads of Science, Art and Travel
It took me many travels, experiences, and an entire PhD on climate-related topics to realize that all these dots could be connected. How I Perceive Our Warming World is a blog at the intersection of my life passions: travel, art, and climate. It is not about travel, nor about art, nor about climate alone: it is about all of them together. Each of these passions offers a different lens through which to read our world. Although they may seem distant, …
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Meet the new ECS-Team of the Climate Division
Dear Climate ECS Community, Welcome to the Climate ECS community! We’re a team of early career scientists who love connecting with fellow researchers, organizing events, and building a strong and supportive network. Let’s grow, share, and create impact together! Early career scientists (ECSs) make up a significant part of the EGU membership. We are committed to ensuring that your voice is heard, your contributions are recognized, and your professional network thrives. Our aim is to increase the visibility of ECSs …
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Recent awardees
The 2025 Hans Oeschger Medal is awarded to
Heather Marie Stoll for pioneering contributions in both marine and terrestrial palaeoclimate research, which led to groundbreaking advancement in our understanding of rapid climate change, through forcings and feedbacks.
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- 2025
- Milutin Milanković Medal
The 2025 Milutin Milanković Medal is awarded to
Zhengyu Liu for outstanding contributions to our understanding of global climate change by combining theoretical approaches, the development and use of a hierarchy of models, and model-data comparisons.
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- 2025
- Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award
The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Kai Kornhuber for outstanding research on extreme weather and climate dynamics, including circumglobal patterns in the jet stream, their relation to heatwaves and food security, and representation in climate models.
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- 2025
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Devika Moovidathu Vasudevan Upper Tropospheric Humidity and Cloud Radiative Forcing: A Tropical Perspective
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- 2025
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Lison Soussaintjean Towards understanding the N2O production in dust-rich Antarctic ice
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- 2025
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Ramona Schneider Magnetic fabric of Tajik loess-palaeosols as a palaeowind and process indicator
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- 2025
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Tatiana Bebchuk Subfossil yew (Taxus baccata) wood from eastern England reveals mid-Holocene climate and environmental changes
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The 2024 Hans Oeschger Medal is awarded to
Michael Sigl for his innovative contributions, which improved ice core chronologies and illuminated the impacts of volcanic eruptions on climate and societies.
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- 2024
- Milutin Milanković Medal
The 2024 Milutin Milanković Medal is awarded to
Peter U. Clark for exceptional contributions to reconstructing and understanding how the past climate, ice sheets and sea level responded to perturbations, with a perspective on future committed changes.
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- 2024
- Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award
The 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Maria A. A. Rugenstein for outstanding research in climate dynamics and the ocean’s influences on atmospheric feedbacks.
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- 2024
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Dánae Sanz Pérez Paleoenvironmental and paleoecological changes during the early GABI in the Argentine Pampas: a stable isotope approach
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- 2024
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Laura Detjen Heavy and extreme precipitation events in the Sichuan Basin during the 2020 summer season in a set of kilometre-scale simulations
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- 2024
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Laura Schild Richness asymmetry with past forest loss and gain in pollen data
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- 2024
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award
The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to
Meike D. W. Scherrenberg Simulating the ice-sheets during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition: A dance of ice, CO2 and orbital cycles
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Current issue of the EGU newsletter
In our October Issue we are feeling the spooky season as we talk with Elizabeth Case, a 'hauntologist' who studies the ghosts of glaciers, Asmae Ourkiya investigates a recent study of the shadows left behind on the climate from a massive eruption in Indonesia, we hear from Peter Alexander, who shares his experience of doing research in an autocratic regime in the Global South, we share all the upcoming webinars planned for November (there are a lot!), and don't miss our announcement of a new Emergency Support policy, to help researchers in the Earth, planetary and space sciences who have been affected by disaster, crisis or conflict.
All this and much more, in this month's Loupe!
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Current issue of the CL division newsletter
Updates from the Climate: Past, Present and Future Division – June Edition
This month, we bring you the latest updates from the CL Division. The nomination deadline for the 2026 EGU Awards and Medals is approaching on 15 June — we strongly encourage you to recognise excellence within our community. You are also invited to a special webinar celebrating 20 years of the journal Climate of the Past, with a focus on climate tipping points. We also feature recent contributions from the CL Blog, invite you to get to know the Division President and Early Career Scientist Representative, and more in this issue!
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