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ESSI Earth and Space Science Informatics Division on Earth and Space Science Informatics

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European Geosciences Union

Division on Earth and Space Science Informatics
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Division on Earth and Space Science Informatics

President: Kirsten Elger (Emailessi@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Christof Lorenz (Email)
ECS Representative: Alba Brobia Ansoleaga (Emailecs-essi@egu.eu)

As far as informatics and information technology are concerned, the ESSI Division deals with community-driven and multidisciplinary challenges and solutions. This include topics like: data model and metadata standardisation, spatial data infrastructure interoperability, semantics services, quality and uncertainty information encoding and propagation, geospatial data processing, environmental model accessibility, big data management, and data visualisation for scientific discovery.

Recent awardees

Lesley Wyborn

Lesley Wyborn

  • 2025
  • Ian McHarg Medal

The 2025 Ian McHarg Medal is awarded to Lesley Wyborn for achievements in enabling collaboration among international organisations and leadership with regard to global, multidisciplinary data infrastructure in the fields of Earth and space sciences.


Marthe Klöcking

Marthe Klöcking

  • 2025
  • Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Marthe Klöcking for contributions to advancing Open Data in the Earth Sciences.


François Robida

François Robida

  • 2024
  • Ian McHarg Medal

The 2024 Ian McHarg Medal is awarded to François Robida for his outstanding work in establishing internationally standardised geoinformation technologies and services, which enable global geoscience data sharing and underpin modern data-intensive research.


Anirudh Prabhu

Anirudh Prabhu

  • 2024
  • Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Anirudh Prabhu for his outstanding contributions to the fields of Earth and planetary informatics, data science, astrobiology, and geosciences at large.


Fabian Schumacher

Fabian Schumacher

  • 2024
  • Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Fabian Schumacher Assessing the area of applicability of spatial prediction models through a local data point density approach

Current issue of the EGU newsletter

In our June issue learn how new models are helping to predict marine heatwaves in the Mediterranean, how citizen science is mapping previously poorly understood parts of our oceans and following on from Pride month, think more about how support for your LGBTQIA+ colleagues needs to last all year round; get advice on being a supportive ally and inclusivity in fieldwork.

Also don't miss out on funding to help educators in tertiary education (college, university etc) develop new teaching materials, applications are due by 10 July, and apply for one of the limited spots in EGU's free peer-review training provided by EGU's Publications Committee, our open access journal editors, reviewers and staff, deadline is 31 July, and much more in this month's Loupe!