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Lightning strike with a stormchase vehicle used in VORTEX2 in the foreground (Credit: Jonathan Gourley, distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

GI Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems Division on Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems

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Division on Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems
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Division on Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems

President: Pietro Tizzani (Emailgi@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Raffaele Castaldo (Email)
ECS Representative: Andrea Barone (Emailecs-gi@egu.eu)

The Division on Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems (GI) intends to be a forum for developments in instrumentation, technology, methods and data handling used in any field of the various geosciences. By promoting the discussion between specialists from widely diverse fields, advances in instrumentation made in one field might be utilised in other areas also and encourage co-operation, thereby saving separate development work and making new approaches possible, which otherwise might still have to wait for years or even decades.

As nearly every other field of geosciences is related to one or the other instrumentation strategy, many of the GI-sessions are co-organized with sessions from other divisions. Potential contributors to any session are encouraged to evaluate the benefits of a multi-disciplinary discussion versus the specific interest of the own target group.

Recent awardees

Francesco Soldovieri

Francesco Soldovieri

  • 2025
  • Christiaan Huygens Medal

The 2025 Christiaan Huygens Medal is awarded to Francesco Soldovieri for outstanding achievements in the field of electromagnetic modelling for radar imaging and its application to geosciences.


Nemesio M. Pérez

Nemesio M. Pérez

  • 2024
  • Christiaan Huygens Medal

The 2024 Christiaan Huygens Medal is awarded to Nemesio M. Pérez for his outstanding scientific contributions to the study of soil-gas geochemistry in volcanic areas, and for promoting international research programs in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa.


Livia Lantini

Livia Lantini

  • 2024
  • Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Livia Lantini for important contributions in the field of ground penetrating radar applications for forestry and environmental engineering.


Lorena Abad

Lorena Abad

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

The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Lorena Abad Geomorphic landform monitoring with raster and vector data cubes

Current issue of the EGU newsletter

Following the General Assembly at the end of April we have combined the April and May issues to bring you all the current EGU news and events from new funding calls for Public Engagement Grants, Distinguished Lectures and Science Journalism Fellowship, to the imminent close of the nominations for 2026's Awards and Medals on the 15 June!

Learn about EGU's new science for policy Climate Hazard and Risk Task Force, prepare for your media close-up with our science-media toolkit, join a webinar celebrating 20 years of EGU journal 'Climate of the Past' on tipping points, and much more in this month's Loupe!