European Geosciences Union
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.
The 2026 Christiaan Huygens Medal is awarded to Vijay Prasad Dimri for outstanding contributions to the study of potential fields in exploration geophysics, by establishing their scaling properties due to scaling sources.
The 2026 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Andrea Barone for methodological innovation in the multi-scale integration of InSAR, magnetic and EM data, for the modelling of deformation sources in complex volcanic and environmental settings.
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.
The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Rushan Wang Advances in the Identification of Geological Discontinuities in Boreholes with Deep Learning
In our February issue, we are following pioneering scientists into extreme places in the name of discovery, from a day-in-the-life of an Antarctic researcher working on the sea ice to how the Viking spaceships took space plasma from theory to observation. Marie Cavitte shares her experience of the Blue Book traineeship in science for policy and Elsa Abs talks about their work with soil microbes. EGU's President thanks our 12,000 volunteers from 2025 and we share the 24 training schools and member-organised meetings we have funded in 2026. Deadlines approach for the EGU26 photo competition and Early-bird registration fees, and there is a job vacancy in the EGU Executive office in Munich, Germany!
All this and much more, in this month's Loupe!