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 April issue, we are welcoming EGU26 with a range of tools and blog posts to help you get the most out of the meeting! Also meet the managing director or EGU's publications and conference partner company Copernicus, Martin Rasmussen, as he talks about how the General Assembly has changed in the last 20 years, the EGU awards and medals are now open for nominations, discover how footprints in muddy tidal flats are helping us learn about climate change and don't miss the 15 May deadline to apply for funding to support a training school or special conference!
All this and much more, in this month's Loupe!