European Geosciences Union
Division on Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems
President: Francesco Soldovieri (gi@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Vira Pronenko
(pron@isr.lviv.ua)
Opposed to other divisions concentrating on specific fields of geosciences, this division 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 utilized 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 2018 Christiaan Huygens Medal is awarded to Jothiram Vivekanandan for his pioneering and ground-breaking work on the microphysical characterisation of clouds and precipitation by using advanced remote sensors.
The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Giovanni Ludeno for his outstanding contribution to the development of new radar methodologies for environmental monitoring.
The 2017 Christiaan Huygens Medal is awarded to Riccardo Lanari for his groundbreaking work in developing data evaluation algorithms for high-resolution synthetic aperture radar images.
The 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award is awarded to Fabio Tosti for his outstanding contribution to the development of new ground penetrating radar methodologies in the field of the diagnostics for geosciences and civil engineering.
The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards is awarded to Luca Bianchini Ciampoli Empirical prediction of mechanical properties of flexible pavement through GPR
Last week, the EGU hosted its first science-policy dinner debate in Brussels. The event, 'Horizon Geoscience: overcoming societal challenges, creating change', was organised in collaboration with the European Federation of Geologists (EFG) and brought together geoscientists, policymakers and industry representatives. On the EGU website, we report on the outcome of the discussion and publish the key findings from the Horizon 2020 Geoscience Survey conducted earlier this year.
In the past few weeks, we have also issued three press releases highlighting research published in some of EGU's open access journals. Follow the links to find out how bombing raids in the Second World War impacted the ionosphere, how glacial geoengineering could help limit sea-level rise, and what the point of no return for climate action might be.