Dear Community,

Welcome to the June newsletter of the EGU Division on Climate: Past, Present and Future. This month, the call for nominations for the EGU awards is closing soon, so we encourage you to put forward outstanding colleagues. You are also invited to a special webinar celebrating 20 years of the journal Climate of the Past, with a focus on climate tipping points. In addition, we highlight the latest contributions from our blog, and invite you to get to know your Division President and Early Career Scientist (ECS) Representative.

All the best,

Shalenys Bedoya-Valestt (ECS Representative)
Kerstin Treydte (Division President)
and the CL team

Upcoming Events and Deadlines

To mark its 20^th anniversary, Climate of the Past Journal is launching a special webinar series celebrating two decades of leading paleoclimate science. The first webinar on Abrupt Climate Change and Tipping Points will be on 11 June 2025, 16:00 CEST. Read more here.

Nominations for the Hans Oeschger Medal, Milutin Milanković Medal, and the Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award are still open. Know an eminent scientist or an outstanding ECS in climate sciences whose work should be recognised? Nominate them by 15 June 2025.

Two weeks left to apply for the Special Activity Fund 2026 (SAF). We encourange applications for high-profile, out-of-the-box and not-for-profit activities with high visibility and large impact, for which no funding sources in the ordinary annual EGU budget are suited. Apply before 13 June 2025.

Highlights from the CL Blog

What does a glacial cycle need to be a glacial cycle?

Sergio Pérez-Montero

Take a journey through time to explore what it takes for a glacial cycle to form and what do they tell us about past climate changes.

Early farmers of the Pacific recorded in sediment cores from Vanuatu

Giorgia Camperio and Nemiah Ladd

Sediment cores reveals human migrations in Vanuatu (Oceania) of the last two millenia but also the importance of climate patterns in determining past humans travels.

What high-resolution regional models tell us about precipitation in the Tibetan Plateau

Laura Detjen and Julia Curio

In this blog, one of our EGU 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award answer the question: Can we improve our understanding of extreme precipitation events in the Sichuan Basin by using high-resolution regional climate models?

Call for guest blogs!

Do you want to share your research with our CL community? The CL Blog is looking for guest authors! Blog posts are typically written in 1-3 pages long and aimed at a broad public. We warmly welcome contributions. Check out the guidelines below or reach out directly to our blog editors!

Meet your Division President and ECS Representative

Dr. Kerstin Treydte is the President of the Climate Division since 2024. She is Senior Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL in Birmensdorf/Zurich, a Research Centre of the ETH domain. She works with tree rings as proxies for past climate variability and as indicators for actual climate change, from the local to the continental scale.

Shalenys Bedoya-Valestt is the ECS Representative for the Climate Division since 2024. She is a PhD candidate at the Desertification Research Center (CIDE) from CSIC in Valencia, Spain. She works with present climate, by studying recent changes of sea breezes in the Mediterranean region over the last half past century, and their link to a warming climate.

Join our team!

This is a great opportunity to contribute to our CL community! We are looking for enthusiastic ECSs who enjoy outreach in climate science. If you would like to join us and get involved in our Division, please feel free to reach out. We would love to have you on board! Get in touch

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