President: Johan van der Molen
(os@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Sandro Carniel
(sandro.carniel@cmre.nato.int)
The Ocean Sciences Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) has the major objective to provide an attractive and productive environment for scientists from Europe and all over the world to gain progress in the various ocean science disciplines and have beneficial interactions with other fields of Geosciences. For that purpose, we organise with the teams of conveners the ocean science part of the program of the scientific conference that his held every year during the EGU General Assembly. We give special attention to topics cross-cutting with those of other divisions. We recognise deserving colleagues in various stages of their careers with our Award program: the division awards the Fritdjof Nansen Medal to mid or full career scientists and the Outstanding Young Scientists Award for younger scientists. We also award prices to outstanding student posters at every general assembly. The division maintains very strong links with the EGU publication committee, and especially with the board of Editors of the open access journal Ocean Science (OS) l. The division also contributes with the EGU Education and Outreach committee to the organisation of relevant topical conferences and summer schools.
Recent awardees
- 2022
- Fridtjof Nansen Medal
The 2022 Fridtjof Nansen Medal is awarded to
Monika Rhein for pioneering measurements and analysis of physical and chemical tracers furthering the understanding of ventilation and circulation in the Atlantic subpolar gyre and Deep Western Boundary Current.
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- 2022
- Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award
The 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Céline Heuzé for outstanding research in the field of deep sea oceanography and cryosphere interactions.
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- 2021
- Fridtjof Nansen Medal
The 2021 Fridtjof Nansen Medal is awarded to
Richard S. Lampitt for transformative and interdisciplinary research concerning the ocean biological carbon pump, including measures of organic particle fluxes needed to close the carbon budget in the Twilight Zone.
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- 2021
- Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award
The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to
Marilena Oltmanns for outstanding research in the role of the oceans in the climate system.
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- 2021
- Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award
The 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award is awarded to
Channing Prend Zonal asymmetry of Southern Ocean air-sea carbon fluxes
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Current issue of the EGU newsletter
In the May issue of The Loupe, we read of new ways to make science more inclusive and accessible to people around the world, with EGU’s annual General Assembly EGU22 serving as a recent example. Postdoc researcher Jenny Turton tells us about atmospheric processes that affect the ice, through her work on the largest remaining floating glacier in the Arctic.
EGU’s Outreach Committee seeks new members by 12 June 2022 to promote the Earth, planetary, and space sciences among scientists, the public, and policymakers.
Applications are also open for EGU’s Science Journalism Fellowship and Public Engagement Grant, deadline for both is 17 June 2022!
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