European Geosciences Union
Division on Ocean Sciences
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.
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.
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.
The 2020 Fridtjof Nansen Medal is awarded to Richard J. Greatbatch for pioneering contributions to geophysical fluid dynamics and theoretical oceanography, especially mesoscale eddy parameterisations.
The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Frédéric Le Moigne for outstanding research in ocean biogeochemistry, particularly the vertical exchanges of organic carbon between the surface and the ocean’s interior: the biological carbon pump.
The July issue of The Loupe features a response to the recent catastrophic flooding in western Europe from an interdisciplinary perspective by several of EGU’s Division Presidents. Featuring the Geomorphology and Natural Hazards Divisions this month also meant that we got to speak with Natural Hazards Division Early Career Scientist representative Valeria Cigala and gained access to the first of vEGU21’s Union Symposia and Great Debates to be added to EGU’s YouTube Channel.
On a lighter note this month’s Loupe also noted the beginning of the Tokyo Olympics with a special blog about the connections between Geology and the Olympic Games, as well as featuring a new call for volunteers to participate in EGU’s Council”:https://www.egu.eu/elections/.
In addition to the latest Journal Watch and “GeoRoundup”:hhttps://egu.eu/4XZT18/ of July EGU journal highlights, this issue also reminds members that the call for EGU22 scientific session submissions, is open until 6 September 2021.