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 (OS) Division 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 Early Career Scientists Award for researchers in the early stages of their careers. We also award prizes to outstanding student posters at every General Assembly. The division maintains very strong links with the EGU Publications Committee, and especially with the board of editors of the open access journal Ocean Science (OS). The division also collaborates with other EGU committees in the organisation of relevant topical conferences and summer schools.
The 2023 Fridtjof Nansen Medal is awarded to Alberto Naveira Garabato for groundbreaking and pioneering research characterised by extraordinary insight and innovation that mechanistically revealed previously unseen key aspects of ocean mixing and ocean circulation.
The 2023 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Florian Börgel for outstanding research in the field of long-term climate variability influence on regional seas.
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.
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.
The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Alexandre Barboni What can we learn from eddy-induced signatures on sea surface temperature?
The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Manal Hamdeno Spatio-temporal Variability of the Marine Heatwaves in the Mediterranean Sea over 39 years, and their Possible Physical Drivers
The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Mia Sophie Specht Influence of Subsurface Tropical Instability Waves on Ocean Temperatures in the Tropical Atlantic
In the March newsletter, we count down the days to Europe’s largest geoscience conference: EGU23! Thousands of scientists, academics, researchers, students, artists and journalists will come together for an exciting week of science with a myriad of talks, sessions and events, across different areas of interest.
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General Assembly decision makers Maria-Helena Ramos and Athanasios Nenes, tell us the behind-the-scenes effort that goes into planning a conference of such scale. As a reminder, registrations remain open for EGU23. Members of the media are eligible for free registration, see more here.