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Home / Awards & medals / Stephan Mueller Medal / 2021 / R. Dietmar Müller
.: A tectonic-rules-based mantle reference frame since 1 billion years ago – implications for supercontinent cycles and plate–mantle system evolution, Solid Earth, 13, 1127–1159, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-1127-2022 , 2022.
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Search 2 items found New article on climate tipping points 9 September 2022 A recently published article by Armstrong Mckay et al. in Science updates the assessment of major climate tipping elements and their possible tipping points first proposed by Lenton et al. (2008). "Climate tipping points occur when change in a part of the climate system becomes self-sustaining, locking in major negative impacts affecting millions of people.
Home / Awards & medals / Milutin Milanković Medal
Recipients Zhengyu Liu 2025 Peter U. Clark 2024 Bette L. Otto-Bliesner 2023 Hai Cheng 2022 Ayako Abe-Ouchi 2021 Valérie Masson-Delmotte 2020 Jacques Laskar 2019 David A. Hodell 2018 Axel Timmermann 2017 James C. Zachos 2016 Paul J. Valdes 2015 Maureen E.
Home / Awards & medals / Sergey Soloviev Medal
Recipients Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano 2025 Hayley J. Fowler 2024 Peng Cui 2023 Anne Mangeney 2022 Fausto Guzzetti 2021 John J. Clague 2020 Kyoji Sassa 2019 Giuseppe De Natale 2018 Augusto Neri 2017 Irasema Alcántara-Ayala 2016 John C. Eichelberger 2015 Costas E.
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The three winners receive a free registration to the following General Assembly. Finalists of the annual EGU photo competition All 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
Home / News & press / Press releases / EGU announces the newest feature of their Open Access repository, EGUsphere: preprints!
The meeting’s sessions cover a wide range of topics, including volcanology, planetary exploration, the Earth’s internal structure and atmosphere, climate, energy, and resources. The EGU General Assembly 2022 is taking place in Vienna, Austria, from 23-27 May 2022. For information and press registration, please click here , or follow the EGU on Twitter and Facebook. If you wish to receive our press releases via email, please use the Press Release Subscription Form at https://www.egu.eu/news/subscribe/ .
Home / Policy / Science-policy publications / Polar research
EGU polar research areas past, present and future climate changes polar ozone polar clouds and precipitation polar deep-sea exploration instrumental observation of the cryosphere snow and ice (land and sea): properties, processes, hazards permafrost, rock glaciers, debris-covered glaciers and geomorphology ice sheets, ice shelfs and glaciers ocean – polar interactions energy exploration Recent EGU papers Proglacial methane emissions driven by meltwater and groundwater flushing in a high-Arctic glacial catchment (BG, 2025) Impact of climate change on snow avalanche activity in the Swiss Alps (TC, 2024) Improving interpretation of sea-level projections through a machine-learning-based local explanation approach (TC, 2022) Sea ice breakup and freeze-up indicators for users of the Arctic coastal environment (TC, 2022) A probabilistic framework for quantifying the role of anthropogenic climate change in marine-terminating glacier retreats (TC, 2022) Sources http://www.nasa-usa.de/topics/earth/features/warmingpoles.html http://ec.europa.eu/news/2016/04/20160427_en.htm http://www.ats.aq/e/ats.htm http://www.eeas.europa.eu/arctic_region/ http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-1539_en.htm http://www.learn-eo.org/downloads/books/cryosat.pdf https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/ http://nsidc.org/ http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/sotc/ http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/facts/hole_SH.html https://www.bas.ac.uk/about/antarctica/the-antarctic-treaty/ With special thanks to Sophie Berger, researcher at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, Dr Jürg Schweizer, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Switzerland, and Professor Jonathan Bamber, Principle Investigator at the University of Bristol, for drafting this webpage.
Home / Meetings / General Assembly / List of General Assemblies
EGU General Assemblies (since 2004) EGU General Assemblies (since 2004) Year Location Date # Participants # Countries Links Total On site Virtual 2030 Hybrid event: Vienna, Austria 28 April – 3 May 2030 - - - - 2029 Hybrid event: Vienna, Austria 8–13 April 2029 - - - - 2028 Hybrid event: Vienna, Austria 23–28 April 2028 - - - - 2027 Hybrid event: Vienna, Austria 4–9 April 2027 - - - - 2026 Hybrid event: Vienna, Austria 3–8 May 2026 - - - - Homepage 2025 Hybrid event: Vienna, Austria 27 April – 2 May 2025 20,986 18,646 2,340 136 Homepage Participants by country 2024 Hybrid event: Vienna, Austria 14–19 April 2024 20,931 18,338 2,593 130 Homepage Participants by country 2023 Hybrid event: Vienna, Austria 23–28 April 2023 18,833 15,454 3,379 121 Homepage Participants by country 2022 Hybrid event: Vienna, Austria 23–27 May 2022 14,317 7,313 7,004 126 Homepage Participants by country 2021 Online event 19–30 April 2021 18,172 - 18,172 135 Homepage Participants by country 2020 Online event 4–8 May 2020 22,376 - 22,376 134 Homepage Participants by country 2019 Vienna, Austria 7–12 April 2019 16,273 16,273 - 113 Homepage Participants by country 2018 Vienna, Austria 8–13 April 2018 15,075 15,075 - 106 Homepage Participants by country 2017 Vienna, Austria 23–28 April 2017 14,496 14,496 - 106 Homepage Participants by country 2016 Vienna, Austria 17–22 April 2016 13,650 13,650 - 109 Homepage Participants by country 2015 Vienna, Austria 12–17 April 2015 11,837 11,837 - 108 Homepage Participants by country 2014 Vienna, Austria 27 April – 2 May 2014 12,437 12,437 - 106 Homepage Participants by country 2013 Vienna, Austria 7–12 April 2013 11,167 11,167 - 95 Homepage Participants by country 2012 Vienna, Austria 22–27 April 2012 11,275 11,275 - 95 Homepage Participants by country 2011 Vienna, Austria 3–8 April 2011 10,707 10,707 - 93 Homepage Participants by country 2010 Vienna, Austria 2–7 May 2010 10,463 10,463 - 94 Homepage Participants by country 2009 Vienna, Austria 19–24 April 2009 9,088 9,088 - 86 Homepage Participants by country 2008 Vienna, Austria 13–18 April 2008 8,685 8,685 - 88 Homepage Participants by country 2007 Vienna, Austria 15–20 April 2007 8,037 8,037 - 90 Homepage Participants by country 2006 Vienna, Austria 2–7 April 2006 7,732 7,732 - 91 Homepage Participants by country 2005 Vienna, Austria 24–29 April 2005 8,068 8,068 - 81 Homepage Participants by country 2004 Nice, France 25–30 April 2004 6,297 6,297 - - Pre-EGU era (before 2002) The European Geosciences Union (EGU) was established by the merger of the European Union of Geosciences (EUG) and the European Geophysical Society (EGS) on 7 September 2002, with the final stages of this transition completed on 31 December 2003.
Home / News & press / EGU news / EGU announces the Biodiversity Task Force members!
24 February 2022 In October 2021, Biodiversity was selected by the EGU Science for Policy Working Group and approved by the EGU Council as the 2022-2024 Policy Priority Area due to its relevance to many EGU divisions, current and future policy relevance, and the need for information and continued scientific support in the creation of new European legislation and establishment of new European and national initiatives.
Home / News & press / EGU news / EGU Outreach Committee sponsored workshop
27 January 2022 Are you an Early Career Scientist in the geosciences who wants to share your work with wider non-academic audiences? Why not apply to join the EGU Outeach Committee’s first sponsored workshop: ‘Cutting through the noise: effective popular writing & media skills for Early Career Researchers’!
