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Many of his very wide contributions to geophysics are well known. In the present context, however, we emphasise his contributions to the study of nonlinear systems and processes in hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics.
Home / Awards & medals / Division Outstanding Young Scientist Awards / 2015 / James Rae
James Rae BG Biogeosciences The 2015 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to James Rae for his contributions to our understanding of the past climate change and its causes. A recent study, led by Dr James Rae of the University of St Andrews, found that changes in ocean circulation in the North Pacific caused a massive ‘burp’ of CO2 to be released from the deep ocean into the atmosphere, helping to warm the planet sufficiently to trigger the end of the ice age.
Home / Awards & medals / Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards / 2019 / Gabriele Messori
Gabriele Messori AS Atmospheric Sciences The 2019 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Gabriele Messori for seminal contributions to the understanding of planetary wave-breaking phenomena, atmospheric extreme events and the energetics of the climate system using dynamical systems theory. Gabriele Messori has rapidly established himself among the leading younger voices in the field of extreme events in the climate system.
Home / Awards & medals / Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards / 2024 / Simone Benella
Benella’s academic journey started with a degree course in theoretical physics, where he specialised in statistical mechanics. During this time, he conducted a thesis on the topic of self-organised criticality. In this context, he planned and analyzed the results of a sandpile model, studying its evolution on different types of networks.
Home / Awards & medals / Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal / 2025 / Corinne Le Quéré
Corinne Le Quéré The 2025 Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal is awarded to Corinne Le Quéré for development of research demonstrating the role of the oceans in the changing global carbon cycle, and leadership in the Global Carbon Project. As a world-renowned expert on the changing global carbon cycle, Corinne Le Quéré is well deserving of the 2024 Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal.
Home / Awards & medals / Augustus Love Medal / 2017 / Barry E. Parsons
One of his papers on this topic, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research in 1982, is truly a classic and has spawned many others. He analysed in a supremely elegant and useful way the relationships between topography, gravity and temperature structure in convective bodies and followed this up with several studies of convection on Earth and Venus.
Home / Awards & medals / John Dalton Medal / 2025 / Paolo D'Odorico
D’Odorico highlighted the impact of climate change on irrigation and investigated the economic value of water in agriculture by developing a biophysical method that can be used to determine the value of water in the agricultural sector. This has provided an important tool for estimating the value of irrigation water in regions where water is not priced.
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Read more The role of cyclonic eddies in the detachment and separation of Loop Current eddies Ocean Science DOI 10.5194/os-22-821-2026 10 March 2026 We analyze 29 years of satellite altimetry to investigate the detachment of Loop Current Eddies in the Gulf of Mexico. Over half of the Loop Current eddies reattach within a month, while 42 % separate and drift westward.
Home / News / Webinars and online events / NP Division Campfire: On the concept of energy cascades in turbulence: from Richardson/Kolmogorov picture to multifractal and beyond
Such cascade phenomenology is at the basis of most turbulent models. I will discuss in this talk how progresses in numerical simulations and laboratory experiments gradually changed such simple vision (starting from Landau objection in the 50’s), leading to a new picture where quasi-singularities living beyond Kolmogorov scale play a central role.
Home / News / Webinars and online events / Ocean Sciences Campfire
Alejandro Román and Dr. Nicolás Sánchez. Talks: Alejandro Román (Institute of Marine Sciences of Andalusia (ICMAN), Spanish National Research Council (CISC)) - Use of drone imagery in the monitoring of Antarctic coastal ecosystems Nicolás Sánchez (GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel) - Risks and co-benefits of ocean alkalinity enhancement in marine plankton communities We are seeking speakers for the upcoming EGU-Ocean Sciences Campfires.
