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Home / Policy / Science-policy publications / Fundamental sciences / blue-skies research
The same applies in the Earth sciences: fundamental geomorphological or volcanological research helps to predict landslides and volcanic eruptions, or mitigate their impacts; study of past climate helps anticipate the effects of global warming; techniques developed during blue-sky geochemical or geophysical research finds applications in mineral exploration; landscape research, and the processes that shape them, has led to a greater understanding of our living environment, allowing us to safeguard and manage natural risks more effectively; plate tectonics research is helping to increase our understanding of earthquake and volcanic hazards in densely populated coastal regions.
Home / Awards & medals / Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Awards / 2023 / Jan-Hendrik Peters
-H.; Dette, H. P.; Koop, T.) Click here to download the poster/PICO file. Jan-Hendrik Peters is a PhD student in the Atmospheric & Physical Chemistry group led by Thomas Koop at Bielefeld University, Germany. He has been interested in the phase state of atmospherically relevant aerosol particles since his master’s thesis in chemistry. His work is focused on the study of highly viscous and glassy aerosol particles by thermal analysis in lab studies.
Home / Awards & medals / Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal / 2006 / Erich Roeckner
For Erich Roeckner to be the “father” of ECHAM means two things – first the intimate knowledge of all aspects of a modern atmospheric general circulation model, and second the experience of and contributions to a broad range of applications of the model in different contexts.
Home / News / EGU news / Call for applications: EGU Public Engagement Grants 2025!
7 May 2025 The European Geosciences Union ( EGU ) is opening applications for the ninth edition of its annual Public Engagement Grants scheme, which aims to celebrate and recognise excellent science communication in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The grants, an initiative of the EGU Outreach Committee, are awarded to EGU members interested in developing an outreach project to raise awareness of the geosciences outside the scientific community.
https://www.egu.eu/egutoday/2024/monday/
This state of knowledge builds on centuries of scientific advances in the understanding of the climate system, from multiple lines of evidence – observations, theory, process understanding, and numerical modelling. This Union Symposium will build on key findings from the Sixth Assessment Cycle of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ).
Home / News / Press releases / Antarctic Sea ice emerges as key predictor of accelerated ocean warming
About the EGU The European Geosciences Union ( EGU ) is Europe’s premier geosciences union, dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences for the benefit of humanity, worldwide. It is a non-profit interdisciplinary learned association of scientists founded in 2002 with headquarters in Munich, Germany.
Home / Awards & medals / Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards / 2022 / Kristel Chanard
Indeed, as a measure of mass redistribution, GRACE products have shown to be a valuable data source in her work to investigate climate forcing on Earth deformation. Furthermore, she is currently involved in the improvement of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF) and has advanced our understanding of geocentre motion as an important source of uncertainty e.g. on the evaluation of sea-level rise.
Home / Awards & medals / Louis Agassiz Medal / 2014 / Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
A common factor among all of Dahl-Jensen’s studies is that they each represent not only ground-breaking work in basic science, but also the combination of her scientific fields with others in a larger, interdisciplinary approach to complex, contemporary issues.
Home / Awards & medals / Julius Bartels Medal / 2007 / Rainer Schwenn
Schwenn’s LASCO has provided, for the first time, direct observations of coronal mass ejections, which play a key role in solar-terrestrial relations research and in particular for the prediction of “space weather”. Thus these continuous observations do not only provide a breakthrough in the scientific understanding of the solar corona, coronal mass ejections, and the solar wind but they also provide important space weather information, which is readily available on the internet.
Home / Awards & medals / Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal / 2010 / Mark S. Ghiorso
Mark S. Ghiorso The 2010 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to Mark S. Ghiorso for his outstanding contribution in the field of multiphase, multi-component silicate melt thermodynamics. Ghiorso substantially advanced knowledge and capabilities in that field by developing, updating and releasing computational resources representing the state-of-the-art during last twenty years.
