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Home / Awards & medals / Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Awards / 2010 / Jacqueline Owen
She is supervised by Hugh Tuffen, Dave McGarvie, Harry Pinkerton and Lionel Wilson. Her work focuses on the role of volatiles in the behaviour of subglacial rhyolitic volcanoes in Iceland. An important control is the ice thickness at the time of eruption, which can be estimated using volatile data.
Home / Education / Planet Press / Articles / Oxygen levels in Baltic Sea at 1500-year low
Now, researchers who published their work in the EGU journal Biogeosciences have discovered that the oxygen problem in the coastal waters of the Baltic sea is more serious than previously thought. The new research shows that during the past 100 years or so the coastal Baltic Sea lost oxygen at a rate that had not been seen in 1500 years!
Home / News / EGU news / Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria: what happened in February 2023?
At the time of writing, tens of thousands of people have lost their lives, and many more are injured, with damage to buildings and infrastructure widespread across the region. Aftershocks have continued in the days since, but an event of this scale and severity is unprecedented in a region known to be vulnerable to large seismic events.
Home / Awards & medals / Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Young Scientists / 2015 / Jérémie Mouginot
After moving to the University of California in 2009, Mouginot has rapidly become an international leader in remote sensing of the cryosphere, with a more specific focus on InSAR analysis. He is at the origin of the most recent maps of Greenland and Antarctic surface velocities, together with delineating the limit between floating and grounded ice around Antarctica.
Home / Awards & medals / Runcorn-Florensky Medal / 2019 / Tim Van Hoolst
Van Hoolst and his team have also worked on determining the interior structure of Mars. In particular, they have shown that a Martian inner core could potentially be detectable, if it was of a size which happened to produce a resonant response in either polar motion or nutation. Van Hoolst received several prestigious prizes, among them the Descartes Prize of the European Union and the Vanderlinden Prize of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium.
Home / Awards & medals / Plinius Medal / 2022 / Slobodan Nickovic
Nickovic has dedicated a great part of his life to improving our knowledge of mineral dust cycles. Dust is a natural hazard that severely negatively impacts human health, air and land transport, energy, and agriculture and affects hundreds of millions of people in dozens of countries, resulting in a huge number of deaths annually around the globe.
Home / Awards & medals / Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards / 2019 / Iris Thurnherr
In her PICO presentation at EGU 2019, she presented the use of SWI measurements in water vapour to characterise air-sea interaction in the cold and warm sectors of extratropical cyclones and showed that ocean evaporation, precipitation and water vapour deposition on the ocean surface triggered by the advection of cold and warm air masses leave distinct SWI signals in marine boundary layer air masses.
Home / Awards & medals / Philippe Duchaufour Medal / 2006 / Ewart A. FitzPatrick
Throughout over 50 years of his scientific activity he published a large number of original papers and widely known textbooks on soil science, from which several were re-edited in English and translated in Spanish. His creative textbooks have greatly contributed to the possibilities that soil micromorphology can offer.
Home / Media Library / Tabular iceberg in front of the Jakobshavn Isbræ terminus
At times, the glacier begins to float when it reaches the ocean, producing tabular icebergs, which remain the surface crevasses still visible as in the example shown here. When the glacier calves from a grounded calving front, icebergs topple in more domino-like fashion, often in rapid succession. Credit: Ian Joughin, PSC/APL/UW Related EGU articles Greenland’s fastest glacier reaches record speeds (3 February 2014) Download Original image (6.4 MB, 4288.0x2848.0 px) Preview image (197.5 KB, 1280x850 px, JPEG format) Go back
Home / News / Press releases / EGU 2016 General Assembly media advisory 2 – Meeting programme online, provisional press conference topics
More information 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. The EGU has a current portfolio of 17 diverse scientific journals, which use an innovative open access format, and organises a number of topical meetings, and education and outreach activities.
