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EGS Sergey Soloviev Medallist - 1997 Franco Barberi for his invaluable scientific, technical and political contributions in the evaluation and reduction of natural hazards and risks Franco Barberi is professor of volcanology in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Pisa, Italy, president of the National Group of Volcanology of the Italian National Research Council.
Home / Awards & medals / Augustus Love Medal / 2005 / Geoff Davies
Geoff Davies The 2005 Augustus Love Medal is awarded to Geoff Davies for original contributions in the field of mantle dynamics, in particular for elucidating the role of plate and plumes and for fundamental contributions in understanding the thermal and chemical evolution of the Earth. Davies is a distinguished scientist in the field of geodynamics.
Home / Awards & medals / Plinius Medal / 2025 / Annegret Henriette Thieken
Thieken is a leading figure in the modern understanding of flood risks and the design and implementation of risk reduction, management, and adaptation strategies. After graduating in Environmental Sciences from the Technical University of Braunschweig, she obtained a PhD in environmental geology from the Martin Luther University of Halle for her research on pollution patterns of regional groundwater contamination in the Bitterfeld-Wolfen mining area, Germany.
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During 1963-1973 he carried out research at several places in the United States and was appointed full professor in theoretical geophysics at the University of Utrecht in 1993. During his career Nicolaas Vlaar has continuously explored new directions of research in geophysics. In particular, he made important contributions to the following fields.
Home / News / Press releases / Unprecedented glacier melting in the Andes blamed on climate change
The tropical Andes host 99% of all tropical glaciers in the world, most of them in Peru. The research is also important to anticipate the future behaviour of Andean glaciers and the impact of their accelerated melting on the region.
Home / Awards & medals / Fridtjof Nansen Medal / 2010 / Michael J. McPhaden
Since 2004, McPhaden has led a multi-national consortium of institutions in the design and implementation of the Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction (RAMA) in the Indian Ocean. RAMA is nearly 50% complete and when finished (in 2012) will result in a globe-girdling network of moored buoys spanning all three tropical ocean basins.
Home / Awards & medals / Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal / 2022 / Elisabetta Erba
She is the third of the famous Milano female dynasty (Cita, Premoli Silva, Erba) who has revolutionized the field of micropalaeontology in the last 50 years. Elisabetta Erba started her extraordinary career in the late 1980’s with a focus on the investigation of calcareous nannoplankton in Mesozoic sedimentary rocks.
Home / Awards & medals / Louis Néel Medal / 2014 / Ian Main
His theoretical works on earthquake scaling and developments in damage mechanics to understanding rock failure have led him to the development of concepts of criticality in the Earth’s crust. Using primarily analytical and numerical approaches, Main has published an extensive body of work in collaboration with laboratory experimentalists, and has developed and tested hypotheses for field-based observation of scaling of rock faults and fractures.
Home / Awards & medals / Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards / 2017 / Victoria Arcenegui
She is author and co-author of 38 papers, most of them in the first quartile of impact factor in the field of soil science, three of the papers now have more than 100 citations. With an H-index of 21 (Google scholar), H=18 (Scopus) and 1501 citations (Google scholar), 1057 (Scopus), her productivity is of very high level.
Home / News / EGU news / Obituary: Arne Richter (1941–2015)
At the EGU , Richter had an instrumental role. He was secretary general and executive secretary of EGS — which merged with the European Union of Geosciences to form the EGU in 2001 — from 1988 until its formal extinction in 2003. As such, he was a key player in the founding of the EGU , becoming its executive secretary in 2002 and the member with ID#1 in the EGU database.
