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Home / Awards & medals / Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal / 2026 / Benjamin Bomfleur
Benjamin Bomfleur The 2026 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal is awarded to Benjamin Bomfleur for excellence in palaeobotany, specifically on the evolution, taxonomy and palaeobiology of plants. Benjamin Bomfleur has contributed to major breakthroughs in palaeobotany through a unique approach, which combines fieldwork and specimen-based research.
Home / News / Press releases / Welcome to the EGU24 Press Centre
It is a non-profit interdisciplinary learned association of scientists founded in 2002 with headquarters in Munich, Germany. The EGU publishes a number of diverse scientific journals that use an innovative open access format and organises topical meetings plus education and outreach activities.
Home / News / Webinars and online events / ERE Campfire - Microseismicity
The Energy, Resources and Energy ( ERE ) Division invites you to attend a campfire related to hydroshearing and microseismicity. Guest speaker : Iman Vaezi (Uppsala University). Title : The threshold of induced microseismicity is related to plasticity; Case study: hydroshearing in fractured crystalline rock at the Bedretto Underground Laboratory (Switzerland) Summary This campfire will discuss hydroshearing in fractured crystalline rock observed during hydraulic stimulation at the Bedretto Underground Laboratory for Geosciences and Geoenergies (BULGG) in Switzerland.
Home / News / Press releases / World’s dusty airports degrade aircraft engines
Planes stopping in Dubai, Delhi and Niamey, Niger, ingest the most dust of the locations in the study, though seasonal and daily variations can be significant. Airports such as Sydney, Phoenix and Bangkok see less dust than the others, but they do experience occasional large dust storms.
Home / Media Library / Shaksgam animation
This gif animation shows the region to the north of Skamri glacier to both sides of the Shaksgam valley. Glaciers are shown in light blue to cyan, clouds in white, water in dark blue, vegetation in green and bare terrain in pink to brown. Credit: F.
Home / News / EGU news / Austrian Science and Research Minister at the EGU General Assembly
4 April 2013 Karlheinz Töchterle, the Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research, will attend the EGU Award Ceremony where he will give a presentation on the future of geosciences in Europe. The EGU Award Ceremony is taking place on Wednesday 10 April at 17:30–20:00 in Room R1 of the Austria Center Vienna. Töchterle will address the audience around 18:15. During his visit, Töchterle will meet with the incoming EGU President Günter Blöschl, who is also the Head of the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources Management at the Vienna University of Technology.
Home / Awards & medals / Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Awards / 2021 / Marissa Lo
Her PhD research focusses on lunar volcanism, in particular, investigating the abundance and role of different volatile species in driving lunar magma ascent and eruption. In her vEGU 2021 talk “Modelling the ascent of picritic lunar magmas”, Marissa presented results from this ongoing research.
Home / Awards & medals / Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Awards / 2014 / Auwal Abdussalam
The awarded poster summarises results of his recent research on the assessment of possible impact of climate change on meningitis in northwest Nigeria, using CMIP5 climate model simulations.
Home / News / Press releases / Weaving Indigenous knowledge with scientific research: a balanced approach
Although Western scientists have historically deemed such information unreliable, during the past decade there has been increasing recognition of the advantages of bicultural approaches to scientific research, including demonstration of reliability. Now a review published in the European Geosciences Union’s journal Earth Surface Dynamics offers a roadmap for weaving together Indigenous knowledge with modern research, with a focus on the geosciences.
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July International Conference of Environmental Remote Sensing and GIS (ICERS) Zagreb, Croatia 1–3 July 2026 Join 2nd International Conference of Environmental Remote Sensing and GIS organized by University of Zagreb – Faculty of Geodesy. ICERS serves as a unique meeting point for sharing advancements in remote sensing and GIS, providing fresh perspectives on complex environmental challenges.
