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Home / Awards & medals / Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal / 2006 / Claude Lorius
Claude Lorius The 2006 Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal is awarded to Claude Lorius for his outstanding achievements in advancing knowledge of past climates and atmospheric composition by the study of Antarctic ice cores and the bubbles of air entrapped in them. Claude Lorius was born in 1932 and obtained his doctorate in 1962. He has taken part in more than 20 expeditions to the polar regions, primarily to Antarctica.
Home / Awards & medals / Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal / 2017 / Jack J. Middelburg
Middelburg has pioneered the development of biogeochemical models by introducing the reactive continuum concept for organic matter decomposition in marine systems; a concept that accurately depicts the role of age and quality of organic matter in the course of its degradation.
Home / Awards & medals / Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership / 2011 / Gerold Wefer
He has made fundamental and outstanding contributions in all of these topics. A major discovery was the demonstration of an extremely short-lived seasonal pulse of diatoms in Bransfield Strait, off the Antarctic Peninsula. The phenomenon of pulsed production of diatoms is of the utmost importance for the Cenozoic evolution of marine mammals and birds.
Home / Awards & medals / Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal / 2005 / David Williamson
David Williamson The 2005 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal is awarded to David Williamson as a pioneer and leading expert in the field of atmospheric general circulation modelling for weather and climate and in recognition of his leadership role in global modelling community activities. David Williamson is one of the pioneers of the present-day discretization methods used in numerical modelling of the atmosphere.
Home / Awards & medals / Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal / 2019 / Isabel P. Montañez
In subsequent years, she integrated her expertise in fluid-rock interaction with cyclo- and sequence-stratigraphic studies of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic cyclic successions in order to reconstruct the C and Sr isotopic evolution of seawater over a hierarchy of climatic cycles.
Home / Awards & medals / John Dalton Medal / 2018 / Gabriel G. Katul
Furthermore, he and his colleagues and students have taken the important step of reducing the order of these models to allow for application of the simpler models in the interpretation of precipitation patterns and ecosystem processes. In terms of controls on soil moisture, he and his colleagues and students have clarified the hydraulic processes occurring in plants and in soils that determine how water is stored in soil under different atmospheric conditions.
Home / Profile / Donald Bruce Dingwell
Donald Bruce Dingwell President of the European Geosciences Union April 2011 – April 2013 Vice-President of the European Geosciences Union April 2013 – April 2014; May 2010 – April 2011 President of the Division "Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology" (GMPV) of the European Geosciences Union April 2002 – April 2007 Born in 1958 in Canada, Don Dingwell received his BSc in geology and geophysics in 1980 from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, and his PhD in geology at the University of Alberta in 1984.
Home / Awards & medals / Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal / 2001 / Fedor Mesinger
Fedor Mesinger The 2001 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal is awarded to Fedor Mesinger as a leading expert in the field of numerical modelling of the atmosphere and in recognition of his contributions to numerical weather prediction. Fedor Mesinger is one of the world’s leading experts in the field of numerical modelling of the atmosphere.
Home / Media Library / Ponds of melted freshwater (snow) on top of sea ice in the Arctic in summer.
Also note the haze in the distance; such haze is rare in the Arctic and appears here because of the relative proximity to land in combination with offshore winds. Credit: Michael Tjernström, via Imaggeo ( Source ) Related EGU articles Emissions could add 38 centimetres to 2100 sea level rise (17 September 2020) Download Original image (3.5 MB, 3882.0x2911.0 px) Preview image (128.0 KB, 1280x960 px, JPEG format) Go back
Home / Awards & medals / Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal / 2012 / Adrian Simmons
Simmons has also played an important role in the development of data assimilation methods and in the production of the reanalysis products at ECMWF, which are of great benefit to the world meteorological community and of increasing use in climate research. He continues to do work of international significance in the development of global environment monitoring.
