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Home / Awards & medals / Union Service Award / 2014 / Thomas Hofmann
Since 1991 he has been a staff member of the Geological Survey of Austria, starting in the department of mineral resources, moving to public relations and foreign affairs in 2004 and becoming head of library, archive and publishing in 2008. Hofmann’s work focuses on various activities in the fields of public relations, geosites and history of the geosciences.
Home / Media Library / Map showing the strategic flooding of the Philippine area, southwestern Netherlands, in 1747 at the time of a French military attack
From 1702 to 1814, the French invaded the Zeeland Flanders area in southwestern Netherlands three times, occupying it twice. At that time the Dutch used an east-west running area (beginning at the town of Sluis and ending east of the town of Hulst) to be flooded in case of warfare.
Home / Awards & medals / Jean Dominique Cassini Medal & Honorary Membership / 2004 / Michel Blanc
He is leading the efforts for structuring the planetary science community in Europe in the context of the major science missions of ESA. With his remarkable scientific record in Solar Terrestrial physics and planetary science and his strong role in coordinating the European scientific community, Michel Blanc deserves to open the list of recipients of the Cassini medal of the European Geosciences Union.
Home / Awards & medals / Louis Néel Medal / 2008 / J. Brian Evans
J. Brian Evans The 2008 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to J. Brian Evans for his internationally acclaimed path-breaking research on the rheology of rocks, his elegant experiments based on physics and materials science, and his discoveries in the relationship between deformation and fluid transport in a variety of geophysical environments. Since 1993, J. Brian Evans has been a full professor in the department of Earth, Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Home / Awards & medals / Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership / 2014 / Eric F. Wood
In the late 1980s, he led the development of a new area of research associated with determining the scaling behaviour of catchment hydrologic response. In a series of papers with Sivapalan, Beven and others he introduced the ‘representative elemental area’ concept, where catchment response could be represented in terms of building blocks of some minimum size.
Home / Awards & medals / Stephan Mueller Medal / 2000 / M.J. Rinus Wortel
M.J. Rinus Wortel The 2000 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to M.J. Rinus Wortel in recognition of his fundamental contributions to modelling of subduction zone dynamics.
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EGS Stephen Mueller Medallist - 2000 Rinus Wortel in recognition of his fundamental contributions to modelling of subduction zone dynamics Rinus Wortel is Full Professor of Tectonophysics at the University of Utrecht and Scientific director of the Vening Meinesz Research School of Geodynamics (Utrecht University and Delft University of Technology); Wortels research interests are dynamics of the lithosphere, stress field in and deformation of the lithosphere, thermo-mechanical evolution of the lithosphere and upper mantle (in particular the subduction process), earthquake generation and seismic energy release, tectonic processes along convergent plate boundaries, relationship between processes in the lithosphere and upper mantle and geological processes at or near the surface, and the geodynamical evolution of the Mediterranean region.
Home / Awards & medals / Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal / 2008 / Kelin X. Whipple
His most outstanding contributions have been in deepening our understanding of Landform evolution in active tectonic settings, examining the interactions of climate, tectonics, and the mechanics of river incision into bedrock, and their impact on sculpting of the Earth’s surface, particularly in mountainous areas.
Home / Awards & medals / Louis Néel Medal / 2004 / Subir Banerjee
One of his major contributions has been the development of a reliable technique for the determination of relative paleointensity in sediments. One of his newest interests is in the field of magnetism applied to the solution of environmental and archeological problems.
Home / Awards & medals / Hannes Alfvén Medal / 2020 / Qiugang Zong
He has made breakthrough discoveries in the identification of particle acceleration mechanisms in the magnetosphere. Zong has also excelled in the development of space plasma physics instrumentation and analysis methods as well as in the transmission of his deep knowledge in magnetospheric physics to a new generation of scientists.
