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Home / Awards & medals / Union Service Award / 2011 / Andreas Güntner
After stepping down from coordinating the YSOPP award in the Hydrological Sciences he took over the position of YSOPP award coordinator at the Union level, where, due to his effort in engaging other divisions and advertising the importance of this award scheme, participation increased from 3 divisions in 2005 to 13 divisions in 2009 to 20 divisions in 2010.
https://www.egu.eu/egs/medalists/kutzbach01.htm
Over the past twenty years, and with various collaborators, he was focused on four major climatic problems: 1) understanding the role of earth's orbital variations in causing glacial-interglacial cycles, and monsoon cycles, with an emphasis on the past one hundred thousand years; 2) understanding the role of the uplift of mountains and plateaus in causing major onset of the Asian monsoon systems, and changes in mid-latitude climates, with an emphasis on the past 10 million years; 3) understanding the role of plate-tectonic shifts of the continents in causing major changes of climate, with an emphasis on the period around 250 million years ago - the time of Pangea; 4) understanding the role of future increases in atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and land-use changes, in changing climate, and climate variability.
Home / Awards & medals / Plinius Medal / 2005 / Mikhail Aleksandrovich Nosov
Through analytical and numerical modeling of the generation of wave motions in a layer of compressible and incompressible heavy fluid by bottom displacements, he revealed a difference in the behavior of a compressible and an incompressible ocean, showing that the problem of tsunami excitement by submarine earthquakes must be considered in the framework of the model of a compressible fluid.
Home / News / Press releases / Receding glaciers in Bolivia leave communities at risk
The new study is one of the first to monitor recent large-scale glacier change in Bolivia, to better understand how receding glaciers could affect communities in the country. “The novelty of our study lies in the bigger picture – measuring glacier change over all main glaciated ranges in Bolivia – and in the identification of potentially dangerous lakes for the first time,” Cook says.
https://www.egu.eu/egs/medalists/pepe00.htm
His current research interests include quantitative analyses of the kinematic of rifting processes in the continental margins of North Sicily and peninsular Italy. Project in progress is the quantitative reconstruction of the Neogene to Recent crustal evolution of the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea.
Home / Awards & medals / Sergey Soloviev Medal / 2024 / Hayley J. Fowler
Her comprehensive contributions in analysing and modeling the time series of extreme hydrological events and in targeting the science gaps needed to improve their predictability, together with the development and application of a suite of models to understand the vulnerability and resilience of water resource systems was highly influential in driving the hydrology community efforts to translate the advancements in fundamental research into practice.
https://www.egu.eu/egs/medalists/jouzel97.htm
He has also contributed significantly to the analysis of the Greenland ice cores data (as a member of GRIP in particular). He is the first author of the papers extending the climatic record extracted from Antarctica ice cores to more than 300,000 years and of papers discussing rapid climatic changes in ice cores.
Home / Awards & medals / Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards / 2025 / Getachew Agmuas Adnew
Since completing his PhD in 2020, Dr Adnew’s novel technique has been championed by the industry and he has moved on to specialise in the development of challenging clumped isotope techniques to study changes in the oxidation capacity of the past atmosphere using oxygen molecules (Δ 35 and Δ 36 ) trapped in the bubbles of ice cores or elucidating the origins, age and dynamics of clumped methane molecules (Δ 13 CH 3 D and Δ 12 CH 3 D 2 ) in the sub-glacial environment of the Greenland ice sheet alongside radiocarbon measurements (Δ 14 C(CH 4 )).
https://www.egu.eu/egs/medalists/polzin03.htm
EGS Fridtjof Nansen Medallist - 2003 Kurt Polzin in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the measurement of mixing in the deep ocean Building on the strong experimental tradition of his colleagues Dr. Ray Schmitt and Dr. John Toole, Dr.
Home / Awards & medals / Outstanding Young Scientist Awards / 2009 / Junguo Liu
He analyzed the trend of virtual water trade in China, and found that, in spite of the strict agricultural policy of food self-sufficiency, the annual virtual-water import through food trade increased sharply from 30 billion cubic metres in the 1990s to an average of 71 billion cubic metres between 2002 and 2004.
