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Maureen E. Raymo

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Raymo’s talent, shared by only the very best palaeoclimatologists, is her remarkable ability to bring widely disparate lines of evidence from geochemistry, geology and geophysics to bear on seminal problems in palaeoclimate research. In an age of progressive research specialisation, Raymo remains a model of interdisciplinary research, a truly great scholar in the very best sense of that term.

EGS Awards -Sergey Soloviev Medallist - 2000

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S. Geological Survey in charge of preparing a digital geologic map of the San Francisco Bay region and a debris flow map of the United States. He lives in Palo Alto, California with his wife, Gisela. Dr.

Isabella Velicogna

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Velicogna’s research group pioneered and developed the use of time series of gravity data from the GRACE mission to calculate ice sheet mass changes. Her group obtained the first modern and comprehensive estimates of mass balance in Antarctica in 2006 and showed in 2009 that the rate of mass loss is increasing with time.

Donald L. Sparks

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In his early work, Sparks provided groundbreaking research on processes influencing plant- available potassium in soils. Sparks’ discoveries on the formation and role of surface precipitates in the retention, fate, and transport of metals in natural systems have received worldwide attention and had major impacts in the areas of sorption models, metal speciation, and soil remediation/contamination.

Vilhelm Bjerknes

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Vilhelm Bjerknes The medal is named after Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862-1951), one of the leading atmospheric scientists of the first half of this century. In the following there is a summary provided by Arnt Eliassen, Honorary Member of the EGS. Vilhelm Bjerknes began his scientific career as a theoretical physicist.

Andreas Strasser

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As a leading authority on carbonate sedimentology, Strasser helped to educate a generation of sedimentologists, stratigraphers, and also geomicrobiologists throughout Europe. He supervised 18 PhD theses and is known as a gifted teacher who has succeeded in motivating young researchers to be enthusiastic about a variety of aspects of sedimentology, including field work in the Alps and in the Jura Mountains.

One-third of recent global methane increase comes from tropical Africa

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This difference allowed the researchers to focus on changes in individual countries—a level of detail that could not previously be achieved. The results indicate that about a third of the global atmospheric methane increase observed between 2010-2016 originates in Africa’s tropics. Most of this came from East Africa, including a pronounced, short-term boost in emissions from the Sudd, one of the world’s largest wetlands, in South Sudan.

Lewis Fry Richardson

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Richardson was the first not only to suggest numerical integration of the equations of motion of the atmosphere, but also to attempt to do so by hand, during the First World War. This work, as well as a presentation of a broad vision of future developments in the field, appeared in his famous, pioneering book "Weather prediction by numerical processes" (1922).

Lewis Fry Richardson

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Richardson was the first not only to suggest numerical integration of the equations of motion of the atmosphere, but also to attempt to do so by hand, during the First World War. This work, as well as a presentation of a broad vision of future developments in the field, appeared in his famous, pioneering book "Weather prediction by numerical processes" (1922).

John Kutzbach

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Over the past twenty years, and with various collaborators, he was focused on four major climatic problems: 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; 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; 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; understanding the role of future increases in atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and land-use changes, in changing climate, and climate variability.

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