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Home / Awards & medals / Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal / 2025 / Ulrike Lohmann
She has been hugely influential in establishing the careers of the next generation of researchers in her field, many of whom are now leading scientists in universities and research institutes across the world.
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Design of, e.g., reservoirs, river embankments and drainage structures is part of hydrological engineering, and the hydrological science community should feel obliged to contribute to improved engineering methods. Particularly, the uncertainties involved in prediction and forecasting should be in focus of the scientific analysis of extremes.
Home / Awards & medals / Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership / 2022 / William Lowrie
William Lowrie is a world renowned geophysicist, who has focused on rock magnetism and paleomagnetism. He is one of the world leaders in these disciplines that have revolutionized the geosciences since the 1960s. The breadth of his applications of magnetism to the earth have covered elements of solid state physics, fundamentals of magnetization of soils and minerals, development of a number of paleomagnetic laboratories, solutions of geological, and in particular tectonic problems and the polarity history of the geomagnetic field, with applications to magnetic stratigraphy.
Home / Awards & medals / Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Awards / 2022 / Athanasios Serafeim
Serafeim holds a 5-year Diploma degree in Civil Engineering, currently working under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Langousis toward finalizing his PhD Thesis at the University of Patras in Greece (expected graduation date October 2022).
Home / Awards & medals / Lewis Fry Richardson Medal / 2009 / Stéphan Fauve
One of the leaders in this development has been Stéphan Fauve from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Dr. Fauve has been involved early in his career in experiments on and the theory of thermal convection; this basic process occurs in most planetary and astrophysical systems and its study provides a paradigmatic example for research in nonlinear fluid dynamics.
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General Assembly You still have a couple of weeks to submit your EGU 2017 abstracts (deadline 11 Jan, 13:00 CET) Are you organising an EGU2017-related activity in Vienna in the week before or after the General Assembly? Let us know so that we can list it in the conference programme .
Home / Awards & medals / Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal / 2004 / Joseph Egger
Following his development of a hierarchy of conceptual valley flow models he initiated two field campaigns in the Himalayas which were remarkable in that the new technology of remotely piloted planes was used, under difficult conditions, to clarify an extreme phenomenon.
Home / Awards & medals / Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards / 2022 / Timothy J. Craig
And for Fennoscandia, Craig et al. (2016) highlight the importance of long-term accumulation of tectonic strain as a consequence of deglaciation in the development of intraplate earthquakes. Some of these findings subsequently contributed significantly to the development of a new paradigm for earthquakes in stable continental regions, arguing that they occur by releasing stresses in a pre-stressed lithosphere, rather than being due to recent accumulation of tectonic stresses (Calais et al., 2016).
Home / Awards & medals / Beno Gutenberg Medal / 2021 / Malcolm Sambridge
His work has led to significant progress in seismology, in particular in the improvement of tomographic images of Earth’s interior and the assessment of uncertainty in those images. His biggest contribution to seismology is the development of various Monte Carlo methods for the solution of nonlinear inference problems in the Earth sciences.
Home / Awards & medals / Louis Agassiz Medal / 2016 / Thierry Fichefet
Fichefet conducts his research in a way that promotes the careers of his students and post docs first – a strong theme in all of his work. It is no coincidence that past members of his team populate every major modelling centre in Europe. Fichefet’s work is important in making sure that assessments of our future (and our past) take proper account of the role of the cryosphere.
