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Home / Awards & medals / Runcorn-Florensky Medal / 2025 / Cathy Quantin Nataf
Beyond her scientific achievements, Quantin-Nataf actively engages in public outreach, promoting the role of women in science. Her commitment to this cause aligns with her desire to improve how research is conducted, leading her to take on key roles in both the administrative and scientific functions of the university.
Home / Awards & medals / Champion(s) for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award / 2026 / Rie S. Hori
Her work was marked by thorough data analysis used to identify imbalances in the demographics of geosciences. In her leadership roles of academic institutions and societies, Hori has been instrumental in developing policies that promote diversity and equality goals, where none existed before. She had the brilliant vision that an effective improvement of diversity must be supported by a change in the education of the younger generations.
Home / News / EGU news / EGU announces first higher education teaching grant recipients
Resources produced will include laboratory manuals, videos, and supplementary materials for use by instructors. Gender LIMNOEDU – Meet the women in limnology: developing teaching resources for university . Coordinated at University of Murcia, Spain on behalf of 30 applicants from 8 countries, this grant will produce a series of online and ready-to-use resources to increase the visibility of women in limnology courses and related subjects (e.g., ecology, geoscience history) and that will be made available on a website in a format that is easy to incorporate into higher education geoscience courses.
Home / News / EGU news / EGU call for Medal and Award nominations is open!
“I am pleased that the latest addition to the suite of EGU medals bears the name of Marie Tharp,” says Thomas Blunier, the EGU Awards Committee Chair. “The importance of female role models cannot be overestimated, and the significance of Marie Tharp’s achievements is likely to inspire young women to embrace careers in science,” he says.
Home / Awards & medals / Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal / 2022 / Adina Paytan
In addition to her scientific contributions to ocean biogeosciences, Adina Payton has tirelessly served the community in a number of ways. For many years she served in several scientific committees of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Geophysical Union.
Home / Awards & medals / Stephan Mueller Medal / 2025 / Heidrun Kopp
Heidrun Kopp has spared no effort in the service of the European geosciences community, not only in the marine geophysics division but also in support of vital causes such as the blue economy and geohazards. International recognition is reflected in her leadership of and her election to steering committees in national and international scientific programs and advisory panels.
Home / Awards & medals / John Dalton Medal / 2015 / Diane M. McKnight
McKnight’s academic career is most interesting and adventurous. She has pursued highly multidisciplinary research backed up by data collected in some of the toughest environments the planet has to offer (from the South Pole to deep in Africa). Hers is the kind of interdisciplinary research that modern hydrologists are seeking – she has contributed to a broadening of the foundations of hydrologic science.
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US3 LIVE 10:45–12:30 Female doing fieldwork (Credit: Courtesy of Stacy Phillips, EGU 2020 Virtual Artist in Residence @Shtacy_Phillips) Enabling women in geoscience: inspiration, challenges and best practice As women are impacted first and worst by climate change, it is crucial that their voices are represented in global decision making, research and science communication.
Home / Jobs / Graduate Student and Post Doctoral Research Positions in Groundwater-Lake Interactions
We are committed to equity and diversity in our hiring practices, and encourage applications from women, persons with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, Black and members of racialized groups, and individuals in the LGBTQ2+ communities. How to apply Please send your CV, unofficial transcripts, names of two references (along with contact phone and email), and a cover letter summarizing qualifications and research interests to Dr.
