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European Geophysical Society Vilhelm Bjerknes The Section on Oceans and Atmosphere has established a new medal for distinguished research in atmospheric sciences. 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.
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The core of the division consists of experts in various fields that will help meet the mutually coupled challenges of energy, resources and the environment. Our Team Giorgia Stasi President Programme Group Chair Email Giorgia is a geologist specialized in Ore Geology and Applied Geophysics.
Home / Awards & medals / Hannes Alfvén Medal / 2024 / Sandra Catherine Chapman
Sandra Catherine Chapman The 2024 Hannes Alfvén Medal is awarded to Sandra Catherine Chapman for her pioneering work and leadership in advancing our understanding of space plasma physics in the solar system and beyond. Sandra Catherine Chapman was a pioneer of the idea that Earth’s magnetosphere is a driven-dissipative system, far from equilibrium, which therefore releases energy in a ‘bursty’ and unpredictable manner.
Home / Awards & medals / Alfred Wegener Medal & Honorary Membership / 2017 / Murugesu Sivapalan
He masterminded and led the international Predictions in Ungauged Basins initiative, which resulted in a quantum leap in the scientific community’s coherent understanding of hydrological prediction methods and processes. More recently, Sivapalan’s research has evolved to address the general and broader problem of the interplay of people and water in the Anthropocene.
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He has also made significant contributions to our understanding of minor ion acceleration in the solar wind, and to the nature of the heliopause. In association with this work, Axford studied the origin and acceleration of cosmic rays. In particular, he deduced that the cosmic ray spectrum could result from multiple interaction with shock waves.
Home / Education / Planet Press / Articles / Climate made people move to America
In new research published in the journal Climate of the Past, scientists from the University of Freiburg (Rüdiger Glaser, Iso Himmelsbach and Annette Bösmeier) in Germany say that, during the 19 th century, climate was one of the major factors that pushed people to move out of Southwest Germany and into North America.
Home / Awards & medals / Plinius Medal / 2006 / Réjean Couture
Réjean Couture The 2006 Plinius Medal is awarded to Réjean Couture in recognition of his contributions to the understanding of landslides using a combination of traditional and innovative techniques to help predict and mitigate the consequences of hazardous mass movements. Dr. Réjean Couture has significantly contributed to the understanding of landslide phenomena in Canada.
Home / Awards & medals / Fridtjof Nansen Medal / 1998 / Jean-Francois Minster
In 1990 he was appointed director of the Institute for Earth Sciences, representing a group of about 100 scientists and technicians at the University “Paul Sabatier” in Toulouse and in 1997 he became director of the French “Institut des Sciences de l’Univers” which is part of the National Centre for Scientific Research.
Home / Awards & medals / Vening Meinesz Medal / 2003 / Veronique Dehant
Veronique Dehant The 2003 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Veronique Dehant in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the study of nutations of the Earth’s axis of rotation and their implications for the structure of the Earths core. Veronique Dehant is research scientist at the Observatoire Royal de Belgique, in Brussels, Belgium.
Home / Awards & medals / Sergey Soloviev Medal / 2000 / Earl Edward Brabb
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.
