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Home / Awards & medals / Jean Dominique Cassini Medal & Honorary Membership / 2020 / Pascale Ehrenfreund
Ehrenfreund is among the founders of the field of astrobiology. Trained in biology and genetics, she completed her PhD in astrophysics at the University Paris VII and University of Vienna in 1990. Teh following year she obtained a habilitation in astrochemistry, with a collection of works entitled “cosmic dust”.
Home / Education / Planet Press / Articles / Animals, plants and changing climate
History is full of examples of animals and plants adapting to new surroundings. Some research shows that certain species can be very tough when it comes to change: some flowers in the Arctic, for instance, might be able to survive in small pockets of cold soil, even in warmer temperatures.
Home / News / Press releases / GPS solution provides three-minute tsunami alerts
Note Traditional tsunami early warning methods use hypocentre (the point directly beneath the epicentre where the seismic fault begins to rupture) and magnitude only, meaning the source of the earthquake and tsunami is regarded as a point source. However, especially in the case of subduction earthquakes, it can have a large extension: in Japan in 2011 the connection between the tectonic plates broke on a length of about 400km and the Sumatra event in 2004 had a length of some 1500km.
Home / News / EGU news / Apply to be one of our Artists in Residence for EGU26!
More information The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is Europe’s premier geosciences union, dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences for the benefit of humanity, worldwide. It is a non-profit interdisciplinary learned association of scientists founded in 2002 with headquarters in Munich, Germany.
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Home / Awards & medals / Milutin Milanković Medal / 2005 / Martin Claussen
Claussen demonstrated that atmosphere-vegetation interaction is one of the most important processes to explain palaeoclimatic changes in Northern Africa, in particular the expansion and retreat of the Sahara in the course of glacial-interglacial cycles. Claussen was the first to successfully simulate a “green Sahara” in the early Holocene.
Home / Awards & medals / Portrait / Hans Oeschger
In collaboration with "the Bern team" he was the first to measure the glacial-interglacial change of atmospheric CO 2 . They showed in 1979 that the atmospheric concentration of CO 2 during the glacial was almost 50% lower than today.
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In collaboration with " the Bern team " he was the first to measure the glacial-interglacial change of atmospheric CO2. They showed in 1979 that the atmospheric concentration of CO2 during the glacial was almost 50% lower than today.
Home / News / Press releases / The first complete picture of Arctic sea ice freeze-thaw cycle highlights sea ice response to climate change
5 December 2022 MUNICH – Years of research show that climate change signals are amplified in the Arctic, and that sea ice in this region is sensitive to increases in Arctic warming. Sea ice greatly modifies the exchanges of heat, momentum and mass between the atmosphere and the ocean.
Home / News / Press releases / Highs and lows: height changes in the ice sheets mapped
The results are published today in The Cryosphere , an open access journal of the European Geosciences Union ( EGU ). “The new elevation maps are snapshots of the current state of the ice sheets,” says lead-author Veit Helm of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research ( AWI ), in Bremerhaven, Germany.
