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Home / Awards & medals / Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal / 2009 / Gerard Govers
He has also been one of the leading figures in establishing the qualitative and quantitative importance of tillage erosion – mechanical translocation of sediment in ploughed fields that often carries more material than other processes except during exceptional storms.
Home / Education / Planet Press / Articles
The storm caused massive floods, and it killed dozens of people. Researchers in Texas and in the Netherlands studied how the victims died due to Harvey and published their results in the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. They found that 80% of victims died from drowning.
Home / Education / Educational resources / Winds of change: using dust in Antarctic ice to understand past climates
Associated divisions Climate: Past, Present & Future (CL) Cryospheric Sciences (CR) Language English Age group 16-18 Type of activities Classroom Home Material needed The article and activity sheet are available through the following link: https://futurumcareers.com/winds-of-change-using-dust-in-antarctic-ice-to-understand-past-climates Source https://futurumcareers.com/winds-of-change-using-dust-in-antarctic-ice-to-understand-past-climates Description Understanding prehistoric climates is key to understanding how our climate might change in the future and Antarctic ice cores provide fundamental information that forms the basis for much of this knowledge.
Home / EGU General Assembly 2019 Press Centre / Press conferences
Moving from the land to the sea, we will hear about the latest global simulations of dispersion and accumulation of plastic in the oceans, including results of a 3D model of plastic distribution in the ocean waters. We will also hear about how marine plastic debris can be used to improve our understanding of ocean currents.
Home / Awards & medals / Julius Bartels Medal / 2006 / Stanley W.H. Cowley
His work stretches from developing a time dependent model of the driving of ionospheric convection, to particle dynamics in the tail and at the dayside magnetopause, to solar wind-comet interactions and to planetary magnetospheric science. In all these areas his work has proven to be seminal in our understanding of the physical processes involved.
Home / News / Press releases / Landslides triggered by human activity on the rise
In Europe, the Alps are the region with more fatal landslides. In support of past studies, the researchers also found that 79% of landslides in their database were triggered by rainfall. Most events happen during the northern hemisphere summer, when cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons are more frequent and the monsoon season brings heavy rains to parts of Asia.
Home / Awards & medals / Stephan Mueller Medal / 2021 / R. Dietmar Müller
This critical resource has formed the basis for hundreds of publications, with numerous discoveries that continue to transform our fundamental understanding of Earth’s evolution, environments, and geological resources. It is featured in an encyclopedia and four textbooks and is exhibited in museums in the US, Japan, and Austria.
Home / Awards & medals / Plinius Medal / 2021 / Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Di Baldassarre’s work has a significant societal relevance and has been applied in the mitigation of risks from natural hazards both locally and globally. Di Baldassarre served as a coordinator of the project KULTURisk, aiming to develop a culture of risk prevention in Europe.
Home / Awards & medals / Portrait / Julius Bartels
He was awarded the Charles Chree Medal and Prize of the Physical Society (London) in 1953, the Emil Wiechert Medal of the German Geophysical Society in 1955, and the Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union (posthumously) in 1964.
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