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Home / Awards & medals / Alexander von Humboldt Medal / 2014 / Pradeep Mujumdar
Pradeep Mujumdar The 2014 Alexander von Humboldt Medal is awarded to Pradeep Mujumdar for his insightful contributions to the study of water resources systems and water resources management in India and in the rest of south Asia. Pradeep Mujumdar of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has conducted research on the formulation of new conceptual approaches to quantification and reduction of uncertainty in the assessment of hydrologic impacts of climate change, which are poorly reflected in current global climate models.
Home / Awards & medals / Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal / 2023 / Dimitri Lague
These include the roles of bedload and suspended load, lateral as well as vertical channel dynamics, transport and erosion thresholds, and the importance of discharge variability. Dimitri’s pathfinding, painstaking and profoundly thorough approach culminated in a single-authored review paper, published in 2014, which is now a part of the canon of Geomorphology.
Home / Awards & medals / Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards / 2026 / Eva Boergens
Furthermore in light of emerging water security issues, she quantified the severity and spatial extent of the European droughts in 2018 and 2019 using satellite derived terrestrial water storage changes. The breadth of her geodetic expertise and her drive to come up with real-world applications is also reflected in her early work on using radar altimetry for inland surface water monitoring.
Home / News / Press releases / Apply now for EGU’s Science Journalism Fellowship 2023 (up to €5k)
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.
Home / Awards & medals / Julius Bartels Medal / 2009 / Jean-André Sauvaud
In one case he has exploited the fact that rapid motion of the magnetopause can push cold ions into the energy range visible to the Cluster ion instrument. This allowed him to identify a very dense population of thermal ionospheric ions in a region earthward of the magnetopause.
Home / Awards & medals / Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Awards / 2024 / Sarah Hanus
Moreover, the benefits and challenges of including glaciers in large-scale hydrological modelling were assessed. It highlights the need to account for glacier dynamics in large-scale hydrological modelling to improve predictions of future changes in water availability in glacierized river basins.
Home / Awards & medals / Augustus Love Medal / 2013 / Michael C. Gurnis
His theoretical work was subsequently applied to the observed stratigraphic record in sedimentary basins in a series of collaborative studies not only by Gurnis and his collaborators, but also by other groups, demonstrating the broad impact his work has had on the geodynamics community. Gurnis developed novel dynamic models for the initiation of subduction using a method in which fault zones develop through failure of a visco-elastoplastic material.
Home / Awards & medals / Fridtjof Nansen Medal / 2020 / Richard J. Greatbatch
During close to four decades, Richard Greatbatch has made important contributions to a broad range of topics in ocean, atmosphere, and geophysical fluid dynamics. His combination of keen physical insight and mathematical rigour has allowed him to deepen our understanding in a remarkable number of different sub-fields. Greatbatch has made pioneering and seminal contributions to advancing our understanding of eddy-mean flow interaction in the ocean.
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In support of EGU’s ‘pursuit of excellence’ mission, Education Committee is offering each year an action plan for teachers with the strapline of ‘Inspiring, updating and supporting geoscience teachers and educators’ as a means of enhancing geoscience education across Europe and beyond.
Home / News / Press releases / Using moving cars to measure rainfall
However, Haberlandt clarifies, “the value of using moving cars to measure rainfall is not about a higher accuracy of rainfall measurements but about a much higher number of measurement points.” In a Hydrology and Earth System Sciences study published in 2010 , two of the team members showed that a high number of less accurate rain gauges gives more reliable rainfall readings than a low number of very accurate devices.
