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Home / Awards & medals / Fridtjof Nansen Medal / 2009 / Jochem Marotzke
Jochem Marotzke The 2009 Fridtjof Nansen Medal is awarded to Jochem Marotzke for important research work on the oceanic time- and space-variant theremohaline circulation and the development of predictive skills in modelling it. Jochem Marotzke developed in 1991, bringing back Henry Stommel’s model of multiple states in the thermohaline circulation, a concept of stability of the global oceanic thermohaline circulation, hypothesizing the existence of several stable modes, and implying its potential predictability.
Home / Awards & medals / Alexander von Humboldt Medal / 2017 / Johan Bouma
One of the activities done in this framework was his membership of the Scientific Council for Government Policy, a think-tank in the Dutch prime minister’s office, where he chaired working groups and presented reports on development cooperation, environmental policy, sustainable development and future studies.
Home / Awards & medals / Runcorn-Florensky Medal / 2010 / James W. Head
Several research projects are under way in the field in Antarctica, on the Earth’s sea floor, and in assessing data from planetary surfaces to study climate change on Mars, volcanism on the Moon, Mars and Venus, the geology of the surface of Mercury and the tectonic and volcanic evolution of icy satellites.
Home / Education / Planet Press / Articles / Palm oil is making Indonesia warmer
12 October 2017 Palm oil is the most widely used vegetable oil in the world, appearing in the list of ingredients of products from chocolate to soap. Many rainforests have been cut down to create palm oil plantations, especially on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Although palm oil production helps the economy, Sumatra has lost many of its native forests.
Home / News / Press releases / Coral reefs struggle to keep up with rising seas, leave coastal communities at risk
“We saw lower rates of erosion—and even some localised increases in seafloor elevation—in areas that were protected, near refuges, or distant from human population centers,” Yates said. “But these were not significant enough to offset the ecosystem-wide pattern of erosion at each of our study sites.”
Home / Awards & medals / Philippe Duchaufour Medal / 2005 / Udo Schwertmann
Udo Schwertmann The 2005 Philippe Duchaufour Medal is awarded to Udo Schwertmann for his outstanding research in the field of fundamental and applied soil science, with special emphasis on his contributions to soil mineralogy and genesis. Udo Schwertmann, born in Stade (Germany) in 1927, conducted important, internationally recognised research work in virtually all fields of soil science from atomic to mineral and to landscape scales.
Home / News / Press releases / The oldest ice core – Finding a 1.5 million-year record of Earth’s climate
The team concluded that 1.5 million-year old ice should still exist at the bottom of East Antarctica in regions close to the major Domes, the highest points on the ice sheet, and near the South Pole, as described in the new Climate of the Past study . These results confirm those of another study , also recently published in Climate of the Past.
Home / Awards & medals / Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal / 2011 / Malcolm Barrie Hart
He was awarded the title of Professor of Micropalaeontology in 1982, a mere 12 years after completing his PhD, and a DSc (by the University of London) in 1993. Hart’s palaeontological research has had a significant and lasting impact in the fields of stratigraphy and applied geosciences.
Home / Awards & medals / John Dalton Medal / 2011 / Peter A. Troch
In November 2005 he joined the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources of the University of Arizona. Through his outstanding publication record, and through participation in and leadership of several international research initiatives, Troch has become a world leader in his field.
Home / News / EGU news / EGU Public Engagement Grants: 2022 winners announced
“Climate lab at one of the most climate-vulnerable areas of the planet will help the students and their parents to adapt to climate change.” says the project lead of ‘Crowdsourcing environmental data through school students in climate vulnerable regions’ Arindam Roy, researcher at Laboratory of atmospheric processes and their impacts ( LAPI ), École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.
