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Home / News / EGU news / Obituary: Lily Pereg (1964–2019)
She moved to Australia in the 1990s to do her PhD, having obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Sydney in 1998. Following a postdoc at the University of Cologne in Germany, Pereg joined the University of New England in 2001. She was an active researcher focusing on soil microbiology, the nitrogen cycle and, more recently, on soils and human health.
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A backward analysis Solid Earth (SE) Atmospheric significance of aeolian salts in the sandy deserts of northwestern China Integrating a mini catchment with mulching for soil water management in a sloping jujube orchard on the semiarid Loess Plateau of China Other papers highlighted by the editors of EGU open access journals are available online.
Home / News / EGU news / EGU Public Lecture to be held virtually on 21 April
Although this year’s General Assembly will be held online due to the pandemic, the EGU Public Lecture , which provides insight into a topic in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences of interest to a broad audience, will still take place in partnership with the Austrian Academy of Sciences . The EGU Public Lecture 2021 will be delivered in German by Günter Blöschl, Head of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Engineering Hydrology at the Vienna University of Technology.
Home / Education / Planet Press / Articles / The coldest decade of the millennium
1 December 2016 The temperature at the surface of our planet is increasing and we are likely to experience warmer decades in the future. But if we go back in time, all the way to the 15 th century, a different type of change in weather and climate resulted in the coldest decade of the millennium: the 1430s.
Home / Jobs / Postdoctoral Researcher in Remote Sensing & Global Change Ecology
Position Postdoctoral Researcher in Remote Sensing & Global Change Ecology Employer Botanical Institute of Barcelona (CSIC) Location Barcelona, Spain — The position will be based at the Botanical Institute of Barcelona (IBB), a joint research institute of the Spanish National Research Council ( CSIC ) and the Natural History Museum of Barcelona ( CMCNB ).
Home / Awards & medals / Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards / 2019 / Bahar S. Razavi
She uses novel, self-developed analytical tools, in combination with stable and radioactive isotopes to trace carbon and nitrogen fluxes and examine the effects of abiotic factors on decomposition and nutrient cycling in soils. Over a period of four years, she published 22 papers in leading journals in soil science, being the first author on six of them (h-index: 9 and 1 highly cited paper).
Home / Awards & medals / Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal / 2023 / Etienne Berthier
He has revolutionised recent studies of the recent mass loss over timescales of decades in Alaska, High Mountain Asia and Patagonia, providing much more detail than was previously possible. His work is highly regarded and used by researchers worldwide. He was a 2021 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in the field of geosciences.
Home / Awards & medals / Julius Bartels Medal / 2014 / Rumi Nakamura
Rumi Nakamura from the Space Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Graz is honoured with the 2014 Julius Bartels Medal for her most outstanding contributions to our current understanding of solar-terrestrial relations, in particular the understanding of the dynamics of the terrestrial magnetosphere and ionosphere and the coupling between the two domains, particularly during the substorm cycle.
Home / Awards & medals / Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards / 2023 / Florian Börgel
Further, he developed a Twitter bot that distributes marine job opportunities and news, with about 1700 followers. Besides his scientific contributions, Florian Börgel was actively involved in several outreach activities, such as science for policy briefings with members of the German parliament. In his voluntary work, he is a board member of the Green Party in the city of Rostock, and a member of the citizen-initiated cycling referendum called Radentscheid Rostock.
Home / News / EGU news / EGU’s Teacher-Scientist Pairing Scheme 2025 – apply now to co-create a video lesson for schools
The pairing scheme was established in 2021 to connect scientists, teachers and their classrooms to support the teaching of scientific concepts by the lively video presence of a ‘guest’ scientist and hands-on activities that are carried out in the classroom under the guidance of the in-class teacher.
