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Home / Awards & medals / Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards / 2024 / Anne Glerum
Her impressive publication record highlights an exceptionally broad scientific expertise covering major geodynamic research themes, including fault network evolution, rift tectonics, lithosphere deformation, mantle convection, surface processes, and the formation of mineral deposits. In each of those fields, her research has made a significant scientific impact. For example, her work on the dynamics of the East African rift system highlights the important role of heterogeneities in plate strength in the rotation of microplates, thereby resolving a 40-year-old controversy.
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European Union of Geosciences Alfred Wegener Medal Xavier Le Pichon For his central role in establishing Wegener's ideas. Xavier Le Pichon is one of the founders of the modern theory of Plate Tectonics. In 1968 he combined the kinematic ideas of W.J. Morgan, D. McKenzie and R.L.
Home / Awards & medals / Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal / 2009 / Jonathan F. Stebbins
Stebbins on the dynamic nature of melts, in which interatomic bonds are short-lived, structural changes take place very rapidly, and short-range order around atoms may be much more varied than in crystals. In fact, these effects are at the roots of the so-called configurational properties which are the hallmark of the liquid state and result in higher compressibility, thermal expansion and heat capacity for melts than for crystals.
Home / Awards & medals / Lewis Fry Richardson Medal / 2015 / Daniel Schertzer
Daniel Schertzer The 2015 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Daniel Schertzer for initiating innovative ideas in nonlinear geophysics, in particular the multifractal formalism, the concept of generalised scale invariance, and their implementation in data analyses leading to a reinterpretation of long-standing problems in hydrology and atmospheric sciences.
Home / Awards & medals / John Dalton Medal / 2016 / Harry Vereecken
This medal also recognises Vereecken’s exceptional service record. He has been a member or scientific director of a substantial number of scientific boards and committees. In these roles, he impresses with his leadership qualities, his insightful grasp of issues at hand, and his ability to formulate a constructive course of action. These qualities enable him to set future research priorities in soil and terrestrial research in national and international scientific communities.
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Read more The role of cyclonic eddies in the detachment and separation of Loop Current eddies Ocean Science DOI 10.5194/os-22-821-2026 10 March 2026 We analyze 29 years of satellite altimetry to investigate the detachment of Loop Current Eddies in the Gulf of Mexico. Over half of the Loop Current eddies reattach within a month, while 42 % separate and drift westward.
Home / Awards & medals / Philippe Duchaufour Medal / 2023 / Andreas A. Richter
Andreas’ dedication as a mentor has also shown during the COVID19 lockdown, where he proactively took care of every single one of his numerous lab members by discussing and adjusting their projects. Last, Andreas is very active in communicating his research, both to his peers (as evidenced by his large number of contributions to the EGU General Assemblies), but also in public debates, where he discusses the implications of his research for sustaining the functioning of future soils by raising awareness about the impact of anthropogenic climate change on soils and the processes therein.
Home / Awards & medals / Christiaan Huygens Medal / 2024 / Nemesio M. Pérez
He worked in many leading international research centers giving significant contributes to the development of innovative methods and sensor networks for monitoring gas emissions in active volcanic areas. His publication record is impressive, and many of his articles are among the most cited in recent geochemical literature.
Home / Awards & medals / Louis Agassiz Medal / 2012 / Ian Joughin
He has made fundamental contributions to our capabilities to observe ice dynamics, to interpret those observations in terms of basal processes, and to our knowledge of sub-decadal-scale variations in mass fluxes in outlet glaciers. Joughin has shown that outlet glaciers in Greenland and ice streams in Antarctica accelerate and slow on surprisingly short time scales.
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Perhaps not , in Geomorphology Paris: From quarry to catacombs , in Tectonics and Structural Geology Image of the week – How hard can it be to melt a pile of ice?! , in Cryospheric Sciences More posts from the EGU blogs are available at blogs.egu.eu .
