European Geosciences Union
Division on Seismology
President: Alice-Agnes Gabriel
(Emailsm@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Philippe Jousset
(Email)
ECS Representative: Ana Nap
(Emailecs-sm@egu.eu)
Seismology as a discipline contributes to a large variety of both basic and applied scientific fields, and addresses urgent questions in the context of both natural resources and natural hazards. The Seismology (SM) Division at EGU aims to strengthen its interdisciplinarity and impact by driving the development from static to dynamic geophysical models, by conducting research that spans from acquisition parameters to petrophysical properties, and by supporting the transition from geo-modelling to geo-technical application. Thereby, the SM Division will be increasingly able to make relevant forecasts and provide valuable information to tackle future challenges in securing natural resources and quantifying natural hazards.
The EGU offers an open and widely recognized forum for discussing a wide range of scientific questions and conducting corresponding research. The impact of geosciences to society has probably never been as high as today. Therefore, we pursue broad and open-minded approaches to tackle important research topics, while simultaneously engaging in interdisciplinary collaborations for the benefit of humanity and our planet.
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For current medal and award committees please see Awards & medals committees page.
The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Brandon Paul VanderBeek for major achievements in seismic imaging of the Earth's interior, and geodynamic interpretation of its complex isotropic and anisotropic structure.
The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Aurora Lambiase Induced fault slip events and their deformation fields: insights from FEAR experiments
The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Clara Vernet Shallow crustal imaging with distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) offshore central Chile
In our January issue, we are choosing to reflect on the ambition and risks of science - not a new year, new you, but rather a steady determination to discover, based on our existing, deep wells of curiosity. Catarina Aydar talks about how exploration sometimes goes hand-in-hand with tragedy with the story of the first attempt of a teacher, Christa McAuliffe, to go to space, onboard the ill-fated Challenger, whilst Sabrina Minnick, shares the triumph of Jacobus Kapteyn revealing the proper motion of the stars over 100 years ago. Astrobiological chemist Silke Asche talks about her work searching for life on other planets, and András Zlinszky shares his tips for your best EGU General Assembly yet! Also don't miss our on all the upcoming webinars, newest publications, a brand new EGU open access journal, and a job vacancy in the EGU Executive office in Munich, Germany!
All this and much more, in this month's Loupe!