Historical highlights of the European Geophysical Society (EGS)

1971

Foundation of the Society

1973

First General Assembly

1973

First formal Plenary Meeting

1973

Introduction of "Honorary Membership"

1973

Launch of EGS Newsletter

1974

EGS Logo

1977

Introduction of the Young Scientists' Travel Award scheme

1980

Introduction of Corporate Membership

1981

Introduction of the concept of Sections and Vice-Presidents, of the Bureau and the Council of the Society

1981

AGU and EGS agree to co-publish Tectonics

1983

Launch of Annales Geophysicae owned by EGS and published bi-monthly by Gauthier-Villars for all EGS Sections

1986

Annales splits in two parts: Solid Earth, Hydrosphere and Atmosphere (Brown Part) and Space Science (Blue Part)

1988

Annales Solid Earth part merges into Geophysical Journal International, published by the RAS, while Annales Hydrospheres and Atmosphere merges into Annales Space Science

1988

Introduction of Science Secretaries

1988

Introduction of the "EGS Badge Award"

1988

Start of the EGS Office

1989

EGS and AGU agree to share an office in Europe, the European Office of AGU

1989

Introduction of the "East European Support Award"

1990

Introduction of the "Young Scientists' Publication Award"

1991

Surveys in Geophysics owned by Kluwer Academic Publishers becomes an official EGS journal

1991

Launch of the four EGS Book Series owned by Elsevier Science Publishers and by Pergmann Press-Elsevier Science Ltd.

1992

New Constitution, increase of number of Sections, Introduction of Interdisciplinary Working Groups (IWGs) and of THE COUNCIL of the Society

1992

Journal of Hydrology owned by Elsevier Science Publishers becomes an official EGS journal

1993

Planetary and Space Science owned by Pergamon Press/Elsevier Science Ltd. becomes an official EGS journal

1993

Climate Dynamics owned by Springer-International becomes an official EGS journal

1993

Introduction of the Milutin Milankovitch Medal

1994

Launch of Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics owned and published by the Society and by the EGS Editorial Office

1994

Journal of Geodynamics owned by Pergamon Press/Elsevier Science Ltd. becomes an official EGS journal

1994

Introduction of the Louis Neel Medal

1994

Introduction of the David Bates Medal

1995

Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry owned by Kluwer Academic Publishers becomes an official EGS journal

1995

Introduction of the Beno Gutenberg Medal

1995

Introduction of the Fridtjof Nansen Medal

1995

Introduction of the Julius Bartels Medal

1995

Introduction of the Sergey Soloviev Medal

1995

Introduction of the Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal

1995

Introduction of the Hannes Alfven Medal

1995

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth owned by Pergamon Press/ Elsevier Science Ltd. becomes an Official EGS journal for the publication of refereed contributions presented at geo- and space sciences' conferences.

1996

Journal of Hydrology stops to be an official EGS journal.

1996

Introduction of the Sergey Solovie Medal

1997

Launch of Hydrology and Earth System Sciences owned and published by the Society

1997

Introduction of the Stephan Mueller Medal

1997

Introduction of the Vening Meinesz Medal

1997

Introduction of the John Dalton Medal

1997

Introduction of the Lewis Fry Richardson Medal

1998

Introduction of the Job Centre at General Assemblies

1998

Introduction of the Henry Darcy Medal

1998

Introduction of the Runcorn-Florensky Medal

1999

Launch of Geophysical Research Abstracts owned and published by the Society

1999

Introduction of the EGS Fellowship Award

2000

Launch of Geophysics Express owned and published by the Society

2000

Launch of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics owned and published by the Society

2000

Launch of Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences owned and published by the Society

2000

Launch of the EGS Production Office

2000

Launch of the EGS Stephan Mueller Special Publication Series

2000

Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry stops to be an official EGS journal.

2001

Planetary and Space Science, Journal of Geodynamics and Physics and Chemistry of the Earth stop to be official EGS journal.

2001

Introduction of the Hans Oeschger Medal

2001

Launch of Advances in Geosciences owned and published by the Society

2001

Introduction of the Plinius Medal

2002

Creation of the European Geosciences Union

2003

Introduction of the Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal

2003

EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly with almost 11,000 participants