European Geosciences Union
Division on Earth and Space Science Informatics
President: Kirsten Elger
(Emailessi@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Christof Lorenz
(Email)
ECS Representative: Alba Brobia Ansoleaga
(Emailecs-essi@egu.eu)
As far as informatics and information technology are concerned, the ESSI Division deals with community-driven and multidisciplinary challenges and solutions. This include topics like: data model and metadata standardisation, spatial data infrastructure interoperability, semantics services, quality and uncertainty information encoding and propagation, geospatial data processing, environmental model accessibility, big data management, and data visualisation for scientific discovery.
The 2025 Ian McHarg Medal is awarded to Lesley Wyborn for achievements in enabling collaboration among international organisations and leadership with regard to global, multidisciplinary data infrastructure in the fields of Earth and space sciences.
The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Marthe Klöcking for contributions to advancing Open Data in the Earth Sciences.
The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Eline Eeckhout UAV-based disease and pest detection using AI: Time to reconsider our approach?
In our October issue, we are very excited to announce the launch of a new Division, Geoscience and Society! On a more somber note, we also commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan Mining Disaster with a guest post written in English and Welsh by Rhian Meara. Lastly the EGU27 call for abstracts is open, with the deadline for travel grants and support on the 1 December 2026.
All this and much more, in this month's Loupe!