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 2024 Ian McHarg Medal is awarded to François Robida for his outstanding work in establishing internationally standardised geoinformation technologies and services, which enable global geoscience data sharing and underpin modern data-intensive research.
The 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Anirudh Prabhu for his outstanding contributions to the fields of Earth and planetary informatics, data science, astrobiology, and geosciences at large.
The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Fabian Schumacher Assessing the area of applicability of spatial prediction models through a local data point density approach
In our August issue we find out more about the discovery and research of Sue the T-Rex, 25 years after the skeleton was found, CP Rajendran revisits the devastating 1950 Assam-Tibet earthquake and shares what impact it had and continues to have on the Himalayan region, Zsanett Gréta Papp breaks down the newly published "Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding" to discover tips for academic resistance and Lorne Farovitch, a deaf transdisciplinary biomedical researcher and multilingual signer, explains the impact of climate change on deaf communities to Simon Clark in this month's GeoTalk.
Also now is the time to nominate a candidate for EGU President and other Council roles, by 3 September, and don't forget to submit your EGU26 session proposals by 13:00 CEST 16 September. All this and much more, in this month's Loupe!