European Geosciences Union
Division on Earth and Space Science Informatics
President: Jens Klump
(Emailessi@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Kaylin Bugbee
(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 March issue we are here to help you prepare for the EGU25 General Assembly, with guides for first time attendees, understanding the EGU Code of Conduct, our playlist of EGU25 walk-through videos, two webinars to help you prepare your presentations and sign ups open for the EGUtoday newsletter, we are excited to get together with you all, in Vienna and online, in less than a month!
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