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 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!