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 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 January issue we take a look at the range of ways that geochemistry, geophysics, mineralogy, petrology and other fundamental geoscience researchers can move their careers in unexpected directions, and learn about how an interdisciplinary perspective took outgoing ERE Division President Viktor Bruckman from forestry to policy!
EGU's Simon Clark is here to help you get started on making personal changes in 2025, in a way that is sustainable, and don't forget to have your say on how we run the Early Career Scientist activities, with the 2025 ECS Survey.
If you need financial support to attend EGU25 due to care-giving responsibilities, a disability, career status or another reason, apply for our new EDI Participation Support by 23 February 2025. The EGU25 Photo Competition is open until 31 March, submit your image to win free registration to EGU26! All this and much more in this month's Loupe!