European Geosciences Union
Division on Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems
President: Pietro Tizzani
(Emailgi@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Raffaele Castaldo
(Email)
ECS Representative: Veronica Escobar Ruiz
(Emailecs-gi@egu.eu)
The Division on Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems (GI) intends to be a forum for developments in instrumentation, technology, methods and data handling used in any field of the various geosciences. By promoting the discussion between specialists from widely diverse fields, advances in instrumentation made in one field might be utilised in other areas also and encourage co-operation, thereby saving separate development work and making new approaches possible, which otherwise might still have to wait for years or even decades.
As nearly every other field of geosciences is related to one or the other instrumentation strategy, many of the GI-sessions are co-organized with sessions from other divisions. Potential contributors to any session are encouraged to evaluate the benefits of a multi-disciplinary discussion versus the specific interest of the own target group.
The 2024 Christiaan Huygens Medal is awarded to Nemesio M. Pérez for his outstanding scientific contributions to the study of soil-gas geochemistry in volcanic areas, and for promoting international research programs in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa.
The 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Livia Lantini for important contributions in the field of ground penetrating radar applications for forestry and environmental engineering.
The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Lorena Abad Geomorphic landform monitoring with raster and vector data cubes
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!