EGU Medals and Awards 2024
Congratulations to the recipients of the EGU Medals and Awards 2024, which have just been announced.
The medalists and awardees of the Division on Climate: Past, Present & Future (CL) are:
Hans Oeschger Medal 2024
Prof. Michael Sigl (PAGES Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society (VICS) working group steering committee member)
"The 2024 Hans Oeschger Medal is awarded to Michael Sigl for his innovative contributions, which improved ice core chronologies and illuminated the impacts of volcanic eruptions on climate and societies.
Michael Sigl is an expert in using isotopic signatures to improve the accuracy of ice core chronologies. By synchronizing sulfate records from Antarctica and Greenland ice cores, he reconstructed past volcanic sulfur emissions and the associated climate forcing. Thereafter, comparison of ice core volcanic sulfate with annually resolved climate proxies, such as tree rings, confirmed unequivocally that large eruptions were dominant drivers of temperature variability on interannual to decadal time-scales for the past 2500 years. The accurate reconstruction of volcanic forcing is proving to be essential in untangling the multiple contributors to past climate variability. Anchored in a network of robust international collaboration that Sigl has fostered through his work, his accomplishments comprise a singular contribution to palaeoclimatology that will have lasting impacts."
> EGU24 website
Milutin Milankovic Medal 2024
Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award 2024
Dr. Maria AA Rugenstein
Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Awards of the EGU GA 2023:
Ali Serkan Bayar
Annika Donner
Congratulations!