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Please <a href="https://www.enable-javascript.com/">enable JavaScript</a> in your browser. </div> </noscript> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-9" id="leftcontent"> <p class="h6 mb-3"> <b>President:</b> Jens Klump (<i class="fal fa-envelope mr-1" title="Email" aria-hidden="true"></i><span class="sr-only">Email</span><a href="mailto:essi@egu.eu">essi@egu.eu</a>) <br> <b>Deputy President:</b> Kaylin Bugbee (<a href="/login/?next={request.path}" aria-label="Log in to see this email address"><i class="fal fa-envelope" title="Log in to see this email address" aria-hidden="true"></i><span class="sr-only" title="Log in to see this email address">Email</span></a>) <br> <b>ECS Representative:</b> Alba Brobia Ansoleaga (<i class="fal fa-envelope mr-1" title="Email" aria-hidden="true"></i><span class="sr-only">Email</span><a href="mailto:ecs-essi@egu.eu">ecs-essi@egu.eu</a>) <br> </p> <p>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.</p> <div class="headline"> <h2>Recent awardees</h2> </div> <article class="media"> <img class="img-fluid img-thumbnail" alt="Lesley Wyborn" src="https://www.egu.eu/media/awards/photos/2024/11/08/9c4e9798-fbbc-4da1-bf70-5f78ce5ec947.jpg.120x120_q90_crop_target-17%2C26_upscale_zoom-92.webp" srcset="https://www.egu.eu/media/awards/photos/2024/11/08/9c4e9798-fbbc-4da1-bf70-5f78ce5ec947.jpg.120x120_q90_crop_target-17%2C26_upscale_zoom-92.webp 1x, https://www.egu.eu/media/awards/photos/2024/11/08/9c4e9798-fbbc-4da1-bf70-5f78ce5ec947.jpg.240x240_q90_crop_target-17%2C26_upscale_zoom-92.webp 2x" loading="lazy"> <div class="media-body"> <h2 class="h4"><a href="/awards-medals/ian-mcharg/2025/lesley-wyborn/">Lesley Wyborn</a></h2> <ul class="list-inline"> <li class="list-inline-item"><i class="far fa-fw fa-calendar-alt"></i> 2025</li> <li class="list-inline-item"><i class="fas fa-fw fa-trophy"></i> Ian McHarg Medal</li> </ul> <p> 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. </p> <p class="more-link my-1 text-right "><a href="/awards-medals/ian-mcharg/2025/lesley-wyborn/" aria-label="Read more about Lesley Wyborn">Read more</a> </div> </article> <hr> <article class="media"> <img class="img-fluid img-thumbnail" alt="Marthe Kl枚cking" src="https://www.egu.eu/media/awards/photos/2024/11/08/71a914c1-ecf1-4d2d-b8aa-9d1c3d79b95c.jpg.120x120_q90_crop_target-50%2C50_upscale.webp" srcset="https://www.egu.eu/media/awards/photos/2024/11/08/71a914c1-ecf1-4d2d-b8aa-9d1c3d79b95c.jpg.120x120_q90_crop_target-50%2C50_upscale.webp 1x, https://www.egu.eu/media/awards/photos/2024/11/08/71a914c1-ecf1-4d2d-b8aa-9d1c3d79b95c.jpg.240x240_q90_crop_target-50%2C50_upscale.webp 2x" loading="lazy"> <div class="media-body"> <h2 class="h4"><a href="/awards-medals/division-outstanding-ecs-award/2025/marthe-klocking/">Marthe Kl枚cking</a></h2> <ul class="list-inline"> <li class="list-inline-item"><i class="far fa-fw fa-calendar-alt"></i> 2025</li> <li class="list-inline-item"><i class="fas fa-fw fa-trophy"></i> Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award</li> </ul> <p> The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Marthe Kl枚cking for contributions to advancing Open Data in the Earth Sciences. </p> <p class="more-link my-1 text-right "><a href="/awards-medals/division-outstanding-ecs-award/2025/marthe-klocking/" aria-label="Read more about Marthe Kl枚cking">Read more</a> </div> </article> <hr> <article class="media"> <img class="img-fluid img-thumbnail" alt="Fran莽ois Robida" src="https://www.egu.eu/media/awards/photos/2024/01/29/58ad797e-3a88-4b2f-8b69-ee8e19264111b.jpg.120x120_q90_crop_target-50%2C44_upscale.webp" srcset="https://www.egu.eu/media/awards/photos/2024/01/29/58ad797e-3a88-4b2f-8b69-ee8e19264111b.jpg.120x120_q90_crop_target-50%2C44_upscale.webp 1x, https://www.egu.eu/media/awards/photos/2024/01/29/58ad797e-3a88-4b2f-8b69-ee8e19264111b.jpg.240x240_q90_crop_target-50%2C44_upscale.webp 2x" loading="lazy"> <div class="media-body"> <h2 class="h4"><a href="/awards-medals/ian-mcharg/2024/francois-robida/">Fran莽ois Robida</a></h2> <ul class="list-inline"> <li class="list-inline-item"><i class="far fa-fw fa-calendar-alt"></i> 2024</li> <li class="list-inline-item"><i class="fas fa-fw fa-trophy"></i> Ian McHarg Medal</li> </ul> <p> The 2024 Ian McHarg Medal is awarded to Fran莽ois 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. </p> <p class="more-link my-1 text-right "><a href="/awards-medals/ian-mcharg/2024/francois-robida/" aria-label="Read more about Fran莽ois Robida">Read more</a> </div> </article> <hr> <article class="media"> <img class="img-fluid img-thumbnail" alt="Anirudh Prabhu" src="https://www.egu.eu/media/awards/division-outstanding-ecs-award/2024/anirudh_prabhu.jpg.120x120_q90_crop_target-50%2C50_upscale.webp" srcset="https://www.egu.eu/media/awards/division-outstanding-ecs-award/2024/anirudh_prabhu.jpg.120x120_q90_crop_target-50%2C50_upscale.webp 1x, https://www.egu.eu/media/awards/division-outstanding-ecs-award/2024/anirudh_prabhu.jpg.240x240_q90_crop_target-50%2C50_upscale.webp 2x" loading="lazy"> <div class="media-body"> <h2 class="h4"><a href="/awards-medals/division-outstanding-ecs-award/2024/anirudh-prabhu/">Anirudh Prabhu</a></h2> <ul class="list-inline"> <li class="list-inline-item"><i class="far fa-fw fa-calendar-alt"></i> 2024</li> <li class="list-inline-item"><i class="fas fa-fw fa-trophy"></i> Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award</li> </ul> <p> 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. </p> <p class="more-link my-1 text-right "><a href="/awards-medals/division-outstanding-ecs-award/2024/anirudh-prabhu/" aria-label="Read more about Anirudh Prabhu">Read more</a> </div> </article> <hr> <article class="media"> <img class="img-fluid img-thumbnail" alt="Fabian Schumacher" src="https://www.egu.eu/media/awards/photos/2024/08/30/5a466a06-6028-4910-bec0-ef6aaf57948b.jpg.120x120_q90_crop_target-50%2C50_upscale.webp" 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