Hans Oeschger Medal

The Hans Oeschger Medal is an award bestowed by the European Geosciences Union (EGU) to recognise scientists who have made "outstanding achievements in ice research and/or short term climatic changes (past, present, future)." The award was established by the European Geophysical Society (EGS) in recognition of the scientific achievements of Professor Hans Oeschger.^[1] It was awarded by the EGS in 2002 and 2003, and subsequently by the EGU.

List of recipients

Year		Name	Organisation / Institution	Awarded for
2013		Miryam Bar-Matthews	Geological Survey of Israel	"Pioneering contribution and leadership in the field of terrestrial palaeoclimate change using high resolution cave speleothem records, and for her outstanding contribution to our understanding of the climatic and environmental context of human history and pre-history."[2]
2012		Michael E. Mann	Pennsylvania State University	"Significant contributions to understanding decadal-centennial scale climate change over the last two millennia and for pioneering techniques to synthesize patterns and northern hemispheric time series of past climate using proxy data reconstructions."[3]
2011		Robert Delmas		"Seminal contributions to ice core glaciochemistry and his pioneering research on reconstructing changes in the composition of the atmosphere."[4]
2010		Françoise Gasse	CEREGE (Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement en Géosciences de l'Environnement)	"Contribution[s] to the reconstruction of climate variability during the Holocene from continental archives and to a better understanding of climate mechanisms involved during this period."[5]
2009		Thomas Stocker	University of Bern	"Contributions to the understanding of the role of the oceans in past climate changes and for his involvement in ice core studies."[6]
2008		Dominique Raynaud	Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement (LGGE)	"Contribution to the reconstruction of past atmospheric composition over the last 800,000 years from Antarctic ice cores and to the understanding of the link between greenhouse gases and climate."[7]
2007		Raymond S. Bradley	University of Massachusetts Amherst	"Contribution[s] to paleoclimate reconstruction from continental archives and for being instrumental in the multi-proxy approach leading to the quantification of climate change over the last millennium."[8]
2006		Bernhard Stauffer	University of Bern	"Contributions to ice core research, in particular for methodological developments, greenhouse gas measurements and ice chemistry."[9]
2005		Laurent Labeyrie		"Contribution[s] to quaternary palaeoclimatology based on isotopic measurements on deep-sea cores and for his key rôle in the International Marine Global Change Study (IMAGES)."[10]
2004		John F. B. Mitchell	Met Office	"Pioneer research in using atmosphere-ocean general circulation models to understand natural and anthropogenic influences on climatic changes."[11]
2003		Sigfus Johnsen		"For his outstanding contributions to ice core research through the modeling of water isotopes and their use for paleoclimate reconstruction."[12]
2002		Philip D. Jones	Climatic Research Unit, UEA	"For his remarkable contribution and sustained effort in reconstructing the climate of the last 250 years at the global and regional scales."[13]

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