At this event we will honour our 2024 Awardees

Presentation of EMS and Tromp Foundation Awards

• EMS Outstanding Poster Award 2023
• EMS Young Scientist Conference Awards
• EMS Young Scientist Award 2024
• Tromp Foundation Travel Awards for young scientists
• EMS Tromp Award for an outstanding achievement in biometeorology
• EMS Technology Achievement Award

EMS Silver Medal Ceremony 

• Introduction, Laudation by Heinke Schlünzen, presentation of the medal & certificate
• EMS Silver Medal Lecture by Sue Grimmond:
  Urban weather and climate: contributions and challenges to achieving a climate-neutral Europe

The three EMS Media Awards will be presented in the Communiation and media Session ES2.1 on Wednesday: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EMS2024/session/50840

The Sergej Zilitinkevich Memorial Award will be handed over in session UP1.2 on Wednesday afternoon, followed by the award lecture.

The strategic lecture will be given by Ana Romero, Head of the Climate Emergency and Environmental Education Service of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona.

Ana Romero will talk about the experience and practical examples of adaptation of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area to Climate Change, especially to hot temperature extremes. 

EMS and PRIMET https://primet.org/ are inviting Early Career Scientists to this networking and career advice event. This is open to all ECSs.

The event Meet the Editors enables a direct interaction between members of the Editorial Board and prospective authors and the readership community of JEMS. You are cordially invited to stop by and discuss with members of the Editorial Board.

Aaron Boone is a research director/senior scientist employed by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique working at the Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques-Météo-France as a member of the Mesoscale Atmospheric processes branch in Toulouse, France. His research mainly focuses on land-atmosphere feedbacks on diurnal to seasonal time scales, and the modeling of continental surface processes (related to soil, vegetation and the cryosphere) for applications in operational weather forecasting, climate simulations, hydrological applications and research. 

He has led several international land model intercomparison projects, has been a member of the hydrology science team of the joint CNES-NASA satellite mission SWOT since its beginnings and led the international Land surface Interactions with the Atmosphere over the Iberian Semi-arid Environment (LIAISE) project field campaign.

Brigitte Perrin, of Switzerland, is the Head of Communication at the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations authoritative voice on weather, climate and water. A journalist by training and a political scientist by background, she dedicated her career to opening mindsets to scientific communication and driving change across the UN. Connecting science and people on the most pressing issues of our time, primarily climate change, is her passion. She is also a scholar, having worked for several years at the University of Geneva as a specialist in the digital transformation of research and academic teaching. She worked at the Swiss National Broadcasting Corporation for ten years as a journalist.

Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes is research professor of the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA). He develops his research activity as director of the Earth Sciences Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center since November 2014. Prof Doblas-Reyes has a long research experience in the understanding, simulation and prediction of climate variability and change and started working on climate services research ten years ago. He has participated and coordinated several international research projects and initiatives related to his research interests. He is currently the coordinator of two collaborative European projects and leads several national projects and research contracts. He is the author of more than 200 peer-review journal articles and has a long record of obtaining competitive computing and financial resources to support this research. He is member of several international panels. He is the direct supervisor of four senior scientists, six postdocs, two PhD students, five senior engineers and two junior engineers, and regularly works with a large variety of department members. He was coordinating lead author of the most recent Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a lead author in the Fifth Assessment Report, an author of the first European Climate Risk Assessment Report, and has been heavily involved in the design of both technical and scientific aspects of the Sixth Coupled Model Intercomparison Project.