Young Scientist Travel Awards (YSTAs)

Young Scientist Travel Awards are awarded to support participation of outstanding students and young scientists at EMS-co-sponsored conferences. The award is given as travel expenses support.

Young scientists under 35 years of age on the first of January of the respective year, working and/ or studying in a European country are eligible for an award. All countries with an EMS Member Society or included in the WMO RA VI region are considered as European. For an overview of EMS Member Societies please consult the EMS Member site.

In the evaluation of the applications received for a specific conference, normally the following four criteria are applied: 

  • Interest of the submitted paper
  • Innovation content of the submitted paper
  • Candidate profile
  • Country.

Announcements

2012

  • BALWOIS 2012: International Scientific Conference on Water, Climate and Environment
    28 May - 2 June 2012, Ohrid, FY Republic of Macedonia
    Deadline for applications has expired
  • 2012 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference
    3 - 7 September 2012, Sopot, Poland
    Deadline for applications has expired
  • Nordic Meteorologists' Meeting 2012
    4 - 8 June 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Deadline for applications: 1 April 2012
    Announcement and application procedures
  • EMS Annual Meeting & ECAC 2012
    10 - 14 September 2012, Lodz, Poland

    Deadline for applications has expired
  • 15th Conference on Mountain Meteorology
    20-24 August 2012, Steamboat, CO
    Deadline for applications: 1 June 2012
    Announcement and application procedures
  • ECMWF Annual Seminar: Seasonal prediction
    4-7 September 2012, Reading, UK
    Deadline for applications: 30 June 2012
    Announcement and application procedures

Previous Award recipients

2012

Young Scientist Travel Award winners 2012

8th International Conference on Air Quality - Science and Application
19–23 March 2012, Athens

Efisio Solazzo
Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Joint Research Centre,
Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ispra, Italy
Efisio Solazzo gave a presentation entitled A CDF methodology for interpreting long-time averaged measurements in urban streets

His report from the 8th Air Quality Conference.

2011

Young Scientist Travel Award winners 2011

THORPEX European Regional Meeting
24–27 May 2011, Karlsruhe 

Johannes Wagner
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Johannes Wagner gave a presentation entitled The mesoscale structure of a mature polar low: Airborne measurements and numerical simulations

His report from THORPEX European Regional Meeting.

 

31st International Conference on Alpine Meteorology
24–27 May 2011, Aviemore, Scotland

Lavinia Laiti
University of Trento, Italy
Lavinia Laiti gave a presentation entitled Analysis of the thermal structure of the Ora del Garda wind from airborne and surface measurements.

Her report from the ICAM2011.

Silvia Terzago
Italy
Silvia Terzago gave a presentation entitled Solid and liquid precipitation variability in the Western Italian Alps and links to large scale forcings.

Her report from the ICAM2011

 

ECMWF Annual Seminar 2011: Data assimilation for atmosphere and ocean
6–9 September 2011, Reading, UK

Seyda Tilev Tanriover
Department of Meteorological Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
tanriovers@itu.edu.tr

Her report from the ECMWF Seminar 2011.

 

11th EMS Annual Meeting & 10th European Conference on Aplications of Meteorology
12–16 September 2011, Berlin, Germany

Laura Dobor
Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
Laura Dobor gave a presentation entitled Retrieval of vertically integrated water vapor from SEVIRI measurements.

Her report from the EMS&ECAM2011.


Simon Gosling
The University of Nottingham, UK
Simon Gosling gave a presentation entitled Probabilistic projections of the impact of climate change on heat-related mortality in three European cities.

His report from the EMS&ECAM2011

Christian Grams
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Christian Grams gave a presentation entitled Quantification of the impact of extratropical transition on the midlatitude flow using potential vorticity inversion .

His report from the EMS&ECAM2011

Martin Ivanov
Bulgarian National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology Sofia, Bulgaria
Martin Ivanov gave a presentation entitled The Northern Hemisphere Temperature during the Twentieth Century: Trend Break and Intermonthly Dissimilarities.

His report from the EMS&ECAM2011

Pricilla Marimo
University of Exeter, UK
Pricilla Marimo gave a presentation entitled Communication of uncertainty in weather forecasts.

Her report from the EMS&ECAM2011

Pierre Pinson
Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Pierre Pinson gave a presentation entitled Ensemble and probabilistic forecasting of (u; v) wind for the energy application.

His report from the EMS&ECAM2011

Eva Plavcová
Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Academy of Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
Eva Plavcová gave a presentation entitled Evaluating links between atmospheric circulation and surface air temperature in climate models in control and future climates.

Her report from the EMS&ECAM2011

Julia Strelchenko
St. Petersburg State University, Russian Federation
Julia Strelchenko gave a presentation entitled Exploring the role of process-oriented GIS in advancing the scientific knowledge in applied meteorology and climatology .

Her report from theEMS&ECAM2011

 

6th European Conference on Severe Storms (ECSS)
03 - 07 October 2011, Palma de Mallorca, Spain



Abdullah Kahraman
Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Abdullah Kahraman gave a presentation entitled Severe Hail Climatology of Turkey.

His report from the ECSS2011.

Oliver Schlenczek
The University of Nottingham, UK
Oliver Schlenczek gave a presentation entitled Identification and Tracking of Convective Modes based on Radar Data.

His report from the ECSS2011

2010

Young Scientist Travel Award winners 2010

BALWOIS
24–27 May 2010, Ohrid 

Hazan Özdemir
Istanbul
University, Turkey
Hans Orru gave a presentation entitled Reconstruction of Çokal Dam (Çanakkale-Turkey) Breach Flooding Using 1D Hydraulic Modelin

His report from the BALWOIS Conference.

12th Nordic Meteorologists' Meeting
7-11 June 2010, Helsinki

Tiina Kilpelainen
The University Centre Svalbad, Norway
Tiina Kilpelainen gave a presentation entitled Spatial variability and topographic effects over Arctic fjords in Svalbard 

Her report from the NMM-2010.

Marius Jonassen
University of Bergen, Norway
Marius Jonasse gave a presentation entitled The Bergen Shelter

His report from the NMM-2010. 

ISARS2010, International Symposium for the advancement of Boundary Layer Meteorology
28-30 June 2010, Paris  

Christopher Lee
University of Manchester, UK
Christopher Lee gave a presentation on Turbulence Measurements from Radar Wind Profilers – The First Comprehensive Validation of Radar Methods

His report from the ISARS 2010. 

ESA/ESRIN Summer School on Earth Observation
August 2010

The tree posters were selected at the final session of the Summer School.
See the video feedback from the authors of the three best posters.  

Ana Filipa Carvalho
Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of the Azores, Portugal
Ana Filipa Carvalho's poster was entitled: CONDOR Seamount: Space and Time Ocean Colour and SST variability from 2002 to 2010

Her report from the Summer School on Earth Observation. 

Pieter-Jan Baeck
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
Pieter-Jan Baeck's poster was entitled: GERB: Measuring the Earth's Energy Balance. (1.8MB)

His report from the Summer School on Earth Observation.

ECMWF Annual Seminar
6 – 9 September 2010 

Ivan Güttler
Croatian Meteorological Service, Zagreb

His report from the ECMWF Annual Seminar. 

ERAD2010, 6th European Conferenece on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology
6 – 10 September 2010, Sibiu, Romania  

Anna Linkova
Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics of NAS of Ukraine
Anna Linkova gave a presentation on Application of double frequency radar for measurement of monodisperse rain parameters 

Her report from the ERAD2010. 

Beatriz Gallardo-Hernando
Technical University of Madrid (ETSIT-UPM), Spain
Beatriz Gallardo-Hernando gave a presentation on Wind Turbine Clutter Detection in Scanning Weather Radar Tasks.

Her report from the ERAD2010. 

EMS&ECAC 2010
13–17 September 2010, Zürich, Switzerland

5 of these 10 awards were funded by Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Meteorologie (SGM).

Damyan Barantiev
National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Bulgaria
Damyan Barantiev gave a presentation on Meteorological observations of the coastal boundary layer structure by remote measurement methods for determining the impact of meteorological conditions on the breeze circulation

His report from the EMS & ECAC 2010.

Stéphanie Singla
Météo-France
Stéphanie Singla gave a presentation on Predictability in France : atmospheric forcing or land surface initial conditions?

Her report from the EMS & ECAC 2010.

Zornitsa Spasova
National Center of Public Health Protection, health promotion and disease prevention, Sofia, Bulgaria
Zornitsa Spasova gave a presentation on Weather and emotional state

Her report from the EMS & ECAC 2010.

Rafiq Hamdi
Royal Meteorological Institute, Belgium 
Rafiq Hamdi gave a presentation on Effects of historical urbanization in the Brussels Capital Region on surface air temperature time series: a model study

His report from the EMS & ECAC 2010.

Laura Trapero Bagué
Snow and Mountain Research Centre of Andorra (CENMA-IEA), Andorra
Laura Trapero Bagué gave a presentation on Modelisation of northerly snow episodes over Andorra (Pyrenees) using WRF

Her report from the EMS & ECAC 2010.

Erika Miklos
Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
Erika Miklos gave a presentation on Analysis of expected regional climate change in the Carpathian Basin using ENSEMBLES model simulations

Her report from the EMS & ECAC 2010.

Gabriella Szépszó
Hungarian Meteorological Service, Budapest
Gabriella Szépszó gave a presentation on Analysis of the influence of lateral boundary conditions based on REMO RCM simulations over the Carpathian Basin

Her report from the EMS & ECAC 2010.

Matthieu Chevallier
CNRM-Météo France, Toulouse
Matthieu Chevallier gave a presentation on Seasonal potential predictability of the Arctic sea ice in the ENSEMBLES and CMIP3 simulations

His report from the EMS & ECAC 2010.

Matthias Demuzere
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Matthias Demuzere gave a presentation on The COST733cat software: An example on surface ozone concentrations in Central Europe

His report from the EMS & ECAC 2010.

Elena Maksimovich
University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Elena Maksimovich gave a presentation on Meteorological factors controlling year-to-year variations in the spring onset of snow melt over the Arctic sea ice

Her report from the EMS & ECAC 2010.

2010 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference
20 – 24 September 2010, Córdoba, Spain

2 of these 3 awards were funded by EUMETSAT.   

Zsófia Kocsis
Hungarian Meteorological Service
Zsófia Kocsis gave a presentation on
Comparison of the O3MSAF total ozone and ozone profile products

Her report from the EUMETSAT conference.

Cintia Carbajal Henken
Utrecht University/ KNMI, The Netherlands
Cintia Carbajal Henken gave a presentation on
Detection of Cb and TCu clouds during daytime from MSG-SEVIRI cloud physical properties and weather radar observations

Dennis Stich
DLR, Germany
Dennis Stich gave a presentation on 
Nowcasting of convection initiation by analysis and fusion of multiple data sources

His report from the EUMETSAT conference.

2009

Young Scientist Travel Award winners 2009

Air Quality conference
24–27 March 2009, 
Istanbul 

Hans Orru
Department of Public Health
University of Tartu, Estonia
Health impact assessment of locally emitted particulate matter in Tallinn using sectioning modeling techniques

Report

13th Alpine Meteorology ICAM-2009
11-15 May 2009
Rastatt, Germany 

Zeljko Vecenaj
University of Zagreb, Croatia
Near-surface turbulence in a bora event

Dèlia Arnold Arias
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
High resolution modelling of mountain and valley stations and its applications to complex dispersion conditions

Report

 

 

 

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8th EWOC, July 2009, 
Prague, Czech Republic
transferred for participation in the EMS/ECAM

Tomáš Milér
Masaryk University, Faculty of Education, Brno, Czech Republic 
Sample classroom activities based on climate science

Report

ECMWF Annual Seminar
7-11 September 2009

Kirsti Salonen
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Helsinki

Report

WCC-3
28 August – 4 September 2009
Geneva, Switzerland

Joanes Atela 
Agricultural Sciences and Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics (ARTS), Bonn University, Germany 
Integrated Ecosystem Management (IEM) as a tool for Combating Environmental Change - A case of Western Kenya Integrated Ecosystem Management Project

Report

EMS9/ECAM 2009
28 Sep.-2 Oct. 2009
Toulouse, France

Paul Williams
University of Reading, UK
Application of the Lighthill-Ford Theory of Spontaneous Imbalance to Clear-Air Turbulence Forecasting

Irene Schicker
University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
High resolution meteorological modelling of the Inn Valley atmosphere

Alireza Shahabfar
University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Application of Perpendicular Drought Indices as a Dynamic Drought Monitoring Method

Richard Foreman
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany 
Estimation of offshore humidity fluxes from sonic and mean temperature profile data 

Peter Szabo
Hungarian Meteorological Service
The evaluation of extreme precipitation and temperature indices based on regional climate models at the Hungarian Meteorological Servic

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5th ECSS
12 – 16 October 2009
Landshut, Germany

Zoltán Polyánszky
Hungarian Meteorological Service
Non Mesocyclone Tornadoes in Hungary

Ulrike Wißmeier
University of Munich LMU
An investigation of a severe multicellular storm in the tropics

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Joint Meeting of the RMetS and the EMS, linked with AMMA
21st October 2009, London

Rabea Haas
University of Cologne, Germany

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