Outstanding Poster Award

The Outstanding Poster Award has been established in 2009, to highlight good quality posters presented at the EMS Annual Meetings.

As the goal of this poster award is to foster the clear communication of scientific content also to non-specialists of the presented topic, the emphasis of the evaluation is put on the attractiveness of the graphical representation and on the clarity of the text. Only posters which satisfy the communication criteria are taken into consideration for the evaluation from a scientific point of view. Find more details at the Terms for the Outstanding Poster Award below.

Award Poster at the EMS 2024: Enhancing meteorological report access and response time: How the Meteorological Service of Catalonia addresses the rise in weather-related claims

The EMS 2024 outstanding poster award winner is Albert Aparicio Garcia with a poster presenting the work by him and his colleagues: Anna Rius, Laura Barbería, Anna Miró, Juan Carlos Peña, and Adrián Ruiz from the Meteorological Service of Catalonia (SMC), Barcelona, Catalonia-Spain and the University of Barcelona (abstract).

“The eye-catching style of this poster strongly meets impact and innovation criteria for the poster award. The committee appreciated the novel, intuitive approach this service offers via a web-based application. This draws on a range of observations to automatically synthesize complex weather data into a simple response for users. In particular, the committee valued the societal value this service offers for weather-related insurance claim requests.”

Terms Outstanding Poster Award

As the goal of this poster award is to foster the clear communication of scientific content also to non-specialists of the presented topic, the emphasis of the evaluation is put on the attractiveness of the graphical representation and on the clarity of the text. Only posters which satisfy the communication criteria will be taken into consideration for the evaluation from a scientific point of view.

Communication criteria:
  • Attractive graphical representation
  • Clear and concise text
  • Intuitive structure
Scientific aspects:
  • Scientific quality
  • Potential impacts of the results
  • Innovativeness of the approach

The author(s) receive one registration fee waiver for the EMS Annual Meeting in the following year, and the posters are highlighted on the EMS website as example of Best Practice.

A selection committee of five senior scientists is established each year.