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.

Poster award 2022: Impact-based warning information for ice-throw risk: A Norwegian survey

The work by Jelmer Jeuring and Anders Sivle from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute on Impact-based warning information for ice-throw risk: A Norwegian survey presents outcomes from a survey into perceptions of the general public in Norway about ice-throw risk, perceived value of different communication tools and formats of ice-throw risk information for Norwegian wind farms:  a systematic set of recommendations regarding communication and formatting of ice throw risk warning information.

  • Find more details here. The Award will be presented to Jelmer and Anders at the EMS2023 in Bratislava, Slovakia, in September 2023.

Innovative Presentation Award 2021

With the pandemic situation and the EMS2021 conference being held as a virtual meeting an Innovative Presentation Award was announced to reward the most innovative pre-recorded virtual presentation in terms of its communicative power and scientific quality. The goal of this new presentation award is to highlight the new opportunities to communicate scientific content – also to non-specialists of the presented topic – using them to enthuse, inspire, explain the subject and results.

Alice Portal’s vEMS2021 online presentation

Alice Portal (University of Milano-Bicocca and Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/IPSL) is the winner of the first EMS Innovative Presentation Award with her pre-recorded video presentation on Predictions of the boreal winter stratosphere with the C3S multi-model seasonal forecast system (see the abstract).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWC3nWPbXQY

 

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.

Terms Innovative Presentation Award 2021

We Announce the Innovative Presentation Award

We will reward the most innovative pre-recorded virtual presentation in terms of its communicative power and scientific quality. The goal of this new presentation award is to highlight the new opportunities to communicate scientific content – also to non-specialists of the presented topic – using them to enthuse, inspire, explain the subject and results. Eligible for the award are first authors of all pre-recorded presentations that have been uploaded to the conference page until one week prior to the conference. Details on uploading display material will follow.

Communication criteria:

  • Intuitive structure, grasping presentation
  • Attractive graphical and audio elements
  • Clear and concise (text)
  • Innovative use of technologies

Scientific aspects:

  • Scientific quality
  • Potential impacts of the results
  • Innovativeness of the approach

Only presentations which satisfy the communication criteria will be taken into consideration for the evaluation from a scientific point of view. The winner receives a registration fee waiver for the EMS Annual Meeting 2022, and the presentation is highlighted on the EMS website as an innovative example.

A selection committee of 5 senior scientists is established. The composition of the committee for EMS2021 is as follows:

  • Marie Doutriaux-Boucher (chair, EUMESAT)
  • Branislava Lalic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
  • Mendy van der Vliet (VanderSat; The Netherlands; Outstanding Poster Award winner 2019)
  • Jordi Mercader (ACAM, Spain)
  • Dan Suri (MetOffice, United Kingdom)

Regulations for the Innovative Presentation Award at EMS2021, online

1) Participation:

To participate in the innovative presentation award competition, authors need to sign up for the participation online. The corresponding link will be available in the letter of schedule.

Deadline to sign up for participation is 22 August 2021. Corresponding display material must be uploaded by 29 August 2021.

2) Eligibilty:

  • Authors have to be first author AND presenting author AND contact author of the relevant abstract.
  • Authors have to upload the presentation as display material to the EMS2021 conference page until 29 August 2021.
  • Authors can participate with exactly 1 presentation.

Previous Awardees