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2019 YSTA recipients at the awards ceremony together with EMS Treasurer H. Schlünzen (left) and EMS President B. Riddaway (right)

EMS2021: Awards and registration fee waivers

For the EMS2021 online, three support schemes are available, with different closing dates for applications: EMS Young Scientist Conference Awards, Tromp Foundation Conference Award to Young Scientists for papers on biometeorology and registration fee waivers. More information[more]

Call for nominations: EMS Young Scientist Award

Deadline for nominations: 21 April 2021. The EMS Young Scientist Award (YSA) is given annually to an individual in recognition of excellent performance in terms of scientific publications or presentations during the early stage of their scientific career. The award is in the form of prize money (1000€) and the awardee is invited [more]

8 March 2021 – Spotlight: Women in Science

8 March is International Women’s Day and many organisations in the meteorological and climatological field organise events to mark the day and discuss ways to facilitate accessibility, inclusion and diversity in sciences.[more]

Sergej Zilitinkevich 2015, awarded the Alfred Wegener Medal (Credit: Foto Pfluegl/EGU)

Obituary for Sergej Zilitinkevich

Professor Sergej S. Zilitinkevich, our long-standing convener of the Boundary Layer Session at EMS, passed away on Monday, February 15, 2021. We will remember him for his deep knowledge in boundary layer meteorology, the energy and passion he displayed in all aspects of his work and last not least his unique personality. He was always developing new ideas even in his 80s.[more]

EMS Annual Meeting 2021 goes virtual

The EMS is announcing that its Annual Meeting 2021, planned to be held in Barcelona, will instead take place entirely online. Taking into account the uncertainty about the pandemic situation into late summer, the EMS Council took the decision to move the meeting online to provide clarity at this stage. The meeting dates are kept to the planned week of 6 to 10 September, parallel sessions will be basically the same as at the physical meeting[more]

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MeteoIQ joins the EMS as 31st Associate Member

Dennis Schulze, Managing Director of MeteoIQ is excited about the organization becoming Associate Member of EMS: “The global weather enterprise can only flourish when all stakeholders – private, public and academic – have an open dialogue. The EMS offers an excellent platform for this and we as MeteoIQ are very happy to be part of that …[more]

The WeatherPod: ECMWF’s Strategy 2021–2030

For the seventh episode of The WeatherPod, a programme produced for the Global Weather Enterprise Forum (GWE Fourm) Florence Rabier has been invited into the studio for this special extended episode ‘Forging a successful European[more]

8th MetMed will take place virtually

The MetMed will take place online 25 – 27 May 2021 and aims to show, discuss and disseminate the contributions of the international scientific community on different aspects of the meteorology and climatology of the Mediterranean Basin and foster communication between different research groups. The abstract submission online is still open until 21 February 2021.[more]