EGU Milutin Milankovic Medal 2006

The German scientist Michael Sarntheim has won the prestigious EGU Militun Milankovic Medal for his valuable work on Quaternary climate changes, and for his leadership role in the palaeoceanographic investigations of deep-sea sediments from the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.

The Milankovic medal has been established by the Division on Climate: Past, Present & Future in recognition of the scientific and editorial achievements of Milutin Milankovic. This medal is reserved for scientists for their outstanding research in long term climatic changes and modeling.

Michael Sarnthein is a professor Geology und Palaeontology at the Institut für Geowissenschaften, of the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel.  

Resumé

Michael Sarnthein is one of the leading paleoclimatologists and marine geologists in the world. He played a central role in the development of paleoceanography in Germany, and became a major player in the international community. He has published extensively and has contributed significantly to better understanding of Quaternary Ocean and climate history. The standard of excellence of his contributions his insistence on detail and high chronological resolution have provided crucial insight into oceanic processes involved in abrupt and orbital-scale climate change. He has been a leader in setting high standards of investigation that have generally improved the quality and rigour of investigations utilizing deep-sea sediments. He has also pioneered the multi-proxy approach that has proven invaluable for the interpretations of past environmental change. Michael Sarnthein is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the paleoceanographic history of the high-latitude North Atlantic Ocean.

Medal Lecture

Professor Sarnthein will accept his medal and give his Medal lecture during the EGU General Assembly, to be held in Vienna, Austria from 2 – 7 April 2006. Sarnthein’s lecture ‘Thirty Years of Paleoceanography: Planned Efforts vs. Serendipity’ starts at Wednesday, 5 April 2006, 10:30 h in Lecture Room 13 (F1).

More information:
http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/awards/medallists/_2006/milutin_milankovic.html