Press Release

27 March 2006, European Geosciences Union

Gerald Ganssen New President-Elect / Vice-President EGU

Gerald M. Ganssen has been elected to be the new President-Elect and Vice-President of the European Geosciences Union, starting in April 2006. In April 2007, Ganssen will be appointed the new president of the EGU. Ganssen is an Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

The President of the EGU is elected by the Members of the EGU to serve for a term of 2 years. He/she is elected one year before the beginning of the term of office, and in that period serves as President-Elect, and shall continue as a member of the Council for one year after the term of office, as Past-President. The President-Elect and the Past-President, respectively, are Vice-Presidents of the Union.

Gerald Ganssen has been working since December 1982 at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (associate professor since 2003), working in the fields of marine geology, palaeoceanography, palaeoclimatology.  His research interests focus on process-oriented studies on stable oxygen and carbon isotopic proxies and their application in high-resolution marine sediment cores; land-sea interrelationships and processes of climate change. Gerald Ganssen has been a regular participant in ocean research expeditions, either as chief, or as co-chief scientist.

For more information on Gerald Ganssen, see his candidature EGU President-Elect. >link

Currently, John Ludden is the EGU President. Professor Ludden will serve as a Past-President/Vice-President for another year (2007-2008).

The new Vice-President will be introduced at the General Assembly in Vienna, 02 – 07 April 2006.

The European Geosciences Union (EGU), founded in 2002 as a merger of the European Geophysical Society (EGS) and the European Union of Geosciences (EUG), is a dynamic, innovative, and interdisciplinary learned association devoted to the promotion of the sciences of the Earth and its environment and of planetary and space sciences;
cooperation between scientists.

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