From May 3–8, 2026, this year’s EGU General Assembly (EGU 2026) took place in Vienna, Austria. Once again, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) brought together geoscientists from all over the world. Among them were researchers from our topic area Earth and Environmental Sciences, who helped shape the program with their contributions.

Contributions

We are proud of the amount and diversity of contributions by researchers working at ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig. They were involved in a total of more than 20 sessions, talks, posters, orals, and PICO presentations at EGU 2026.

Sessions

• Machine Learning Across Geophysics: From Solid Earth to Environmental Signals
  Josefine Umlauft
• Environmental Seismology: Advancing Earth Surface Process Understanding through Geophysical Methods
  Josefine Umlauft

Talks

• Icebergs as a Distributed Sensor Network: Iceberg Tracking in Time-Lapse Imagery for Fjord Circulation Analysis
  Marco Jaeger-Kufel, Anja Neumann, Andreas Vieli, Andrea Kneib-Walter, Ethan Welty, and Josefine Umlauft
• Best Practices for Machine Learning based Icequake Picking with Distributed Acoustic Sensing
  Johanna Zitt, Marius Paul Isken, Jannes Münchmeyer, Dominik Gräff, Andreas Fichtner, Fabian Walter and Josefine Umlauft
• Gap-Aware Transformer-Based Foundation Model Pretraining for Spatiotemporal Earth Observation Data
  Charly Zimmer, Josefine Umlauft, Guido Kraemer, David Montero Loaiza and Miguel D. Mahecha
• The Seismic Fingerprint of Wind-induced Tree Sway
  Josefine Umlauft, Karin Mora, Fabian Limberger, Kilian Gerberding, Christian Wirth, Christiane Werner and Teja Kattenborn

Posters

• Foundation versus Task-Specific Models for Environmental Time-Series Prediction
  Anna Luise von Blohn, Miguel D. Mahecha and Julia Peters
• Lexcube: A multi-platform “data cube” ecosystem for immersive exploration of Earth system datasets in education, outreach and researchMaximilian Söchting and Miguel D. Mahecha
• Benchmarking Large-scale Forest Disturbance Products
  Claudia Leal-Medina, Teja Kattenborn, Clemens Mosig, Janusch Vajna-Jehle, and Miguel Mahecha

Orals

• Record decline and slowing down of canopy-greenness in Amazonia during the 2023/2024 drought
  Allan Buras, Vanessa Ferreira, Nathielly P. Martins, Franziska Schnell, and Anja Rammig
• Gap-Aware Transformer-Based Foundation Model Pretraining for Spatiotemporal Earth Observation Data
  Charly Zimmer, Josefine Umlauft, Guido Kraemer, David Montero, and Miguel D Mahecha
• GLEAM-HR: A 1-km terrestrial evaporation dataset with explicit representation of irrigation
  Oscar Manuel Baez Villanueva, Alfredo Crespo-Otero, Maximilian Söchting, Pierre Laluet, Miguel Mahecha, Olivier Bonte, Joppe Massant, Jaap Schellekens, Christian Massari, Chiara Corbari, Sara Modanesi, Jacopo Dari, Kwint Delbare, Wouter Dorigo, Hylke E. Beck, Pere Quintana-Seguí, Aaron Boone, Roger Clavera-Gispert, and Diego G. Miralles
• Climate change modifies atmospheric river precipitation: a global storyline approach
  Tobias Braun, Sara M. Vallejo-Bernal, Miguel D. Mahecha, Sebastian Sippel, and Istvan Dunkl
• Can Sentinel-2 help characterize the land management effect on the impact of drought followed by heavy precipitation in European agroecosystems?
  Mélanie Weynants, Khalil Teber, Miguel D. Mahecha, Marcin Kluczek, Jędrzej S. Bojanowski, and Fabian Gans
• A curated sentinel collection to study cascading droughts and extreme precipitation events
  Khalil Teber, Mélanie Weynants, Fabian Gans, Marcin Kluczek, Jędrzej S. Bojanowski, and Miguel D. Mahecha
• DeepFeatures: Learning Latent Representations from Spectral Indices for Ecosystem Monitoring
  Karin Mora, Julia Peters, Konstantin Ntokas, Martin Reinhardt, Gunnar Brandt, Teja Kattenborn, Guido Kraemer, David Montero, Clemens Mosig, and Miguel D. Mahecha
• An update on deadtrees.earth: A community-driven infrastructure for tree mortality monitoring from local to global scales
  Jonathan Schmid, Clemens Mosig, Janusch Vajna-Jehle, Miguel Mahecha, Yan Cheng, Henrik Hartmann, David Montero, Samuli Junttila, Stéphanie Horion, Mirela Beloiu Schwenke, and Teja Kattenborn
• Assessing the role of tree mortality in shaping ecosystem functional properties
  Negin Katal, Clemens Mosig, Miguel D. Mahecha, Daniel Lusk, Janush Vajna Jehle, Paul Neumeier, Mattis Pfenning, Mirco Migliavacca, Talie Musavi, Jacob A. Nelson, and Teja Kattenborn
• Global shifts in Earth’s seasonal green wave
  Miguel Mahecha, Guido Kraemer, Martin Renhardt, David Montero, Fabian Gans, Ana Bastos, Hannes Feilhauer, Ida Flik, Chaonan Ji, Teja Kattenborn, Mirco Migliavacca, Milena Mönks, Johannes Quaas, Sebastian Sippel, Sophia Walther, Sebstian Wieneke, Christian Wirth, and Gustau Camps-Valls
• deadtrees.earth Maps: Tree Mortality and Disturbance Mapping from Sentinel-2 Timeseries Across The Globe
  Clemens Mosig, Teja Kattenborn, Janusch Vanja-Jehle, David Montero, John Brandt, Aurora Bozzini, Yan Cheng, Adriane Esquivel Muelbert, Keenan Ganz, Evan Gora, Björn A. Grüning, Nathan Jacobs, Henrik Hartmann, Jan Hempel, Stéphanie Horion, Samuli Junttila, Subash Khanal, Kirill Korznikov, Guido Kraemer, Ian McGregor, Milena Mönks, Helene Muller-Landau, Davide Nardi, Paul Neumeier, Jonathan Schmid, Martin Schwartz, Mirela Beloui Schwenke, Salim Soltani, Marie Therese-Schmehl, Josh Veitch-Michaelis, Eric Xing, Miguel D. Mahecha

PICO Presentations

• Interactive Voxel Visualization of Large Earth System Data Cubes
  Maximilian Söchting and Miguel D. Mahecha

EGU 2026

As the leading organization for earth, planetary and space science research in Europe, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) annually brings together international geoscience experts for their General Assembly. The meeting provides a forum for scientists and early career researchers to present current research directions and discuss their ideas. Learn more about EGU 2026 on the official website.