Professor Jane Hart elected General Secretary of the European Geosciences Union

Professor Jane Hart, Professor of Geography at the School of Geography and Environmental Science, was recently elected General Secretary of the European Geophysical Union (EGU) for a second term, 2024-26, and will be inaugurated during the EGU plenary meeting on 15 April 2024 in Vienna, Austria. Professor Hart was previously the General Secretary for 2022-24.

The European Geosciences Union, is Europe’s premier geosciences union dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences for the benefit of humanity, worldwide. It was established in September 2002 as a merger of the European Geophysical Society (EGS) and the European Union of Geosciences (EUG) and has approximately 18,000 members.

Professor Jane Hart, Professor of Geography comments, “I am delighted to be appointed General Secretary of the European Geophysical Union for a second term. As General Secretary I am on the Executive committee of the EGU, as well as Council, and so have a key role in directing the organisation, ethos and strategy of the organisation. I will continue to work with the EGU Executive Board to assist in overseeing and providing strategic guidance to all activities of the Union, in particular those of the committees and the Union office.”

Professor Jane Hart, is the Deputy Head of School (Education) at the School of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton, with research interests in Glaciology, Glacial Sedimentology, Quaternary Science, Environmental Sensor Networks and Informatics. She is also the President of the Quaternary Research Association (QRA). Prior to that, she was Vice-President of the QRA (2019-22) and Chair of the inaugural Quaternary Research Association EDI committee.

In 2022, she was appointed onto the NERC Advisory Network and has been on the “NERC Constructing a Digital Environment Expert Network’ as a Senior Panel Member (2019-2022, 2022-2024).