The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is the leading organization for Earth, planetary and space science research in Europe. The General Assembly 2026 in Vienna (3–8 May 2026) offers a unique opportunity to connect with the international Earth System Science community and explore the current developments in RDM, open science, and digital infrastructures.
At NFDI4Earth, we invite you to engage with our activities, discover our services, and connect with our experts and partners across disciplines. As a community-driven initiative, NFDI4Earth aims to provide FAIR and open access to Earth system data, tools, and services, supporting researchers throughout the entire data lifecycle.
Meet us at our NFDI4Earth booth no. 25 at EGU 2026 to learn more about our platform and connect directly with our team and partners. Whether you are looking for practical solutions for your research, opportunities for collaboration, or insights into the evolving European data landscape, our booth, sessions and activities at EGU 2026 provide multiple entry points to get involved.
To illustrate some of our key topics and ongoing developments within NFDI4Earth and the wider community, the following sessions demonstrate selected insights:
Further talks, sessions and posters in the context of NFDI4Earth include:
NFDI4Earth Products and Services
• ESSI2.6
Posters on site: NFDI4Earth – building the future
Wed, 06 May, 14:00–15:45 / Hall X4 | X4.57
Valentina Protopopova-Kakar, Wolfgang zu Castell, Sören Lorenz, Andrea Lammert, and Hannes Thiemann
• ESSI3.1
Orals: From FAIR Data to Collaborative Science: Research Data Infrastructures and Virtual Research Environments for Earth System Science
Thu, 7 May, 08:30–10:15 / Room -2.33
Alessandro Rizzo, Vasco Mantas, Kirsten Elger, Maria-Luisa Chiusano, Marie Jossé, Heinrich Widmann, Jérôme Détoc
• ESSI3.2
Orals:
FAIRness and Openness Commitments as a catalyst for cultural change in research organisations
Thu, 07 May, 16:50–17:00 / Room -2.33
Daniel Nüst, Anne Sennhenn, Jörg Seegert, Andreas Hübner, Khabat Vahabi, Stephan Hachinger, Markus Möller, Carsten Hoffmann, Lars Bernard, James M. Anderson, Sarah Fischer, Markus Reichstein, Mélanie Weynants, Carsten Keßler, Katharina Koch, Klaus-Peter Wenz, Nicole van Dam, and Babette Regierer
• BG9.4
Orals:
An update on deadtrees.earth: A community-driven infrastructure for tree mortality monitoring from local to global scales
Thu, 07 May, 17:20–17:30 / Room N1
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
• ESSI3.1
Posters on site: From Data Rocks to FAIR Peaks: With NFDI4Earth’s services towards Harmonized Metadata and User-Centered Tools for Earth System Research
Fri, 08 May, 16:15–18:00 / Hall X4 | X4.76
Christin Henzen, Nadia Aouadi, Anna Brauer, Robert Brylka, Auriol Degbelo, Jonas Grieb, Ralf Klammer, Markus Konkol, Roland Koppe, Kemeng Liu, Tom Niers, Daniel Nüst, and Alexander Wellmann
• ESSI3.1
Posters on site: From questions to expertise: the cross-disciplinary user support network in NFDI4Earth
Fri, 08 May, 16:15–18:00 / Hall X4 | X4.79
Ivonne Anders, Klaus Getzlaff, Sören Lorenz, and Hela Mehrtens
NFDI4Earth Associated Projects
• ESSI3.4
Posters on site: Evolving Scientific Software in Long-Running Observatories: Lessons from the TERENO Sensor Management Migration
Mon, 04 May, 16:15–18:00 / Hall X4 | X4.136
Ulrich Loup, Werner Küpper, Christof Lorenz, Rainer Gasche, Ralf Kunkel, Ralf Gründling, Jannis Groh, Nils Brinckmann, Jan Bumberger, Marc Hanisch, Tobias Kuhnert, Rubankumar Moorthy, Florian Obersteiner, David Schäfer, and Thomas Schnicke
• ESSI1.7
Orals: Workflow approaches enabling scalable and reproducible state-of-the-art computation and data analysis in Earth System Sciences
Mon, 4 May, 16:15–18:00 / Room 2.24
Karsten Peters-von Gehlen, Donatello Elia, Manuel Giménez de Castro Marciani, Ivonne Anders, Valeriu Predoi
• ESSI1.2
Posters on site: FAIRenrich: Distributed semantic annotation at the repository edge
Tue, 05 May, 16:15–18:00 / Hall X4 | X4.30
Alexander Wolodkin, Claus Weiland, Jonas Grieb, and Robert Brylka
• ESSI2.6
Posters on site: FAIR Research Data Management for Complex Land-Atmosphere Observations & Modelling: The LAFI–GLAFO Approach
Wed, 6 May, 14:00–15:45 / Hall X4 | X4.55
Jonathan Minz, Astrid Ziemann, Thomas Schwitalla, Lisa Jach, Oliver Branch, Marcus Breil, Matthias Mauder, and Volker Wulfmeyer
• ESSI2.6
Orals: Blueprints for Semantic Integration and AI-Readiness (BITS 2.0)
Wed, 06 May, 17:50–18:00 / Room -2.33
Andrea Lammert, Ivonne Anders, Anette Ganske, Sandra Geisler, Angelina Kraft, Claudia Martens, Hela Mehrtens, Emanuel Söding, Hannes Thiemann, Claus Weiland, and Alexander Wolodkin
• CR3.1
Orals: 25-years of summer-time daily melt-pond fraction on Arctic sea ice derived from TERRA-MODIS sensor measurements
Thu, 07 May, 11:57–12:07 / Room 1.34
Stefan Kern and Remon Sadikni
• ESSI3.2
Orals: Integrating biodiversity in Situ data, Earth observation and stakeholder engagement - from machine- to policy-actionability
Thu, 07 May, 14:05–14:15 / Room -2.33
Claus Weiland, Lena Perzlmaier, Daniel Bauer, Jonas Grieb, Julian Oeser, Taimur Khan, Sharif Islam, and Niels Raes
• ESSI3.2
Orals: From Principles to Practice: Community-Driven Approaches to FAIR, Open Data and Interoperable FAIR Digital Objects in Earth and Environmental Sciences
Thu, 7 May, 14:00–18:00 / Room -2.33
Alice Fremand, Shelley Stall, Lesley Wyborn, Marco Kulüke, Natalie Raia, Ivonne Anders, Anne Fouilloux
• SC2.11
Orals:
Supporting the understanding and reuse of reproducible analysis workflows
Fri, 08 May, 08:30–10:15 / Room 0.55
Markus Konkol, Sadra Matmir, Merret Buurman
• ESSI2.5
Posters on site: The STAMPLATE-Schema as a unifying metadata language for FAIR and AI-ready environmental time-series data in the DataHub ecosystem
Fri, 08 May, 10:45–12:30 / Hall X4 | X4.64
Christof Lorenz, Nils Brinckmann, Claas Faber, Marc Hanisch, Roland Koppe, Ralf Kunkel, Ulrich Loup, Mihir Rambihia, Hylke van der Schaaf, and David Schäfer and the STAMPLATE-Team within the DataHub Initiative of the Research Field Earth and Environment
• ESSI3.2
Posters on site: Integration of TERENO into the DataHub Digital Ecosystem
Fri, 08 May, 16:15–18:00 / Hall X4 | X4.95
Ralf Kunkel, Marc Hanisch, Christof Lorenz, Ulrich Loup, David Schäfer, Thomas Schnicke, and Jürgen Sorg
• ESSI3.1
Posters on site: From Architecture to Operation: time.IO a User-Centric Digital Ecosystem for Time Series Data Management in Earth System Science
Fri, 08 May, 16:15–18:00 / Hall X4 | X4.81
David Schäfer, Nils Brinckmann, Florian Gransee, Tobias Kuhnert, Ralf Kunkel, Christof Lorenz, Peter Lünenschloß, Bert Palm, Thomas Schnicke, and Jan Bumberger
• ERE5.7
Posters on site: heatflow.world: A FAIR, Quality-Controlled Global Platform for Heat-Flow Data and Geothermal Applications
Fri, 08 May, 16:15–18:00 / Hall X4 | X4.67
Ben Norden, Samah Elbarbary, Elif Balkan-Pazvantoğlu, Alexey Petrunin, Marios Karagiorgas, Florian Neumann, Renée Bernhard, Achim Kopf, Kirsten Elger, Sam Jennings, Nikolas Ott, Stephan Mäs, and Sven Fuchs
NFDI4Earth Community
• ESSI2.8
PICO: Advancing Geoscience Research and Visualization Through Robust and User-Friendly Software: Case Studies, Applications, and Best Practices
Mon, 04 May, 08:30–12:30 , 16:15–18:00 / PICO spot 1b
Kostas Leptokaropoulos, Stefania Gentili, Angeliki Adamaki, Monika Staszek,Raquel Felix ECS, Tobias Kerzenmacher, Christof Lorenz
• HS6.3
Orals:
Estimating evapotranspiration from in-situ and remote sensing methods
Mon, 4 May, 14:00–18:00 / Room 2.15
Hamideh Nouri, Neda Abbasi, Ana Andreu, Jannis Groh, Sibylle K. Hassler, Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen, Pamela Nagler
• HS4.6 | ECS
Orals: Seasonal meteo-hydrological forecasts: a two-level bias-corrected high-resolution modelling chain in a coastal Mediterranean area
Mon, 04 May, 14:45–14:55 / Room 2.31
Luca Furnari, Fabio Cortale, Christof Lorenz, Harald Kunstmann, Giuseppe Mendicino, and Alfonso Senatore
• HS4.6 | ECS
Orals: Predictability and skill of large-scale extreme droughts using global bias-corrected seasonal forecasts (SEAS5-BCSD)
Mon, 04 May, 15:15–15:25 / Room 2.31
Jan Niklas Weber, Christof Lorenz, Tanja Schober, Hannes Dehn, and Harald Kunstmann
• HS4.2 | ECS
Posters on site: histMDH: Introduction to a Global Multi-sectoral Drought Hazard Reference Dataset for 1981-2020
Tue, 05 May, 10:45–12:30 / Hall A | A.55
Neda Abbasi, Tina Trautmann, Jan Weber, Petra Döll, Harald Kunstmann, Christof Lorenz, Tinh Vu, Stephan Dietrich, Malte Weller, and Stefan Siebert
• ESSI3.4
Orals: Scientific software development in the Geosciences: good practices, pitfalls and solutions
Tue, 5 May, 16:15–17:50 / Room -2.33
Diego Jiménez de la Cuesta Otero, Clarissa Kroll, Iris Ehlert
• AS1.4 | ECS
Posters on site: Toward a Seamless Sub-Seasonal to Seasonal Prediction System for the Blue Nile Basin
Tue, 05 May, 16:15–18:00 / Hall X5 | X5.25
Rebecca Wiegels, Christian Chwala, Julius Polz, Luca Glawion, Christof Lorenz, Jan N. Weber, Yasir Hageltom, Windmanagda Sawadogo, Tanja C. Schober, Selina Janner, Morteza Zargar, Axel Bronstert, and Harald Kunstmann
• HS4.2 | ECS
Orals: Assessing the accuracy of multi-sectoral drought hazard indicators from the OUTLAST drought monitoring and seasonal forecasting system at the global scale
Wed, 06 May, 09:35–09:45 / Room B
Tina Trautmann, Neda Abbasi, Jan Weber, Tinh Vu, Stephan Dietrich, Petra Döll, Harald Kunstmann, Christof Lorenz, and Stefan Siebert
• ESSI3.2
Orals: Paving the Road to FAIR – Strategies and Considerations to activate PIDs in a large Organization
Thu, 07 May, 15:15–15:25 / Room -2.33
Emanuel Soeding, Dorothee Kottmeier, Andrea Poersch, Stanislav Malinovschii, Johann Wurz, and Sören Lorenz
• ESSI3.2
Orals: Using “Data Agreements” in universities to clarify research data rights of use
Thu, 07 May, 16:30–16:40 / Room -2.33
María Piquer-Rodríguez, Esther Asef, Sophia Reitzug, and Andreas Hübner
• ITS1.20/ESSI4.3
Orals: Origin, governance and evolution of the Essential Climate Variables framework managed by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)
Thu, 07 May, 16:40–16:50 / Room 2.24
Belen Martin Miguez, Peter Thorne, Stephan Bojinski, Carlo Buontempo, Sarah Connors, Carmen García Izquierdo, Isabelle Gartner-Roer, Andreas Güntner, Martin Herold, Stefan Kern, Katrin Schroeder, Blair Trewin, Antonio Bombelli, and Caterina Tassone
• ESSI2.5 | ECS
Posters on site: Putting Science on the Map: Spatio-Temporal Metadata for Scientific Article Discovery
Fri, 08 May, 10:45–12:30 / Hall X4 | X4.65
Tom Niers and Daniel Nüst