The ERSU group joined the annual EGU General Assembly, which took place from 02-08 May 2026 in Vienna. It is Europe's largest geoscientific conference with almost 22,500 participants from 125 countries, 58% of the abstracts were identified as contributions from Early Career Scientists (ECS, see link below).
Contributions from our science unit explore Earth system resilience in the Anthropocene, focusing on tipping points, planetary boundaries, and human-Earth interactions through advanced modeling frameworks (towards sustainable agricultural transitions), data-driven approaches, and interdisciplinary research on critical systems such as the Amazon rainforest, Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, permafrost and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, with an emphasis on developing integrated tools, indices, and simulation protocols like TIPMIP to assess and predict abrupt changes and safe operating spaces under climate change.
These were the individual contributions:
Convener: Jonathan F. Donges | Co-conveners: David Armstrong McKay, Levke Caesar, Axel Eriksson, Kasra Rafiezadeh Shahi, Lan Wang-Erlandsson, Nico Wunderling: ITS4.2/CL0.12 - Earth resilience in the Anthropocene: from tipping points to planetary boundaries and human-Earth system interactions
Hannah Prawitz (oral), Luana Schwarz, Wolfram Barfuss, Sibel Eker, Johannes Halbe, and Jonathan F. Donges: Towards modelling the Anthropocene: A systematic review of World-Earth models
Jannes Breier (Poster), Hannah Prawitz, Marlene Rimmert, Luana Schwarz, Lorenz Sieben, Stephen B. Wirth, Christoph Müller, Dieter Gerten, Jonathan F. Donges: Modelling planetary transition pathways to conservation agriculture under climate change
Max Bechthold (oral), John M. Anderies, Jonathan F. Donges, Ingo Fetzer, Nico Wunderling, Wolfram Barfuss, and Johan Rockström: An Information-Based World-Earth System Resilience Index
Lukas Röhrich (Poster), Jakob Harteg, Fritz Kühlein, Jonathan F. Donges, Sina Loriani: PONDS - A Python Package for Generating Synthetic Datasets with Spatio-Temporal Shifts
Jonathan Krönke (Poster), Arie Staal, Jonathan F. Donges, Johan Rockström, Nico Wunderling: A data-driven modelling approach to quantify the safe operating space of the Amazon rainforest under global warming and deforestation
Niki Lohmann (Poster), Jonathan F. Donges, Nico Wunderling: Carbon Dioxide Removal Pathways in Climate Overshoots Are Decisive for Tipping Risks in an Earth System Model-Based Tipping Dynamics Emulator
Rike Mühlhaus (Poster), Norman Julius Steinert, Nico Wunderling: Observationally constrained climate sensitivity implies high climate tipping risk
Convener: Niklas Boers | Co-conveners: Sebastian Bathiany, Ricarda Winkelmann, Timothy Lenton: Session ITS4.1/NP8.9 - Tipping Points in the Earth System
Jakob Harteg (oral), Lukas Röhrich, Kobe De Maeyer, Julius Garbe, Boris Sakschewski, Ann Kristin Klose, Jonathan F. Donges, Ricarda Winkelmann, Sina Loriani: Detecting Abrupt Shifts and Coherent Spatial Domains in Earth System Data with TOAD
Nico Wunderling (oral), Boris Sakschewski, Johan Rockström, Bernardo M. Flores, Marina Hirota, Arie Staal: Pinpointing Amazon forest tipping in global warming and deforestation pathways
Da Nian (oral), Matteo Willeit, Johan Rockström: Terrestrial Vegetation Carbon Responses to an AMOC Collapse in an Earth System Model
Delphine Tardif (oral), Anna B. Harper, Marina Hirota, Boris Sakschewski, Goran Georgievski, José Licon Salaiz, Sina Loriani, Donovan P. Dennis, Jonathan F. Donges, Ricarda Winkemann: TIPMIP-BIO: Towards a unified simulation protocol to assess potential tipping behavior in the biosphere and associated feedbacks and processes
Georgievski, G. (oral), Brovkin, V., Burke, E., Nitzbon, J., Steinert, N., Tardif, D., Dennis, D., Loriani, S., Donges, J., and Winkelmann, R.: Permafrost Experimental Protocol within the Tipping Point Modelling Intercomparison Project (TIPMIP)
Felix Jäger (oral), Jonathan F. Donges, Johan Rockström: Towards a time-explicit climate–carbon feedback framework for Earth system stability analysis
Donovan P. Dennis (Poster), Torsten Albrecht, Shivani Ehrenfeucht, Ann Kristin Klose, Leonie Reontgen, Ricarda Winkelmann: Investigating Greenland Ice Sheet tipping in the Tipping Points Modeling Intercomparison Project (TIPMIP)
Organized by: Donovan P. Dennis, Ann Kristin Klose, Goran Georgievski, Delphine Tardif, Ricarda Winkelmann: SPM123 | Updates and Information from the Tipping Points Modelling Intercomparison Project (TIPMIP)
Convener: Reyk Börner | Co-conveners: Alejandro Romero-Prieto, Oliver Mehling, Norman Julius Steinert, Bahar Emirzade, Rebecca Varney, Ann Kristin Klose: The Climate Model Hierarchy: Bridging simulation, understanding and application
Torsten Albrecht (oral), Johannes Feldmann, Ann Kristin Klose, Nellie K. Wullenweber, Seyedhamidreza Mojtabavi, Volker Klemann, Ricarda Winkelmann: Rate-induced tipping of ice sheets interacting with the visco-elastic solid Earth
Nellie K. Wullenweber (Poster), Torsten Albrecht, Seyedhamidreza Mojtabavi, Volker Klemann, Ricarda Winkelmann: The impact of Earth structure on Antarctic ice sheet tipping thresholds
Ann Kristin Klose (oral), Ricarda Winkelmann: Future Antarctic ice loss under climate overshoot trajectories
Seyedhamidreza Mojtabavi (Poster), Torsten Albrecht, Matteo Willeit, Nellie K. Wullenweber, Reyko Schachtschneider, Volker Klemann: Antarctic Ice Sheet response over the next 10,000 years: ice sheet dynamics interacting with solid Earth deformations and sea-level change
Tanja Schlemm (Poster), Ann Kristin Klose, Torsten Albrecht: Systematic comparison of calving rate parametrisations in an ice-sheet dynamical simulation of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Shivani Ehrenfeucht (Poster), Torsten Albrecht, Ann Kristin Klose, Donovan Dennis, Ricarda Winkelmann: Basal environment uncertainty and the triggering of Antarctic Ice Sheet tipping points
EGU 2026: https://www.egu26.eu/
TIPMIP: https://tipmip.org/
