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Outside the Conference: Vienna and Beyond

Outside the Conference: Vienna and Beyond

EGU’s General Assembly (GA) has been in Vienna for over 15 years now. There are practicalities that make it a suitable choice, such as Vienna being able to accommodate 15-20 thousand on-site participants and its location allowing many EGU members to travel there by ground-based transportation. Still, the GA’s experience also encompasses what is outside …[Read More]

Fieldwork maze: where are we and where are we going?

Fieldwork maze: where are we and where are we going?

Bracing the elements to be rewarded with new data — and spectacular views in the process — can be an experience of a lifetime. Yet, zooming out of the easily romanticized image can quickly paint a different scene, where negative experiences from fieldwork drive people away from the research. Moreover, some fieldwork practices prevent people …[Read More]

Io: a spongy world consumed by molten rock

Io: a spongy world consumed by molten rock

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in our solar system, with hundreds of volcanoes that constantly erupt on its ever renewing surface. Although Io always points the same side toward Jupiter in its orbit around the gas giant, two other Galilean moons, Europa and Ganymede, pull Io’s orbit into an irregularly elliptical …[Read More]