Welcome to the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 Official Blog. The General Assembly is being held in Vienna, Austria from the 3rd to the 8th April 2011. The website is already up and running. On this blog there will be information about the General Assembly, presentations, news and lots more. Jenny Holden
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EGU General Assembly 2011 Call for Sessions
The public call for sessions for the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 has been issued. THE EGU GA 2011 will be held at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) from 3 April 2011 to 8 April 2011. An email has been sent by Bruce D. Malamud (King’s College London) as Chair, EGU General Assembly 2011 Programme Committee Chair along with Martin Rasmussen & Katja Gaenger of Copernicus M ...[Read More]
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EGU General Assembly 2010 Questionnaire
Participants of the EGU GA 2010 should have received an email including a link to the EGU GA 2010 Feedback Questionnaire. Last year (2009), the GA feedback form asked 19 questions. 1,549 responses were received which helped make many important decisions for the EGU GA 2010 and general EGU council decisions. This year, EGU GA participants are being asked to take 5-10 minutes of time to complete the ...[Read More]
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EGU General Assembly Twitter Account
As the skeleton programme is being put together and in advance of the Public Call-for-Session Proposals (20 July – 10 September 2010) the EGU GA Twitter Account has been changed to @egu2011. The tweets about the EGU GA 2010 are there as we’ve just changed the name. If you followed the account you will automatically be subscribed to the new account. JAH
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Why I Blog series at the Plainspoken Scientist
The American Geophysical Union’s Plainspoken Scientist blog has the first of a series on “Why I Blog” by Geoscience bloggers. Its worth checking out, they’ve put a request out on twitter for anyone else who wants to post.
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Videos on the EGU2010 homepage
There are two videos up on the homepage. One is a message from Johannes Hahn, the European Commissioner for regional policy, the other is asummary of images from the EGU GA 2010, it’s called a trailer, and could be for the EGU GA 2011.
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EGU GA Attendees
The break down of the countries that EGU GA 2010 attendees come from is on the frontpage of the EGU GA 2010 website. Just under 80% attendees come from Europe, followed by around 10% from North America and 7% from Asia.
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EGU GA 2010 in the Media
The EGU Press Office has a round-up of European Geosciences Union General Assembly items in the news media from around Europe on their webpage.
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EGU GA 2010 Around the Blogosphere
Here’s a quick round-up of coverage of the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010 from around the blogosphere (the usual disclaimer that these are not views of the EGU, more letting people know what’s out there). From the EGU GA 2010 Blog Roll, Dave Pettley blogged about several landslide related sessions, including the Sergei Soloviev Medal lecture by Dave Keefer. MusingR ...[Read More]
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EGU GA 2010 Closing Lecture
New this year at EGU GA 2010 is the closing session by Jan Smits on The 30th anniversary of the discovery of the iridium anomaly at the Cretaceous Paleogene boundary: The state of the Chicxulub impact-extinction theory in Room D from 17:30 to 18:30. Some brief stats on EGU GA 2010: 4,431 oral and 9,370 poster presentations in 594 sessions with more than 10,000 scientists in attendance.