Most of us are almost ready to go to EGU General Assembly 2026. It will take place on 3–8 May 2026, with more than 21,000 submitted abstracts (presented as orals, posters, and PICOs, onsite and virtual). The EGU-Programme App is ready to be downloaded. Speakers can already upload their material and of course, all of us can start preparing our personal programme (which can be synchronized with the App, very useful tool). For conveners, the last organizational step is to nominate judges for the outstanding student paper prize (OSPP).
The Hydrological Sciences Division offers a programme covering the entire conference week, with overlapping sessions of oral presentations, PICOs and poster presentations, as well as networking events, (Sub-)Division meetings, medal lectures, and short courses.
As every year, our Division President (thanks Alberto !) put together a two pager with all HS sessions and related events that you can download here. Don’t be overwhelmed by the over 120 sessions (if I counted correctly); they are nicely structured along our 10 subdivisions and cover the full breadth of hydrology.
The complete programme. If you download the pdf, you will see all session details on page 2.
You’ll find there also the “subprogramme group meetings”: these are the meetings of the subdivision to organize next year’s session. Everyone can participate! If you have suggestions or if you plan to propose a session next year, don’t hesitate to attend your favorite subdivision group meeting.
And of course there are also our short courses (14); for some of them, you can simply show up.
We have three important award and medal talks. These are opportunities to come together to celebrate those who made an important contribution to our science. The John Dalton Medal Lecture will be given by Thorsten Wagener on Thursday evening, 19:00-20:00, in Room B. The Henry Darcy Medal Lecture will be given by Sally E. Thompson on Tuesday afternoon, 14:00-14:45, in Room C. The ECS award lecture will be given by Larisa Tarasova on Wednesday afternoon, 14:00-14:45, in Room C.
Don’t forget to show up at the division meeting Tuesday lunchtime in room C to get an update on what is going on in the hydrology community. Do you want to have a chat with your Division representatives? Stop by at the EGU booth (Hall X2) to meet the Hydrological Sciences Division Team on Tue, 05 May, 15:45–16:45 CEST.
There is also an impressive number of networking events and even “pop-up networking events”, check out the networking blog post on the GeoLog about this, some of these events are particularly interesting for newcomers.
PS : further details on how to navigate EGU and the conference center can be found in our last year’s post here
PS2: How did we handle the programme when there was no App to navigate the conference?. Can you imagine that in those times, we all received a giant book that contained all the sessions and all abstract titles? Some of us even carried it around the entire week (I usually only kept a few pages). If you have a picture of that famous book, please send it to me!
