The EGU General Assembly 2025 is just around the corner! It will take place on 27 April – 2 May 2025, with more than 19,000 presentations (orals, posters, and PICOs) that will be delivered and viewed both on-site in Vienna (Austria Center Vienna) and virtually (through Zoom & Gather Town).
The Hydrological Sciences Division offers a myriad of interesting sessions, as well as networking events, (Sub-)Division meetings, medal lectures, and short courses. So where should you get started? And how to plan for EGU25? Here’s your personal pocket guide!
How to Plan Your 2025 Programme
Whether you are planning to attend on-site or online, you need to take a couple of hours to prepare your own schedule for the week. It is time well spent, since it will help you later to get the most out of the conference.
Building your personal programme is a good way to bring together sessions of your interest. You can log into your EGU account and mark all the sessions you want to attend to make sure there are no overlaps and you’ll know exactly where to go!
Pro-tip: Check Out the EGU25 App and stay updated on the go. Available for free on both iOS and Android, this is the EGU’s official app for the 2025 General Assembly. You can sync it up to your Copernicus account and use it to assemble your personal programme and browse sessions by programme group or date.
Plus, it offers handy functionalities such as displaying floor plans, giving an overview of exhibitors, and helping you find the venue. You’ll have all the information you’ll need to successfully navigate EGU right there in your pocket.
Before heading to Vienna, you can also check out our webinar on how to prepare for the General Assembly: EGU WEBINARS: How to prepare for the EGU General Assembly
If you’re already on-site and you need a primer, you can drop by SC1.1 – How to Navigate EGU: Tips and Tricks on Monday morning (10:45-12:30, Room -2.62).
That said, what are the HS Division Highlights?
HS Division Highlights
Our advice is to start your daily planning for EGU25 with the Hydrological Sciences programme, of course!
Something not to miss (a meeting point for EGU hydrologists) is our division meeting, where we present what we did in the past year; we say thank you for those officers who are ending their terms; we introduce the new officers; we vote on the composition of the division’s committees, etc.
The HS Division Meeting will be on Tue, 29 Apr, 12:45–13:45 (CEST) (Room B in Vienna & online). Drop by to get all the updates on what hydrologists at EGU have been up to for the last year – and what the plans for the future are!
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, 29 Apr, 15:45-16:45.
Other meetings for the sub-programme groups of the HS Division can be found here (under SPM). These sub-division meetings gather current and future conveners – they are open, do not hesitate to pick the one that interests you the most and drop-by, perhaps the first step to become a convener yourself.
In a nutshell:
- HS2 – Catchment hydrology: room 2.32 on Thursday 1 May, 12:45-13:45
- HS3 – Hydroinformatics: to be scheduled
- HS4 – Hydrological Forecasting: room 2.33 on Wednesday 30 April, 12:45-13:45.
- HS5 – Water policy, management and control: to be scheduled
- HS6 – Remote Sensing and Data Assimilation: room 2.32 on Tuesday 29 April, 18:00-19:00.
- HS7 – Precipitation and climate: room 2.32 on Wednesday 30 April, 18:00-19:00.
- HS8 – Subsurface hydrology: to be scheduled
- HS9 – Erosion, sedimentation & river processes: room 2.32 on Thursday 1 May, 9:15-10:15.
- HS10 – Ecohydrology and Limnology: room 2.32 on Wednesday 30 April, 12:45-13:45.
For the scientific sessions and more, we have prepared the HS Schedule at a glance (Click here to open the PDF version).
For details, browse by session here, sorted by sub-groups. You can start with the HS Division and move on checking the sessions organized by the other EGU divisions to add more to your initial programme.
With the many presentations, our guess is that you will have a hard time to move from one session to another (in particular if you are attending on-site and the sessions are held on different floors), so here’s another piece of advice: Find one session you want to attend per time block (TB) and stick to it, eventually moving from one room to another during coffee/lunch breaks. Some difficult choices will have to be made, but you will probably enjoy the meeting more if you participate in the full discussions of a session (and you can always use the coffee breaks and networking time – from 18:00 to 19:00 – to exchange with other colleagues on what happened in sessions you missed!).
Three HS highlights that you shouldn’t miss are our Division award lectures!
MAL15-HS – Henry Darcy Medal Lecture by Jan Seibert | Tue, 29 Apr, 19:00–20:00 Room B
MAL6-HS Arne Richter Award for Outstanding ECS Lecture by Frederik Kratzert | Thu, 01 May, 14:00–14:45 Room C
MAL18-HS – John Dalton Medal Lecture by Paolo D’Odorico | Thu, 01 May, 19:00–20:00 Room B
ECS Highlights
Assembling your personal programme can be particularly tricky as an early career scientist (ECS) – especially if it’s your first time attending EGU.
We’ve got your back.
In the schedule below, we’ve collected the ECS Highlights for members of the Hydrological Sciences (HS) division.
While many of these highlights aren’t part of the scientific programme, they are amazing ways to meet other ECS, form connections, and get to know the people who represent you within EGU, like your ECS representatives and the head of the division, Alberto Viglione!
The highlights are grouped into:
- Social and networking events (green)
- Awards and medal lectures by outstanding (ECS) scientists (red)
- Great debates, in which panellists discuss issues related to science and society (orange)
- Short courses, which offer you the opportunity to acquire skills that will come in handy throughout your academic career (blue)
The one event you absolutely shouldn’t miss is HydroMeet, the HS ECS networking event on Monday, April 28, 12:30-13:30 on Terrace G, Purple Level. This is where all the early career scientists of the Hydrological Division meet up – plus our colleagues from the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and Young Hydrologic Society!
Bring your lunch and be prepared to mingle. You’ll be able to chat with other young hydrologists about your research and the challenges you face in the academic community at this early stage in your scientific career. Who knows – a handy scientific collaboration could come out of it. Or simply a wonderful personal friendship.
Reminder for Authors/Presenters
- Don’t forget that you have to upload your presentation at the latest 24h before your session starts! Check the home page to do it: https://www.egu25.eu/
- Presenter guidelines can be found here: https://egu25.eu/guidelines/presenters.html
Don’t forget to always keep an eye on the EGU25 website for updates, and follow us on Bluesky, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook! Also make sure to sign up for the HS newsletter here!
We are looking forward to seeing you all in Vienna or online!
Alberto Viglione (HS Division President)
Maria-Helena Ramos (HS Division Deputy President and Programme Committee Co-chair)
Christina Orieschnig (HS Division ECS Rep)
Melissa Reidy & Archita Bhattacharyya (Incoming ECS Reps)
