If you have not yet submitted your abstract for this year’s General Assembly (GA2026), do not forget to submit as early as possible this week (instructions here), this avoids any last minute technical challenges. . You can submit only one abstract (except for invited speakers or if you submit to an EOS-session).
For your hydrology-related research, the call-for-abstracts programme proposes the overwhelming choice of 165 sessions proposed by the ten subdivisions of the Hydrological Sciences division (HS) of EGU, 11 inter- and transdisciplinary sessions (ITS) related to Hydrological Sciences, and another 40 session listed as “Further sessions of interest to Hydrological Sciences”.
Here are our hints on how to find your session:
- Browse the HS programme: Start having a look at the general sessions listed under HS1. Does one of the thematic sessions of this year’s focus theme (HS 1.1. field hydrology) fit your work? Or one of the cross-cutting themes (HS1.2)?
- Otherwise, have a look at the nine thematic subdivisions. Is there a subdivision that covers the central theme of your research? If so, browse the corresponding sessions.
- You can complement this approach by a quick keyword search from the main page.
- Several sessions fit the work you would like to present? Think not only about how well your abstract fits the theme but also what other talks and posters you would like to see. Or perhaps think about the convener team: with whom would you like to interact? The best choice is always the session that you are the most interested in participating in.
- Perhaps one of the potential matching sessions is a PICO? If you do not yet know this format (Presentation of Interactive Content), read this blog post and last year’s instructions.
- Is your work interdisciplinary? Check out the Inter- and transdisciplinary sessions (ITS) related to Hydrological Sciences listed under HS12.
- Is your work only partly related to hydrology? Perhaps one of the “thematically linked” sessions fits your research (HS13)? These sessions are organized by other subdivisions, the audience will thus be mainly composed of researchers from those fields.
- Still completely lost? One solution could be to browse last year’s abstracts (via keywords, here) and to see in what subdivision similar work was presented last year.
And of course, you also need to decide (for all non-PICO sessions) if you submit as a “poster” or as “no preference” (meaning an oral talk is an option, upon decision by the conveners). An oral talk is always a good experience and important for the cv of early career scientists (ECS). A poster presentation, on the other hand, ensures more direct interaction. For example, one of my PhD students opted for a poster this year to have more in-depth discussions.
Final note: In the programme, there is also an ensemble of 15 Short Courses (SC) in the HS programme group. To attend these courses, you do not have to submit an abstract. As the information page on short courses for conveners says: “There is no formal registration to a particular SC (..). On-site participation to a SC is on a first-come, first-served basis, and is limited by the maximum occupancy of the room.”
