Conference highlights

Virtual Meetings: Hypnotic sedative or effective stimulant?

Astrid Björnsen Gurung October 14, 2020

Visualization of the 3 biggest fears of digital workshop moderators. (A. Björnsen, June 2020).

Some people claim that teaching online courses or virtual workshops is not very different from face-to-face meetings. In my experience, however, it is much harder to sneak away secretly from a half-occupied seminar room than to withdraw from a virtual meeting where you simply mute the speaker to work on your emails located only one mouse click away. And that’s not all! In contrast to physically pr ...[Read More]

Pathways towards solving the Unsolved Problems in Hydrology (UPH) – feedback from the EGU SGO chat session

Maria-Helena Ramos July 1, 2020

At the EGU 2020 Sharing Geoscience Online (SGO) week, we had a chat room session dedicated to discuss progress and way forward on the 23 Unsolved Problems in Hydrology (UPH). As many of you, we experienced this exciting and fast-typing moment of discussing in-depth scientific issues during a short-duration, text-only chat. Many ideas were typed and some of them are shared with you in this post. Mo ...[Read More]

Chatting about science and hydrology at EGU GA 2020

Editorial Team, Maria-Helena Ramos, Bettina Schaefli, Caitlyn A. Hall and Sina Khatami May 20, 2020

We all woke up that Monday morning 4 May 2020 (at home rather than in Vienna) with mixed feelings about what to expect from this year’s exceptional EGU GA: Sharing Geoscience Online. For some of us, it was the first time we were entering a chat room and, for many, the first time we were going to chat about our scientific work online. If you were an author, a convener or a curious attendee, that mo ...[Read More]

Meeting and networking outside the EGU GA: feedback on the 2019 EGU Leonardo conference

Maria-Helena Ramos December 18, 2019

Participants of the 2019 Edition of the EGU Leonardo Conference

In order to encourage cohesion and sustained dialogue among researchers outside the GA in Vienna, the EGU hosts a number of conference series, targeted at a specific disciplinary or interdisciplinary group within the Union. Closely related to the HS Division is the Leonardo Conference series on Earth’s Hydrological Cycle. These meetings are organized by members of the division. They usually ...[Read More]