The EGU Programme Committee convened in late October to finalize the scientific program for the upcoming General Assembly, GA2024. Their task involved organizing the numerous session proposals, spanning 22 divisions, including Inter- and Transdisciplinary (ITS) sessions, discussing the format of scientific sessions (do expect news for virtual posters and PICOs at GA2024!), the mentoring programme, ...[Read More]
Care to get your boots wet? The ‘Partial Surface Water Challenge’
Inland surface water is a critical resource when scarce and a potential hazard when floods occur. Because the extent of surface water affects habitat condition, weather, and biogeochemical cycles, our ability to accurately track variations in surface water extent is important for resource management, science, commerce, hazard mitigation, and policy making. Openly distributed data derived from sat ...[Read More]
How far can we take the DORA rules?
DORA stands for Declaration on Research Assessment, also known as the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment. The declaration was developed back in 2012 during the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco and has become a worldwide initiative since then. The country where you are currently reading this post has most probably signed the declaration (the cou ...[Read More]
Join the IAHS’ New Scientific Decade: Science for Water Solutions – HELPING
What are the most pressing research topics in the international community of hydrologists? What are people working on? And how can you become involved? Many hydrologists, especially early career scientists, struggle to find answers to these questions. That is where the scientific decades of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) come in. Specifically, its latest one – ...[Read More]