Whether you work in the lab, the field, onboard an ocean vessel or using data from instruments hundreds of kilometers away, you probably know that feeling of taking a truly great photo of your experience as a researcher. If this is you then you are in luck as you have ONE WEEK LEFT to submit your photo to the EGU photo competition, and possibly win free registration to next years General Assembly! So which will you choose? Perhaps it’s a photo you snapped of an intriguing or beautiful landscape, like EGU20 photo competition winner, Julia Miloczki, shown in the heading photo of this post.
Sometimes this is a photo of your colleagues in action, like Ole Zeising entered to the photo competition in 2023.
Field-Shakedown at McMurdo Ice Shelf. Credit: Ole Zeising (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
It could be a photo of a stunning thin section or other microscopic image, like Bernardo Cesare submitted to last year’s competition.
Polarized light photomicrograph of a thin section of brazilian agate. Credit: Bernardo Cesare (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Whichever it is, you only have one week left to enter! Until 31 March, every participant registered for the General Assembly can submit up to three original photos and one moving image on any broad theme related to the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. Photos submitted can be recent or from previous years so if there’s a beautiful photo that you’ve been holding onto, this could be your year to enter it! A panel of judges will shortlist the best 10 photos and one moving image to be exhibited in an online gallery during the conference. General Assembly participants will then vote for their favourite photos and the three winning images will be announced online on the last day of the meeting.
Winners will receive a free registration to EGU’s General Assembly in 2026!
If you submit your images to the photo competition, they will also be included in the EGU’s open access photo and video database, Imaggeo. You retain full rights of use for any photos or videos submitted to the database as they are licensed and distributed by EGU under a Creative Commons license.You will need to register on Imaggeo so that the organisers can appropriately process your photos.
For more information, please check the EGU Photo Competition page on Imaggeo. If you’d like to get some inspiration and see some beautiful photographs right now, you can check out all of the 2010 to 2024 winners here!
EGU25 will take place from 27 April – 2 May 2025. For more information on the General Assembly, visit the EGU25 website.
