Welcome to the 2013 General Assembly! This is the first full day of sessions – we’ve put together a few highlights for today below. Be sure to complement this information with EGU Today, the daily newsletter of the General Assembly, available both in paper and for download here.
Of particular importance today is the Union’s Plenary Meeting (UM8) at 12:15 in Room R1, a forum for all Assembly attendants to discuss the development of the Union in front of the Union Council. Seeing as it’s over lunch, buffet of sandwiches and soft drinks will be served at the event.
The union-wide session on the Mars Curiosity rover’s first results will be taking place shortly after this (US2) 13:30–15:00 / Room Y1) – after recent news on the Red Planet’s exciting surface geochemistry, this is not one to miss! If you have a conflict, you can check out what’s happening at the session on Twitter by following the session’s hashtag (#eguMars).
Today also features four fantastic Medal Lectures:
- Augustus Love Medal Lecture by Michael Gurnis (ML15) 09:00–10:00 / Room G11
- Hannes Alfvén Medal Lecture by Göran Marklund (ML28) 10:30–11:30 / Room Y1
- Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists Lecture by Alexis P. Rouillard (ML4) 11:30–12:00 / Room Y1
- Runcorn-Florensky Medal Lecture by Tilman Spohn (ML31) 15:30–16:30 / Room Y1
The first round of Townhall Meetings start this evening – these are forums open to all conference participants at which new initiatives or decisions are announced to a larger audience following an open discussion on the matter raised. Today’s topics are:
- Monitoring geothermal reservoir depletion using seismic tomography (19:00–20:00 / Room B1)
- Tomorrow’s CLIVAR (19:00–20:00 / Room B5)
- Big data and software architecture meet geophysics and crisis management (19:00–20:00 / Room B3)
- ORCID: Connecting Research and Researchers (19:00–20:00 / Room Y1)
It’s also the first year we’re running PICO – or Presenting Interactive Content – sessions that combine the best of both oral and poster presentations. Take a look at what’s on here.
Finally, remember to take the opportunity to meet your Division’s representatives in the day’s Meet EGU sessions and, if you’re in need of a break, head on over to GeoCinema, where you can kick back and relax with a geological film (10:30-19:00 daily in B12).
Have an excellent day!
