The EGU’s Geosciences Information for Teachers (GIFT) programme offers teachers the opportunity to hone their skills in EGU related subject areas. As one of GIFT’s most important activities, the General Assembly Workshop is organised annually and combines presentations on current research by leading scientists with hands-on activities presented by educators to roughly one hundred invit ...[Read More]
New at the 2012 General Assembly
This year’s General Assembly is full of exciting new features, which we have summarised for you below. Keep checking GeoLog regularly for more information on next week’s meeting, including some of the items below. Free EGU2012 App for iPhones and Android smartphones. Please visit http://app.egu2012.eu on your device to be directed to the proper app version download. You may also search ...[Read More]
GeoCinema at the 2012 General Assembly
The hugely popular GeoCinema returns to this year’s General Assembly! Featuring 26 films ranging in content from documentaries to full-length movies, this event runs almost continuously in the GeoCinema Room on the Yellow Level from 10:30-18:45 every day of the Assembly. A full list of films and a schedule can be found on the Assembly’s official website.
EGU 2012 General Assembly: Webstreaming
If you cannot make it to Vienna this year, you can still watch Union Medal Lectures (ML0–ML3), the two Great Debates, and all press conferences at the 2012 General Assembly live on the conference website. To watch a session, simply click on the link that appears next to its entry on the full webstreaming schedule available here. Videos will also be available on demand after the Assembly. If you&# ...[Read More]
Photo exhibit at the 2012 General Assembly: Japan before and after the tsunami
This year’s General Assembly features a special photo exhibition documenting the devastation left behind by last year’s earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan. “A Catfish Sleeps – Tohoku, photographs in Japan 2009-2011: before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake” shows how, in only a few days, entire communities and landscapes were swept away as seawater ...[Read More]
Imaggeo on Mondays: On the edge of an ice crevasse
Glaciers are persistent bodies of ice at least 100,000 square metres in area and 50 metres thick. They are mostly found in the polar regions but also in mountain ranges, and represent the largest reservoir of freshwater on Earth. This photo was taken by Zervas Efthimios in August 2009, on the climb towards Lenin Peak in the Pamir mountains, Central Asia. “This crevasse appeared just before ...[Read More]
Introducing, for the first time ever, the EGU General Assembly mobile app!
The EGU 2012 mobile app is now available for iPhones and Android smartphones. To download it, you can scan the QR code available at the General Assembly website or go directly to http://app.egu2012.eu/ on your mobile device. You will be directed to the proper app version download for your particular smartphone. Once you open the app, the home menu will show you four possibilities. You can “B ...[Read More]
EGU 2012 General Assembly: Venue location
The Austria Center Vienna (ACV), the Assembly venue, is located centrally and can easily be reached from the airport and central train station. The ACV is located next to the Kaisermühlen/Vienna Int. Centre metro station (U1 line, direction Leopoldau from the city centre). Wiener Linien, Vienna’s public transport agency, provides a travel planner on their website, including information about ...[Read More]
Union-wide events at the 2012 General Assembly
At the 2012 General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union there are a variety of Union-wide sessions, summarised below. Union Meetings (UM) These meetings are open to Union members, though note some are invitation-only events. Of particular importance is the UM8: Plenary in Room D on Monday 23 April from 12:15 to 13:15. This is an annual event, open to all EGU members and all General Ass ...[Read More]
Following today’s earthquake in Sumatra online
This blogpost is a round-up of potentially useful weblinks to information about the earthquake off the west coast of northern Sumatra of 11 April 2012. The links provided here are external and do not reflect the opinions of the European Geosciences Union. Regarding the earthquake, the US Geological Survey’s (USGS) Earthquake Harzard Program homepage features seismic activity maps and a summ ...[Read More]