This year on the EGU General Assembly blog there will be guest posts from participants about their research and their impressions of sessions. These are personal points of view not EGU corporate views. If you would like to contribute a research viewpoint, please email us. This post comes from Aidan Slingsby of City University, London, who looks at how we make sense of large datasets using visualis ...[Read More]
Tuesday Medalists at EGU GA 2011 (2)
EGU GA 2011 Union Award Ceremony
New at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 is an official Awards Ceremony where all the medal and award winners across the Union are honoured (session details). It will also be Webstreamed. Please come join us at the EGU 2011 Award Ceremony which will take place on Wednesday 6 April, 17:30-20:00, Room D (Blue Level, basement). We will first recognize on stage all Division Outstand ...[Read More]
Exhibition at the EGU GA 2011
Have you visited the Exhibition at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011? The exhibition is on the Ground (Yellow level) and the Gallery (First floor, green). Several of the exhibitors have presentations and events, see the Programme Book for more details. One examples of a session from an exhibitor is Nature Publishing Group’s How to get published information session on Wedne ...[Read More]
EGU Today Online
The newsletter of the EGU General Assembly: EGUToday is available online and is updated throughout the day. Paper copies are also available within the Austria Center Vienna.
Splinter Meetings at EGU GA 2011
There are a variety of Splinter Meetings at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011. They are on a variety of topics from divison group meetings, project feedback and planning for other conferences. One such Splinter Meeting is today (Wednesday) SPM 1.1: Meeting of Young Researchers (MYRES) 2012 from 13:30-15:00 in SM 5. Here Anna Schneider (one of the SPM organisers) writes about the ...[Read More]
The Union Masterclass at EGU GA 2011
Today, Wednesday at 13:30-15:00 in Room D (Basement, Blue level) will see the first Union Masterclass. This is an opportunity to hear insights from two senior scientists reflecting on their research. The first Union Masterclass is What are the unresolved questions and future perspectives for palaeoclimate research. The details are available online and it will be webstreamed. What are the unresolve ...[Read More]
Sustainable Development and the Great Debate
The Great Debate at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 considered How will Europe face the raw materials crisis?, you can watch the debate online and the session details are here. Someone in the audience (around 70′) at the Great Debate questioned using the model of increasing consumption driving increasing metal use and advocated a sustainable development model. None of th ...[Read More]
Wednesday at EGU GA 2011
We hope you are having a good week at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011. Union wide events today include: 13:30–15:00 Union Masterclass: What are the unresolved questions and future perspectives for palaeoclimate research? An EGU Masterclass by André Berger and Wolfgang H. Berger, Room D [Webstream] Climate research has never received so much attention as during these days. Peop ...[Read More]
Celebration: 10 years of interactive open access publishing at EGU GA 2011
It’s been ten years since the launch of the first interactive open access journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, followed by a growing number of EGU open access journals covering most fields of geoscience. A combination of traditional peer review and interactive and public discussion on the internet assures efficient scientific exchange and top quality. High submission rates and impact factors ...[Read More]