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Hazel Gibson

Hazel Gibson is Head of Communications at the European Geosciences Union. She is responsible for the management of the Union's social media presence and the EGU blogs, where she writes regularly for the EGU's official blog, GeoLog. She has over 12 years experience in science communication with public audiences and a PhD in Geoscience Communication and Cognition from the University of Plymouth in the UK.

How to vEGU: top 10 tips for participants to get the most out of vEGU21!

How to vEGU: top 10 tips for participants to get the most out of vEGU21!

Whether you spend a lot of time interacting in digital spaces, or this is your first time, #vEGU21 is bound to be an interesting experiment for us all. Many Networking and Session conveners will be learning right along with you and our conference organiser Copernicus has been busy preparing as much as possible to make sure that all our participants have the best experience over the next two weeks. ...[Read More]

What’s on at vEGU21: the keynote sessions

What’s on at vEGU21: the keynote sessions

Each year EGU presents several keynote sessions called the Union Symposia and Great Debates. These Union-wide events are carefully selected each year to cover topics that are of broad interest to our members, regardless of which Division or field of Geoscience they most closely associate with.   With the exception of GDB1, all the Great Debates and Union Symposia will take place in week one o ...[Read More]

How to vEGU: Top 10 tips for promoting good online engagement for conveners

How to vEGU: Top 10 tips for promoting good online engagement for conveners

Conveners at #vEGU21 are just as important as they are during the physical meeting in Vienna! You can participate with the presenters in your session both by commenting on uploaded display materials and by facilitating the live vPICOs with the breakout author text-chats. But whilst many of you will be familiar with effective methods of engaging with people in person at a physical conference, you m ...[Read More]