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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 a PhD in Geoscience Communication and Cognition from the University of Plymouth in the UK. Hazel tweets @iamhazelgibson.

#shareEGU20: meet the Virtual Press Assistants!

May 5, 2020
#shareEGU20: meet the Virtual Press Assistants!
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This year, as you know, EGU’s annual meeting is taking place online, which means that there is even more to communicate to our members than usual! So we recruited three Virtual Press Assistants in order to help the communications team out. These amazing volunteers include two master’s students from Switzerland: Laura Endres and Bjorn Bauhofer, as well as Margot Courtillat, who just earned her doct ...[Read More]

#shareEGU20: meet the EGU Early Career Scientist Representatives (pt2)!

May 4, 2020
#shareEGU20: meet the EGU Early Career Scientist Representatives (pt2)!
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Now that you have met the current and incoming Early Career Scientist Union representatives Raffaele Albano and Anouk Beniest, it’s now time to meet the rest of the current EGU Division representatives!   Atmospheric Sciences (AS): Fernando Iglesias-Suarez Contact: ecs-as@egu.eu Postdoctoral scientist at CSIC (Department of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate, Institute of Physical Chemis ...[Read More]

#shareEGU20: A welcome to the first virtual EGU General Assembly from EGU President Alberto Montanari

May 4, 2020
#shareEGU20: A welcome to the first virtual EGU General Assembly from EGU President Alberto Montanari

I am enjoying a positive feeling while I am writing these words to open the EGU2020 General Assembly #shareEGU20. In my opinion, a positive attitude is the best way to pay a tribute to the persons – including some colleagues and friends – who lost their lives due to COVID19. It is in their memory that we are looking to the future and making an effort to transform this crisis into an opportunity. I ...[Read More]

#shareEGU20: An EGU dining experience in your own home..?!

May 3, 2020
#shareEGU20: An EGU dining experience in your own home..?!
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One of the things we will miss the most about being together in Vienna this year, is the great meals and lunches spent with friends (both new and old). We all have a favourite Austrian meal, so this year we picked four of our favourites and will be releasing one a day during the week. If you want to skip ahead, here are all four of our EGU most iconic GA foods!   The classic and essential, yo ...[Read More]