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Perspectives from EGU GA 2011 (3)

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]

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]

Research Viewpoints from EGU GA 2011 (2)

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 Research Perspective comes from Luís Costa, a PhD student at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. He will pr ...[Read More]

Viewpoints from EGU GA 2011: Communicating Natural Hazard Risks

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 viewpoint is from Catherine O’Riordan, Vice President of Physics Resources Center, American Institute of Physics, reflects ...[Read More]