Early Career Scientists

Entered into the EGU26 Outstanding Student and PhD-candidate Presentation (OSPP) competition? Check these top tips from former winners and judges!

Hazel Gibson April 29, 2026

Every year at the General Assembly hundreds of students and PhD candidates present their research with a lot of time and effort going into preparing these presentations. With the aim to further improve the overall quality of poster presentations and more importantly, to encourage Early Career Scientists to present their work in the form of a poster, the Outstanding Student Presentations, or OSP Aw ...[Read More]

EGU26 Photo Competition finalists – who will you vote for?

Hazel Gibson April 27, 2026

This year’s Photo Competition judging panel did a fantastic job of narrowing down the outstanding photo submissions to the EGU’s Photo Competition to just 10 finalists! The finalist photos are listed below and on the Imaggeo website where you can vote for them from Sunday 3 May until Thursday, 7 May 2025 – voting closes at 18:00 CEST. The three photos with the most votes will be annou ...[Read More]

What’s on at EGU26: networking highlights!

Simon Clark and Josephine Cakuru April 23, 2026

The General Assembly is the nucleus around which EGU’s community gathers and connects, providing a week of opportunity to meet new people and reaffirm old bonds. Progress within science and its impact on society rises from the confluence of ideas and a diversity of voices; to facilitate meeting and discussion at the Assembly, #EGU26 offers a number of paths for building your network. Networking ev ...[Read More]

What’s on at EGU26: highlights from Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee

Asmae Ourkiya April 21, 2026

There are so many great events to participate in at EGU26 this year, in both on-site and virtual formats, that it can be very easy to feel overwhelmed. Whilst we encourage you to make good use of your Personal Programme to help organise your activities, we also reached out to several of EGU’s Committees that are responsible for specific other aspects of EGU’s activities, including the ...[Read More]

What’s on for Early Career Scientists at EGU26

Simon Clark and Josephine Cakuru April 20, 2026

Early Career Scientists (ECS) – defined as a student, a PhD candidate, or a practising scientist who received their highest certificate (e.g. BSc, MSc or PhD) within the past seven years – compose about half of EGU’s members. Many of the sessions and events throughout the Assembly are built with our ECS attendees in mind, from introducing you to the Assembly and the Union as a whole or the numerou ...[Read More]

Organise your own events at EGU26 with the Pop-Up Networking Scheduler!

Simon Clark and Josephine Cakuru April 15, 2026

Pop-up networking returns for the #EGU26 General Assembly! Attendees can add their own events to the conference programme using the pop-up scheduling tool. Events can either be virtual or in-person, and include a number of tagging options to communicate the event theme to other attendees. The pop-up networking scheduling tool is live right now! Anyone attending EGU26 can organise an event using th ...[Read More]

‘GeoVision’ at EGU26: join us for a night of music and science!

Christina Orieschnig March 31, 2026

Vienna – the city of music! Of Mozart and Mahler, Beethoven and Brahms – and of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest! In this spirit, we invite you to a music-filled evening to wrap up EGU26 and let your hair down. An evening where geoscience meets music and art, and where we celebrate the creativity, diversity, and spirit of our community together. Join us for a fabulous night of music an ...[Read More]

First time at an EGU General Assembly? We’ve got you covered!

Hazel Gibson March 20, 2026

Europe’s biggest geoscience conference, EGU26, is just over one month away! Each year, the EGU General Assembly brings together over 19,000 researchers, scientists, academics and journalists to discuss and share the latest developments in planetary exploration, Earth observation, polar science, climate change, natural hazards, and much more. And it is held at the Austria Centre Vienna (ACV) which ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: meet Christina Orieschnig, hydrologist and science communicator!

Simon Clark March 18, 2026

Hello Christina! Welcome to GeoTalk. Before we dive in, could you introduce yourself to our readers? Hey everyone! I’m a researcher at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) in Montpellier in the South of France. For my work, I specialise in remote sensing and hydrological modelling, with study areas in Cambodia, Tunisia, and France. At EGU, I’m also the outgoing Early Career Scient ...[Read More]

Are you ready to vote for your favourite Division blog of 2025?

Asmae Ourkiya February 23, 2026

Our EGU blogging team has had a fantastic 2025 posting across our official blog, GeoLog and the division blogs. Most of our readers appreciate EGU’s blogs for their informative yet accessible style, and for our bloggers’ ability to take complex geoscience content and make it fun and relevant to the reader. If this sounds like something you’d like to get involved in, we encourage you to get i ...[Read More]