Early Career Scientists

Abstract deadline for EGU 2016 fast approaching: A first-timer’s guide to the 2015 General Assembly

Laura Roberts-Artal January 8, 2016

Entrance to the Austria Center Vienna during the EGU 2014 General Assembly (Credit: EGU/Foto Pfluegl)

Are you considering attending the upcoming EGU General Assembly in Vienna? The conference brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences.. This year, the meeting will be held from the 17 to 22 April at the Austria Centre Vienna. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is upon us, closing next Wednesday t ...[Read More]

Job opportunity at the EGU General Assembly: press assistant

Bárbara Ferreira January 7, 2016

Press conference at the EGU 2015 General Assembly (Credit: EGU/Stephanie McClellan)

We have a vacancy for an early career science communicator or science journalism student in Europe to work at the press office of the 2016 General Assembly, which is taking place in Vienna, Austria, from 17–22 April. Applications from geosciences students with science communication experience are also welcome. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from people with experience in ...[Read More]

A Challenge to communicate

Sam Illingworth December 29, 2015

In this guest post, Sam Illingworth, regular contributor to GeoLog on all things science communication and education, discusses whether it is the responsibility of all geoscientists to communicate their science and research and challenges you to make some time to get involved in public engagement in 2016. As researchers it is very easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of our scientific endeavour ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Flying Rocks

Laura Roberts-Artal December 14, 2015

Flying Rocks . Credit: Franziska Glueer (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The picture was taken at a hillslope close to the glacier tongue of the Great Aletsch Glacier, the largest glacier in the Alps. With a length of 23 km it is located in the eastern Bernese Alps of Switzerland and composed of the three smaller glaciers Aletschfirn, Jungfraufirn and Eternal snow field converging at Concordia where the ice thickness was measured to be around 900m. The whole area was d ...[Read More]