The 2012 GIFT (Geosciences Information for Teachers) symposium will take place on April 23-25, 2012 during the EGU General Assembly 2012 in Vienna Austria. The general theme of the workshop is «Water!» and will be dedicated to the study of the hydrological problems of our planet. The deadline for applications is 30 November 2011. This pdf gives more details (also available on the EGU website. In t ...[Read More]
Call for Sessions for EGU General Assembly 2012
The public call for sessions for the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012 has been issued. The EGU GA 2012 will be held at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) from 22 April to 27 April 2012. The details are below, the web page to visit to submit sessions is Call for Sessions page of the EGU General Assembly 2012 website. We hereby invite you, from now until 16 Sep 2011, to take an active p ...[Read More]
GIFT presentations available online
The presentations from the GIFT workshops at past General Assemblies are now available online (where the author has given permission). The GIFT programme offers teachers of elementary to high school the opportunity to upgrade their knowledge in geophysical themes and to shorten the time between new discoveries and textbook information. There are three main activities to the programme, one of which ...[Read More]
Imaggeo on Mondays:Iron oxidizing Leptothrix bacteria
Leptothrix bacteria, in general, are known to be capable of oxidizing both iron(II) and manganese(II) producing ferric hydroxide and manganese oxide. Image by Bertram Schmidt, distributed by EGU under a Creative Commons License. Imaggeo is the online open access geosciences image repository of the European Geosciences Union. Every geoscientist who is an amateur photographer (but also other people) ...[Read More]