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EGU 2018: Getting to Vienna, getting to sleep and getting to know the city

March 15, 2018
EGU 2018: Getting to Vienna, getting to sleep and getting to know the city
View from Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral. Credit: Sonja Zeschka (distributed via pixabay.com)

With the conference only a few weeks away here is a brief, and by no means comprehensive, introduction of how to get to Vienna and what to do when you’re there! Getting here Vienna’s International Airport is served by many of the major European airlines. If you would like to consider overland you’ll find more information on the General Assembly website. And, if you haven’t seen it already, make su ...[Read More]

Making a poster or PICO presentation: top tips from the Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award judges

March 7, 2018
Making a poster or PICO presentation: top tips from the Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award judges
PICO presentations at the 2017 General Assembly. (Credit: EGU)

Every year at the General Assembly hundreds of students present their research at the conference 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 OSP Awards (as they were formerly known), wer ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Nummulites, the living lentils

March 5, 2018
Imaggeo on Mondays: Nummulites, the living lentils
The Nummulite-Whisperer Snail. Credit: Manuel de Paz Álvarez (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

This photograph depicts a close-up of Eocene limestones from the Sardinero Formation in Cantabria (Northern Spain). The limestone is rich with foraminifera shells, most of them from the Nummulitidae family. These organisms once lived in a very shallow sea that separated Europe from Iberia in the late Mesozoic and early Cenozoic era. Later the sea basin’s  closure led to the formation of the Pyrene ...[Read More]