This year’s General Assembly is full of exciting new features, which we have summarised for you below. Keep checking GeoLog regularly for more information on next week’s meeting, including some of the items below. Free EGU2012 App for iPhones and Android smartphones. Please visit http://app.egu2012.eu on your device to be directed to the proper app version download. You may also search ...[Read More]
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GeoCinema at the 2012 General Assembly
The hugely popular GeoCinema returns to this year’s General Assembly! Featuring 26 films ranging in content from documentaries to full-length movies, this event runs almost continuously in the GeoCinema Room on the Yellow Level from 10:30-18:45 every day of the Assembly. A full list of films and a schedule can be found on the Assembly’s official website.
EGU 2012 General Assembly: Webstreaming
If you cannot make it to Vienna this year, you can still watch Union Medal Lectures (ML0–ML3), the two Great Debates, and all press conferences at the 2012 General Assembly live on the conference website. To watch a session, simply click on the link that appears next to its entry on the full webstreaming schedule available here. Videos will also be available on demand after the Assembly. If you&# ...[Read More]
Photo exhibit at the 2012 General Assembly: Japan before and after the tsunami
This year’s General Assembly features a special photo exhibition documenting the devastation left behind by last year’s earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Japan. “A Catfish Sleeps – Tohoku, photographs in Japan 2009-2011: before and after the Great East Japan Earthquake” shows how, in only a few days, entire communities and landscapes were swept away as seawater ...[Read More]
Introducing, for the first time ever, the EGU General Assembly mobile app!
The EGU 2012 mobile app is now available for iPhones and Android smartphones. To download it, you can scan the QR code available at the General Assembly website or go directly to http://app.egu2012.eu/ on your mobile device. You will be directed to the proper app version download for your particular smartphone. Once you open the app, the home menu will show you four possibilities. You can “B ...[Read More]
EGU 2012 General Assembly: Venue location
The Austria Center Vienna (ACV), the Assembly venue, is located centrally and can easily be reached from the airport and central train station. The ACV is located next to the Kaisermühlen/Vienna Int. Centre metro station (U1 line, direction Leopoldau from the city centre). Wiener Linien, Vienna’s public transport agency, provides a travel planner on their website, including information about ...[Read More]
Looking for a job in the geosciences?
The General Assembly can be an excellent source of information for those of you looking for jobs or doctoral positions. Apart from the regularly updated online job postings, the Jobs & Education Market (Hall X, basement) provides a forum for young scientists to meet and chat with potential employers, and to get informed about available positions posted on the nearby notice boards. The Jobs &am ...[Read More]
A first-timers guide to the 2012 General Assembly
Will this be your first time at an EGU General Assembly? With over 10,000 participants in a massive venue, the GA can be a confusing and, at times, overwhelming place. To help you find your way, Jennifer Holden, former EGU Science Communications Fellow and a regular attendee of the meeting, prepared an introductory handbook filled with history, useful presentation pointers, and tips about Vienna ...[Read More]
Presenting at the 2012 General Assembly
Oral Presentations The guidelines for oral presentations are online. The link also specifies the equipment available in each room (laptop, beamer, microphone, laser pointer, ability to hook up your own laptop, etc.). Oral presentations this year are in four 90-minute time blocks, with each talk being about 12 minutes long with 3 minutes for questions. Please be in the presentation room approximate ...[Read More]
EGU 2012 General Assembly: Vienna
How to get to Vienna and things to do when you’re there. Travel Vienna’s International Airport is served by many of the major European airlines. If you are considering overland transport, see the bottom of the Transportation page on the EGU General Assembly 2012 website. Accommodation The best place to start looking for accommodation in Vienna is the Accommodation page of the EGU GA 2012 website. ...[Read More]