The EGU General Assembly 2012 programme is available here. The scientific programme of the General Assembly 2012 includes Union Symposia, Interdivision Sessions, Educational and Outreach Symposia, as well as oral and poster sessions on disciplinary and interdisciplinary topics covering the full spectrum of the geosciences and the space and planetary sciences. Furthermore, Keynote and Medal Lecture ...[Read More]
Short courses at the 2012 General Assembly
There are nine short courses at the EGU General Assembly 2012. Short courses, of length ranging from 1.5 hours to a whole day, are opportunities to learn about a subject or further your knowledge in a particular area. The short courses at this year’s General Assembly are listed below. Some courses (SC5/HS11.1) may require contact with the convenors in advance of the GA. SC1/NP1.5 Shourt Cou ...[Read More]
Science bloggers: join the 2012 General Assembly blogroll!
Will you be blogging at the 2012 EGU General Assembly? Sign up here and we’ll add you to our official blogroll. Like last year, a list (“blogroll”) of General Assembly related blogs will be compiled and made available. The content of each blog on this list is the responsibility of the authors and is not sanctioned by the EGU, but we’d ask you to write posts directly related ...[Read More]
Photo competition at the EGU 2012 General Assembly
If you are pre-registered for the 2012 General Assembly (Vienna, April 22-27), we invite you to submit photos to our annual photo competition. Winners receive a free registration to next year’s General Assembly! The third edition of the EGU photo competition is now open. Until 10 March, every pre-registered participant of the General Assembly can submit up to two photos on any broad theme related ...[Read More]
Register for the EGU General Assembly 2012
Online registration to the 2012 General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) is open until 22 March 2012. The meeting, taking place in Vienna from 22–27 April, brings together over 10,000 scientists from all over the world and covers all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. To register, you will need to create an account with Copernicus, our meeting’s organiser, if ...[Read More]
Job opportunity at the EGU General Assembly
We are currently looking for science communication or science journalism students interested in working at the press office of the 2012 General Assembly, which is taking place in Vienna, Austria, from 22-27 April. The students will be assisting the EGU press officer and the journalists at the press centre, and are expected to help organise and run press conferences. Other tasks include writing and ...[Read More]
Submitting an abstract to EGU GA 2012
Writing Your Abstract Abstracts should be short (300–500 words), clear, concise and written in English with correct spelling and good sentence structure. Mathematical symbols and equations must be typed in, and metric symbols should be used. Figures and tables should not be included. We recommend that the abstract is carefully compiled and thoroughly checked, in particular with regard to the list ...[Read More]
Sand Dunes at EGU GA 2012
Several participants in the Geoblogsphere having been posting recently about sand dunes. Its part of Sand Dune Week declared on twitter by Brian Romans. Some of the posts are listed by Matthew Francis or find more by searching on twitter for “sand dune week”. There are three sessions at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012 directly related to sand dunes, these are liste ...[Read More]
Townhall and Splinter Meetings at EGU GA 2012
Townhall Meetings Townhall Meetings are meetings open for all participants in the conference at which new initiatives or decisions are announced to a larger audience following an open discussion on the matter raised. Anyone may organize such a Townhall Meeting subject to approval by the Programme Committee chair. Townhall Meetings will be scheduled from Monday – Friday, 23 – 27 April 2012, 19:00–2 ...[Read More]
Deadline approaching: applications for the GIFT Symposium
Applications for the 2012 GIFT Symposium should be received by November 30, 2011. Send your application via email to any of the members of the Committee on Education preferentially the member in your country if there is one. Details for the application are below. The 2012-GIFT (Geosciences Information for Teachers) symposium will take place on April 23-25, 2012 during the General Assembly of EGU i ...[Read More]