EGU GA 2021

Imaggeo On Monday: the EGU Photo Competition – colourful thin-sections.

Hazel Gibson March 28, 2022

micROCKScopica - Symplectite in Granulite. Credit: Bernardo Cesare (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

In 2010 EGU held our first annual Photo Competition at the General Assembly in Vienna. Since then hundreds of photos have been shared on imaggeo by geoscientists and researchers just like you, with a lucky few being selected each year to be highlighted during the meeting and voted on by our members. These images can be of anything to do with geology or geoscience – we get many beautif ...[Read More]

Where can I watch the vEGU21 keynote sessions?

Hazel Gibson August 6, 2021

Each year EGU presents several keynote sessions called the Union Symposia and Great Debates. These Union-wide events are carefully selected each year to cover topics that are of broad interest to our members, regardless of which Division or field of Geoscience they most closely associate with. During the two weeks of the meeting we shared ten Great Debates and Union Symposia streamed live d ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: A Climate and Ecological Emergency: Can a pandemic help save us…?

Chloe Hill July 28, 2021

Giant Hands, called Support, in a rare snowy event in a floating city of Venice. Credit: Hung Vuong Pham, distributed via Imaggeo

The EGU’s #vEGU21 streamed a wide variety of virtual sessions from Short Courses to Union Symposia. While most #vEGU21 sessions had a specific scientific focus, a few highlighted topics that were of interest to geoscientists across multiple disciplines. The Union Symposia 3: “A Climate and Ecological Emergency: Can a pandemic help save us…?” was one of these sessions with a high level of participa ...[Read More]

Crowd solutions to challenges in Earth Sciences

EGU Guest blogger July 2, 2021

Research rarely follows a straight path and it is normal for challenges to arise during a scientific career. These challenges may come from scientific issues, like inaccessible field sites or data or unavailable/insufficient methods, or from social or personal problems and so on. This year we are facing an additional problem in our inability to meet in person, travel and go to the field. As we all ...[Read More]