General Assembly

Imaggeo on Mondays: counting stars

Vytas Huth August 22, 2016

There is never enough time to count all the stars you want The straight ring . Credit: Vytas Huth (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

This year’s imaggeo photo contest saw humdreds of great entries. Among the winning images was a stunning night-sky panorama by Vytas Huth. In today’s post, Vytas describes how he captured the image and how the remote location in Southern Germany is one of the few (in Europe) where it is still posssible to, clearly, image the Milk Way. I took the image in October 2015, usually the last ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: REcycle textile posters into useful products

Laura Roberts-Artal August 19, 2016

Breathing a longer life into your poster presentations is easy with Sandra de Vries REpost initative. Credit:REpost/Sandra de Vries

Conference posters: Most scientists spend tens (if not hundreds) of working hours perfecting their conference poster. There’s not just the science to think about, but also the design, the flow, the images, the language… The list is endless. Once complete, you print it, roll it up and feed it into the protective poster tube. Then you travel to the conference venue, whereupon you ‘compete’ with othe ...[Read More]

My film is ready, now what?

Laura Roberts-Artal July 29, 2016

Film Banner Credit: geralt, distributed via pixabay

It’s no secret that at EGU we believe using film as a medium to communicate science and engage the public with research is a great tool! So much so that we organise an annual competition for early career scientists (ECS) to produce a three-minute video to share their research with the general public, as well as publishing film how-to-guides on our blog and organising film-making workshops at our G ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: Matt Taylor of ESA’s Rosetta mission

Laura Roberts-Artal July 15, 2016

Screenshot from the Rosetta mission cartoons. Credit: ESA. All Rosetta Mission videos are available on YouTube

In November 2014, space exploration history was made. Millions of kilometres away, orbiting a piece of ice and rock, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta mission sent its probe Philae to become the first spacecraft to soft-land on a comet. After the tense 7-hour wait that followed the separation from the main orbiter, a tweet confirmed that the little lander had successfully completed the fir ...[Read More]