GeoLog

General Assembly

Outside the Conference: Vienna and Beyond

May 1, 2025
Outside the Conference: Vienna and Beyond
Exploring places outside the downtown classics can lead to pleasant discoveries. Pictured is Polizeisteg.

EGU’s General Assembly (GA) has been in Vienna for over 15 years now. There are practicalities that make it a suitable choice, such as Vienna being able to accommodate 15-20 thousand on-site participants and its location allowing many EGU members to travel there by ground-based transportation. Still, the GA’s experience also encompasses what is outside what’s outside the conferen ...[Read More]

Io: a spongy world consumed by molten rock

April 30, 2025
Io: a spongy world consumed by molten rock
Volcano Erupts on Io (Credit: NASA, NASA-JPL, DLR)

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in our solar system, with hundreds of volcanoes that constantly erupt on its ever renewing surface. Although Io always points the same side toward Jupiter in its orbit around the gas giant, two other Galilean moons, Europa and Ganymede, pull Io’s orbit into an irregularly elliptical one. Thus, in its widely varying distances from ...[Read More]

Advancing diversity and inclusion at EGU: EDI Networking event recap

and April 29, 2025
Advancing diversity and inclusion at EGU: EDI Networking event recap
EGU lanyards can be found at the EDI booth (X207, Level -2)

Yesterday, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) hosted a vibrant and impactful event focused on Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) within the geosciences community. This networking session provided an open and welcoming space for participants to meet the dedicated volunteer members of the EGU EDI Committee and learn more about the initiatives implemented by the EGU to raise awareness of the ...[Read More]