General Assembly

There are even more benefits to choosing a PICO session at EGU 2016!

Laura Roberts-Artal November 24, 2015

Reviewing the day’s PICO presentations. (Credit: EGU/Foto Pfluegl)

Some of the sessions scheduled for the upcoming EGU General Assembly are PICO only sessions. This means that, rather than being oral or poster format, they involve Presenting Interactive COntent (PICO). The aim of these presentations is to highlight the essence of a particular research area – just enough to get the audience excited about a topic without overloading them with information. PICO sess ...[Read More]

Showcase your film at Geocinema at the 2016 General Assembly!

Laura Roberts-Artal November 17, 2015

Every year, we showcase a great selection of geoscience films at the EGU General Assembly and after six successful years we will again be running Geocinema in 2016. If you’ve shadowed a scientist in the lab, filmed fantastic spectacles in the field, or have produced an educational feature on the Earth, planetary or space sciences, we want to hear from you. Geocinema features short clips and longer ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Drilling a landslide

Laura Roberts-Artal November 16, 2015

Drill it, Baby! Credit: Ekrem Canli (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

That landslides are hazardous goes without saying; the risk posed by them will largely depend on where they occur and their exact characteristics, which makes understanding the mechanisms which trigger them, as well as predicting when they might happen, extremely difficult. Today’s Imaggeo on Mondays image, brought to you by Ekrem Canli, a PhD student at the University of Vienna, is an example of ...[Read More]

EGU2016: Applying for financial support to attend the General Assembly

Laura Roberts-Artal November 12, 2015

Austria Vienna Centre, the venue of the EGU's General Assembly. (Credit: EGU/Foto Pfluegl)

The EGU is committed to promoting the participation of both early career scientists and established researchers from low and middle income countries who wish to present their work at the EGU General Assembly. In order to encourage participation of scientists from both these groups, a limited amount of the overall budget of the EGU General Assembly is reserved to provide financial support to those ...[Read More]