General Assembly

Upload your 2015 General Assembly presentation

Laura Roberts-Artal May 6, 2015

PICO presentations at the 2015 General Assembly in Vienna. (Credit: Stephanie McClellan/EGU).

This year it is once again possible to upload your oral presentations, PICO presentations and posters from EGU 2015 for online publication alongside your abstract, giving all participants a chance to revisit your contribution – hurrah for open science! Files can be in either PowerPoint or PDF format. Note that presentations will be distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence. Up ...[Read More]

Communication and Education in Geoscience: Practice, Research and Reflection

Laura Roberts-Artal May 1, 2015

In this guest blog post, an international group of researchers discusses a recent communication and education session that they convened at EGU’s 2015 General Assembly. If you are involved in any of these disciplines, we’d love to hear your opinions on how you think their practitioners are currently viewed, both within the geosciences and by the general public. We look forward to your comments. Th ...[Read More]

Floods and droughts set to increase due to climate change

Laura Roberts-Artal April 29, 2015

Shrinking Wadi Sediments. Credit: Vincent Felde (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The planet is set to encounter a record-level amount of floods and droughts by 2050 – researchers recently announced at the European Geosciences Union’s General Assembly in Vienna. Nikita Marwaha shares their predictions on the impact that climate change will have on these extreme weather conditions. In a study by the Joint Research Centre (JRS) – the European Commission’s in-house science service ...[Read More]

Scientists share new observations from comet-chasing Rosetta Mission

Bárbara Ferreira April 24, 2015

The Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko includes an orbiter that circles the comet and its lander Philae which landed on the smaller lobe of the rocky world. (Credits: ESA)

Scientists working on the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta Mission provided an update on the comet-chaser and its lander, Philae, at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly last week, as well as sharing new science gained from the duo so far. These new results from Rosetta were announced at a press conference on Tuesday 14 April, with additional research presented at the Rosetta s ...[Read More]