With everyone at the office busy with General Assembly preparations and other activities, a typical Bavarian breakfast on Carnival day is a most welcome break. Germany loves Carnival and Munich, while lagging behind Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Mainz in Fasching parties, is no exception. At the office, we decided to celebrate the date with a Weißwurst Frühstück, accompanied by… Bavarian beer, of ...[Read More]
Our next door neighbours
The EGU Executive Office is housed in one of the buildings of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. The building also hosts the Palaeontological Museum Munich, the public part of the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology, which is dedicated to the history of life and the Earth, and displays fossils from all eras ...[Read More]
Register for the EGU General Assembly 2012
Online registration to the 2012 General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) is open until 22 March 2012. The meeting, taking place in Vienna from 22–27 April, brings together over 10,000 scientists from all over the world and covers all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. To register, you will need to create an account with Copernicus, our meeting’s organiser, if ...[Read More]
New Science Communications Fellow at the EGU Office
Hello everyone! I am a new Science Communications Fellow at the Union, where I will be working on the EGU Newsletter and assisting Bárbara Ferreira in developing media-related and science information communications. I am currently in the final stages of my doctorate (DPhil) at the University of Oxford, where my molecular biology project explores the diversity and ecology of Apusozoa, a phylum of f ...[Read More]