Dear all European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2010 General Assembly (GA) potential attendees: The EGU Programme Committee Advisory Board and the EGU Executive have been in active discussion since Friday morning (16 April 2010) evaluating the current air-travel and ash plume situation as to the consequences for people being able to travel to the EGU 2010 General Assembly. We have been monitoring the si ...[Read More]
Recent Natural Hazard Events at EGU General Assembly 2010
There is going to be a special session on the Eyjafjallajökull Eruption at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010 on Tuesday 4th May from 18:30 to 20:00 in Room 36. The time and location are currently provisional. The recent Natural Hazard Events in Haiti and Chile will be covered in SM1.0/G25/GD2.17/GM1.5/GMPV37/NH4.0/NH5.3/SSP1.9/TS8.4 Large Magnitude Earthquakes and Tsunami Activi ...[Read More]
Eyjafjallajokull Eruption and Air Travel Disruption
For the first time ever, all United Kingdom airspace is currently closed due to ash from the Eyjafjallajokull Eruption in Iceland, a situation replicated in several other Northern European countries. At the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010, session NH2.2 Passive satellite techniques and ground-based potential field investigations of volcanic activity contains several presentations ...[Read More]
EGU Presentation Planning
According to twitter (#egu2010) I’m not the only person who has been working on posters for the General Assembly this week. The guidelines for authors can be found on the EGU GA 2010 website for oral and poster presentations. The key take away points are that its 12 minutes plus 3 for questions for oral presentations. Posters are landscape orientation (i.e. longer than they are tall), and go ...[Read More]