General Assembly

#shareEGU20: A welcome to the first virtual EGU General Assembly from EGU President Alberto Montanari

Hazel Gibson May 4, 2020

I am enjoying a positive feeling while I am writing these words to open the EGU2020 General Assembly #shareEGU20. In my opinion, a positive attitude is the best way to pay a tribute to the persons – including some colleagues and friends – who lost their lives due to COVID19. It is in their memory that we are looking to the future and making an effort to transform this crisis into an opportunity. I ...[Read More]

#shareEGU20: An EGU dining experience in your own home..?!

Hazel Gibson May 3, 2020

One of the things we will miss the most about being together in Vienna this year, is the great meals and lunches spent with friends (both new and old). We all have a favourite Austrian meal, so this year we picked four of our favourites and will be releasing one a day during the week. If you want to skip ahead, here are all four of our EGU most iconic GA foods! The classic and essential, yo ...[Read More]

#shareEGU20: getting creative with the Kids Art activity!

Hazel Gibson May 2, 2020

Alongside the regular scientific offer, some of our members have very kindly agreed to run activities online, so keep an eye out for them during the week! Today we are sharing Emily Mason and Maike Neuland’s digital version of the Kids’ Art Competition, read on to find out how you can get into our Kids Art Online Hall of Fame!!! This year the EGU kid’s art activity is going onli ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: Getting involved with science for policy during #shareEGU20!

Chloe Hill May 1, 2020

This year, EGU’s science-policy related sessions will be run a little bit differently! In case you haven’t already heard, EGU will be hosting EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online (#shareEGU20) from 4-8 May 2020 in place of the physical General Assembly. While this fully online event is in response to the COVID-19 crisis, it is also an opportunity to experiment with online networking and ...[Read More]

#shareEGU20: meet the other Divisions you might come across next week – CL, ERE and G

Hazel Gibson May 1, 2020

From Monday to Thursday during the week of #shareEGU20, the Early Career Scientists in our various Divisions are going to host a series of evening networking events. Find out more by clicking on the ‘Networking’ session search in the EGU Programme. In addition to these events being run by some of our members, there are also several other Divisions you may encounter during the week whic ...[Read More]

#shareEGU20: a guide to the short courses!

Hazel Gibson May 1, 2020

You might now be wondering what is happening with the short courses this year as move the physical General Assembly to our temporary home online with #shareEGU20. Well with over 90 short course proposals this year we could not keep them all – no matter how much we wanted to, so the Programme Committee and Early Careers Science Union Representative, with help from the EGU Communications and P ...[Read More]

#shareEGU20: join our GMPV, TS, OS, SSP and SSS Division Early Career Scientists for a networking evening!

Hazel Gibson April 30, 2020

From Monday to Thursday during the week of #shareEGU20, the Early Career Scientists in our various Divisions are going to host a series of evening networking events. Find out more by clicking on the ‘Networking’ session search in the EGU Programme. If you are wondering if these events are for you, check out the Division description by the hosts included below. Every day this week we wi ...[Read More]

#shareEGU20: the Data Help Desk and VR Outcrops!

Hazel Gibson April 30, 2020

Alongside the regular scientific offer, some of our members have very kindly agreed to run activities online, so keep an eye out for them during the week! Today we focus on the digital Data Help Desk and a guide to VR and Virtual Outcrops. Do you have data-related questions? Are you looking to make your data and/or software open and FAIR? Are you interested in tools and resources for workin ...[Read More]

#shareEGU20: join our AS, CR, HS and GI Division Early Career Scientists for a networking evening!

Hazel Gibson April 29, 2020

From Monday to Thursday during the week of #shareEGU20, the Early Career Scientists in our various Divisions are going to host a series of evening networking events. Find out more by clicking on the ‘Networking’ session search in the EGU Programme. If you are wondering if these events are for you, check out the Division description by the hosts included below. Every day this week we wi ...[Read More]

#shareEGU20: what to expect from the live text chats

Hazel Gibson April 29, 2020

With #shareEGU20 less than a week away, have you decided which live text chats you want to participate in? The live text chats that make up the sessions are a new way for us to try discussing our science and we hope people will give it a try, but as it is entirely new, we thought we would make a quick walk-through video to show what it looks like. So, if you are wondering about how to access or en ...[Read More]