General Assembly

#vEGU21: #EGUartKIDS Hall of Fame – Extreme e-ART-h!

Hazel Gibson May 12, 2021

Extreme e-ART-h logo created by Hannah Turton.

The EGU Kids Art activity normally happens in person in the creche at the conference centre during the General Assembly, but first last year and now this year we have had to move all our activities online instead. Working together – two of our Division Early Career Scientist teams, one from Natural Hazards and one from Cryospheric Sciences came up with this year’s theme ‘Extreme ...[Read More]

vEGU21: the EGU Game Jam – winners!!

Sam Illingworth and Chris Skinner April 30, 2021

This year as part of EGU’s 4th annual Games Day we ran two Geoscience Game Jams. A game jam is a challenge to games developers to create games for a specific theme and in limited time. They are becoming increasingly popular and many foster extremely active communities of shared knowledge. We really hope to grow and expand these game jams and create those connections between geoscientists and games ...[Read More]

Announcing the winners of the EGU21 Photo Competition!

Hazel Gibson April 29, 2021

For this year’s Photo Contest, EGU received scores of amazing images capturing a broad spectrum of the geosciences. After the selection committee whittled the field down to 10 finalists, members have been voting for their favourites throughout the two weeks of vEGU21. We’ve had thousands of votes, but now we are very excited to announce the winners. Congratulations to these superb pho ...[Read More]

How to #vEGU21: EGU Games Day!

Chris Skinner April 27, 2021

The annual EGU Games Day is nearly upon us, Wednesday the 28th April 2021. As usual, we have our science session, Games for Geoscience, kicking off at 2:15pm CEST. Following this, we have our Geoscience Games Night networking session that will begin in a specially designed GatherTown space at 5.30pm CEST. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHLoHQaJIMc During the Geoscience Games Night y ...[Read More]