General Assembly

Imaggeo On Monday: over 10 years of the EGU Photo Competition

Hazel Gibson March 1, 2021

Patterns in the Void. Image by Christian Klepp distributed by EGU under a Creative Commons licence.

In 2010 EGU held our first annual Photo Competition at the General Assembly in Vienna. Since then hundreds of photos have been shared on imaggeo by geoscientists and researchers just like you, with a lucky few being selected each year to be highlighted during the meeting and voted on by our members. These images can be of anything to do with geology or geoscience – we get many beautif ...[Read More]

vEGU21 to GreenEGU ’22: what can we learn from a fully digital conference?

Hazel Gibson February 24, 2021

With EGU’s General Assembly fully virtual again this year, everyone attending will already be saving a huge amount of carbon by not travelling, sometimes across huge distances, to Vienna in Austria. But what about next year, and other future events when we will once again be able to meet in person? Are there things we can adopt from a virtual conference to make our in-person conference exper ...[Read More]

Want to GreenEGU in 2021? Five environmentally friendly things to try whilst working from home.

Hazel Gibson February 17, 2021

Bees will save the world. Credit: Giovanni Mastrolonardo (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Normally at this time of year we would already have shared with you several ways that you could make your EGU General Assembly experience greener, from travelling by train where possible, to using re-usable cups instead of disposable ones. Taking the General Assembly online in 2020 and again this year in 2021 changed all of that, as usually our ideas were based around the fact that you couldn̵ ...[Read More]

The women of EGU in 2021!

Hazel Gibson February 11, 2021

Mapping the Algerian shoreline . Credit: Filippo Dallosso (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Happy International Women in Science Day 2021! We at EGU are very lucky to have many outstanding women who participate in the running of the European Geosciences Union. We are delighted to introduce you to just a few of our hard working, inspiring, creative and passionate women of EGU – especially as several of them will be stepping down at the General Assembly this year as their terms of se ...[Read More]