General Assembly

EGU 2019: Follow the conference action live!

Olivia Trani April 5, 2019

Press conference at the EGU 2017 General Assembly (Credit: Kai Boggild/EGU)

Earlier this month we shared a post on how you can keep up to date with all the science being presented at the General Assembly via our social media channels. This week we share with you how you can tune into the conference action, live! Many of the EGU General Assembly highlights will be streamed live, so if you can’t make it to Vienna this year, you can still watch sessions like the Union Sympos ...[Read More]

Blogs and social media at EGU 2019 – tune in to the conference action

Olivia Trani April 3, 2019

Join the online conversation about the upcoming General Assembly, but be sure to use the official hashtag: #EGU19

With hundreds of oral presentations, PICO sessions and poster presentations taking place each day, it can be difficult to keep up with everything that is on offer during the General Assembly. As well as finding highlights of interesting conference papers, lectures and workshops in the daily newsletter at the General Assembly, EGU Today, you can also keep up to date with all the conference activiti ...[Read More]

Geoscientist meet-up before the Vienna City Marathon

Olivia Trani April 2, 2019

The EGU General Assembly, officially starting on Sunday 7 April, will bring together around 14,000 attendees to Vienna, but it won’t be the biggest meet-up in the city that day. This year, not only are we expecting Earth, space and planetary scientists to descend on the city for EGU 2019, but also more than 40,000 people will participate in the Vienna City Marathon on Sunday morning. Are you a Gen ...[Read More]

Public engagement events at the EGU General Assembly

Bárbara Ferreira, Giuliana Panieri, Mathew Stiller-Reeve, and Olivia Trani March 29, 2019

Climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf presenting at the the inaugural EGU Public Lecture in 2018. Credit: Hischam Momen / Natural History Museum of Vienna

Thousands of scientists gather in Vienna every year to network and to present and discuss their research at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV). Aside from a packed and diverse programme for scientists at the meeting, the EGU also organises events aimed at the local Viennese public, as well as a few public engagement events and sessions for scientists at the ACV. Night at the museum: EGU Public Lectur ...[Read More]