General Assembly

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

Runners of the 2015 Vienna City Marathon in the area Reichsbrücke. (© Bwag / Wikimedia)

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]

GeoPolicy: Science for Policy at the 2019 General Assembly!

Chloe Hill March 29, 2019

Elections of a President. Credit: the European Parliament. (Distributed via Flickr).

The EGU General Assembly is the largest geoscience meeting in Europe. Not only does it have a diverse array of sessions that you can attend within your own area of expertise but there are also thousands of sessions that will be outside of your research field, as well as sessions on topics that can be applied to a wide range of scientific divisions, jobs and industries – such as science for p ...[Read More]