Townhall Meetings Townhall Meetings are meetings open to all General Assembly participants where new initiatives or decisions are announced to a larger audience following an open discussion on the matter raised. Anyone may organize such a Townhall Meeting subject to approval by the Programme Committee chair. Townhall Meetings will be scheduled from Monday–Tuesday, 08–09 April 2013, and Thursday–Fr ...[Read More]
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Job opportunity at the EGU Executive Office: Communications Assistant
The EGU is seeking to appoint a Communications Assistant to work with the EGU Media and Communications Officer in maintaining and further developing media-related and science information communications between the EGU and its membership, the working media, and the public at large. The position will be based at the EGU Executive Office in Munich, Germany. More information about this vacancy, includ ...[Read More]
GIFT workshop: deadline approaching
Teachers and educators interested in taking part in the 2013 Geosciences Information for Teachers (GIFT) workshop should submit their symposium applications and requests for travel and accommodation support by 30 October 2012. As previously announced on the EGU website, the GIFT workshop will be taking place on April 8-10 2013 at the EGU General Assembly in Vienna, Austria. The topic of the 2013 e ...[Read More]
Submit your abstract to the 2013 EGU General Assembly!
The call for papers for the 2013 EGU General Assembly (7-12 April, Vienna, Austria) is now open. To submit your abstract, please browse through the sessions on the Programme and use the “Abstract Submission” link corresponding to the session you’d like to submit your paper to. You will be asked to log in to the Copernicus Office Meeting Organizer, for which you will need your Co ...[Read More]
Happy 10th anniversary EGU!
Today, 7 September 2012, marks the 10th anniversary of the European Geosciences Union, Europe’s premier geosciences union. A decade ago, in the Hotel Platzl in Munich, Germany, the European Geophysical Society (EGS) and the European Union of Geosciences (EUG) merged to form the EGU. At the EGU Executive Office, also in Munich, we celebrated this momentous occasion with champagne and cake. HereR ...[Read More]
Do you know EGU’s YouTube channel?
You may have seen some of the 2012 General Assembly videos we posted on the blog in the last few months – all of these clips were originally published on EGU’s YouTube channel, and we’re happy to announce that many more EGU videos (over 100 in total) are now available on the same page! We have organised the clips into playlists to make it easier for you to access videos from specific e ...[Read More]
EGU 2012 General Assembly: the highlights
The most recent video uploaded to EGU’s YouTube page, the EGU 2012 General Assembly highlights video, brings back good memories. It’s a compilation of some of the best moments at the conference and was produced by Sue Voice, who worked at the press office in Vienna. Sue says, “Part of my role in the media team at EGU2012 involved producing short movie clips and photos for EGU’s s ...[Read More]
Imaggeo on Mondays: Melt Stream
Supraglacial lakes are created when water forms in depressions on top of a glacier, remaining there until it dissipates by seeping through crevasses, or cracks in the ice sheet. Despite their sometimes impressive size, supraglacial lakes may drain in a matter of hours under the right conditions, when the pressure they exert on the ice causes it to crack creating a sometimes spectacular lake draini ...[Read More]
What did you like about the EGU 2012 General Assembly?
In the most recent video uploaded to EGU’s YouTube page, Sue Voice, who worked at the press office in Vienna, asks General Assembly participants what they like the most about the conference. Check out their answers in the clip below! And you, what did you like about EGU 2012?
Imaggeo on Mondays: Icy Landscape
Ice is a hazardous beauty, ephemeral in nature and, under the right conditions, capable of dominating landscapes. Earlier this year, while North America enjoyed an unusually mild winter, central and eastern Europe experienced brutal cold spells. The continent witnessed widespread freezing as cold air swept south from Siberia, claiming hundreds of lives, knocking out power supplies, and disrupting ...[Read More]