Sessions

#shareEGU20: a guide to the short courses!

Hazel Gibson May 1, 2020

Image credit: Daniela Rapavá (distributed via imaggeo)

You might now be wondering what is happening with the short courses this year as move the physical General Assembly to our temporary home online with #shareEGU20. Well with over 90 short course proposals this year we could not keep them all – no matter how much we wanted to, so the Programme Committee and Early Careers Science Union Representative, with help from the EGU Communications and P ...[Read More]

#shareEGU20: how to participate in the live-streamed sessions

Chloe Hill April 23, 2020

Image credit: Daniela Rapavá (distributed via imaggeo)

The foundation of Sharing Geoscience Online, as the name of course suggests, is interacting with other scientists, whether via the presentation materials you upload, comments you exchange with colleagues, and/or the live text chats scheduled for each session. In addition to the text-based interactions, all week you’ll also be able to participate in a series of Union-wide sessions, short courses an ...[Read More]

Accessibility at EGU: Top 10 tips for visually accessible presenting – the sequel!

Hazel Gibson March 4, 2020

EGU Union Session (Credit: Kai Boggild, EGU 2017).

Do you remember a time when everyone else around you started laughing, but you didn’t notice a joke? By designing presentations that are inaccessible – either in PICO, poster or oral presentation format – sometimes people in your audience have this experience of feeling left out. Last month we posted our top 10 tips for making a presentation ‘accessible’ following the announcement that EGU ...[Read More]

EGU 2020: Registration open & townhall and splinter meeting requests

Olivia Trani December 27, 2019

Register early for EGU 2020 to make the most of our early-bird rates! Credit: EGU/Keri McNarama).

The EGU General Assembly brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting that covers all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The conference is taking place in Vienna on 3–8 May 2020, providing an opportunity for both established scientists and early career researchers to present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of the geoscience ...[Read More]