Welcome to the 2013 General Assembly! This is the first full day of sessions – we’ve put together a few highlights for today below. Be sure to complement this information with EGU Today, the daily newsletter of the General Assembly, available both in paper and for download here. Of particular importance today is the Union’s Plenary Meeting (UM8) at 12:15 in Room R1, a forum for all Assembly ...[Read More]
Live from the General Assembly
Many of the EGU General Assembly higlights will be streamed live, so if you can’t make it to Vienna this year, you can still watch the Union Session on Curiosity’s first results (US1), the Great Debate on fracking, several medal lectures and all the press conferences at the 2013 General Assembly live on the conference website. To watch a session, simply click on the link that appears n ...[Read More]
Demystifying Open Access at EGU 2013
Last year, we held a great debate on open access, featuring both traditional and open access publishers. This year we’re making the discussion wide open while exploring how it can help early career researchers in a market place of discussion. Young scientists rely on their supervisor’s advice regarding where to publish and are often instructed to aim for a traditional high impact journal, but this ...[Read More]
Photo exhibit at EGU 2013: The Andean Geotrail
The enormous space and time scales that Geology covers makes teaching it a challenge, one best overcome by field experience, but it’s a rare thing for a school to be able to explore Geological wonders on the other side of the world. So what if someone brought it to you? Olivier Galland (who we had the chance to interview in December), together with Caroline Sassier, set up an educational project ( ...[Read More]