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EGU2018: Financial support to attend the General Assembly

Laura Roberts-Artal October 24, 2017

Applying for financial support to attend the 2018 General Assembly is easier than ever! Credit: Keri McNamara /EGU

The EGU is committed to promoting the participation of both early career scientists and established researchers from low and middle-income countries who wish to present their work at the EGU General Assembly. In order to encourage participation of scientists from both these groups, a limited amount of the overall budget of the EGU General Assembly is reserved to provide financial support to those ...[Read More]

Join us at EGU 2018: Call-for-abstracts is now open!

Laura Roberts-Artal October 13, 2017

You've got until 10 January 2018 to submit your abstract for #EGU18. Credit: Pfluegl/EGU

From now, up until 10 January 2018, you can submit your abstract for the upcoming EGU General Assembly (EGU 2018). In addition to established scientists, PhD students and other early career researchers are welcome to submit abstracts to present their research at the conference. Further, the EGU encourages undergraduate and master students to submit abstracts on their dissertations or final-year pr ...[Read More]

Cartooning science at EGU 2017 with Matthew Partridge (a.k.a Errant Science)

Laura Roberts-Artal June 16, 2017

The Geology Badger. Credit: Matthew Partridge, distributed via Errant Science.

Most researchers are regular conference-goers. Tell a geoscientist you are attending the EGU General Assembly and they will most likely picture rooms full of people listening to a miriad of talks, many an hour chatting to colleagues old and new and you desperately trying to find your way around the maze that is the Austria Centre Vienna (where the conference is held). Describing your experiences t ...[Read More]

A young person’s journey through the largest geoscience conference in Europe

Pimnutcha Promduangsri May 24, 2017

Standing in front of my poster with Silvia Peppoloni, who convened the session on geoethics at the EGU conference. I always smile when I am with her! (Photo by David Crookall)

Today we welcome, potentially one of the youngest participants of this year’s General Assembly, Pimnutcha Promduangsri: a 17-year-old science baccalaureate student at Auguste Renoir high school in Cagnes-sur-mer, France, as our guest blogger. With a deep interest in the environment and taking care of the environment, Pimnutcha was a keen participant at the conference and gave an oral presentation ...[Read More]