Vienna

Making a poster or PICO presentation: top tips from the Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award judges

Laura Roberts-Artal April 5, 2016

Reviewing the day’s PICO presentations. (Credit: EGU/Foto Pfluegl)

Every year at the General Assembly hundreds of students present their research at the conference with a lot of time and effort going into preparing these presentations. With the aim to further improve the overall quality of poster presentations and more importantly, to encourage early career scientists to present their work in the form of a poster, the OSP Awards (as they were formerly known), wer ...[Read More]

Looking for a job in the geosciences? Visit the job spot at EGU 2016

Laura Roberts-Artal March 29, 2016

Austria Vienna Centre, the venue of the EGU's General Assembly. (Credit: EGU/Foto Pfluegl)

The General Assembly can be an excellent source of information for those looking for jobs or doctoral positions. The Job Spot, is located in the EGU and Friends area, next to the EGU Booth (Hall X2, Brown Level) has a searching station linked to the EGU jobs portal, so you can find the latest vacancies and who’s providing them. Check the session programme and see if they’re here too – what better ...[Read More]

EGU 2016: Getting to Vienna, getting to sleep and getting to know the city

Laura Roberts-Artal March 23, 2016

Vienna at sunsest. (Credit: Flickr user cadoc)

With the conference less than a month away here is a brief, and by no means comprehensive, introduction of how to get to Vienna and what to do when you’re there! Getting here Vienna’s International Airport is served by many of the major European airlines. If you would like to consider overland you’ll find more information on the General Assembly website. And, if you haven’t seen it already, make s ...[Read More]

Science bloggers – join the 2016 General Assembly blogroll!

Laura Roberts-Artal March 4, 2016

Will you be blogging at the 2016 General Assembly? Let us know and we’ll add you to our official blogroll! (Credit: EGU/Stephanie McClellan)

Will you be blogging at the 2016 General Assembly? If so, sign up here and we’ll add you to our official blogroll. We will be compiling a list of blogs that feature posts about the EGU General Assembly and making it available on GeoLog, the official blog of the European Geosciences Union. We’d ask you to write posts that relate directly to the Assembly during the conference in Vienna (17 – 22 Apri ...[Read More]