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: Geoscience Games Night – LIVE!
The last two years, myself and the Games4Geo crew (Sam, Rolf, Jaz and Liz) have had an absolute blast running the Geoscience Games Night. We have been blown away by your enthusiasm to share and play geoscience games. Who would have thought we’d have managed to bring together over 300 geoscientists to play games but take a look back at last year’s Games Night – it was rammed and people were p ...[Read More]
#shareEGU20: how to participate in the live-streamed sessions
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]
GeoPolicy: Science in policymaking: Who is responsible?
Should scientists actively approach policymakers in order to guide their decision-making processes, or is it the policymakers’ responsibility to seek scientific advice? In the first of the Great Debates at this year’s European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna a mixed panel of policymakers and geoscientists tried to answer who should be responsible for making sure that science was used ...[Read More]