The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is offering fellowships for journalists to report on ongoing research in the geosciences. Successful applicants will receive up to €5k to cover expenses related to their projects, including following scientists on location. The EGU invites proposals from professional, active journalists to report in the working media on ongoing research within the earth, planet ...[Read More]
Glacial Balance
Some of you may know me already since Jennifer was kind enough to introduce me in a previous blog post. For those of you who don’t, I am EGU’s Media and Communications Officer, who joined the EGU Executive Office in Munich in early September. One of the perks of this job is receiving e-mails advertising interesting and exciting geosciences-related initiatives. In my first post on the EGU blog, I’d ...[Read More]
Job Opportunity at the EGU Executive Office
The EGU is seeking to appoint a Science Communications Fellow to start in January 2012. The successful candidate will work on the EGU Newsletter and assist the Media and Communications Officer in developing media-related and science information communications. The post is initially for six months and can be extended for a further six months. Informal enquiries can be made to the Media and Communic ...[Read More]
New official twitter account for the EGU: @EuroGeosciences
The European Geosciences Union has a new official twitter account: @EuroGeosciences. This account will be a constant account throughout the year, replacing @egu2011 (which replaced @egu2010). It will have news from the EGU year round, along with General Assembly items for the EGU GA 2012 and beyond. This is the first of several developments concerning media and social media activities of the Europ ...[Read More]