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#shareEGU20: Top 10 tips for promoting good online engagement for conveners

Hazel Gibson April 17, 2020

Image credit: Daniela Rapavá (distributed via imaggeo)

So, you’ve taken the plunge – you have decided to upload your materials as an author, or committed to hosting your session with your fellow conveners, or perhaps started to add sessions to your personal programme as a participant. What comes next? Interacting with other researchers using one of our new platforms! During the next two weeks we will post more information about what those platforms wi ...[Read More]

#shareEGU20: the EGU code of conduct

Hazel Gibson April 15, 2020

Image credit: Daniela Rapavá (distributed via imaggeo)

As part of #shareEGU20, EGU’s massive online experiment that will take place from 4-8 May, we are strongly committed to the principles of inclusivity and diversity and therefore require all our members and attendees to treat each other with basic courtesy and respect. This is why you may notice on all our guidelines we state that anyone who participates in #shareEGU20 must behave according to the ...[Read More]

EGU President Alberto Montanari introduces the new EGUsphere

Alberto Montanari March 17, 2020

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) just announced the launch of EGUsphere, a new online platform designed to promote global networking and open discussion within the Earth, planetary and space science community. EGUsphere will serve as a central repository for all contributions, presentations and manuscripts presented to EGU. In particular, EGUsphere will host abstracts and presentations from th ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Cooking crystals in the Earth cauldron

Hazel Gibson February 10, 2020

Cooking crystals in the Earth cauldron. Credit: Julien Leuthold (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

This picture shows a 30 micrometer thick rock section of a gabbro from the Rum Layered Intrusion (Scotland). Large clinopyroxene crystals are enclosed in a foliated fine grained groundmass of plagioclase and olivine. The clinopyroxene core crystallized at an early stage, at 1160°C. They were partly molten at 1200°C during successive hot magma injections and subsequently recrystallized, enclosing h ...[Read More]