Open Access

Upload your 2015 General Assembly presentation

Laura Roberts-Artal May 6, 2015

PICO presentations at the 2015 General Assembly in Vienna. (Credit: Stephanie McClellan/EGU).

This year it is once again possible to upload your oral presentations, PICO presentations and posters from EGU 2015 for online publication alongside your abstract, giving all participants a chance to revisit your contribution – hurrah for open science! Files can be in either PowerPoint or PDF format. Note that presentations will be distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence. Up ...[Read More]

Communication and Education in Geoscience: Practice, Research and Reflection

Laura Roberts-Artal May 1, 2015

In this guest blog post, an international group of researchers discusses a recent communication and education session that they convened at EGU’s 2015 General Assembly. If you are involved in any of these disciplines, we’d love to hear your opinions on how you think their practitioners are currently viewed, both within the geosciences and by the general public. We look forward to your comments. Th ...[Read More]

The best of Imaggeo in 2014: in pictures.

Laura Roberts-Artal January 2, 2015

From the rifting of the African continent, to mighty waterfalls in Slovenia, through to a bird’s eye view of the Glarus Thurst in the Alps, images from Imaggeo, the EGU’s open access geosciences image repository, they have given us some stunning views of the geoscience of Planet Earth and beyond. In this post we have curated some of our favourites, including header images from across our social me ...[Read More]

GeoEd: Citizen Geoscience

Laura Roberts-Artal December 5, 2014

Hiking to a survey site (Citizen Science). (Author: GlacierNPS; Uploaded by AlbertHerring, distributed by Wikimedia Commons)

In this month’s GeoEd column, Sam Illingworth tells us about the growing use of Citizen Science within research as a means of acquiring data. Whilst the practice is novel and offers exciting opportunities as to volumes of data collected Sam highlights the importance of appropriately crediting the work of the willing volunteers. Citizen Science is a phrase that is currently de rigour in scientific ...[Read More]