Blogging

GeoPolicy: What are European Commission Consultations and how can scientists contribute?

Chloe Hill August 30, 2017

The European Commission requires both expert advice and an understanding of public opinion to steer policy and draft new EU legislation proposals that will be introduced to both the Council and the EU Parliament to debate. The EU Commission regularly hosts hearings, workshops, expert groups and consultations to gain valuable insights, prompt discussion and help draft policy. These forums may be r ...[Read More]

Communicate Your Science Competition Winner Announced!

Laura Roberts-Artal April 28, 2017

Congratulations to Elisha Teo, the winner of the Communicate Your Science Video Competition 2017. Elisha is a PhD Candidate at National University of Singapore. Display "Teo Lost Rivers" from YouTube Click here to display content from YouTube. Learn more in YouTube’s privacy policy (opens in a new tab). Please enable JavaScript in your browser to load this content. Always display content ...[Read More]

Announcing the winners of the EGU Photo Contest 2017!

Laura Roberts-Artal April 28, 2017

The selection committee received over 300 photos for this year’s EGU Photo Contest, covering fields across the geosciences. Participants at the 2017 General Assembly have been voting for their favourites throughout the week of the conference and there are three clear winners. Congratulations to 2017’s fantastic photographers! Penitentes in the Andes by Christoph Schmidt (distributed by imaggeo.eg ...[Read More]

Blogs and social media at EGU 2017 – tune in to the conference action

Laura Roberts-Artal April 4, 2017

With hundreds of oral presentations, PICO sessions and poster presentations taking place each day, it can be difficult to keep abreast of everything that is on offer during the General Assembly. As well as finding highlights of interesting conference papers, lectures and workshops in the daily newsletter at the General Assembly, EGU Today, you can also keep up to date with all the conference activ ...[Read More]

Science bloggers – join the 2017 General Assembly blogroll!

Laura Roberts-Artal March 29, 2017

Will you be blogging at the 2017 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 (23 – 28 Apri ...[Read More]

Announcing the winner of the EGU Best Blog Post of 2016 Competition

Laura Roberts-Artal January 18, 2017

There is no doubt that 2016 was packed full of exciting, insightful and informative blog posts. An impressive 360 posts were published across the EGU’s official blog, GeoLog, as well as the network and division blogs! In December, to celebrate the excellent display of science writing across the network and division blogs, we launched the EGU Blogs competition. From a list of posts selected by our ...[Read More]

Looking back at the EGU Blogs in 2016: a competition

Laura Roberts-Artal December 23, 2016

The past 12 months has seen an impressive 360 posts published across the EGU’s official blog, GeoLog, as well as the network and division blogs. From a lighthearted Aprils Fools’ Day post featuring an extreme chromatic phenomenon (otherwise known as FIB); through to how climate change is affecting mountain plant’s sex ratios; features on natural hazard events throughout the year and children’s dis ...[Read More]

This calls for a celebration: GeoLog’s 1000 post!

Laura Roberts-Artal September 30, 2016

As far as blogging milestones go, today is pretty special. This is GeoLog’s 1000 post! Since the EGU’s official blog launched back in March 2010 (that’s right, there’s over 6 years of back catalogue for you to enjoy!), we’ve shared posts about research spanning almost every discipline in the Earth sciences; highlighted member’s adventures in the field and showcased the work of outstanding early ca ...[Read More]

Revamping the EGU blog network: call for bloggers

Bárbara Ferreira July 26, 2016

The EGU blog network is getting a make-over! Since 2013 the network blogs have enjoyed thought-provoking and engaging contributions by Simon Redfern, Dan Schillereff and Laura Roberts, Jon Tennant, as well as Will Morgan on a range of topics: from the workings of the inner Earth, through to geomorphology, palaeontology and air quality. However, the individual circumstances of the bloggers now mean ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: 8 ways to engage with policy makers

Sarah Connors July 13, 2016

Scientific research is usually verbally communicated to policy officials or through purposefully written documents. This occurs at all levels of governance (local, national, and international). This month’s GeoPolicy post takes a look at the main methods in which scientists can assist in the policy process and describes a new method adopted by the European Commission (EC) that aims to enhance scie ...[Read More]