This year on the EGU General Assembly blog there will be guest posts from participants about their research and their impressions of sessions. These are personal points of view not EGU corporate views. If you would like to contribute a research or session viewpoint, please email us. This perspective from the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 is from Marianne Corvellec a PhD student ...[Read More]
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Webstreams from the EGU GA 2011
All the webstreamed events at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly are available online still. Please share with those you think will find them useful. Webstreaming Page. The events from the EGU GA 2011 that are available are: US1 A Planet Under Pressure US2 The Future of Water Cycle Earth Observing Systems US3 How Science Can Aid Society in Tackling Emerging Risks US4 The 22 February 2 ...[Read More]
Can Europe use less of these metals?
Can Europe use less of these metals? How much of this demand is driven by our throw-away culture? There has been little response to the last blogpost, does everyone agree with the panel or everyone agee with the questioner? Please start the conversation here… For the Great Debate Webstream please visit the EGU GA 2011 webstreaming pages. The session details can be found on the EGU General As ...[Read More]
Perspectives from EGU GA 2011 (4)
This year on the EGU General Assembly blog there will be guest posts from participants about their research and their impressions of sessions. These are personal points of view not EGU corporate views. If you would like to contribute a research or session viewpoint, please email us. This viewpoint is James Pope concerning the Union Masterclass (webstream available here). James is a PhD student at ...[Read More]
EGU GA 2011 in the news
Items from the European Geosciences Union General Assembly are featured prominently on the BBC’s Science and Environment pages. The current top story is about “Thuderstorms numbers calculated” (link). The top story for some time yesterday (Wednesday) was Climate ‘fix’ may warm, not cool, again directly related to research presented at the EGU General Assembly. If you ...[Read More]
Perspectives from EGU GA 2011 (3)
This year on the EGU General Assembly blog there will be guest posts from participants about their research and their impressions of sessions. These are personal points of view not EGU corporate views. If you would like to contribute a research viewpoint, please email us. This post comes from Aidan Slingsby of City University, London, who looks at how we make sense of large datasets using visualis ...[Read More]
Sustainable Development and the Great Debate
The Great Debate at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 considered How will Europe face the raw materials crisis?, you can watch the debate online and the session details are here. Someone in the audience (around 70′) at the Great Debate questioned using the model of increasing consumption driving increasing metal use and advocated a sustainable development model. None of th ...[Read More]
Research Viewpoints from EGU GA 2011 (2)
This year on the EGU General Assembly blog there will be guest posts from participants about their research and their impressions of sessions. These are personal points of view not EGU corporate views. If you would like to contribute a research viewpoint, please email us. This Research Perspective comes from Luís Costa, a PhD student at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. He will pr ...[Read More]
Viewpoints from EGU GA 2011: Communicating Natural Hazard Risks
This year on the EGU General Assembly blog there will be guest posts from participants about their research and their impressions of sessions. These are personal points of view not EGU corporate views. If you would like to contribute a research viewpoint, please email us. This viewpoint is from Catherine O’Riordan, Vice President of Physics Resources Center, American Institute of Physics, reflects ...[Read More]
Research Viewpoints from EGU GA 2011
This year on the EGU General Assembly blog there will be guest posts from participants about their research and their impressions of sessions. These are personal points of view not EGU corporate views. If you would like to contribute a research viewpoint, please email us.