Participants of the EGU GA 2010 should have received an email including a link to the EGU GA 2010 Feedback Questionnaire. Last year (2009), the GA feedback form asked 19 questions. 1,549 responses were received which helped make many important decisions for the EGU GA 2010 and general EGU council decisions. This year, EGU GA …[Read More]
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EGU General Assembly Twitter Account
As the skeleton programme is being put together and in advance of the Public Call-for-Session Proposals (20 July – 10 September 2010) the EGU GA Twitter Account has been changed to @egu2011. The tweets about the EGU GA 2010 are there as we’ve just changed the name. If you followed the account you will automatically …[Read More]
Why I Blog series at the Plainspoken Scientist
The American Geophysical Union’s Plainspoken Scientist blog has the first of a series on “Why I Blog” by Geoscience bloggers. Its worth checking out, they’ve put a request out on twitter for anyone else who wants to post.
Videos on the EGU2010 homepage
There are two videos up on the homepage. One is a message from Johannes Hahn, the European Commissioner for regional policy, the other is asummary of images from the EGU GA 2010, it’s called a trailer, and could be for the EGU GA 2011.
EGU GA Attendees
The break down of the countries that EGU GA 2010 attendees come from is on the frontpage of the EGU GA 2010 website. Just under 80% attendees come from Europe, followed by around 10% from North America and 7% from Asia.
EGU GA 2010 in the Media
The EGU Press Office has a round-up of European Geosciences Union General Assembly items in the news media from around Europe on their webpage.
EGU GA 2010 Around the Blogosphere
Here’s a quick round-up of coverage of the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010 from around the blogosphere (the usual disclaimer that these are not views of the EGU, more letting people know what’s out there). From the EGU GA 2010 Blog Roll, Dave Pettley blogged about several landslide related sessions, including the Sergei Soloviev …[Read More]
EGU GA 2010 Closing Lecture
New this year at EGU GA 2010 is the closing session by Jan Smits on The 30th anniversary of the discovery of the iridium anomaly at the Cretaceous Paleogene boundary: The state of the Chicxulub impact-extinction theory in Room D from 17:30 to 18:30. Some brief stats on EGU GA 2010: 4,431 oral and 9,370 …[Read More]
US7 Eyjafjallajökull – eruption, plume, and consequences
In the context of recent airspace closures the poster session for US7 Eyjafjallajökull – eruption, plume, and consequences was held on Wednesday 5th May at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly. Poster topics included effects of the ash cloud (including impact on air quality of the airspace closure), monitoring information, whether Spain could be a …[Read More]
Geosciences and Web 2.0 at EGU GA 2010
The Educational and Outreach Symposia at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010 cover a variety of topics. Several include examples of best practice. Virtual conferences and observatories are covered in ST6/EOS9 as described in the below guest blog from Sini Merikallio of the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Thursday in Room 29, 10:30-12:00 in ST6/EOS9 Best …[Read More]