There are nine Short Courses at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011. Short courses are opportunities to learn about a subject or further your knowledge in a particular area, the length of the courses ranges from 1.5 hours to a whole day. The short courses at this year’s General Assembly are listed below. Some courses (SC5, SC6, SC7) require contact with the convenors in adva ...[Read More]
Christchurch NZ Earthquake
You may have seen that there was an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 that struck Christchurch, New Zealand at 1251 local time on Tuesday. Christchurch experienced an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 in September 2010. For more information you may be interested in the following links: The USGS and BGS have information pages on the 22 February earthquake. The New Zealand Herald reports that ice was shaken loo ...[Read More]
EGU General Assembly 2011 Programme
The EGU GA 2011 Programme is now online. The scientific programme of the General Assembly 2011 includes Union Symposia, Interdivision Sessions, Educational and Outreach Symposia, as well as oral and poster sessions on disciplinary and interdisciplinary topics covering the full spectrum of the geosciences and the space and planetary sciences. Furthermore, Key Note and Medal Lectures, Great Debates ...[Read More]
Imaggeo on Mondays: Vatnajokull glacier from a plane
Image by: Lamquin Nicolas ,CNRS/IPSL LMD, Paris – France , distributed by EGU under a Creative Commons licence. The third biggest ice cap in the world, the Vatnajokull in Iceland, seen from plane, taken October 1, 2008. Imaggeo is the online open access geosciences image repository of the European Geosciences Union. Every geoscientist who is an amateur photographer (but also other people) ca ...[Read More]