Early Career Scientists

Making a poster or PICO presentation: top tips from the Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award judges

Laura Roberts-Artal April 5, 2016

Reviewing the day’s PICO presentations. (Credit: EGU/Foto Pfluegl)

Every year at the General Assembly hundreds of students present their research at the conference with a lot of time and effort going into preparing these presentations. With the aim to further improve the overall quality of poster presentations and more importantly, to encourage early career scientists to present their work in the form of a poster, the OSP Awards (as they were formerly known), wer ...[Read More]

EGU 2016: Getting to Vienna, getting to sleep and getting to know the city

Laura Roberts-Artal March 23, 2016

Vienna at sunsest. (Credit: Flickr user cadoc)

With the conference less than a month away here is a brief, and by no means comprehensive, introduction of how to get to Vienna and what to do when you’re there! Getting here Vienna’s International Airport is served by many of the major European airlines. If you would like to consider overland you’ll find more information on the General Assembly website. And, if you haven’t seen it already, make s ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: Friction in volcanic environments by Jackie Kendrick

Laura Roberts-Artal March 16, 2016

Geotalk is a regular feature highlighting early career researchers and their work. In this interview we speak to Jackie Kendrick, a volcanologist at the University of Liverpool, and winner of the 2016 GMPV Outstanding Young Scientist Award. The occasion will be marked during the upcoming General Assembly, where you’ll be able to listen to Jackie speak in session GMPV 1.1 on the topic of friction i ...[Read More]

Communicate your Science Video Competition finalists 2016: time to get voting!

Laura Roberts-Artal March 15, 2016

For the third year in a row we’re running the EGU Communicate Your Science Video Competition – the aim being for early career scientists to communicate their research in a short, sweet and public-friendly video. Our judges have now selected 3 fantastic finalists from the excellent entries we received this year and it’s time to find the best geoscience communication clip! The shortlisted videos wil ...[Read More]