EGU General Assembly

Shape the EGU 2018 scientific programme: Call-for-sessions is open!

Laura Roberts-Artal July 26, 2017

From now until 8 September 2017, take an active part in organizing the scientific programme of the conference. Credit: EGU/Pflugel

Do you enjoy the EGU’s annual General Assembly but wish you could play a more active role in shaping the scientific programme? Now is your chance! From today, until 8 Sep 2017, you can suggest: Sessions (with conveners and description), or; Modifications to the existing skeleton programme sessions NEW! Suggestions for Short courses (SC) will also take place during this period From now until 18 Jan ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: The life and death of an ocean – is the Atlantic Ocean on its way to closing?

Laura Roberts-Artal June 23, 2017

João during his medal lecture at the General Assembly in 2017. Credit: EGU/Pflugel

Geotalk is a regular feature highlighting early career researchers and their work. Following the EGU General Assembly, we spoke to João Duarte, the winner of a 2017 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists. João is a pioneer in his field. He has innovatively combined tectonic, marine geology and analogue modelling techniques to further our understanding of subduction initiation ...[Read More]

Cartooning science at EGU 2017 with Matthew Partridge (a.k.a Errant Science)

Laura Roberts-Artal June 16, 2017

The Geology Badger. Credit: Matthew Partridge, distributed via Errant Science.

Most researchers are regular conference-goers. Tell a geoscientist you are attending the EGU General Assembly and they will most likely picture rooms full of people listening to a miriad of talks, many an hour chatting to colleagues old and new and you desperately trying to find your way around the maze that is the Austria Centre Vienna (where the conference is held). Describing your experiences t ...[Read More]

A young person’s journey through the largest geoscience conference in Europe

Pimnutcha Promduangsri May 24, 2017

Standing in front of my poster with Silvia Peppoloni, who convened the session on geoethics at the EGU conference. I always smile when I am with her! (Photo by David Crookall)

Today we welcome, potentially one of the youngest participants of this year’s General Assembly, Pimnutcha Promduangsri: a 17-year-old science baccalaureate student at Auguste Renoir high school in Cagnes-sur-mer, France, as our guest blogger. With a deep interest in the environment and taking care of the environment, Pimnutcha was a keen participant at the conference and gave an oral presentation ...[Read More]