General Assembly

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

Olivia Trani March 7, 2018

PICO presentations at the 2017 General Assembly. (Credit: EGU)

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]

What’s new for the 2018 General Assembly?

Laura Roberts-Artal November 16, 2017

The extra space at the front of the conference center is set to return in 2018. It will provide additional space for posters and PICOs, as well as a dedicated registration space. Credit:EGU/Kai Boggild

Along with our conference organisers, Copernicus, we aim to improve the experience of General Assembly attendees year on year. Following feedback from participants in 2017, we’ll introduce some changes we hope will make the 2018 edition of our meeting even better! This post highlights a few of the changes that returning participants will notice at next year’s conference. An ever-growing numb ...[Read More]

Try something different at EGU 2018– choose a PICO session!

Laura Roberts-Artal November 3, 2017

Lena Noack presenting her research with a PICO presentation at the EGU General Assembly.

Some of the sessions scheduled for the upcoming EGU General Assembly are PICO only sessions. This means that, rather than being oral or poster format, they involve Presenting Interactive COntent (PICO). The aim of these presentations is to highlight the essence of a particular research area – just enough to get the audience excited about a topic without overloading them with information. What’s gr ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: What’s next for the IPCC & how can early career scientists get involved? An interview with Valérie Masson-Delmotte

Sarah Connors June 1, 2016

Valérie Masson-Delmotte. Credit: Pierre Maraval. Rights-free image taken as a part of the “1000 Researchers project”.

This month’s GeoPolicy post is an interview with the newly-appointed co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1 (WG1): Valérie Masson-Delmotte. Valérie is also a Principle Investigator at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Paris. In this interview she discusses how she balances her two roles, what the IPCC has planned over the ...[Read More]