General Assembly

At the Assembly: Monday highlights

Laura Roberts-Artal April 13, 2015

The Austria Vienna Centre. (Credit: Copernicus/EGU)

Welcome to the 2015 General Assembly! This is the first full day of sessions and there’s a feast of them to choose from. Every day we’ll be sharing some super sessions and events at EGU 2015 here on GeoLog and you can complement this information with EGU Today, the daily newsletter of the General Assembly. Of particular importance today is the Union’s Plenary Meeting (UM17) at 12:15 in Room Y1 – i ...[Read More]

Where is the EGU General Assembly?

Laura Roberts-Artal April 10, 2015

The General Assembly is almost here. Presentations are (hopefully!) complete, posters are printed, bags are packed and all you need to do is get to the conference… The Austria Center Vienna (ACV), the Assembly venue, is not far from the city centre and can easily be reached from the airport and central train station. You can get there via the U1, the red line in the underground map below: The ACV ...[Read More]

Blogs and social media at the Assembly – tune in to the conference action

Laura Roberts-Artal April 8, 2015

The view from social media HQ at EGU 2012.

With hundreds of oral presentations, PICO sessions and poster presentations taking place each day, it can be difficult to keep abreast of everything that is on offer during the General Assembly. As well as finding highlights of interesting conference papers, lectures and workshops in the daily newsletter at the General Assembly, EGU Today, you can also keep up to date with all the conference activ ...[Read More]

The Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Awards at EGU 2015

Laura Roberts-Artal April 7, 2015

Presnting posters at the General Assembly.

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 young scientists to present their work in the form of a poster, the OSP Awards were born. The OSP awards are presented a ...[Read More]