General Assembly

GeoPolicy: Communicating A Global Climate Crisis – your questions answered!

Chloe Hill August 7, 2020

EGU Union Session (Credit: Kai Boggild, EGU 2017).

A wide variety of webinar sessions were streamed during EGU 2020’s Sharing Geoscience Online, including all of the Great Debates and Union Symposia. The sessions were very well attended, with some sessions having over 700 participants. An extremely high level of engagement meant that in many cases not all of the participants’ questions could be answered in the available time. Union Symposium ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: Getting involved with science for policy during #shareEGU20!

Chloe Hill May 1, 2020

Image credit: Daniela Rapavá (distributed via imaggeo)

This year, EGU’s science-policy related sessions will be run a little bit differently! In case you haven’t already heard, EGU will be hosting EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online (#shareEGU20) from 4-8 May 2020 in place of the physical General Assembly. While this fully online event is in response to the COVID-19 crisis, it is also an opportunity to experiment with online networking and ...[Read More]

EGU General Assembly 2020 cancellation: Alberto Montanari and Susanne Buiter talk about the decision – and what comes next

Hazel Gibson March 19, 2020

Our members come from all over the globe to attend the EGU General Assembly. By providing support through EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online this year we hope that many of these will still be able to share their innovative and exciting research together.

On 19 March EGU announced that it has cancelled the physical EGU General Assembly 2020 in Vienna, Austria. We spoke to the Union President Alberto Montanari and Programme Committee Chair Susanne Buiter to get some more information about what this means, how this decision was made and what comes next. Hello Alberto and Susanne, thank you for answering my questions. Today we found out the EGU ...[Read More]

Accessibility at EGU: Top 10 tips for visually accessible presenting – the sequel!

Hazel Gibson March 4, 2020

EGU Union Session (Credit: Kai Boggild, EGU 2017).

Do you remember a time when everyone else around you started laughing, but you didn’t notice a joke? By designing presentations that are inaccessible – either in PICO, poster or oral presentation format – sometimes people in your audience have this experience of feeling left out. Last month we posted our top 10 tips for making a presentation ‘accessible’ following the announcement that EGU ...[Read More]