GeoPolicy

GeoPolicy: A window into a career in Science Policy, as EGU’s first Policy Intern.

Ned Staniland September 4, 2020

Photo Credit: Ned Staniland

My name is Ned Staniland and I am a third year PhD student in space physics at Imperial College London. I study the magnetic field of Saturn using data from the Cassini-Huygens mission that was launched in 1997. In July 2020, I was lucky enough to be EGU’s first intern where I worked in their policy and communications team. Finding an Internship Since the beginning of my PhD, I have kept an eye ...[Read More]

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]

GeoPolicy: Interview with the former President of the European Research Council – Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

Chloe Hill March 13, 2020

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon speaking during the EGU's Sahping EU Missions event

I recently had the honour of interviewing Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, who completed his six-year term as the President of the European Research Council (ERC) at the end of 2019. As an award-winning mathematician, he has been a fellow of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique for most of his career. Bourguignon held a Professor position at École Polytechnique (1986-2012) and served ...[Read More]