Each year EGU presents several keynote sessions called the Union Symposia and Great Debates. These Union-wide events are carefully selected each year to cover topics that are of broad interest to our members, regardless of which Division or field of Geoscience they most closely associate with. During the two weeks of the meeting we shared ten Great Debates and Union Symposia streamed live d ...[Read More]
What’s on at vEGU21: the keynote sessions
Each year EGU presents several keynote sessions called the Union Symposia and Great Debates. These Union-wide events are carefully selected each year to cover topics that are of broad interest to our members, regardless of which Division or field of Geoscience they most closely associate with. With the exception of GDB1, all the Great Debates and Union Symposia will take place in week one o ...[Read More]
New for EGU in 2020
2020 was a year of new challenges and new ways of working for many. As thousands of people began working in news ways, embracing digital life even more than had previously been imagined, EGU was also trying new things – not least of which our emergency online replacement for the General Assembly in the spring of 2020: Sharing Geoscience Online. Because of the number of changes we went throug ...[Read More]
The benefits of online writing retreats in these weird times
The world shut down due to COVID-19, but PhDs did not. During these unfamiliar times, most PhD students have found themselves working from home trying more than ever to write as much as possible. Over the past few of months, I have led several online writing retreats in collaboration with doctoral research schools and universities in Norway. They seem to have been very successful to help PhD’s wi ...[Read More]