A couple of weeks ago we outlined the ways in which we will be participating in the EGU General Assembly taking place in Vienna next week. We’re currently asking a few of the GfGD team who are attending to give us an outline of the sessions that caught their eye and to tell us more about their roles at the event. Yesterday Jane Robb outlined a number of sessions, and today it is the turn of Rosalie Tostevin.
Rosalie Tostevin (UCL PhD Student / GfGD Himalaya Programme Officer)
“You’ll find me in the press office at EGU 2014, where I’ll be attending press conferences and blogging about them here on the GfGD Blog. The press conferences have been arranged by EGU to highlight exciting recent developments in geoscience, and they can all be streamed online for free. They cover topics from how coffee residues can absorb pollutants to the latest briefing from the IPCC. I’m particularly looking forward to a press conference on the great oxidation event, a topic close to my heart and my PhD research.
As Himalaya Programme officer for GfGD, I’ll also be attending sessions on hazards, communication and geoeducation. On Tuesday at 16.15, I’ll be giving a talk about our work to equip students to contribute to development through a geohazards education project in Ladakh, India (session NH9.8). I plan to attend a pop-up session on Monday for tip-offs of any interesting posters or talks that relate to GfGD (a splinter meeting linked to NH9.4). I’ll also be around for the GfGD Splinter meeting on Thursday.
This year’s Great Debates include ‘Metals in our backyard: to mine or not to mine’ and ‘Geoengineering the climate: the way forward?’, and I’ll be participating in both. ‘The Role of Geoscientists in Public Policy’, is a union wide session and is also on my agenda.
Sometimes you have to go to Vienna to catch up with people based in other institutions, so I’ll be hoping to arrange meetings with GfGD colleagues from around the country whilst we’re all in one place. And of course I hope to find time to sample some Austrian beer.”
Rosalie will be blogging here, and tweeting (@RosalieTostevin and @Geo_Dev). The conference hashtag is #EGU2014.
