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GeoLog

GeoPolicy: Hazards, climate impacts, resources – Supporting science-based policy at EGU16

March 24, 2016
GeoPolicy: Hazards, climate impacts, resources – Supporting science-based policy at EGU16

As researchers, we spend a lot of time and energy trying to extend the limits of our scientific knowledge, but how much of our new findings can be translated into policies, and what are the best practices for doing this? A multitude of science-policy-related sessions are scheduled at this year’s general assembly (GA), spanning most of the EGU divisions. This month’s GeoPolicy post highlights a sel ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoPolicy: Assessing environmental and social impact – applying policy in big industry

February 17, 2016
GeoPolicy: Assessing environmental and social impact – applying policy in big industry

Former EGU Science Communications Fellow Edvard Glücksman is our second guest blogger for the newly established EGUPolicy column. Edvard is a Senior Environmental & Social Specialist at the UK-based consultancy Wardell Armstrong and an External Stakeholder Affiliate at the University of Exeter. He describes his work along the research-policy-industry interface. The collapse of a wastewater dam ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoPolicy: An overview of EU funding for the Earth, atmosphere, and space sciences

January 13, 2016
GeoPolicy: An overview of EU funding for the Earth, atmosphere, and space sciences

Are you thinking of applying for funding? Or are you considering a career in academia and want to know where your research funding could come from? The European Union (EU) has large financial resources available for academic scientific research and innovation (R&I). This is in addition to national government funding bodies. This blog post, the 5th in the EGU’s GeoPolicy series, introduces R&am ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoPolicy: What was decided from the Paris COP21?

December 16, 2015
GeoPolicy: What was decided from the Paris COP21?

Last week saw the world’s leaders come together in Paris for the 21st ‘Conference of the Parties’ (aka COP21) to discuss climate change. The 12 day meeting saw over 50,000 participants (half of which from Government organisations) come to reach an agreement on limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) production. Background Manmade climate change, resulting from the increased production of GHG into the atmosp ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoPolicy: An expert discussion on ozone – working at the science-policy interface

December 2, 2015
GeoPolicy: An expert discussion on ozone – working at the science-policy interface

Erika von Schneidemesser is our first guest blogger for the newly established EGUPolicy column. Erika is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies based in Potsdam, Germany. Her post gives an insight into working at the science-policy interface by describing a recent project she has been involved in. As scientists and researchers we are increasingly being asked to c ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoPolicy: EGU sciences on debate at the European Parliament

November 13, 2015
GeoPolicy: EGU sciences on debate at the European Parliament

The adoption of legislation within the European Union (EU) is a complex process involving many steps. In my first blog post in this GeoPolicy series I highlighted an example of this process. Several draft legislation pieces are currently being assessed within the European Parliament (EP) and Council of Ministers (Council) that have been influenced by EGU-related science. This blog post summarises ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoPolicy: What science policy & the European Union mean to EGU members

October 16, 2015
GeoPolicy: What science policy & the European Union mean to EGU members

Since joining the EGU over a month ago as the Union’s Policy Fellow, Sarah Connors, has been hard at work getting to grips with the political landscape of the European Union and the role Earth scientists and EGU members at large can play in policy making. This is post the first of the new GeoPolicy Column. During her one year term Sarah will regularly contribute content to GeoLog on all things pol ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Bringing scientists and teachers together for the Cape Town GIFT workshop

February 2, 2024
Bringing scientists and teachers together for the Cape Town GIFT workshop

Many teachers follow path writ by a particular diction, which reads “lifelong learning”. There is no other way, actually, to keep track of all of these fast changing issues and challenges of today’s world, which, in many ways, touch geoscientific topics (climate change, food security, geopolitics, to name but a few). Consequently many teachers are eager to learn from science as much as they can in ...[Read More]

CR
Cryospheric Sciences

Ice-Hot News – You have a “cool” new Policy Point of Contact in the Cryosphere Division!

February 2, 2024
Ice-Hot News – You have a “cool” new Policy Point of Contact in the Cryosphere Division!

At the 2023 EGU General Assembly, our cryosphere division members all voted “YES!” to have a division policy point of contact! If you’re wondering how to engage in science policy at our division level, what a division policy officer does, who was named and what happened next… This blog post should answer a lot of these questions (or I hope)! First off, a little history about how policy officers ca ...[Read More]

HS
Hydrological Sciences

A lot of hydrology at EGU23, again!

and April 12, 2023
A lot of hydrology at EGU23, again!

EGU General Assembly 2023 is coming soon, 23–28 April 2023, with more than 16,000 presentations (orals, posters, and PICOs) that will be delivered and viewed both onsite in Vienna (Austria Center Vienna) and virtually (through Gather.Town). Great news this year: The poster sessions are back, and all formats (orals, posters and PICOs) will have a hybrid component, offering, in different ways, means ...[Read More]