At the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 there are a variety of union wide sessions. Some of these are summarised below, with the others (such as Short Courses, GeoCinema) following in a Part II post. Union Meetings These are meetings that are open to members of the union, some are invitation only (noted). A key Union Meeting to which all are encouraged to attend is UM1: Plenary in ...[Read More]
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Jobs (and Education) at EGU GA 2011
There are several items at the General Assembly related to Jobs and Education this year. These are the Job and Education market, online job and CV postings and physical poster boards at the Austria Center Vienna itself. Job and Education market At the General Assembly there will again be a Job and Education market. This will be situated on the Blue level (basement) (Stage, M1–M9), a list of exhibi ...[Read More]
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Imaggeo Mondays: Time to Leaf
Photo by Albin Hammerle, distributed by the EGU under a Creative Commons Licence. Imaggeo is the online open access geosciences image repository of the European Geosciences Union. Every geoscientist who is an amateur photographer (but also other people) can submit their images to this repository. Being open access, it can be used by scientists for their presentations or publications as well as by ...[Read More]
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Sessions at the General Assembly Related to Recent Natural Hazard Events
There are two additional Union Symposia (US) that have been added to the EGU General Assembly 2011 Programme. Union Symposia 4 (US4) The 22 February 2011 Christchurch Earthquake will be in Room D, on Thursday 7 April from 08:30–10:15. Union Symposia (US5) The 11 March 2011 Tohoku (Sendai) Earthquake and Tsunami will be in Room D, on Friday 8 April from 08:30–10:00. For both sessions further detail ...[Read More]
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Experiences of the EGU General Assembly
For those of you who maybe attending the General Assembly for the first time, you may be wondering what it’s like from a participant’s point of view. The short piece below gives one person’s views of attending the General Assembly in 2010. I attended EGU last year for the first time. When I arrived there the feeling was just ”WOW!”. EGU General Assembly is such a huge conference! ...[Read More]
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Weblinks relevant to the Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami [Updated 31 March]
This blogpost is a round-up of potentially useful weblinks to information about the Sendai, Japan earthquake of 11 March 2011. This post is a summary of what is out there as a resource, not European Geosciences Union endorsed links. There is a Supersite for the Sendai Earthquake which is a collection of preliminary data and research. This has a lot of information contained within the page and link ...[Read More]
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Imaggeo Mondays: Seattle Waterfront
Photo by Chris Kidd, distributed by EGU under a Creative Commons License. The photograph illustrates how dependent we are on the environment around us. Here, along the waterfront in Seattle, water is used for transporting people and goods, oceans are used to access raw materials and there is the aesthetic appeal of ‘the sea’. All of this is not without hazards, from the water itself an ...[Read More]
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EGU Journals: Special Edition of NHESS
The latest edition of NHESS (Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences) features a post-face by Münch et al. summarising the special issue which has 22 peer-reviewed papers concerning the GITEWS (German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System) project. Münch et al. (2011) state how the idea for the special issue of NHESS was formulated at the EGU General Assembly in 2009. The papers cover all aspe ...[Read More]
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Imaggeo on Mondays: Salt Lake of Salt Dame of Qum
Image by Saeed Jabbari Boukani, distributed by EGU under a Creative Commons licence. The Qom salt dome is located at 25 km northwest of Qom city and to the north of the main Saveh-Qom road. Its structural position is in the western of Alborz anticlinal system of the Qom Alborz range and approximately which is of Mio-Pliocene age. It has a regular gentle morphological shape. It covers an area about ...[Read More]
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Success of Biogeosciences [EGU Open Access Journal]
On the EGU news page of the EGSS, the newsletter of EGU, there’s a story about the success of Biogeosciences, one of EGU’s Open Access Journals. The Thomson Journal Citation Reports for 2009 gave Biogeosciences an Impact Factor of 3.246 and an Article Impact Score of 1.538, with over one meaning a journal article has above average influence.