EGU News
18 April 2013
Looking back at the EGU 2013 General Assembly
This year’s General Assembly, which took place last week in Vienna, was rich in scientific achievements, international discussions and interesting new features. The numbers of presentations, over 13,300, and of participants, over 11,100 from 95 countries, were similar to last year, but this year’s novelties made the difference and greatly contributed to the success of the meeting, the most interactive to date. [ Read more ]
04 April 2013
Launching a new EGU interactive open access journal, ESurf
Earth Surface Dynamics (ESurf) is the newest international scientific journal of the EGU. It is dedicated to the publication and discussion of high-quality research on the physical, chemical and biological processes shaping Earth’s surface and their interactions on all scales. [ Read more ]
04 April 2013
Austrian Science and Research Minister at the EGU General Assembly
Karlheinz Töchterle, the Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research, will attend the EGU Award Ceremony where he will give a presentation on the future of geosciences in Europe. [ Read more ]
04 March 2013
March edition of the EGU newsletter, GeoQ, now published!
Don’t miss the Articles section, the letter from the EGU Awards Committee Chair Alberto Montanari in EGU Voice, and a very interesting Education article featuring micropalaeontology activities for the classroom. The pieces in the External News section are also of mention: one introduces the Future Earth initiative and the other a science policy programme from the other side of the Atlantic. [ Read more ]
22 February 2013
Job opportunity at the EGU Executive Office: Educational Fellow
We intend to appoint a Fellow to expand the Union’s educational programme with activities that are targeted directly at school students. These activities will complement our current efforts, such as the Geosciences Information for Teachers workshop (GIFT), which are aimed primarily at teachers. The Fellow will further assist our Education Committee with an EGU-UNESCO collaboration intended to expand GIFT to Africa. [ Read more ]
10 December 2012
Special edition of GeoQ dedicated to the 10 years of EGU
The December issue of the EGU’s quarterly newsletter is now published online. This special edition of GeoQ celebrates a major milestone in the Union’s history, its 10th anniversary, by telling its story and showing a glimpse into its future. This issue further sheds light on the EGU’s unique relationship with conference-organiser and publisher Copernicus, and on the workings of our Munich office. [ Read more ]
04 December 2012
Results of the EGU Autumn 2012 elections
The EGU election for the next Treasurer and Division Presidents closed on 01 December. The results are now available on the Elections page of this website. The EGU is thankful to all those who used their voting right. Active participation in elections ensures continuation of the well-established bottom-up structure of our Union! [ Read more ]
09 November 2012
Applying for financial support to attend the General Assembly
A limited amount of the overall budget of the EGU General Assembly is reserved to assist young scientists who wish to present at the meeting. Scientists who wish to apply for financial support should submit an abstract, on which they are first authors, by 30 November 2012. [ Read more ]
02 November 2012
Voting for the next EGU Treasurer and Division Presidents now open!
From now until 1 December 2012, EGU members can vote in the Autumn 2012 EGU Election. If you are an active member of the Union, you should have already received an email with a personalised voting link. Remember that active participation in EGU elections ensures continuation of the well-established bottom-up structure of our Union! [ Read more ]
25 October 2012
EGU Seismology Division reacts to the L’Aquila verdict
On Monday 22 October, an Italian judge sentenced seven members of Italy’s National Commission for the Forecast and Prevention of Major Risks, six scientists and a former government official, to six years in jail for manslaughter for providing “inexact, incomplete and contradictory” information to the public before an earthquake hit the town of L’Aquila, Italy, in 2009. The EGU’s Seismology Division has reacted to the verdict on their Division page with a statement that provides some insight on the possible consequences this case may have for the dialogue between science and society, and for scientific research itself. [ Read more ]