ISSUE 14, FEBRUARY 2016 EGU NEWSLETTER Monthly information service for members of the European Geosciences Union Read this email in HTML format at https://www.egu.eu/newsletter/egu/14/email/ ============================================================ HIGHLIGHTS The scientific programme for the EGU 2016 General Assembly (https://egu.eu/6OY6IC) is out tomorrow, and it includes a variety of new sessions as well as old favourites. From Interdisciplinary Events to geoscience Great Debates – a format now being adopted by other geoscience unions (https://egu.eu/45H20V) – the programme has plenty of interesting science to offer. You can also find interesting research in the EGU journals. This month there's a study on screening truffles for radioactivity, published in Biogeosciences (https://egu.eu/519TIE), and one on using temperature-sensing waders and smartphones to collect hydrological data on Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems (https://egu.eu/3P1G6C), among others. ------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE General Assembly EGU News Journal Watch EGU Blogs ------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL ASSEMBLY * The programme for the EGU 2016 General Assembly (https://egu.eu/6OY6IC) will be available tomorrow * EGU Great Debates set the trend (https://egu.eu/45H20V) * Register for the EGU 2016 meeting by 17 March for a reduced registration fee (https://egu.eu/1MDJNF) * Deadline today! Submit up to three photos and one moving image to the Imaggeo Photo Competition (https://imaggeo.egu.eu/photo-contest/) for the chance to win a EGU 2017 registration * [ECS] Communicate your science in a short film (https://egu.eu/3W8XGA) for the chance to win a EGU 2017 registration * [ECS] Science communication opportunity at the EGU General Assembly: be a student reporter (https://egu.eu/3B4DQ2) More about the EGU General Assembly at https://www.egu2016.eu ------------------------------------------------------------ EGU NEWS * Press release on Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems study: Fishing meets science with waders and smartphones (https://egu.eu/6FWGK1) * Press release on Biogeosciences study: Screening truffles for radioactivity 30 years from Chernobyl (https://egu.eu/0ZA1EF) * Press release: Terri Cook and Phil McKenna awarded EGU Science Journalism Fellowship (https://egu.eu/4XIPNW) * Policy-related science (https://egu.eu/69W2O8) * [ECS] Apply to be an EGU division early career scientist representative (https://egu.eu/4KIMLP) * EGU Galileo Conference programme: call for proposals (https://egu.eu/6KJUDP) More EGU news items are available on the EGU website at https://www.egu.eu/news/all/. ------------------------------------------------------------ JOURNAL WATCH Biogeosciences (BG) * Runoff- and erosion-driven transport of cattle slurry: linking molecular tracers to hydrological processes (https://egu.eu/537Y06) * All-clear for gourmets: truffles not radioactive (https://egu.eu/519TIE) * Apparent increase in coccolithophore abundance in the subtropical North Atlantic from 1990 to 2014 (https://egu.eu/87U3J6) Earth Surface Dynamics (ESurf) * Efficacy of bedrock erosion by subglacial water flow (https://egu.eu/1E2OFT) Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems (GI) * Proof of concept: temperature sensing waders for environmental sciences (https://egu.eu/3P1G6C) Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) * Does the Budyko curve reflect a maximum-power state of hydrological systems? A backward analysis (https://egu.eu/2YSCXT) Solid Earth (SE) * Atmospheric significance of aeolian salts in the sandy deserts of northwestern China Integrating a mini catchment with mulching for soil water management in a sloping jujube orchard on the semiarid Loess Plateau of China (https://egu.eu/3G6W2Q) Other papers highlighted by the editors of EGU's open access journals are available online at https://www.egu.eu/news/journal-watch/. ------------------------------------------------------------ EGU BLOGS GeoLog, the official EGU blog * GeoPolicy: Assessing environmental and social impact – applying policy in big industry (https://egu.eu/7RNHFU) * Geosciences Column: An international effort to understand the hazard risk posed by Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha earthquake (https://egu.eu/4N4DS6) * [ECS] GeoTalk: Roelof Rietbroek, Early Career Scientist Representative (https://egu.eu/0RSP8B) * What is in your field rucksack? A trip to Chilean Patagonia (https://egu.eu/48SOZA) EGU blog network * 10 minute interview: Louise Hawkins at AGU 2015 (https://egu.eu/3YJPIA), in Geology Jenga * Guest Blog: Exploring the Sustainable Development Goals at the University of Tübingen (Germany) (https://egu.eu/3T4CDZ), in Geology for Global Development EGU division blogs * Bulgarian seismologists deploy seismic station in Antarctica (https://egu.eu/7RNHFU), in Seismology * How does weather affect volcanoes? (https://egu.eu/1KL6D9), in Atmospheric Sciences * Image of the Week – Changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet Documented by Satellite (https://egu.eu/0MZJKX), in Cryospheric Sciences * The long, long travel from rock to soil (I) (https://egu.eu/0FT60B), in Soil System Sciences * Sky-scraping Biogeoscience at 325m above the Amazonian rainforest (https://egu.eu/8NJ724), in Biogeosciences More posts from the EGU blogs are available at https://blogs.egu.eu/. ------------------------------------------------------------ POLICY Discover EGU's Science for Policy resources (https://www.egu.eu/policy/) & sign up to our database of expertise (https://egu.eu/2JN1DP) to help integrate science in the policy-making process ------------------------------------------------------------ MEETINGS Check the EGU Meetings Calendar for upcoming geoscience conferences: https://www.egu.eu/meetings/calendar/ ------------------------------------------------------------ JOBS Find vacancies in the Earth, planetary and space sciences on the EGU Jobs Portal: https://www.egu.eu/jobs ------------------------------------------------------------ EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS Visit the EGU Early Career Scientists website! https://www.egu.eu/ecs ------------------------------------------------------------ FOLLOW US Web: https://www.egu.eu Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanGeosciencesUnion Twitter: https://twitter.com/EuroGeosciences LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/european-geosciences-union Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/+egu/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/EuroGeosciencesUnion ------------------------------------------------------------ SHARE THIS NEWSLETTER On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//www.egu.eu/newsletter/egu/14/email/ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=News+from+the+EGU%2C%20February%202016%3A%20https%3A//www.egu.eu/newsletter/egu/14/email/ ============================================================ Copyright © 2016 European Geosciences Union. 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