ISSUE 15, MARCH 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/15/email/ ============================================================ HIGHLIGHTS With the EGU General Assembly just a couple of weeks away, this month we offer tips and tricks on getting to Vienna and navigating the city (https://egu.eu/6JVIXG), and on presenting your work (https://egu.eu/0BJRLW) at #EGU16. We have also put together a list of short courses (https://egu.eu/6DFS21), especially with early career scientists (ECS) in mind, as well as policy-relevant sessions (https://egu.eu/2OP9HG). If this is your first time at the EGU General Assembly, you may want to attend a short course on Monday 18 April on how to navigate the conference (https://egu.eu/6Q7LO5), and check our first-timers’ guide (https://egu.eu/5B8XFN). To play an active role in celebrating the theme of the meeting, don’t forget to contribute your own My Active Planet photo (https://egu2016.eu/active_planet.html), which will be displayed on a large world map in the entrance hall. Once in Vienna, don't miss the dedicated theme lectures, nor the EGU plenary, the main meeting for bringing forward new ideas to the EGU. Keep checking the EGU blogs (https://blogs.egu.eu) for more General Assembly highlights over the next few weeks. In other news, this month the EGU became a signatory of Open Access 2020 (https://egu.eu/4WF8EO), an international initiative to promote the transition of today’s scholarly journals from subscription to open access publishing. The move reinforces EGU’s support for free and open access to knowledge. ------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE General Assembly EGU News Journal Watch EGU Blogs ------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL ASSEMBLY * My active planet – bring your own photo (http://egu2016.eu/active_planet.html) * EGU 2016: Getting to Vienna, getting to sleep and getting to know the city (https://egu.eu/6JVIXG) * Presenting at the General Assembly 2016 (https://egu.eu/0BJRLW): A quick ‘how to’ from the EGU * GeoPolicy: Hazards, climate impacts, resources – Supporting science-based policy at EGU16 (https://egu.eu/2OP9HG) * [ECS] Short courses at EGU 2016 (https://egu.eu/6DFS21) * Browse the programme (https://egu.eu/6OY6IC) for the EGU 2016 General Assembly * How to register for the conference (https://egu.eu/1MDJNF) More about the EGU General Assembly at https://www.egu2016.eu. ------------------------------------------------------------ EGU NEWS * EGU now a signatory to Open Access 2020 (https://egu.eu/4WF8EO), a new initiative to boost open access More EGU news items are available on the EGU website at https://www.egu.eu/news/all/. ------------------------------------------------------------ JOURNAL WATCH Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) * Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2°C global warming could be dangerous (https://egu.eu/7S1X2K) * Phase, composition, and growth mechanism for secondary organic aerosol from the ozonolysis of a-cedrene (https://egu.eu/8ROUVC) Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT) * The airborne mass spectrometer AIMS – Part 1: AIMS-H2O for UTLS water vapor measurements (https://egu.eu/6YZ0XS) * Multi-instrument gravity-wave measurements over Tierra del Fuego and the Drake Passage – Part 1: Potential energies and vertical wavelengths from AIRS, COSMIC, HIRDLS, MLS-Aura, SAAMER, SABER and radiosondes (https://egu.eu/6TQVGJ) Biogeosciences (BG) * Upwellings mitigated Plio-Pleistocene heat stress for reef corals on the Florida platform (USA) (https://egu.eu/2XVAF8) Earth System Dynamics (ESD) * Delaying future sea-level rise by storing water in Antarctica (https://egu.eu/2TUXNP) * Imprints of climate forcings in global gridded temperature data (https://egu.eu/6COM15) Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) * Coevolution of volcanic catchments in Japan (https://egu.eu/1TV9IY) Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) * Maximum wind radius estimated by the 50 kt radius: improvement of storm surge forecasting over the western North Pacific (https://egu.eu/9R3O28) SOIL * World’s soils are under threat (https://egu.eu/3F3EWT) The Cryosphere (TC) * Recent summer sea ice thickness surveys in Fram Strait and associated ice volume fluxes (https://egu.eu/24AY5W) * Bulk meltwater flow and liquid water content of snowpacks mapped using the electrical self-potential (SP) method (https://egu.eu/0TXZ83) 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 * Science bloggers – join the 2016 General Assembly blogroll! (https://egu.eu/45WEY3) * Communicate your Science Video Competition finalists 2016: time to get voting! (https://egu.eu/4MZI1C) * GeoEd: Using art in your science teaching and outreach. The why and the how. (https://egu.eu/7SCU46) * GeoSciences Column: Mapping floods with social media (https://egu.eu/6D41AW) * [ECS] GeoTalk: Friction in volcanic environments by Jackie Kendrick (https://egu.eu/88VBHP) * [ECS] Field Rucksack – Inside the bag of a mining geologist (https://egu.eu/0VMC3K) EGU blog network * Living with volcanoes, and learning from the past. (https://egu.eu/9ZKU1H), in VolcanicDegassing * Blast from the Past: It’s all about scales (https://egu.eu/4AU7O3), in GeoSphere * The Impacts of Climate Change on Global Groundwater Resources (https://egu.eu/021R6O), a 4-part blog post in Geology for Global Development EGU division blogs * [ECS] Navigating the EGU General Assembly, short course for Early Career Scientists (https://egu.eu/6Q7LO5), in Energy, Resources & the Environment * [ECS] Your scientific talk: mental breakdown or conference highlight? (https://egu.eu/89B6CF), in Geodesy * Image of the Week – Monitoring icy rivers from space! (https://egu.eu/1H90LC), in Cryospheric Sciences * Coffee break biogeosciences – using truffle dogs for science! (https://egu.eu/0NSPK5), in Biogeosciences * [ECS] More than meets the “I”: The Retirement of a Mentor – Young Scientists and Their Inheritance (https://egu.eu/34XQ5H), in Geomorphology * [ECS] Article submission and resubmission (https://egu.eu/6U95CM), in Seismology 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/15/email/ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=News+from+the+EGU%2C%20March%202016%3A%20https%3A//www.egu.eu/newsletter/egu/15/email/ ============================================================ Copyright © 2016 European Geosciences Union. 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