ISSUE 2, FEBRUARY 2015 EGU NEWSLETTER Monthly information service for members of the European Geosciences Union ============================================================ HIGHLIGHTS This month, the EGU Programme Committee met to finalise the scientific programme for the 2015 General Assembly, which has A Voyage Through Scales as a theme. Oral, poster and PICO presentations have now been selected and scheduled, and the programme has just been uploaded online. In other news, the EGU is looking for a Science Policy Fellow to join our Executive Office in Munich. Find out more by following the links below. If you have comments or suggestions about this email newsletter, please contact EGU Media and Communications Manager Bárbara Ferreira at media@egu.eu. ------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE General Assembly EGU News Journal Watch EGU Blogs Meetings Jobs ------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL ASSEMBLY * Browse the programme for the EGU 2015 General Assembly, taking place in Vienna, Austria from 12–17 April (https://egu.eu/9GZ5YH/) * Register now for the EGU 2015 meeting: early registration rates apply until 12 March (https://egu.eu/54K1U7/) * Last chance to enter the EGU Photo Contest! Winners get a EGU 2016 free registration (https://egu.eu/3J1UX9/) * Young researchers: communicate your science through video for a chance to win a free registration for EGU 2016 (https://egu.eu/2VSC23/) ------------------------------------------------------------ EGU NEWS * Job opportunity at the EGU Executive Office: Science Policy Fellow (https://egu.eu/693FA0/) * Connecting Earth scientists and school students: meet the EGU members (https://egu.eu/26PXSG/) and schools (https://egu.eu/0U9JZF/) taking part in I'm a Geoscientist More EGU news items are available on the EGU website at https://www.egu.eu/news/all/. ------------------------------------------------------------ JOURNAL WATCH Annales Geophysicae (ANGEO) * Three-dimensional morphology of equatorial plasma bubbles deduced from measurements onboard CHAMP (https://egu.eu/67AGFN/) Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) * Identification and quantification of gaseous organic compounds emitted from biomass burning using two-dimensional gas chromatography–time-of-flight mass spectrometry (https://egu.eu/2TJXIF/) Biogeosciences (BG) * Drought in forest understory ecosystems – a novel rainfall reduction experiment (https://egu.eu/7REF5T/) * Simulated anthropogenic CO2 storage and acidification of the Mediterranean Sea (https://egu.eu/6STVX8/) * Technical Note: Maximising accuracy and minimising cost of a potentiometrically regulated ocean acidification simulation system (https://egu.eu/5Y5I1E/) Earth Surface Dynamics (ESurf) * Ancient pre-glacial erosion surfaces preserved beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (https://egu.eu/7URS5G/) * A reduced-complexity model for river delta formation – Part 1: Modeling deltas with channel dynamics (https://egu.eu/37DJXL/) Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) * Global trends in extreme precipitation: climate models versus observations (https://egu.eu/8TIOJY/) * A high-resolution global-scale groundwater model (https://egu.eu/15LX9N/) Solid Earth (SE) * A 3-D shear velocity model of the southern North American and Caribbean plates from ambient noise and earthquake tomography (https://egu.eu/4RAIBX/) The Cryosphere (TC) * Simulating the Greenland ice sheet under present-day and palaeo constraints including a new discharge parameterization (https://egu.eu/8DQTUL/) 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 * The ethics of mining (https://egu.eu/9Y1XNR/) * Geosciences Column: The quest for life on Mars (https://egu.eu/9V5CD3/) EGU blog network * How fast was the demise of the dinosaurs? (https://egu.eu/1YBC0Z/), in Green Tea and Velociraptors * GeoPoll: What should we do with radioactive waste? (https://egu.eu/8JPBWI/), in Geosphere * Rocks in the right place at the right time… (https://egu.eu/4ZCELD/), in Four Degrees EGU division blogs * Our EGU session died, what went wrong? (https://egu.eu/49N4LE/), in Geomorphology * Welcome to the AS division blog (https://egu.eu/6AEZ64/), in Atmospheric Sciences * The bi-polar behaviour of surge-type glaciers – Heidi Sevestre (https://egu.eu/2Z9458/), in Cryospheric Sciences * Contributors wanted (https://egu.eu/4JI5D9/), in Seismology * Should we, as session conveners, have an expiry date? (https://egu.eu/9AEDJ3/), in Geodesy More posts from the EGU blogs are available at https://blogs.egu.eu/. ------------------------------------------------------------ MEETINGS * EGU General Assembly 2015 (https://www.egu2015.eu/) (Vienna, Austria, 12–17 April 2015) * Habitability in the Universe: From the Early Earth to Exoplanets (https://egu.eu/70MUOC/) (Porto, Portugal, 22–27 March 2015) * Microstructural evolution during HT deformation - MicroDIce Final conference (https://egu.eu/3OU96P/) (Montpellier, France, 22–27 March 2015) * Workshop on Sensitivity Analysis and Data Assimilation in Meteorology and Oceanography (https://egu.eu/6TO03Z/) (Roanoke, West Virginia, USA, 01–05 June 2015) * Land-atmosphere interactions Summer School (https://egu.eu/8QV3T8/) (Valsavaranche, Italy, 22 June – 01 July 2015) * Integrated Hydrosystem Modelling Conference 2015 (https://egu.eu/2OSVUX/) (Tuebingen, Germany, 07–10 April 2015) * 6th INQUA International Workshop on Active Tectonics Paleoseismology and Archaeoseismology (https://egu.eu/51U5TR/) (Pescina, Fucino Basin, Italy, 19–24 April 2015) * Joint Assembly AGU-GAC-MAC-CGU (https://egu.eu/8130RT/) (Montreal, Canada, 03–07 May 2015) For more geoscience meetings, please check the online meetings calendar on the EGU website at https://www.egu.eu/meetings/calendar/, where you can also add your own meetings. ------------------------------------------------------------ JOBS * EGU Science Policy Fellow (https://egu.eu/19NRDG/), Munich, Germany (apply by 24 March 2015) * IBS Research Director (https://egu.eu/8O2T4X/), at Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, Republic Of Korea (apply by 28 February) * Res. Associate: Large-scale Modeling-assimilation of improved precipitation prod (https://egu.eu/8D1G6S/), at Global Institute for Water Security - University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada (apply by 03 March 2015) * PhD student position in vadose zone hydrology (https://egu.eu/68KR5C/), at SCK-CEN, Mol, Belgium (apply by 27 March 2015) * Faculty Position in Cryosphere Science (https://egu.eu/5PAXJ3/), at Columbia University, New York, United States (open until the position is filled) For more job opportunities in the geosciences, please check the online jobs platform on the EGU website at https://www.egu.eu/jobs/search/, where you can also add your job vacancies. ------------------------------------------------------------ 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/2/email/ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=https%3A//www.egu.eu/newsletter/egu/2/email/ ============================================================ Copyright © 2015 European Geosciences Union. 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