ISSUE 6, JUNE 2015

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‘Mirror’, by Ecenur Kilic. See more geoscience images at imaggeo.egu.eu.

HIGHLIGHTS

Earlier this month, the EGU, through its Seismology and Natural Hazards Divisions, issued an information briefing about the recent Nepal earthquakes. The text, written for the broad geoscience community, summarises the earthquake processes, highlights new research directions for hazards in the region, and provides resources for post-earthquake hazard mapping and risk reduction.

In other news, the EGU has launched the call for proposals for EGU co-sponsored meetings. Further, the Union has signed a joint agreement with AGU, AOGS and JpGU, aimed at strengthening future collaboration to better serve the geoscience community around the world. Last but not the least, on 18 June, our journals received their new impact factors, while Earth Surface Dynamics was indexed in Web of Science for the first time (following Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems indexed last month). Follow the links below to find out more.

IN THIS ISSUE

General Assembly
EGU News
Journal Watch
EGU Blogs
Meetings
Jobs

General Assembly

The open call for sessions for the EGU 2016 General Assembly (17 – 22 April 2016, Vienna, Austria) will start next month

EGU News

EGU Information Briefing: Continued risks for natural disasters in Nepal
Need support from the EGU to organise a meeting in the Earth, planetary or space sciences in 2016? Submit your support request by 31 July
The new impact factors for EGU journals, issued on 18 June, are now available on the EGU website
Earth Surface Dynamics indexed in Web of Science
Geoscience Ahead: joint agreement between EGU, AGU, AOGS and JpGU
Obituary: Rolf Meissner (1925–2014), former president of the European Geophysical Society, a predecessor of EGU
Press Release: Floods as war weapons – Humans caused a third of floods in past 500 years in SW Netherlands

More EGU news items are available on the EGU website.

Journal Watch

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT)

Reliable, robust and realistic: the three R’s of next-generation land-surface modelling

Biogeosciences (BG)

Climate of the Past (CP)

Geoscientific Model Development (GMD)

A large-scale simulation model to assess karstic groundwater recharge over Europe and the Mediterranean

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS)

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS)

Dynamics of the Oso-Steelhead landslide from broadband seismic analysis

The Cryosphere (TC)

Other papers highlighted by the editors of EGU's open access journals are available online.

EGU Blogs

GeoLog, the official EGU blog

EGU blog network

A new initiative for Communicating Geomorphology, in Geology Jenga
Nepal Earthquakes – Latest Reading, in Geology for Global Development

EGU division blogs

Interview with Peter van der Beek (GM Division President), in Geomorphology
Ice Nomads: The iSTAR traverse of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica – Damon Davies, in Cryospheric Sciences

Meetings

'Gradualism versus catastrophism in landscape evolution' IAG Regional Conference (Barnaul, Russia, 02–04 July 2015)
Pathways 2015: Pathways towards habitable planets (Bern, Switzerland, 13–17 July 2015)
3^rd International Summer School on Flow and Transport in Porous and Fractured Media (Cargèse, France, 20 July – 01 August 2015)
Granulites & granulites 2015 (Windhoek, Namibia, 26–29 July 2015)
AOGS 12^th Annual Meeting (Singapore, 02–07 August 2015)
12^th International Congress for Applied Mineralogy (ICAM) (Istanbul, Turkey, 10–12 August 2015)
Wageningen Soil Conference (Wageningen, The Netherlands, 23–27 August 2015)
13^th SGA Biennial Meeting "Mineral Resources in a Sustainable World" (Nancy, France, 24–27 August 2015)
EGU Emile Argand Conference on Alpine Geological Studies (Montgenèvre, France, 13–19 September 2015, Deadline: Abstracts 01 July 2015)

For more geoscience meetings, please check the online meetings calendar on the EGU website, where you can also add your own meetings.

Jobs

Senior Lecturer in Applied Geophysics, at Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Leoben, Austria (apply by 01 July 2015)
5 Postdoctoral Fellow positions, at Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan (apply by 21 July 2015)
Executive Director, at PAGES – Past Global Changes, Bern, Switzerland (apply by 26 July 2015)
PhD or Post-Doctoral Research in Diamond Geology, at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (open until position filled)
2 Postdoctoral Research Scholar Positions Available in Hydrology and Hydroclimate, at University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States (open until position filled)
PhD Fellowship in Mineral Pattern Formation in Archean Rocks, at CSIC, Granada, Spain (open until position filled)
Tenure-track Professorships in Solid Earth Geosciences, at Harvard University, United States (open until position filled)

For more job opportunities in the geosciences, please check the online jobs platform on the EGU website, where you can also add your job vacancies.

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