ISSUE 6, JUNE 2015 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/6/email/ ============================================================ HIGHLIGHTS Earlier this month, the EGU, through its Seismology and Natural Hazards Divisions, issued an information briefing about the recent Nepal earthquakes (https://egu.eu/7842PQ). 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 – https://egu.eu/6G4YJC). 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: https://www.egu2016.eu/ ------------------------------------------------------------ EGU NEWS * EGU Information Briefing: Continued risks for natural disasters in Nepal (https://egu.eu/7842PQ) * 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 (https://egu.eu/1WI2BV) * The new impact factors for EGU journals, issued on 18 June, are now available on the EGU website (https://egu.eu/25E0YS) * Earth Surface Dynamics indexed in Web of Science (https://egu.eu/761C4H) * Geoscience Ahead: joint agreement between EGU, AGU, AOGS and JpGU (https://egu.eu/6R2OY9) * Obituary: Rolf Meissner (1925–2014), former president of the European Geophysical Society, a predecessor of EGU (https://egu.eu/8Q3CJ7) * Press Release: Floods as war weapons – Humans caused a third of floods in past 500 years in SW Netherlands (https://egu.eu/57NAHW) More EGU news items are available on the EGU website at https://www.egu.eu/news/all/. ------------------------------------------------------------ JOURNAL WATCH Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) * Reliable, robust and realistic: the three R’s of next-generation land-surface modelling (https://egu.eu/2A63P7) Biogeosciences (BG) * A 50% increase in the mass of terrestrial particles delivered by the Mackenzie River into the Beaufort Sea (Canadian Arctic Ocean) over the last 10 years (https://egu.eu/41AU4G) * Emergence of multiple ocean ecosystem drivers in a large ensemble suite with an Earth system model (https://egu.eu/8E83N5) Climate of the Past (CP) * Technical Note: How accurate can stalagmite formation temperatures be determined using vapour bubble radius measurements in fluid inclusions? (https://egu.eu/7RYITL) * Twelve thousand years of dust: the Holocene global dust cycle constrained by natural archives (https://egu.eu/4106FY) Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) * A large-scale simulation model to assess karstic groundwater recharge over Europe and the Mediterranean (https://egu.eu/576L4I) Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) * Towards observation-based gridded runoff estimates for Europe (https://egu.eu/7ZGAOX) * Large-basin hydrological response to climate model outputs: uncertainty caused by internal atmospheric variability (https://egu.eu/3CRYL7) Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) * Dynamics of the Oso-Steelhead landslide from broadband seismic analysis (https://egu.eu/3ZF7MI) The Cryosphere (TC) * A ground temperature map of the North Atlantic permafrost region based on remote sensing and reanalysis data (https://egu.eu/5DT097) * Brief Communication: Newly developing rift in Larsen C Ice Shelf presents significant risk to stability (https://egu.eu/7HBUVP) * Snowfall in the Himalayas: an uncertain future from a little-known past (https://egu.eu/4IRSEF) * Modelling glacier change in the Everest region, Nepal Himalaya (https://egu.eu/7HJYNG) 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 * GeoTalk: Meet Andi Rudersdorf, winner of I’m a Geoscientist 2015! (https://egu.eu/6C95IG) * Studying an active volcano – in pictures (https://egu.eu/9WT3R8) * The day the Earth trembled: A first-hand account of the 25 April Nepal earthquake (https://egu.eu/7853MG) * Geoscience Column: Recent and future changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet (https://egu.eu/9MN3RX) * GeoEd: I’m a Geoscientist 2015 (https://egu.eu/1M5X82) EGU blog network * A new initiative for Communicating Geomorphology (https://egu.eu/45TPHR), in Geology Jenga * Nepal Earthquakes – Latest Reading (https://egu.eu/9KFINV), in Geology for Global Development EGU division blogs * Interview with Peter van der Beek (GM Division President) (https://egu.eu/9D1H56), in Geomorphology * Ice Nomads: The iSTAR traverse of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica – Damon Davies (https://egu.eu/8TRM9O), in Cryospheric Sciences More posts from the EGU blogs are available at https://blogs.egu.eu/. ------------------------------------------------------------ MEETINGS * 'Gradualism versus catastrophism in landscape evolution' IAG Regional Conference (https://egu.eu/3DSX7M) (Barnaul, Russia, 02–04 July 2015) * Pathways 2015: Pathways towards habitable planets (https://egu.eu/7OZ2HV) (Bern, Switzerland, 13–17 July 2015) * 3rd International Summer School on Flow and Transport in Porous and Fractured Media (https://egu.eu/1ZKSVB) (Cargèse, France, 20 July – 01 August 2015) * Granulites & granulites 2015 (https://egu.eu/8A487S) (Windhoek, Namibia, 26–29 July 2015) * AOGS 12th Annual Meeting (https://egu.eu/5OZEDR) (Singapore, 02–07 August 2015) * 12th International Congress for Applied Mineralogy (https://egu.eu/05W7EP) (ICAM) (Istanbul, Turkey, 10–12 August 2015) * Wageningen Soil Conference (https://egu.eu/8NQDOJ) (Wageningen, The Netherlands, 23–27 August 2015) * 13th SGA Biennial Meeting "Mineral Resources in a Sustainable World" (https://egu.eu/1TOW7A) (Nancy, France, 24–27 August 2015) * EGU Emile Argand Conference on Alpine Geological Studies (https://egu.eu/6YJRME) (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 at https://www.egu.eu/meetings/calendar/, where you can also add your own meetings. ------------------------------------------------------------ JOBS * Senior Lecturer in Applied Geophysics (https://egu.eu/79AY3F), at Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Leoben, Austria (apply by 01 July 2015) * 5 Postdoctoral Fellow positions (https://egu.eu/74LDT1), at Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan (apply by 21 July 2015) * Executive Director (https://egu.eu/24BKYJ), at PAGES – Past Global Changes, Bern, Switzerland (apply by 26 July 2015) * PhD or Post-Doctoral Research in Diamond Geology (https://egu.eu/4K25OB), at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (open until position filled) * 2 Postdoctoral Research Scholar Positions Available in Hydrology and Hydroclimate (https://egu.eu/1XSIDL), at University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States (open until position filled) * PhD Fellowship in Mineral Pattern Formation in Archean Rocks (https://egu.eu/5VPCOH), at CSIC, Granada, Spain (open until position filled) * Tenure-track Professorships in Solid Earth Geosciences (https://egu.eu/5BCYZK), 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 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/6/email/ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=News+from+the+EGU%2C%20June%202015%3A%20https%3A//www.egu.eu/newsletter/egu/6/email/ ============================================================ Copyright © 2015 European Geosciences Union. 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