The June 2014 issue of the quarterly newsletter of the European Geosciences Union, dedicated to the EGU 2014 General Assembly, is now published online.

Premiering a theme, the conference – which took place at the end of April in Vienna – was particularly special this year. It not only had a series of new features associated with The Face of the Earth topic, but it was also the biggest EGU conference to date, with close to 12,500 participants and over 15,000 presentations. In this edition of GeoQ, we reflect on a busy and exciting time in Vienna, highlighting research presented at the conference as well as other special features of the meeting.

You can download the full newsletter as a single (interactive) PDF, or follow the Table of Contents links below for the PDFs of each individual section.

Table of Contents

• Editorial
• Articles
  
  • Fern of the future? – 5
  • Flash, bang, jet: new observations of volcanic plumes – 6
  • Scrublands and carbon fluxes: an unexpected result? – 8
• EGU Voice
  
  • Letter from the EGU President – 9
  • Division reports – 10
• EGU News
  
  • Some highlights from EGU 2014 – 13
  • Welcome to the new EGU Vice-President and three new committee chairs! – 14
  • Obituary: Peter Fabian (1937–2014) – 14
  • Winners of the 2014 EGU Photo Contest and Communicate Your Science Video Competition – 15
  • New EGU partnerships – 15
• Press Releases
  
  • Famous paintings help study the Earth’s past atmosphere – 16
• Journal Watch
  
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) – 17
  • Biogeosciences (BG) – 17
  • Climate of the Past (CP) – 18
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) – 18
  • Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) – 18
  • Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics (NPG) – 19
  • Ocean Science (OS) – 19
  • Solid Earth (SE) – 19
  • The Cryosphere (TC) – 20
• External News
  
  • A brainstorming session about the future of scientific meetings: what will EGU 2024 look like? – 21
  • Software and research – 22
• Education
  
  • An African GIFT Experience – 23
  • New educational activities at the EGU – 25
• Young Scientists
  
  • EGU 2014: A great event for early-career researchers – 26
• Books
  
  • Island on Fire – 27
  • Transport in the Atmosphere-Vegetation-Soil Continuum – 27
  • Essentials of the Earth’s Climate System – 28
  • Essentials of Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology – 28
  • Seismic Reflections of Rock Properties – 29
  • Seismic Amplitude – 29
  • Practical Seismic Data Analysis – 30
  • Book review: Mid-Ocean Ridges – 30
  • Book review: Dangerous Neighbours: Volcanoes and Cities – 31
• Events
  
  • Conferences, meetings and workshops – 32