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EGU bystander intervension workshop – apply now!
  • 29 October 2024

Are you an EGU member who is looking to gain skills and confidence in responding to issues of harassment and bullying in the workplace? Why not join the EGU Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee’s Bystander Intervention Workshop on 22 November, run in partnership with ADVANCEGeo! Places are limited, so apply today!



EGU Public Engagement Grants: 2024 winners announced
  • 22 October 2024

The EGU Outreach Committee has named three Public Engagement Grant winners this year: a project to empower pre-teen girls to use geospatial technologies for sustainable farming, a project that will bring discussions of climate science into prisons, and a project to raise awareness of the diverse impacts of climate change through rural food and beverage events.



EGU signs DORA and CoARA agreements
  • 2 October 2024

EGU is pleased to announce that the Union is now a signatory of the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA), further reinforcing our commitment to Open Science, Open Research and Open Meetings.


Latest posts from EGU blogs

DYNAMICE: An ERC Starting grant project to bridge the gap between geodynamics and ice modelling

In the 2024 ERC Starting Grant call, the European Research Council received nearly 3,500 proposals, of which approximately 14% were awarded funding. Among the 20 projects funded in the field of Earth System Sciences is DYNAMICE, led by Ágnes Király, the 2023 recipient of the EGU GD Division Outstanding Early Career Award. Through this blog, Ágnes will introduce us to her project. The vast ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica are melting at an alarming rate, contributing to rising sea …


Drilling on world’s rooftop – the Nam Co-ICDP campaign on the Tibetan Plateau

International Scientific Continental Drilling Program (ICDP) campaigns may lead scientists from all over the world to most exciting places that are often of extraordinary beauty and remoteness. All these attributes certainly apply to Lake Nam Co situated at an altitude of 4700 m above sea level on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas. Today this area supplies one third of the humankind with fresh water via the great rivers of Asia that mostly have their springs here. Lake Nam Co …


Highlights from Taiwan: Sampling environmental DNA (eDNA)

This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact one of the GM blog editors, Emily (eb2043@cam.ac.uk) or Emma (elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others. by Caro Krug, Doctoral Student, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Email: cakrug@eaps.ethz.ch The Formosan landlocked salmon (Oncorhynchus masou formosanus) can only be found in a single stream deep within the mountains of the subtropical island of Taiwan. This species is not only one of the …