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The EGU will support the organisation of 16 geoscience conferences and training schools run by EGU members in 2024. Apply for funding to help organise a training school or a conference in the Earth, planetary or space sciences that will be held in 2025, by 17 June 2024.
EGU are pleased to welcome Peter van der Beek to the role of Union President, and Marian Holness as Vice-President.
Following a resolution that was made by EGU’s Council, the current EGU President has been dismissed.
Thanks to the enthusiastic efforts of our members and volunteers, EGU24 broke all our previous record with an astounding 20,931 people participating in the General Assembly, both in Vienna and online!
This Earth Day EGU joins with geoscience organisations around the world to share our commitment to promoting the conscientious applications of science to help us find solutions to create a just and sustainable future for humanity and the planet.
It’s time to introduce the new blog team! After the EGU General Assembly in April and a few hectic weeks of preparation, we are happy to present the new blog team for the year 2024-2025. The new team consists of 2 editors-in-chief, 13 (!) regular editors, 2 illustrators, 1 sassy scientist and 3 social media communicators. We will start posting next month, with a weekly post every Wednesday at 10am CET. We are still looking for another Sassy Scientist columnist …
As we hope it’s marked in all of our beloved readers’ calendars, it’s the time of the year to celebrate the blog’s birthday! This year, the blog turns seven, and we are thrilled to share a recap of our activities over the past 12 months. We published 58 blog posts, covering topics such as the geodynamics of remarkable regions, exciting outreach initiatives, and our popular monthly column “The Sassy Scientist”. We also launched a new blog series called Geotandem, where …
This year for the EGU24 Photo Competition we had some amazing photos submitted! In case you missed them before the meeting, for the next few weeks we will be featuring all 10 of the shortlisted photos, and our three winners! This week, Francesco Ioli’s image ‘Reynisdrangar basalt sentinels’. The Reynisdrangar basalt stacks rise dramatically out of the sea in front of the black volcanic sands of Reynisfjara beach, below Reynisfjall, a 340 m high tuff mountain formed by a volcanic …
