First results from the Solar Orbiter mission
ESA/NASA’s mission Solar Orbiter was launched in February 2020, and the in-situ instruments started their science operations in June. The mission’s unique design will enable breakthrough science focusing on the linkage between the sun and the heliosphere. By approaching as close as 0.28 AU from the sun and orbiting the sun in a plane up to 33 degrees heliographic latitude, Solar Orbiter will view the sun and corona with remote imaging with high spatial resolution and acquire in-situ measurements of the surrounding heliosphere. This session will feature presentations covering instrument performance during commissioning and calibration, initial data and first scientific results from the first perihelia and the cruise phase (together with contextual ground- and space-based observations), and theoretical predictions.
ST1.3: 11:00–15:00
Understanding volcano-climate impacts and the stratospheric aerosol layer
This session will focus on research aimed at better understanding the stratospheric aerosol layer, its volcanic perturbations, and the associated impacts on climate up to and through the post-industrial period (1750-present), as well as the societal impacts of, and human responses to, volcanic eruptions, and volcanic influences on atmospheric composition. The session aims to bring together research contributing to several current international co-ordinated activities, including SPARC-SSiRC, CMIP6-VolMIP, CMIP6-PMIP, and PAGES-VICS.
AS3.25: 9:00–12:30
Short Course: Your handbook to science for policy
This session will highlight some of the key messages from the European Commission Joint Research Centre’s recently published Science for Policy Handbook, which provides advice on how researchers and research organisations can help bring science to the attention of policymakers so that these groups can better collaborate on how to address major problems of our age.
Some of the key topics that will be outlined during this Short Course include the importance of strategic planning for engaging relevant policymakers; the different policy actors and their role in the policymaking process; examples of how you can speak the language that policymakers understand and pay attention to; and finding windows of opportunity and building relationships.
SC3.4: 10:00–11:00
The evolving open-science landscape in geosciences: open data, software, publications and community initiatives
With a focus on hydrological sciences, as an example within the geosciences, this session is designed to gain a community overview of the current open-science landscape and how this is expected to evolve in the future. It aims to foster a debate on open science, lower the bar for engaging in open science, and showcase examples, including software and other instruments for assisting open research. This may include software and tools, open science dissemination platforms (such as pre-print servers and journals), the teams driving the development of open-science resources and practices, and discussion on the regulatory moves towards standardising open access in the scientific community and what those policies mean in practice.
EOS5.3: 15:30–17:00
Natural hazards and climate change impacts in coastal areas
Coastal areas are vulnerable to erosion, flooding and salinization and this vulnerability is likely to be exacerbated in the future, which calls for a better understanding of the underlying physical processes and their interactions with the coast. Numerical models play a crucial role in characterizing coastal hazards and assigning risks to them. This session will focus on assessments and case studies at global, regional, and local scales of potential physical impacts of tsunamis, storm surge, sea-level rise, waves, and currents on coasts, as well as near-shore ocean dynamics, and the socio-economic impact of these hazards.
NH5.4: 15:30–17:00
The Alps and neighbouring mountain belts: a multidisciplinary vision (AlpArray)
The Alps—which have provided geologists a unique natural laboratory for the study of orogenic processes for more than a century—are now being reexamined in the AlpArray project involving a large number of European institutions. The session will highlight new results in AlpArray and similar projects and that identify and solve key open questions of the present and past structure and dynamics of the Alps and neighbouring orogens such as the Pyrenees, the Apennines, the Carpathians and the Dinarides.
TS7.8: 13:30–17:00
Meet vEGU21 Artist (not!) in Residence Priyanka Das Rajkakati
In addition to the latest Earth, planetary, and space science research, vEGU21 is also featuring the contributions of four talented artists, who are sharing their artwork via social media (using the hashtag #EGUart). One, Priyanka Das Rajkakati (@PriyankaSpace), just completed a PhD in precise satellite navigation at France’s ISAE-Supaéro. She is also a hobby artist who creates artwork using a wide variety of mediums, including acrylics and pastels as well as origami. During vEGU21, she will focus on producing digital artwork. Das Rajkakati, who recently completed an analogue-astronaut simulation at HI-SEAS Hawaii, has found a unique venue for her creations: the European Space Agency will be sending her first algorithmic image, NightSky, to the Moon in 2022!