Highlights at a glance

08:30 – Allyship and supporting others for a more diverse and inclusive geosciences (US5 Room E1); Flash and rapidly emerging droughts: challenges and opportunities in monitoring, modelling, forecasting and impact assessment (NH9.16: PICO: PICO spot 3b);
10.45 – Enabling Reproducibility in Earth System Science research through open and FAIR data, workflows and models (ESSI3.5/CL5/GI1/OS5: Orals: Room 0.51); Tropical peatlands: Past, Present, Uncertain Future (BG3.23: Posters: on-site: Hall A, virtual: vHall BG); The science activist: should science get political? (GDB3: Room E1)
14.00 – Geological Repositories – Geosciences in the assessment of radionuclide migration and long-term evolution of the geosphere (ERE3.3: Orals Room G2); Juggling parenting and caring responsibilities with a career in the geosciences: barriers and opportunities to increasing accessibility and inclusion (US4 Room E1); Surface Exchange Processes in the Polar Regions: Physics, Chemistry, Isotopes, and Aerosols (AS2.2: PICO PICO spot 5)
16.15 – Soils, sediments and buried structures as the memory of past environmental conditions and human impacts (SSS3.1/CL1.2/GM11: Posters: on-site Hall X3; virtual: Hall SSS); Understanding magmatic processes: from storage dynamics to eruptive behaviour, with implications for volcanic hazards (GMPV7.5: Posters: Hall X2; virtual: vHall GMPV/G/GD/SM)
19.00 – ESA-EGU EO Excellence Award Celebration (MAL49: Room G1)

Allyship and supporting others for a more diverse and inclusive geosciences

An ally is often defined as someone who is not a member of a marginalised group but wants to support and take action to help others in that group. Allyship is crucial for realising the potential for inclusion and equality, and in turn improving diversity in a broader community. Being an effective ally for marginalised groups is often a delicate balance of supporting actions. This Union Symposium will highlight and discuss allyship and its role in improving equality, diversity and inclusion across the geosciences.

US5: 08:30–10:15 (CEST) Room E1

Medal and Award lectures

Katia and Maurice Krafft Award Lecture by Sam Illingworth ‘From Dissemination to Participation – A Creative Approach to Geoscience Communication’ (MAL9: 09:35–10:05 (CEST) Room N1)
Plinius Medal Lecture by Alberto Viglione ‘Extremes in river flood hydrology: making Black Swans grey’ (MAL24: 10:50–11:20 (CEST) Room C)
Christiaan Huygens Medal Lecture by Maurizio Fedi ‘Solving the ambiguity in the potential field exploration of complex sources’ (MAL12: 10:55–11:25 (CEST) Room -2.31)
GI Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Mezgeen Rasol ‘Towards sustainable road transport infrastructure: Insights from GPR performance indicator development and enhancement of data quality’ (MAL40: 11:40–12:10 (CEST) Room -2.31)
Arthur Holmes Medal Lecture by Mathilde Cannat ‘Magma fluxes and magma emplacement depths are key to understanding the modes of plate divergence at slow and ultraslow spreading mid-ocean ridges’ (MAL2: 12:45–13:45 (CEST) Room E1)
Angela Croome Award Lecture by Jonathan Amos ‘From carbon copy paper to AI: 36 years as a reporter for the BBC’ (MAL8: 15:05–15:35 (CEST) Room N1)

Short courses

Transferable skills: what are they and do I have them? (SC2.2: 08:30–10:15 (CEST) Room -2.61/62)
Satellite data for Marine Applications: open source tools for working with data available from EUMETSAT and the Copernicus Programme (SC5.8: 08:30–10:15 (CEST) Room -2.85/86)
Field Work Safety – The Basics (SC2.4: 10:45–12:30 (CEST) Room -2.61/62)
How to create spaces for science-policy interaction and dialogue (SC3.14: 10:45–12:30 (CEST) Room -2.85/86)
Researchers as informed citizens: taking part in the public discourse without risking our scientific integrity (SC3.10: 14:00–15:45 (CEST) Room -2.61/62 )
Communicating data quality through open reproducible research (SC5.1: 14:00–15:45 (CEST) Room -2.85/86)
Geology 101 (SC4.1: 16:15–18:00 (CEST) Room -2.85/86)
Application of age models in palaeoclimatology and geomorphology (SC4.13: 16:15–18:00 (CEST) Room 0.15)
SC5.5
Introduction to Geospatial Raster and Vector Data with Python (SC5.5: 16:15–18:00 (CEST) Room -2.61/62)

Arne Richter Award for Outstanding ECS Lecture by Wim Thiery ‘The kids aren’t alright’ (MAL4: 16:20–16:50 (CEST) Room E2)
ERE Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Johannes Miocic ‘The role of the subsurface in the energy transition – (some of) the (scientific) challenges’ (MAL36: 16:20–16:50 (CEST) Room 0.94/95)
ESA-EGU EO Excellence Award Celebration (MAL49: 19:00–20:00 (CEST) Room G1)
Alina Kabata-Pendias Medal Lecture by Ravendra Naidu ‘Can we clean up the earth?’ & SSS Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Gina Garland ‘Sustainable management of agricultural soils: Balancing multiple perspectives and tradeoffs’ (MAL10: 19:00–20:00 (CEST) Room K2)
Fridtjof Nansen Medal Lecture by Alberto Naveira Garabato ‘Rewriting the tale of deep-ocean upwelling‘ & OS Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Florian Börgel ‘Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and the Implications for North European climate’ (MAL13: 19:00–20:00 (CEST) Room L3)

Geological Repositories – Geosciences in the assessment of radionuclide migration and long-term evolution of the geosphere

Geoscience knowledge is essential to investigate safety requirements that are established by national agencies to construct a geological disposal facility for high-level and/or long-lived radioactive waste in a specific selected site. Experiences in many countries have shown that acceptable conditions for selecting a disposal construction site can be found in diverse rock types as granites, metamorphic basement rocks, plastic clays, indurated claystones, evaporites, porous volcanic tuffs and highly compacted volcanic tuffs. This session will discuss the challenging issues faced.

ERE3.3: Orals: 14:00–15:45 (CEST) Room G2; Posters: 16:15–18:00 (CEST) on-site: Hall X4, virtual: vHall ERE

Henry Darcy Medal Lecture by Marc F. P. Bierkens ‘Global Water Resources and the Limits to Groundwater Use’ (MAL15: 19:00–20:00 (CEST) Room B)
Lewis Fry Richardson Medal Lecture by Angelo Vulpiani ‘The Role of Theory and Data in Model Building: from Richardson to machine learning’ (MAL20: 19:00–20:00 (CEST) Room F2)
Petrus Peregrinus Medal Lecture by Lisa Tauxe ‘Hunting the Magnetic Field’ & EMRP Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Alexandra R. L. Kushnir ‘Permeability, alteration, and microstructure: A (hopefully) coupled rock physics and geochemical approach to how rock-fluid interactions change permeability’ (MAL22: 19:00–20:00 (CEST) Room D1)
Runcorn-Florensky Medal Lecture by Tristan Guillot ‘Fluid Planets: from Theory to Observations and Beyond’ & PS Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Tim Lichtenberg ‘Tectonics and magma oceanography of rocky exoplanets’ (MAL27: 19:00–20:00 (CEST) Room M2)
Stephan Mueller Medal Lecture by Richard G. Gordon ‘ Neotectonic Rates of Motion Between Hotspots’ (MAL29: 19:00–20:00 (CEST) Room K1)

Juggling parenting and caring responsibilities with a career in the geosciences: barriers and opportunities to increasing accessibility and inclusion

Many geoscientists at some point in their career have the responsibility of caring for family members for extended periods of time. Depending on the support networks in place this can lead to considerable and all too often insurmountable periods of time in a geoscientist’s career where they find themselves excluded from geoscientific networking experiences and employment opportunities. This not only leads to carers experiencing feelings of isolation, they may also experience financial difficulties alongside increased mental charge eventually causing many carers to leave the geoscience ecosystem. This Union Symposium, will initiate a conversation to raise awareness of the challenges experienced by EGU members with caring responsibilities and especially sole carers over the past few years, with a special focus on exploring feasible solutions that can increase the inclusion of carers in geoscientific conferences.

US4: 14:00–18:00 (CEST) Room E1

Meet our Artists in Residence – Maria Gabriela Tejada Toapanta

Maria Gabriela Tejada Toapanta (@gabrielatejadat) is a geographer and hydrologist based in Canada with an interest in using fine art illustration and print work to share her passion for communicating science. At EGU23 she will be using pencil and carbon to create drawings of key components, themes or results presented during the meeting, as well as creating lino prints of research she is inspired by.

Head over to her booth in Foyer D and talk to her about your research and learn more about the art she will be creating this week!

Soils, sediments and buried structures as the memory of past environmental conditions and human impacts

The basic principle of soil genesis lies behind the concept of soil memory: the capability of soil systems to imprint in their intrinsic features environmental conditions, thus keeping a memory of both current and past environments. These memories can vary depending on how the soil is viewed, as paleosol, anthropogenic soil or land-use legacy soils, and the methods used to interact with it. This session will explore various concepts, from polygenetic soils and sediments; to paleosols, anthropogenic soils, and archaeological structures.

SSS3.1/CL1.2/GM11: Orals: 14:00–15:45 (CEST) Room 0.15: Posters: on-site 16:15–18:00 (CEST) Hall X3; virtual: Hall SSS

Flash and rapidly emerging droughts: challenges and opportunities in monitoring, modelling, forecasting and impact assessment

Flash droughts, dry spells, and other extreme events that emerge and intensify rapidly are gaining increasing interest from hydrologists, climatologists, meteorologists, agronomists, and others. In contrast to how we traditionally think of droughts, flash droughts are not creeping events that develop over months or years. Flash droughts intensify rapidly and may endure from just a few days to weeks or months, or even evolve into multi-year events. This session draws on a wide range of disciplines to examine our physical understanding, monitoring, modelling, predicting, and assessment of environmental, social, and economic impacts of rapidly emerging dry/hot-extremes

NH9.16: PICO: 08:30–10:15 (CEST) PICO spot 3b

Enabling Reproducibility in Earth System Science research through open and FAIR data, workflows and models

Geological awareness of the importance of the reproducibility of research results has increased considerably in recent years. Knowledge must be robust and reliable in order to serve as a foundation to build further progress on it. Reproducibility is a complex topic that spans technology, research communities, and research culture. Replicability or replication, on the other hand, is a broader term and refers to one’s ability to replicate their own research. One problem, however, is that a large percentage of existing studies cannot be successfully reproduced or replicated, which can endanger trust in science. This session will explore current practices, methods and tools geared towards enabling reproducible results and workflows in Earth System Science.

ESSI3.5/CL5/GI1/OS5: Orals: 10:45–12:30 (CEST) Room 0.51; Posters: Wed 26 Apr 08:30–10:15 (CEST) Hall X4; virtual: vHall ESSI/GI/NP

Tropical peatlands: Past, Present, Uncertain Future

Tropical peatlands store around 105 Gt carbon, although their total extent remains uncertain due to inadequate data. In a natural condition, tropical peatlands are long-term carbon stores and support livelihoods, but anthropogenic disturbances (logging, drainage, degradation, agricultural conversion, fire, resource exploration) are increasing, resulting in loss of carbon storage, increased emissions, loss of hydrological integrity, peat subsidence and increased risk of fire. This session will explore all aspects of tropical peatland science, including peatland mapping and monitoring; the impact of climate on past, present and future tropical peatland formation, accumulation and carbon dynamics; greenhouse gas and nutrient flux dynamics; management strategies for greenhouse gas emissions mitigation and the maintenance or restoration of carbon sequestration and storage; and valuing ancestral knowledge of peatlands.

BG3.23: Orals: 08:30–10:15 (CEST) Room 1.15/16; Posters: 10:45–12:30 (CEST) on-site: Hall A, virtual: vHall BG

The science activist: should science get political?

Should scientists engage in science activism? Supporters of this kind of action point to the fact that science and politics are inextricably linked, whilst opponents say it can be a threat to integrity. As many researchers are driven to science by their own passions, a considerable intersect exists between the desire to do science and to see beneficial, just change in real terms, which can lead to discussion in terms of where the lines that scientists walk, exist. This Great Debate will examine these ideas and more, in an attempt to understand the continuum of the science activist.

GDB3: 10:45–12:30 (CEST) Room E1

Surface Exchange Processes in the Polar Regions: Physics, Chemistry, Isotopes, and Aerosols

An understanding of the role of boundary layer processes that mediate exchange of heat, momentum and mass between the Earth’s surface (snow, sea-ice, ocean and land) and the atmosphere is necessary to improve modeling and prediction of future changes in the polar regions and their teleconnections with mid-latitude weather and climate, including meridional transport of heat, moisture, chemical trace species, aerosols and isotopic tracers; and regional emission and vertical mixing of climate active trace gases and aerosol. This session will provide an interdisciplinary forum to bring together researchers working in the areas of high-latitude meteorology, atmospheric chemistry, air quality, biogeochemistry, stable isotope research, oceanography, and climate.

AS2.2: PICO: 14:00–18:00 (CEST) PICO spot 5

EGU Exhibition

Don’t miss out the EGU Exhibition where you will get a chance to talk with industry representatives and members of other academic, scientific and publishing organisations. Several of the Exhibitors are running special events throughout the week, check the Exhibition events portal for events from lunch time talks (such as the ones organised by ENVRI) to the daily Open Science & Data Help Desk drop in sessions, to ‘Meet the Editors’ events (such as those being held by Cell Press, Elsevier and Nature).

List of Exhibitors.

Understanding magmatic processes: from storage dynamics to eruptive behaviour, with implications for volcanic hazards

Processes occurring in magma storage regions control magma compositions and properties, which in turn affect ascent dynamics and eruptive behavior, thus representing a paramount factor for the environmental and societal impact of volcanic eruptions. This session will present a range of studies attempting to shed light on magmatic processes at depth.

GMPV7.5: Orals: 08:30–12:25 (CEST) Room D2; Posters: 16:15–18:00 (CEST) Hall X2; virtual: vHall GMPV/G/GD/SM