ISSUE 11, NOVEMBER 2015 EGU NEWSLETTER Monthly information service for members of the European Geosciences Union Read this email in HTML format at https://www.egu.eu/newsletter/egu/11/email/ ============================================================ HIGHLIGHTS The call for abstracts for the EGU 2016 General Assembly is now open: make sure to submit your abstract (https://egu.eu/8YB82D) by 13 January 2016, 13:00 CET. If you would like to apply for funding from the EGU to attend, please submit your abstract within the next few days, by 1 December. This month the EGU has also open a call for proposals for EGU 2016 co-sponsored meetings (https://egu.eu/9YEID6) and has announced a new grant scheme for EGU members interested in developing an outreach and public engagement project (https://egu.eu/5QYR4F). Also ongoing are the EGU elections (https://www.egu.eu/elections/): 2015 EGU members are invited to vote for the next EGU President/Vice-President and General Secretary by 4 December. ------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE EGU News General Assembly Journal Watch EGU Blogs ------------------------------------------------------------ EGU NEWS * Vote on the next EGU President/Vice-President and General Secretary by 4 December (https://www.egu.eu/elections/) * Applications open for EGU Public Engagement Grants (https://egu.eu/5QYR4F) * Sign up now to the EGU database of expertise to help integrate science in the policy-making process (https://egu.eu/2JN1DP) * Apply for EGU support to organise a meeting (https://egu.eu/9YEID6) in the geosciences (deadline 31 December) or a Galileo Conference (https://egu.eu/6KJUDP) More EGU news items are available on the EGU website at https://www.egu.eu/news/all/. ------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL ASSEMBLY * Applying for financial support to attend the General Assembly (mainly for early career scientists [ECS], deadline 1 December 2015) (https://egu.eu/8Y1IT3) * [ECS] PICO sessions at EGU 2016 & Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards (https://egu.eu/75BAN1) * Showcase your film at Geocinema at the 2016 General Assembly! (https://egu.eu/6BGHI2) * The EGU 2016 call for papers is open until 13 January 2016 at 13:00 CET (https://egu.eu/8YB82D) * Request forms for short courses, splinter meetings and townhall meetings will be available by mid December 2015 on https://www.egu2016.eu ------------------------------------------------------------ JOURNAL WATCH Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) * Laboratory evidence of organic peroxide and peroxyhemiacetal formation in the aqueous phase and implications for aqueous OH (https://egu.eu/2ZCGBO) * Ice water content vertical profiles of high-level clouds: classification and impact on radiative fluxes (https://egu.eu/7QM8V9) Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT) * Local- and regional-scale measurements of CH4, d13CH4, and C2H6 in the Uintah Basin using a mobile stable isotope analyzer (https://egu.eu/6G4CBT) Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) * Modelling Mediterranean agro-ecosystems by including agricultural trees in the LPJmL model (https://egu.eu/3JAVSK) Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics (NPG) * Expanding the validity of the ensemble Kalman filter without the intrinsic need for inflation (https://egu.eu/04QKEF) The Cryosphere (TC) * Reducing uncertainties in projections of Antarctic ice mass loss (https://egu.eu/36TNF3) Other papers highlighted by the editors of EGU's open access journals are available online at https://www.egu.eu/news/journal-watch/. ------------------------------------------------------------ EGU BLOGS GeoLog, the official EGU blog * Geoscience hot topics – Part I: The Earth’s past and its origin (https://egu.eu/4INM40) * GeoPolicy: EGU sciences on debate at the European Parliament (https://egu.eu/8X6VC3) * What is in your field rucksack? Take a peek in Zoe Mildon’s bag & tell us what you take with you on field work (https://egu.eu/0K5WSU) * [ECS] GeoTalk: Anne Pluymakers, Early Career Scientist Representative (https://egu.eu/5IOS14) * GeoEd: Geoscience teaching resources (https://egu.eu/0D7QC2) EGU blog network * #EGU16 – Sessions of Interest (https://egu.eu/2IRVSZ), in Geology for Global Development * Yet another way we are altering Earth’s natural functioning (https://egu.eu/11W2K5), in Geology Jenga * Geology and classics: The Wooden Wall (https://egu.eu/609NBE), in GeoSphere EGU division blogs * L’Aquila seismologists cleared for good (https://egu.eu/2ODE78), in Seismology * [ECS] Sunshine, ice cores, buckets and ALE: Antarctic Fieldwork (https://egu.eu/6HGM8J), in Cryospheric Sciences More posts from the EGU blogs are available at https://blogs.egu.eu/. ------------------------------------------------------------ MEETINGS Check the EGU Meetings Calendar for upcoming geoscience conferences: https://www.egu.eu/meetings/calendar/ ------------------------------------------------------------ JOBS Find vacancies in the Earth, planetary and space sciences on the EGU Jobs Portal: https://www.egu.eu/jobs ------------------------------------------------------------ EARLY CAREER SCIENTISTS Visit the EGU Early Career Scientists website! https://www.egu.eu/ecs ------------------------------------------------------------ FOLLOW US Web: https://www.egu.eu Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanGeosciencesUnion Twitter: https://twitter.com/EuroGeosciences LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/european-geosciences-union Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/+egu/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/EuroGeosciencesUnion ------------------------------------------------------------ SHARE THIS NEWSLETTER On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//www.egu.eu/newsletter/egu/11/email/ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=News+from+the+EGU%2C%20November%202015%3A%20https%3A//www.egu.eu/newsletter/egu/11/email/ ============================================================ Copyright © 2015 European Geosciences Union. 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