ISSUE 31, JULY 2017 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/31/email/ ============================================================ HIGHLIGHTS Two important EGU calls opened this month. The first is the EGU 2018 General Assembly call for sessions (https://egu.eu/4W5XLB), which opened on July 10. Do you have a brilliant idea for a scientific session or a short course? Please submit it by September 8. Also of highlight is the call for candidates for the EGU autumn elections (https://egu.eu/2NE748). You can propose candidates, including nominating yourself, to serve as the next EGU Union President, General Secretary and Division Presidents by 15 September. Another important deadline, coming up this month, is the deadline for applications for financial support to organise training schools (https://egu.eu/9YEID6) on 15 August. Also this month, the EGU issued a position statement (https://egu.eu/1AOG8F) in support of the teaching of evolution in schools around the world. EGU President Jonathan Bamber says: “Evolution is a well-established, evidence-based scientific concept rooted in clear and logical facts, supported by a wealth of evidence on geological time.” ------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE General Assembly EGU News Journal Watch EGU Blogs ------------------------------------------------------------ EGU NEWS * EGU Autumn 2017 elections: call for candidates (https://egu.eu/2NE748) * Position statement: EGU advocates the teaching of evolution (https://egu.eu/1AOG8F) * EGU Publications Committee Chair Hubert H.G. Savenije honoured by AGU (https://egu.eu/1RHJ4D) * EGU journals: updated publication policy and revision of editors’, referees’, and authors’ obligations (https://egu.eu/2CDKUH) * Press Release: Removing CO2 from the air required to safeguard children’s future (https://egu.eu/3I3YVT) * Apply for EGU financial support to organise a training school (deadline 15 August, https://egu.eu/9YEID6) More EGU news items are available on the EGU website at https://www.egu.eu/news/all/. ------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL ASSEMBLY * EGU 2018 public call for sessions and short courses now open (https://egu.eu/4W5XLB, deadline: 8 September) More about the EGU General Assembly at https://www.egu2018.eu. ------------------------------------------------------------ JOURNAL WATCH Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) * Exploring gravity wave characteristics in 3-D using a novel S-transform technique: AIRS/Aqua measurements over the Southern Andes and Drake Passage (https://egu.eu/60YFC5) * Detectability of Arctic methane sources at six sites performing continuous atmospheric measurements (https://egu.eu/615YJF) * Opposite long-term trends in aerosols between low and high altitudes: a testimony to the aerosol–PBL feedback (https://egu.eu/5157SU) Biogeosciences (BG) * Reviews and syntheses: Systematic Earth observations for use in terrestrial carbon cycle data assimilation systems (https://egu.eu/11GDHY) * On the long-range offshore transport of organic carbon from the Canary Upwelling System to the open North Atlantic (https://egu.eu/1Z20PK) Climate of the Past (CP) * Periodic input of dust over the Eastern Carpathians during the Holocene linked with Saharan desertification and human impact (https://egu.eu/661STH) Earth Surface Dynamics (ESurf) * Efficient retention of mud drives land building on the Mississippi Delta plain (https://egu.eu/5VRG4A) * Geomorphometric delineation of floodplains and terraces from objectively defined topographic thresholds (https://egu.eu/7TRPHA) Earth System Dynamics (ESD) * Young people’s burden: requirement of negative CO2 emissions (https://egu.eu/8EP0H6) * River logjams cause frequent large-scale forest die-off events in southwestern Amazonia (https://egu.eu/6PW9UY) * Non-linear intensification of Sahel rainfall as a possible dynamic response to future warming (https://egu.eu/0ACJ30) * The importance of terrestrial weathering changes in multimillennial recovery of the global carbon cycle: a two-dimensional perspective (https://egu.eu/8PIDKX) Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) * Special highlight paper (includes extended summary and video): WCRP’s Coupled Model Intercomparison Project: a remarkable contribution to climate science (https://egu.eu/9VAM9R) * The CarbonTracker Data Assimilation Shell (CTDAS) v1.0: implementation and global carbon balance 2001–2015 (https://egu.eu/8DNR6B) * Update of the Polar SWIFT model for polar stratospheric ozone loss (Polar SWIFT version 2) (https://egu.eu/2Q3SON) Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) * Every apple has a voice: using stable isotopes to teach about food sourcing and the water cycle (https://egu.eu/7D7V3I) * Analysis of single-Alter-shielded and unshielded measurements of mixed and solid precipitation from WMO-SPICE (https://egu.eu/784TPU) * HESS Opinions: A planetary boundary on freshwater use is misleading (https://egu.eu/7KGMWX) Ocean Science (OS) * The double high tide at Port Ellen: Doodson’s criterion revisited (https://egu.eu/0K90GS) The Cryosphere (TC) * A weekly Arctic sea-ice thickness data record from merged CryoSat-2 and SMOS satellite data (https://egu.eu/30E75A) 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 EGU blog * GeoPolicy: How can geoscientists make the most of the Horizon 2020 programme? (https://egu.eu/3JLWB9) * Video interview with astronaut applicants: EGU geoscientists are out of this world! (https://egu.eu/7O9RMU) ! * What are science-policy placements and are they for you? (https://egu.eu/44O86F) * GeoSciences Column: Is smoke on your mind? Using social media to assess smoke exposure from wildfires (https://egu.eu/1D27XB) EGU network blogs * Good groundwater management makes for good neighbours (https://egu.eu/9T1F0U), in WaterUnderground EGU division blogs * Image of the Week – Fifty shades of snow (https://egu.eu/6QNWGT), in Cryospheric Sciences * Minds over Methods: Block modeling of Anatolia (https://egu.eu/8P9NT7), in Tectonics and Structural Geology * Corals, the thermometers of the past! (https://egu.eu/2L5TBG), in Climate: Past, Present & Future * Pre-plate-tectonics on early Earth: How to make primordial continental crust (https://egu.eu/6YHE9M), in Geodynamics * PICO in the picture (https://egu.eu/50VH4P), in Earth and Space Science Informatics * Capturing a Whole Total Eclipse of the Sun: Megamovie (https://egu.eu/1YXU30), in Solar-Terrestrial Sciences More posts from the EGU blogs are available at https://blogs.egu.eu/. ------------------------------------------------------------ POLICY Discover EGU's Science for Policy resources (https://www.egu.eu/policy/) & sign up to our database of expertise (https://egu.eu/2JN1DP) to help integrate science in the policy-making process ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eurogeosciences/ 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/31/email/ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=News+from+the+EGU%2C%20July%202017%3A%20https%3A//www.egu.eu/newsletter/egu/31/email/ ============================================================ Copyright © 2017 European Geosciences Union. 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