ISSUE 34, OCTOBER 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/34/email/ ============================================================ HIGHLIGHTS Earlier in October, we announced the winners of the 2018 EGU awards and medals (https://egu.eu/61W31U): 49 individuals who have made significant contributions to the Earth, planetary and space sciences and who will be honoured at the 2018 EGU General Assembly. We have also announced the winners of the Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Awards corresponding to the 2017 General Assembly: check our website for more information (https://egu.eu/61W31U). We also opened the call for abstracts for our annual conference this month (https://egu.eu/2WN0JA). If you are interested in presenting your work in Vienna in April, make sure you submit your abstract by 10 January 2018, 13:00 CET. If you would like to apply for a Roland Schlich travel grant to attend the meeting, please submit your abstract no later than 1 December 2017. Last but not the least, we have a new job vacancy at the EGU Executive Office in Munich: EGU Communications Officer (https://egu.eu/0AUE2R). If you are passionate about communicating science to a variety of audiences, especially using blogs and social media, consider applying by 5 November. ------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE General Assembly EGU News Journal Watch EGU Blogs ------------------------------------------------------------ EGU NEWS * EGU announces 2018 awards and medals (https://egu.eu/61W31U) * Job opportunity at the EGU Executive Office: Communications Officer (https://egu.eu/0AUE2R) * EGU elections: check your inboxes in early November to vote for the next EGU President, General Secretary and Division Presidents (https://egu.eu/78G1JM) * Press release: Deforestation linked to palm oil production is making Indonesia warmer (https://egu.eu/3WAES9) * Press release: Study reveals new threat to the ozone layer (https://egu.eu/4NWRW8) * Press release: Applications open for EGU 2018 Science Journalism Fellowships (https://egu.eu/3ZGLQ7) More EGU news items are available on the EGU website at https://www.egu.eu/news/all/. ------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL ASSEMBLY * EGU 2018 call for abstracts (https://egu.eu/2WN0JA) (deadline: January 10 or December 1 if you are applying for a Roland Schlich travel grant) * Organise a splinter meeting (https://egu.eu/4NY9MO) or townhall meeting (https://egu.eu/3144JR) at the EGU 2018 General Assembly More about the EGU General Assembly at https://www.egu2018.eu. ------------------------------------------------------------ JOURNAL WATCH Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) * A growing threat to the ozone layer from short-lived anthropogenic chlorocarbons (https://egu.eu/1UH24Z) Biogeosciences (BG) * Expansion of oil palm and other cash crops causes an increase of land surface temperature of the Jambi province in Indonesia (https://egu.eu/1RJ4F3) Earth Surface Dynamics (ESurf) * Seismic monitoring of small alpine rockfalls – validity, precision and limitations (https://egu.eu/4ND4HW) Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems (GI) * Automated mineralogy based on micro-energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence microscopy (µ-EDXRF) applied to plutonic rock thin sections in comparison to a mineral liberation analyzer (https://egu.eu/1Z3U3R) Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) * The CAMELS data set: catchment attributes and meteorology for large-sample studies Improving calibration and validation of cosmic-ray neutron sensors in the light of spatial sensitivity (https://egu.eu/1DW1GA) Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) * Revisiting the synoptic-scale predictability of severe European winter storms using ECMWF ensemble reforecasts (https://egu.eu/1QXYHY) Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics (NPG) * Balanced source terms for wave generation within the Hasselmann equation (https://egu.eu/9GRNQ3) The Cryosphere (TC) * Response to Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf cavity warming in a coupled ocean–ice sheet model – Part 1: The ocean perspective (https://egu.eu/9U5CJV) Other papers highlighted by the editors of EGU's open access journals are available online at https://www.egu.eu/publications/highlight-articles/. ------------------------------------------------------------ EGU BLOGS GeoLog, the EGU blog * GeoTalk: Hellishly hot period contributed to one of the most catastrophic mass extinctions of Earth’s history (https://egu.eu/1FBDZF) * Geoscience communication: A smart investment (https://egu.eu/2CGLXB) * How certain plants survive mass extinction events: study (https://egu.eu/78KYXB) * Malawi High School Teacher’s Workshop on Natural Hazards (https://egu.eu/3MULFQ) EGU network blogs * Robert Emberson: Soil Erosion and Sustainable Development (https://egu.eu/2N7M4K), in Geology for Global Development * Groundwater organic matter: carbon source or sink? (https://egu.eu/3TR917), in WaterUnderground * Video: Why and how I communicate on social and traditional media, and some mistakes I made along the way… (https://egu.eu/4GADO7), in WaterUnderground * Heather Britton: India’s Energy-Climate Dilemma (https://egu.eu/1E8954), in Geology for Global Development EGU division blogs * Decomposing algae have not said their last word yet! (https://egu.eu/5KUWLR), in Climate of the Past * Planting seeds of deformation in numerical models (https://egu.eu/38B181), in Geodynamics * Strengthening Early Career Scientists (ECS) in EGU ESSI (https://egu.eu/4XJACZ), in Earth and Space Science Informatics * Cargèse Earthquake Summer School 2017 (https://egu.eu/5HFZA7), in Tectonics and Structural Geology * Mapping the bottom of the world – an Interview with Brad Herried, Antarctic Cartographer (https://egu.eu/1BSBR9), in Cryospheric Sciences * Buckle up! It’s about to get bumpy on the plane (https://egu.eu/3GLFXQ), in Atmospheric 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/34/email/ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=News+from+the+EGU%2C%20October%202017%3A%20https%3A//www.egu.eu/newsletter/egu/34/email/ ============================================================ Copyright © 2017 European Geosciences Union. 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