ISSUE 50, FEBRUARY 2019 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/50/email/ ============================================================ HIGHLIGHTS The meeting programme for the EGU General Assembly 2019 (7–12 April, Vienna) was published this month (https://egu.eu/7HPLF9/). With more than 1000 scientific sessions, debates, short courses and side events, and close to 17,000 abstracts, it promises to be a varied and exciting meeting. If you have not yet registered, please do so by the end of today to get reduced registration rates (https://egu.eu/9L9NVA/). This month the EGU has also issued a response to potential changes to the European Research Council (https://egu.eu/3HAC2I/), one of the world’s leading and most respected funders of frontier research, designed and governed by scientists. "Without this close relationship with the research community, the ERC’s ability to support the very best frontier science will be compromised," the statement reads. The EGU has also announced a new award for Earth, planetary and space science journalism this month. The Angela Croome Award (https://egu.eu/0WEU3H/) is the newest edition to the EGU awards and medals (https://egu.eu/5E9QX9/) portfolio, joining the newly renamed Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal (https://egu.eu/39CZEM/), the recently launched Katia and Maurice Krafft Award (https://egu.eu/2Y370J/) for geoscience outreach and engagement, and many other prestigious honours. Last but not the least, we are sad to report that Lily Pereg, Deputy President and Programme Group Chair of the EGU Soil System Sciences (SSS) Division and Executive Editor of the SOIL journal, passed away in January. Read the obituary on the EGU website (https://egu.eu/8HE74T/). ------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE General Assembly EGU News Journal Watch EGU Blogs ------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL ASSEMBLY * EGU 2019 General Assembly programme is now online (https://egu.eu/2T3GGA/) ! * Travel to the EGU meeting by train! If coming from Zurich, you can take advantage of an SBB promotion (https://egu.eu/00UMR4/) * EGU 2019: Getting to Vienna, getting to sleep and getting to know the city (https://egu.eu/1JXT44/) * EGU 2019: How to make the most of your time at the General Assembly without breaking the bank (https://egu.eu/9AQRI6/) * New: General Assembly Job Centre (https://egu.eu/2SIS70/) * Register for the EGU General Assembly (https://egu.eu/9L9NVA/, deadline for early registration today!) * Please note that the Vienna City Marathon (40,000 participants) will take place in Vienna on Sunday, 7 April, resulting in many hotels being fully booked the night before. Therefore, we strongly recommend booking accommodation as soon as possible (https://egu.eu/76XU51/) More about the EGU General Assembly at https://www.egu2019.eu. ------------------------------------------------------------ EGU NEWS * EGU’s response to potential changes to the European Research Council (https://egu.eu/3HAC2I/) * EGU establishes new award for Earth, planetary and space science journalism (https://egu.eu/0WEU3H/) * EGU Galileo Conference: Perturbations of Earth surface dynamics caused by extreme events (https://egu.eu/8CRUPC/, application deadline: 30 April) * EGU Louis Agassiz Medal renamed to honour Julia and Johannes Weertman (https://egu.eu/39CZEM/) * SOIL indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (https://egu.eu/3Y9U1U/) * Obituary: Lily Pereg (1964–2019, https://egu.eu/8HE74T/) * EGU Galileo Conference programme: call for proposals (https://egu.eu/4Z7SLQ, deadline today!) More EGU news items are available on the EGU website at https://www.egu.eu/news/all/. ------------------------------------------------------------ JOURNAL WATCH Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) * Evidence for a major missing source in the global chloromethane budget from stable carbon isotopes (https://egu.eu/300TS0/) * Positive matrix factorization of organic aerosol: insights from a chemical transport model (https://egu.eu/6V6SIT/) Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT) * Revisiting the differential freezing nucleus spectra derived from drop-freezing experiments: methods of calculation, applications, and confidence limits (https://egu.eu/31USXL/) Biogeosciences (BG) * Towards a more complete quantification of the global carbon cycle (https://egu.eu/7DNPRB/) * Mineral formation induced by cable bacteria performing long-distance electron transport in marine sediments (https://egu.eu/89LW9D/) * Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of leaves, litter, and soils of various ecosystems along an elevational and land-use gradient at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania (https://egu.eu/9AWVYM/) Climate of the Past (CP) * Harmonising plant functional type distributions for evaluating Earth system models (https://egu.eu/1XH14W/) * Heinrich events show two-stage climate response in transient glacial simulations (https://egu.eu/6IZUYT/) Earth Surface Dynamics (ESurf) * Long-term erosion of the Nepal Himalayas by bedrock landsliding: the role of monsoons, earthquakes and giant landslides (https://egu.eu/90BWW5/) Earth System Dynamics (ESD) * The role of moisture transport for precipitation in the inter-annual and inter-daily fluctuations of the Arctic sea ice extension (https://egu.eu/9PO0HQ/) Geoscience Communication (GC) * Identifying and improving AGU collaborations using network analysis and scientometrics (https://egu.eu/4FA7OJ/) Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) * A simple topography-driven and calibration-free runoff generation module (https://egu.eu/8REN7C/) * Emergent stationarity in Yellow River sediment transport and the underlying shift of dominance: from streamflow to vegetation (https://egu.eu/28XTG1/) Solid Earth (SE) * Power spectra of random heterogeneities in the solid earth (https://egu.eu/38H7J1/) The Cryosphere (TC) * The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (https://egu.eu/8854VT/) * Thaw processes in ice-rich permafrost landscapes represented with laterally coupled tiles in a land surface model (https://egu.eu/0P5MGH/) * Four decades of Antarctic surface elevation changes from multi-mission satellite altimetry (https://egu.eu/0CZR8P/) Other papers highlighted by the editors of EGU's open access journals are available online at https://egu.eu/4XF4JN. ------------------------------------------------------------ EGU BLOGS GeoLog, the EGU blog * Get involved: become an EGU early career scientist representative (https://egu.eu/10IJ5T/) * Geosciences Column: Scientists pinpoint where seawater could be leaking into Antarctic ice shelves (https://egu.eu/0RHT6Y/) * GeoPolicy: The importance of communicating your research with the public (https://egu.eu/3SSJFF/) * Iceland’s rootless volcanoes (https://egu.eu/63LA8X/) * How to increase reproducibility and transparency in your research (https://egu.eu/3MH3DM/) * GeoTalk: Research reflections and lessons learned from Pinhas Alpert (https://egu.eu/29RQQS/) * GeoPolicy: getting ready for the European Parliament Election (https://egu.eu/0B8PEJ/) EGU network blogs * Water: underground source for billions could take more than a century to respond fully to climate change (https://egu.eu/76BLQQ/), in WaterUnderground * The importance of wetlands (https://egu.eu/2J0ONG/), in Geology for Global Development * Geology for Global Development – Our Highlights from 2018 and Plans for 2019 (https://egu.eu/23UO4A/), in Geology for Global Development EGU division blogs * Image of the Week – When “Ice, Ice Baby” puts rocks “Under Pressure” (https://egu.eu/6KQEKB/), in Cryospheric Sciences * Meeting Plate Tectonics – Roger Buck (https://egu.eu/8OCRMK/), in Tectonics and Structural Geology * Job matchmaking in the water sector (https://egu.eu/6NIQUT/), in Natural Hazards * New insights to the north-south asymmetries of auroral features (https://egu.eu/5V2ZZL/), in Solar-Terrestrial Sciences * GSA Penrose Conference: CLAST2019, 4-10 August 2019, Juneau, Alaska (https://egu.eu/4GHCGX/), in Geomorphology * Demystifying the Peer-Review Process (https://egu.eu/502DHE/), in Geodynamics * The collapse of Anak Krakatau volcano: a scenario envisaged (https://egu.eu/91866W/), in Natural Hazards * Image of the Week – Delaying the flood with glacial geoengineering (https://egu.eu/472B4T/), in Cryospheric Sciences * Minds over Methods: Massively dilatant faults in Iceland – from surface to subsurface structures (https://egu.eu/4TENDP/), in Tectonics and Structural Geology 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: 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