ISSUE 55, JULY 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/55/email/ ============================================================ HIGHLIGHTS This month we are advertising another vacancy at the EGU Executive Office in Munich, Germany: EGU Communications Officer (https://egu.eu/5EBO2S/). The successful candidate will manage the EGU blogs and social media channels and be the office contact point for early career scientists. Also this month, we have opened the call for candidates for EGU Union President, General Secretary and Division Presidents: if you'd like to nominate yourself or propose a candidate (https://egu.eu/78G1JM/), you can do so by 15 September. Finally, if you'd like to apply for financial support from the EGU to organise a meeting, make sure to submit an application by 15 August (https://egu.eu/5719I2/). This is also the deadline to submit proposals for Union Symposia and Great Debates (https://egu.eu/9XEJTI) at the EGU General Assembly 2020. The deadline for scientific sessions and short courses is 5 September. ------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE EGU News General Assembly Journal Watch EGU Blogs ------------------------------------------------------------ EGU NEWS * Job opportunity at the EGU Executive Office: Communications Officer (https://egu.eu/5EBO2S/) * EGU Autumn 2019 elections: call for candidates (https://egu.eu/78G1JM/) * Spend a day in Brussels with a Member of the European Parliament! (https://egu.eu/7V2U9I/) * EGU awarded a Commemorative Centennial Plaque by IUGG (https://egu.eu/0JB4Y6) * Higher education teaching of geoscience: how can the EGU help? (https://egu.eu/5ECMO5/) * Deadline approaching: apply for EGU financial support for training schools and conference series (https://egu.eu/5719I2/) More EGU news items are available on the EGU website at https://www.egu.eu/news/all/. ------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL ASSEMBLY * Submit your session ideas for the EGU General Assembly 2020 (https://egu.eu/9XEJTI)! The deadline is 15 August for Union Symposia and Great Debates and 5 September for other session types, including short courses * Help shape the conference programme: Union Symposia and Great Debates at the 2020 General Assembly (https://egu.eu/9CSIJ6/) * Organise a short course at EGU 2020: follow this simple guide! (https://egu.eu/0XJ3HW/) * Interested in convening a session? Read our updated guidelines for conveners (https://egu.eu/8TM7MQ/) More about the EGU General Assembly at https://www.egu2020.eu. ------------------------------------------------------------ JOURNAL WATCH Annales Geophysicae (ANGEO) * Converging photospheric vortex flows close to the polarity inversion line of a fully emerged active region (https://egu.eu/9CWXKI/) Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) * Towards monitoring localized CO2 emissions from space: co-located regional CO2 and NO2 enhancements observed by the OCO-2 and S5P satellites (https://egu.eu/9TU1IF/) * Quantification of water vapour transport from the Asian monsoon to the stratosphere (https://egu.eu/828V95/) * Atmospheric measurements of the terrestrial O2:CO2 exchange ratio of a midlatitude forest (https://egu.eu/2CQW9H/) * Evaluation of global simulations of aerosol particle and cloud condensation nuclei number, with implications for cloud droplet formation (https://egu.eu/2CDXZC/) * Emission of trace gases and aerosols from biomass burning – an updated assessment (https://egu.eu/1JJB32/) Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT) * Description of a formaldehyde retrieval algorithm for the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS, https://egu.eu/84YE0M/) Biogeosciences (BG) * Global soil–climate–biome diagram: linking surface soil properties to climate and biota (https://egu.eu/1K6WAZ/) * Dissolved organic matter at the fluvial–marine transition in the Laptev Sea using in situ data and ocean colour remote sensing (https://egu.eu/6VLI3O/) Climate of the Past (CP) * Early instrumental meteorological measurements in Switzerland (https://egu.eu/99MWIC/) * Mid-Holocene climate change over China: model–data discrepancy (https://egu.eu/5QT90I/) Earth Surface Dynamics (ESurf) * Evaluating post-glacial bedrock erosion and surface exposure duration by coupling in situ optically stimulated luminescence and 10Be dating (https://egu.eu/4VGHGQ/) * Alluvial channel response to environmental perturbations: fill-terrace formation and sediment-signal disruption (https://egu.eu/7W4PTP/) Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) * Assessing the characteristics and drivers of compound flooding events around the UK coast (https://egu.eu/8GPEIT/) Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) * Flood risk in a range of spatial perspectives – from global to local scales (https://egu.eu/8TEUON/) The Cryosphere (TC) * Brief communication: Updated GAMDAM glacier inventory over high-mountain Asia (https://egu.eu/4WIVJL/) * Converting snow depth to snow water equivalent using climatological variables (https://egu.eu/65MF3O/) 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 * GeoTalk: Creative communication for science education – meet scientific artist Kelly Stanford (https://egu.eu/2KP5WY/) * Geosciences Column: How erupting African volcanoes impact the Amazon’s atmosphere (https://egu.eu/5JMZVB/) * Imaggeo on Mondays: Recreating monster waves in art and science (https://egu.eu/8OEGS5/) * GeoPolicy: Preventing mercury leakage from a WWII submarine (https://egu.eu/98D642/) EGU network blogs * The link between development and resource use (https://egu.eu/1PNAOK/), in Geology for Global Development * Urban water underground: How green infrastructure makes it visible (https://egu.eu/6X8U88/), in WaterUnderground * Careers in Geoscience-for-Development: Some Tips and Resources (https://egu.eu/01PRHT/), in Geology for Global Development * Tracking water consumption: how you can help fight climate-change-driven water stress (https://egu.eu/8GYFW2/), in Geology for Global Development * A do-it-yourself Jupyter notebook to constrain sediment permeability (https://egu.eu/0EITDN/), in WaterUnderground EGU division blogs * Welcome to the Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences Blog! (https://egu.eu/8JXN9I/), in Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences * Magnetic minerals: storytellers of environmental and climatic conditions (https://egu.eu/8G8199/), in Climate: Past, Present & Future * Beyond tectonics: The present-day tides are the biggest they have been since the formation of Pangea (https://egu.eu/968B53/), in Tectonics and Structural Geology * Did you know? – Storms can make Arctic sea ice disappear even faster (https://egu.eu/0NRQ0J/), in Cryospheric Sciences * An interview with… EGU awardee Marie Dumont (https://egu.eu/6BBPEE/), in Cryospheric Sciences * Iron volcanism on metallic asteroids? (https://egu.eu/827DHZ/), in Geodynamics * Are mantle melts heterogeneous on a centimeter scale? (https://egu.eu/4R3QRS/), in Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology * Quality through Equality – tackling gender issues in hydrology (https://egu.eu/8FKY3L/), in Hydrological Sciences * NH10 Multi-Hazards: The Latest EGU Natural Hazards Sub-Division (https://egu.eu/6MMIAQ/), in Natural Hazards * Highlights of the EGU GA 2019 (https://egu.eu/5L32WD/), in Seismology * Slimy Landscapes 2: This time it’s Precambrian (https://egu.eu/4B5JZS/), in Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology * From Mountains to Modernists: the geological foundations and inspirations of Barcelona (https://egu.eu/3NMUHW/), in Tectonics and Structural Geology * June Heatwave 2019: can we attribute the event to anthropogenic emission? (https://egu.eu/8200G8/), in Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences * Writing your own press release (https://egu.eu/3NWC8S/), in Geodynamics 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/55/email/ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=News+from+the+EGU%2C%20July%202019%3A%20https%3A//www.egu.eu/newsletter/egu/55/email/ ============================================================ Copyright © 2019 European Geosciences Union. 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