ISSUE 56, AUGUST 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/56/email/ ============================================================ HIGHLIGHTS This month the EGU President Alberto Montanari wrote an open letter to funding agencies (https://egu.eu/6OBB9B/) with information on the assessment of presentations given at EGU scientific meetings. The letter emphasises that there is no distinction regarding the standing, quality or prestige of oral, poster, or PICO presentations at the EGU General Assembly and recommends that funding agencies do not use presentation type as a criterion for assessing the scientific value of contributions. In other important news this month, the EGU has launched Weather and Climate Dynamics (https://egu.eu/6TEDI4/), a new open-access, two-stage journal with open review dedicated to the publication and public discussion of high-quality research on dynamical processes in the atmosphere. The journal is now open for submissions (https://egu.eu/5V2MPG/). Next month brings two important EGU deadlines. The call for candidates for EGU Union President, General Secretary and Division Presidents is open until 15 September: we encourage EGU members to nominate themselves or propose a candidate (https://egu.eu/78G1JM/). Before that, 5 September is the deadline to submit session proposals and short course ideas to the EGU General Assembly 2020. Contribute to the conference programme by submitting your proposals (https://egu.eu/9XEJTI). ------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE EGU News General Assembly Journal Watch EGU Blogs ------------------------------------------------------------ EGU NEWS * Open letter to funding agencies regarding presentations at EGU meetings (https://egu.eu/6OBB9B/) * New EGU journal: Weather and Climate Dynamics (https://egu.eu/6TEDI4/) * Press release: New study shows fracking has prompted global spike in atmospheric methane (https://egu.eu/5HPLQ3/) * EGU awarded a Commemorative Centennial Plaque by IUGG (https://egu.eu/0JB4Y6/) * EGU Autumn 2019 elections: call for candidates (https://egu.eu/78G1JM/) (deadline: 15 September) * Deadline (6 September) approaching! Spend a day in Brussels with a Member of the European Parliament! (https://egu.eu/7V2U9I/) * Higher education teaching of geoscience: how can the EGU help? (https://egu.eu/5ECMO5/) 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 5 September * Help shape the conference programme: Inter- and Transdisciplinary Sessions at the 2020 General Assembly (https://egu.eu/73K99J/) More about the EGU General Assembly at https://www.egu2020.eu. ------------------------------------------------------------ JOURNAL WATCH Biogeosciences (BG) * Ideas and perspectives: is shale gas a major driver of recent increase in global atmospheric methane? (https://egu.eu/8OXA52/) Climate of the Past (CP) * Modelling ice sheet evolution and atmospheric CO2 during the Late Pliocene (https://egu.eu/0I9JOC/) * Spatial pattern of accumulation at Taylor Dome during Marine Isotope Stage 4: stratigraphic constraints from Taylor Glacier (https://egu.eu/8VAQ9M/) * Past climate and continentality inferred from ice wedges at Batagay megaslump in the Northern Hemisphere’s most continental region, Yana Highlands, interior Yakutia (https://egu.eu/85FVJD/) Earth Surface Dynamics (ESurf) * A global delta dataset and the environmental variables that predict delta formation on marine coastlines (https://egu.eu/1C8YX1/) Geoscience Communication (GC) * Seismic risk: the biases of earthquake media coverage (https://egu.eu/0PP3PD/) * Taking a Breath of the Wild: are geoscientists more effective than non-geoscientists in determining whether video game world landscapes are realistic? (https://egu.eu/2O04SM/) Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems (GI) * A low-cost device for measuring local magnetic anomalies in volcanic terrain (https://egu.eu/7JNR84/) * Multiresolution wavelet analysis applied to GRACE range-rate residuals (https://egu.eu/8YI7TF/) Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) * Summary and synthesis of Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN) research in the interior of western Canada – Part 1: Projected climate and meteorology (https://egu.eu/0TJEDH/) * A salinity module for SWAT to simulate salt ion fate and transport at the watershed scale (https://egu.eu/708B34/) Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) * Load-resistance analysis: an alternative approach to tsunami damage assessment applied to the 2011 Great East Japan tsunami (https://egu.eu/02YZAA/) * Improving the understanding of flood risk in the Alsatian region by knowledge capitalization: the ORRION participative observatory (https://egu.eu/0R7KFM/) Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics (NP) * Unravelling the spatial diversity of Indian precipitation teleconnections via a non-linear multi-scale approach (https://egu.eu/2G0ZLQ/) Ocean Science (OS) * High-resolution underwater laser spectrometer sensing provides new insights into methane distribution at an Arctic seepage site (https://egu.eu/27JFUN/) Solid Earth (SE) * Fault-controlled dolomitization in the Montagna dei Fiori Anticline (Central Apennines, Italy): record of a dominantly pre-orogenic fluid migration (https://egu.eu/7LTE5U/) 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: Bárbara Ferreira – reflections on a science communication career with EGU (https://egu.eu/7FP4BK/) * Imaggeo on Mondays: The ephemeral salt crystals (https://egu.eu/249GEL/) * July GeoRoundUp: The best of the Earth sciences from around the web (https://egu.eu/072CZU/) * Pole to Paris: Communicating climate change in a divided society (https://egu.eu/41BNWI/) EGU network blogs * Flooding in some of the world’s most at-risk cities (https://egu.eu/4UM3MD/), in Geology for Global Development EGU division blogs * Adaption (https://egu.eu/2ZAWIC/), in Geodynamics * What controlled the evolution of Plate Tectonics on Earth? (https://egu.eu/7IFVND/), in Geodynamics * #mineralmonday: sengierite (https://egu.eu/6XSXC3/), in Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology * Gender balance in the HS division- some personal thoughts (https://egu.eu/9Z531O/), in Hydrological Sciences * Cyclone Fani: A success in weather forecast and disaster preparedness (https://egu.eu/1DHQF3/), in Natural Hazards * A way out of burnout (https://egu.eu/7RM0UI/), in Seismology * Minds over Methods: Dating deformation with U-Pb carbonate geochronology (https://egu.eu/0IEGD0/), 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: 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/56/email/ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=News+from+the+EGU%2C%20August%202019%3A%20https%3A//www.egu.eu/newsletter/egu/56/email/ ============================================================ Copyright © 2019 European Geosciences Union. 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