ISSUE 7, JULY 2015 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/7/email/ ============================================================ HIGHLIGHTS We’ve just opened the call for candidates for the next EGU President/Vice-President and General Secretary. Until 15 September, you are invited to propose a candidate for either vacancy. You are welcome and encouraged to nominate yourself. Also open, until 18 September, is the call for sessions for the EGU 2016 General Assembly. And you still have one more day to submit your request for financial support to organise a geoscience meeting! Follow the links below for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE EGU News General Assembly Journal Watch EGU Blogs Meetings Jobs ------------------------------------------------------------ EGU NEWS * EGU election for President/Vice-President and General Secretary: propose a candidate (https://www.egu.eu/elections/) * Need support from the EGU to organise a meeting in the Earth, planetary or space sciences in 2016? Submit your support request by 31 July! (https://egu.eu/1WI2BV) * EGU Vice-President Günter Blöschl awarded AGU’s Robert E. Horton Medal (https://egu.eu/66LE1M) * Young Scientists renamed Early Career Scientists (https://egu.eu/3PQ4U3) * Biogeosciences most cited articles in 2014 (https://egu.eu/0YOFGV) * Press Release: Fungus shapes hair ice – Researchers identify fungus responsible for peculiar ice filaments that grow on dead wood (https://egu.eu/5M2LRX) More EGU news items are available on the EGU website at https://www.egu.eu/news/all/. ------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL ASSEMBLY * The call for sessions for the EGU 2016 General Assembly (17 – 22 April 2016, Vienna, Austria) is now open. Submit your proposals by 18 September. (https://egu.eu/082M1B) ------------------------------------------------------------ JOURNAL WATCH Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) * Mapping gas-phase organic reactivity and concomitant secondary organic aerosol formation: chemometric dimension reduction techniques for the deconvolution of complex atmospheric data sets (https://egu.eu/08VU2G) Biogeosciences (BG) * Evidence for biological shaping of hair ice (https://egu.eu/5QKYAM) Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) * 14C-age tracers in global ocean circulation models (https://egu.eu/6MWLOU) * EMPOWER-1.0: an Efficient Model of Planktonic ecOsystems WrittEn in R (https://egu.eu/2EQ79U) Earth System Dynamics (ESD) * Decomposing uncertainties in the future terrestrial carbon budget associated with emission scenarios, climate projections, and ecosystem simulations using the ISI-MIP results (https://egu.eu/8SZPUT) Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) * A contribution to the selection of tsunami human vulnerability indicators: conclusions from tsunami impacts in Sri Lanka and Thailand (2004), Samoa (2009), Chile (2010) and Japan (2011) (https://egu.eu/2DCI57) * Development of a Global Fire Weather Database (https://egu.eu/58VNTC) 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 official EGU blog * All you ever wanted to know about EGU publications (https://egu.eu/44S58R) * General Assembly 2015: Time-lapse animations (https://egu.eu/3F8TJR) * Geosciences Column: When water is scarce, understanding how we can save it is important (https://egu.eu/134LWJ) * GeoTalk: Deciphering the mysteries of the Mediterranean Sea with Katrin Schroeder (https://egu.eu/3X340A) * GeoEd: Social communications (https://egu.eu/6KDG8U) EGU blog network * Commentary: ‘Globalize Geoscience’ and International Capacity Strengthening (https://egu.eu/94KCJV) , in Geology for Global Development * The Open Research Glossary round 2 (https://egu.eu/91RX5D) , in Green Tea and Velociraptors * Geology Photo of the Week #44 (https://egu.eu/4KIZVL), in GeoSphere * GfGD Annual Conference 2015 (3) – Registration Open (https://egu.eu/6QG1S4), in Geology for Global Development EGU division blogs * Science and Shovels: Traversing across the Greenland Ice Sheet (https://egu.eu/31QPVU), in Cryospheric Sciences * Words on Wednesday: Brief Communication – The dark side of risk and crisis communication: legal conflicts and responsibility allocation (https://egu.eu/5XZ4OE), in Energy, Resources and the Environment * What is the biggest air pollution event in the modern era? (https://egu.eu/8D321E), in Atmospheric Sciences * EGU, Vienna 2015: the round-up (https://egu.eu/6H091I), in Climate: Past, Present & Future More posts from the EGU blogs are available at https://blogs.egu.eu/. ------------------------------------------------------------ MEETINGS * 14th International Workshop on Modelling of Mantle and Lithosphere Dynamics (https://egu.eu/361H5T) (Olerons, France, 31 August – 05 September 2015) * 20th International Conference on deformation mechanisms, rheology and tectonics (https://egu.eu/1ZCKJE) (Aachen, Germany, 07–11 September 2015) * The interaction of fire and mankind (https://egu.eu/1RF1MA) (London, UK, 14–15 September 2015) * Fourth International Conference on Fault and Top Seals (https://egu.eu/4M51DY) (Almeria, Spain, 20–24 September 2015) * LuWQ2015, 2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on land use and water quality: Agricultural Production and the Environment (https://egu.eu/9F8VGY) (Vienna, Austria, 21–24 September 2015) * EuroPlanet: European Planetary Science Congress 2015 (https://egu.eu/4YNCRU) (Nantes, France, 27 September – 02 October 2015) * Observing Ecosystem Transition – 10 Years Huehnerwasser / Chicken Creek Catchment (https://egu.eu/580LXA) (Cottbus, Germany, 28–29 September 2015) * Convective and volcanic clouds detection, monitoring and modeling (https://egu.eu/9TZHLK) (Castiglione del Lago, Italy, 04–09 October 2015) For more geoscience meetings, please check the online meetings calendar on the EGU website at https://www.egu.eu/meetings/calendar/, where you can also add your own meetings. ------------------------------------------------------------ JOBS * Postdoc in integrated analysis of the Cretaceous/Palaeogene boundary in the Dani (https://egu.eu/4OHNAM), at The Danish Hydrocarbon Research and Technology Centre, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark (apply by 14 August 2015) * Two PhD scholarships; one in 4D seismic analysis and one in sedimentological res (https://egu.eu/5K3F7E), at The Danish Hydrocarbon Research and Technology Centre, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark (apply by 14 August 2015) * Faculty Position in Stratigraphy and Sedimentology (https://egu.eu/6D5O23), Ben-Gurion University, at Department of Geological and Environmental Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel (apply by 15 August 2015) * PhD - student position (soil science, biogeochemistry, ecology) (https://egu.eu/3MI945), at University of Goettingen, Soil Science of Tropical and Subtropical Ecosystems, Goettingen, Germany (open until position is filled) * PhD student position in middle atmospheric physics in Svalbard (https://egu.eu/4V5LKJ), at The University Centre in Svalbard, Norway (apply by 31 August 2015) * Tenured associate/assistant professor position in analytical planetary chemistry (https://egu.eu/6831NA), at Institute for Study of the Earth’s Interior (ISEI), Okayama University, Misasa, Japan (apply by 31 August 2015) For more job opportunities in the geosciences, please check the online jobs platform on the EGU website at https://www.egu.eu/jobs/search/, where you can also add your job vacancies. ------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/+egu/ 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/7/email/ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=News+from+the+EGU%2C%20July%202015%3A%20https%3A//www.egu.eu/newsletter/egu/7/email/ ============================================================ Copyright © 2015 European Geosciences Union. 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