EGU NEWSLETTER - ISSUE 69, SEPTEMBER 2020 ========================================= September: EGU’s Mineral Month Mohs Hardness Scale By the time German geologist Friedrich Mohs (1773–1839) died 181 years ago today, he had fundamentally changed the way people study minerals, and that has remained true up to this very day (or at least until #MinCup (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MinCup&src=hashtag_click) began in 2017!) Read more!(http://egu.eu/8NT3OX) UPCOMING DATES -------------- 30 SEPTEMBER Policy event: Green Deal (http://egu.eu/33ODVT) 19 OCTOBER EGU Webinar: ERC funding (http://egu.eu/911DRQ) SCIENCE POLICY -------------- On Wednesday the EGU-European Parliament Intergroup virtual event will bring together geoscientists, policymakers, and industry representatives to discuss how Earth, planetary, and space science researchers can support the European Green Deal and ensure its biodiversity and zero-pollution targets are reached. Register to attend here!(https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5973455766986836237) An informal science-policy happy hour will follow the event. Register here (https://egu.eu/1O7CPY/) to join the discussions! GeoPolicy: A window into a career in science policy, as EGU’s first Policy Intern Read more! (https://egu.eu/7AKCJ8) JOURNAL WATCH ------------- GEOROUNDUP September EGU journal highlights (https://blogs.egu.eu/geolog/2020/09/30/georoundup-the-highlights-of-egu-journals-published-during-september/) UPDATES ------- EGU’s EDI Working Group is seeking new members to help promote equality, diversity, and inclusion of opportunities in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences, with a focus on EGU activities. Learn more! (https://egu.eu/8MBVW7/) RESOURCE OF THE MONTH --------------------- Making geoscience societies more inclusive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-0w1BjftUA) This webinar explores some ways that geoscience societies and their members can be more inclusive of diverse, under-represented, or minority groups in the face of existing structural discrimination. FUTURE EVENTS ------------- Earth Science Week This year’s celebration from 11-17 October will highlight the many ways Earth materials impact humans. EGU will join the festivities with special blogs and Twitter posts @EuroGeosciences (https://twitter.com/eurogeosciences?lang=en). Learn more about ESW! (https://www.earthsciweek.org/) EGU Plenary Meeting EGU’s annual business meeting will be held virtually on 22 October. An agenda will be emailed to all members two weeks in advance. Register here! (https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qe96dqBMR4qEig3uXrNqbQ) EGU BLOGS --------- Colour deficient vision and the geosciences; just another way of looking at things (https://egu.eu/57NM1J) GeoLog, the Union’s official blog GeoTalk: Nadine Gabriel, creator of #AreYouSiO2? and Assistant Curator of Fossil Mammals (https://egu.eu/039OH0) GeoLog, the Union’s official blog The Challenges of Being LGBTQIA\+ in Earth Sciences (https://egu.eu/1IN0UI) Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology Division blog Ana Margarida Neiva – A woman as hard as granite (https://egu.eu/2CLBOK) Tectonics and Structural Geology Division blog 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://www.egu.eu/newsletter/loupe/69/ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=EGU+Newsletter%2C%20September%202020%3A%20https://www.egu.eu/newsletter/loupe/69/ ©2020 European Geosciences Union. All rights reserved. EGU - European Geosciences Union e.V. Kastenbauerstr. 2 81677 Munich, Germany Privacy policy (https://www.egu.eu/privacy-policy/) Subscribe (https://lists.egu.eu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newsletter/) Unsubscribe (https://lists.egu.eu/options/newsletter/)