EGU NEWSLETTER - ISSUE 71, NOVEMBER 2020 ======================================== Milankovitch Cycles Centennial Astrochronology: a recent application This year marks the 100th anniversary of Milutin Milankovitch’s first paper about how the amount of solar radiation Earth receives, and hence its climate, varies cyclically. Discovery of these “Milankovitch Cycles” has led to profound insights into the evolution of Earth, its inhabitants, and the Earth-Moon system, writes tectonicist Lon Abbott. Read more!(https://egu.eu/3D6YBB/) UPCOMING DATES -------------- 30 NOVEMBER Vote in the 2020 election(https://www.egu.eu/elections/) 8 JANUARY Renew your membership(https://egu.eu/4JJY48/) SCIENCE POLICY -------------- Holiday Policy Happy Hour: Thursday 17 December at 17:00 CET Join us for a festive EGU science for policy ”happy hour”! This informal event will offer you the opportunity to virtually mingle with people working at the science-policy interface, along with anyone else who’s interested in doing so. Register here!(https://egu.eu/1A6TPF/) Green Deal Research: EGU is helping to facilitate the transfer of knowledge from research into practice for two key European Green Deal policy areas: biodiversity and pollution. Achieving the deal’s bold targets will require scientific expertise from many geoscience fields, including atmospheric, cryospheric, hydrological, oceanic, and soil system sciences. Learn more! (https://egu.eu/8AWHHY/) JOURNAL WATCH ------------- GEOROUNDUP November EGU journal highlights (https://egu.eu/8ZAP0X/) UPDATES ------- vEGU21 will offer a full range of sessions and activities to help you engage, discover, inspire others – and find inspiration, too. Learn more! (https://egu.eu/1WCDTG/) New timelines announced for EGU’s 2021 Science Journalism Fellowships and Public Engagement Grants. Learn more! (https://egu.eu/05VSPI/) RESOURCE OF THE MONTH --------------------- GeoLog: a guide to EGU session convening by ECS (https://egu.eu/59TW1R/) This blog offers tips gathered from various former conveners for running a successful session. Read it here! (https://egu.eu/59TW1R/) FUTURE EVENTS ------------- CR Division Campfire: Icy-Christmassy Holiday Get Together: A fun holiday networking and quiz evening. Register here! (https://egu.eu/4Q0DQC/) EGU General Assembly 2021: The abstract submission deadline for vEGU21 is 13 January at 13:00 CET. Learn more here! (https://www.egu21.eu/) EGU BLOGS --------- How Open Science may help us during and after the pandemic (https://egu.eu/3WB5SI/) GeoLog, the Union’s official blog How many transdisciplinary researchers does it take to find out how an ocean sinks? (https://egu.eu/91OUU4/) GeoLog, the Union’s official blog What do (Consulting) Sedimentologists do all day? (https://egu.eu/4BN1KA/) Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology Division blog Running a live stream of proglacial processes (https://egu.eu/128XH4/) Geomorphology 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: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.egu.eu/newsletter/loupe/71/ On Twitter: https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=EGU+Newsletter%2C%20November%202020%3A%20https://www.egu.eu/newsletter/loupe/71/ ©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/)