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Home / News / EGU news / EGU Outreach Committee looking for new members!
In order to support our innovate and diverse programme of events, funding and communication, the Committee is seeking four new members in 2024.
Home / News / EGU news / Educators: apply now to take part in the 2016 GIFT workshop!
Special attention will be paid to the Moon and to Mars. Results from the ESA Rosetta Mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko will also feature in the 2016 GIFT workshop. Teachers from Europe and around the world can apply to participate in the 2016 edition of GIFT , and to receive a travel and accommodation stipend to attend the workshop, by November 30. Application information is available for download in PDF format, a document which also includes the preliminary programme of the workshop.
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I took this photo during a three-week fieldwork campaign in July of 2025 as part of the Deep Purple project. As part of the project, we were in the field to collect glacial ice-algae samples, which grow on (and thereby … Read more IGS: A Home for the Global Cryosphere Cryospheric Sciences posted 1 month ago Like many glaciologists (in the broad sense – as in, cryospheric researchers, not just those who study glaciers!)
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Some of the key topics that will be outlined during this Short Course include the importance of strategic planning for engaging relevant policymakers; the different policy actors and their role in the policymaking process; examples of how you can speak the language that policymakers understand and pay attention to; and finding windows of opportunity and building relationships.
Home / Awards & medals / Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership / 2012 / Vincent Courtillot
Examples of his contributions include discovery of sharp accelerations (“jerks”) in the secular variation of the earth’s magnetic field, and demonstration that they emanate from the core, are global in extent, can be used to set an upper bound on the electrical conductivity of the mantle, and are manifestations of rapid changes in convection at the top of the core; application of paleomagnetism to solve important tectonic problems, including elucidating the spreading history of the Afar region and Gulf of Aden, quantification of the history of India’s collision with and indentation of Asia, sharpening our understanding of the amalgamation of the North and South China cratonal blocks, and pivotal syntheses of apparent polar wander curves for the major continents, true polar wander, and the hotspot reference frame; the linkage between major mass extinctions in the geological record and large flood-basalt eruptions, which due to his work are now widely viewed as a dominant cause of mass extinctions; the question of whether volcanic hotspots are caused by deep-seated mantle plumes and their connection to episodic convective instability at the bottom of the mantle.
Home / News / Press releases / New study settles long-standing debate: does agricultural erosion create a carbon sink or source
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It assists the President in overseeing and providing strategic guidance to all activities of the Union, in particular those of the committees and the EGU Office(s). 5.7 Authorities and duties of the Division Presidents are given in By-law 7. §6 - Meetings of the Council 6.1 The Council shall meet at least once every year.
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This page highlights a range of information available online intended for scientists interested in policy and the organisations involved in the policy-making process.
Home / Awards & medals / Christiaan Huygens Medal / 2010 / Jean-Loup Bertaux
Bertaux has for several decades played a leading role in the development of Earth, space and planetary science in Europe and has made important contributions to many space missions. He has participated in at least one space mission to each of all 9 planets.
Home / Awards & medals / Portrait / Henry Darcy
As a result of these experiments his name also appears in the Darcy-Weisbach equation for open channel flow. His approach was purely scientific and in line with the empirical approach to science of that time.
