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#EGU24
14-19 April 2024
Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most moons, according to researchers.
A team discovered 20 new moons orbiting the ringed planet, bringing its total to 82; Jupiter, by contrast, has 79 natural satellites. via
@BBCScienceNews
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
#EGU20
in Vienna will be cancelled and instead EGU is working to provide attendees with a week-long series of online activities to help minimise the impact of COVID-19 on scientific research and collaboration.
For more information:
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
We are so proud to know so many wonderful women and people across the gender spectrum who do amazing work in a huge variety of science fields!
#WomenInScienceDay
#WomenInSTEM
A 100,000+ year ice age in less than 2 minutes? Check out this great visual history of glaciation in the
#Alps
.
@cscsch
You can find the study via
#EGUjournals
@EGU_TC
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Due to the continuing and escalating difficulties for our community around the globe, the
#vEGU21
abstract submission deadline is being extended by one week.
The final deadline is Wednesday 20 January at 13:00 CET.
Read more:
Scientists want to get their hands on some soil from
#Mars
.
If they can it'll answer many questions, but to do so
@esa
&
@nasa
will have to team up& pull off something extraordinary: the first EVER round trip to the Red Planet.
By G.Ryan Faith for
@WIRED
Due to the continuing challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, and to protect our members as much as possible, sadly
#EGU21
will not be held in Vienna again this year.
Instead, today we announce the all new
#vEGU21
: Gather Online!
More info:
📢THE NEW
#shareEGU20
SCHEDULE IS ONLINE!📢
Our Programme Committee have been hard at work rearranging the schedule from the physical
#EGU20
to a more online-friendly format, & in preparation have converted all presentations to 'displays'.
Find out more:
100 years ago Milutin Milankovitch published his first paper about the cycles in Earth's orbit we now know as
#MilankovitchCycles
, but what impact did this idea have on sedimentology?
#EGUblogs
guest blogger Lon Abbott explains astrochronology!
Read more:
Well, it was an eventful year at
#vEGU21
- with wonderful science, great discussions, new ideas, old friends, lessons learned and opportunities identified.
Thank you as always to our wonderful community: you make everything we do here worthwhile!
See you next year for
#EGU22
!!
UPDATE: Due to the continuing difficulties that many people in our community, all around the world, are experiencing, we have decided to extend the
#EGU22
#vEGU22
abstract submission deadline to Friday 14 January at 13.00 CET.
For help, email: egu22
@copernicus
.org
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Due to the changing regulations on events in Austria & concerns over high infection rates in Europe, we are moving the date of
#EGU22
to 23-27 May.
For more information & to seek assistance with regards to this change visit:
#vEGU22
Our
#shareEGU20
closing message comes from the outgoing programme committee chair, and one of the central people who made this week a reality:
@susannebuiter
.
Read more here:
And please join us in thanking Susanne, for all her incredible hard work! 👏👏👏
Today is
#WomenInScienceDay
, so all day we are celebrating some of the amazing EGU women we have spoken to over the last few years. Please share your own stories of
#WomenInScience
so we can meet even more of these brilliant researchers.
The lava cricket is, according to scientists, the first multicellular life form to take up residence on the new
#Kilauea
lava fields in Hawaii.
How this insect manages to thrive in this harsh environment, is still largely unknown. via
@NewsfromScience
📢 THE NEW
#shareEGU20
SCHEDULE IS ONLINE! 📢
The physical meeting of
#EGU20
in Vienna has been cancelled and instead our Council have come up with a more online-friendly emergency alternative for this year:
#shareEGU20
.
Find out more:
EGU is delighted to announce that the
#EGU22
(3-8 April) call for abstracts is open!
We are also excited to confirm that we are planning to hold this meeting as a hybrid event with opportunities for both in-person & online interaction.
More information:
Scientists have identified the earliest known animal in the geological record: a 558-million-year-old oval-shaped creature that may have resembled a segmented jellyfish. via
@BBCScienceNews
This
#EarthDay
EGU wishes to make a statement on the need for inclusive global research practices to combat scientific
#neocolonialism
in the geosciences.
Read the statement:
Well it's been a difficult day at
#vEGU21
. We want to say thank you to all our conveners for amazing work running their sessions, to the presenters for being so flexible & still bringing great science & discussions to the table & to everyone else for your patience. (1/2)
#EGU21
This week, 140 years ago, German scientist Alfred Wegener was born. He went on to propose the
#ContinentalDrift
theory which changed the
#geosciences
forever! So how did Wegener happen upon such a shocking idea? Gillian D'Souza explores on
#EGUBlogs
:
Menstruation in field work remains a global issue of silence; it is the geological "period" that no one talks about. Now a group of researchers from Cape Town, South Africa are trying to change this. Read their recommendations on the EGU blog now!
Happy International Day of
#WomenandGirlsinScience
! We're delighted to celebrate the thousands of women & people across the gender spectrum doing vital work helping us understand our planet and beyond!
Read on to learn more about our brilliant
#WomenInScience
!
Have you heard of Marguerite Thomas Williams? She was one of the first geologists to realise the importance of human activity on flooding in 1942, becoming the first Black person to be awarded a
#Geology
PhD in the USA.
Read more on the
@EGU_TS
#EGUblogs
:
Who plans to cut down on plastic waste by bringing their own mug/water bottle to the General Assembly? 🙋♀️🙋♂️
Let us know by sharing a pic of your mug/bottle with the hashtags
#EGUmug
&
#EGU19
- the most liked photo by the end of the meeting will be highlighted on EGU's account!
#MarieTharp
revolutionised the way we understand our planet, thanks to her incredible maps of the ocean floor.
Today on the centennial of her birth, find out what she means to a whole new group of
#WomenInSTEM
!
Read more in the
#EGUblogs
:
#MarieTharp100
After three years of searching,
a team of scientists have found a spot on
#Antarctica
where the ice may be thick enough to reveal 1.5 million years of climatic history. It will take another three years to drill down that far. via
@qz
IMPORTANT NOTICE FROM
@copernicus_org
:
Abstract deadline for
#EGU20
has now been EXTENDED until tomorrow morning at 9am CET (please don't wait until then to process).
Data from the
@CopernicusEU
#Sentinel2
mission has been used to generate a new high-resolution map of vegetation across Earth’s entire landmass:
@ESA_EO
Every year thousands of researchers work for days to try & create the best poster presentation for
#EGU23
- so what do they do well & can we do better? Professional graphic designer & geoscientist
@fcrameri
shares his thoughts on the
#EGUblogs
!
Read more:
What is the difference between a dike and a sill? On
@EGU_TS
#EGUblogs
Samuele Papeschi (
@CalamitaMan
) and Hannah Davies (
@HSophiaDavies
) explain all, with another installment of 'Features from the Field'!
Read more:
Following the disruption of today EGU's President, Vice President and the chair of the Programme Committee share their apologies, as well as their thanks to the community and their plans for the rest of
#vEGU21
.
Read the statement here:
#EGU21
(1/3)
Have you received your
#EGU24
letter of acceptance yet? They are being sent out today, so you should expect to receive it in the next few hours if you haven't already! (~19,800 emails take a long time to send 😅!)
EGU24:
Are you ready?!
#shareEGU20
starts TOMORROW!!
If you are looking for tips for what you can do tomorrow check out the first issue of
#EGUtoday
- we will be publishing, one every day of the week.
MONDAY:
#EGU20
The
#EGU24
Call for Abstracts is OPEN!
Don't forget to submit an abstract by 13:00 CET 1 December 2023 if you require travel support:
EGU24 abstract submission deadline is 13:00 CET 10 January 2024!
How to submit your abstract:
#StarTrek
creators once said that Spock's fictional home planet
#Vulcan
orbited the 40 Eridani A star.
Now scientists have found an exoplanet that fits the description: via
@LiveScience
The two academics who started
#BlackinIvory
, Shardé Davis and Joy Melody Woods, talk to Nidhi Subbaraman about how the hashtag about their experiences of being black in academia started and why they decided to speak out, for
@NatureNews
EGU is proud to launch a new
#Award
that will recognise the efforts of our community to have a positive effect on equality, diversity and inclusion in the geosciences, the Champion(s) for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award!
Read more:
#EGU23
#EDI
Thank you so much for joining us at
#EGU22
- we are very keen to collect as much feedback as possible from you about every aspect of the meeting, so please consider filling out our
#vEGU22
Feedback Survey!
#EGU22
Feedback Survey:
So
#shareEGU20
has come to an end and we hope to see you all next year at
#EGU21
!
If you don't want to stop the party just yet, we do have this
#geology
(ish) themed playlist we made for you...
Happy weekend!
Spotify:
Youtube:
The
#EGU20
letter of schedule and programme have been released! Visit our programme page to see the current EGU programme. But a lot of people have been asking us whether the GA will proceed given the current situation with the
#coronavirus
(1/6)
WELCOME TO
#EGU22
!!!
We are so excited welcome you all to our very first hybrid General Assembly!
We can't wait to hear all about the wonderful science you've been working on, whether you are joining us on-site or virtually over the next week!!
#vEGU22
Do you need financial support to attend
#EGU24
? Submit your abstract for Roland Schlich Travel Support by 13.00CET 1 December 2023 for the chance to be awarded a registration fee waiver & APC refund!
Find out more and submit your abstract:
We are very pleased to be able to share the vitally important
@PictureaSciFilm
during
#vEGU21
for all registered attendees.
Thanks to EGU's
#EDI
working group you can watch it Sat 24-Tues 27 Apr, by following the link in the programme:
#PictureAScientist
Excited to be at the opening reception of
#EGU19
. As the conference organizer, we wish all participants a successful meeting and a great time in Vienna!
Are you packing for
#EGU24
? Don't forget to bring your water bottle, reusable coffee cup and old EGU lanyard if you have one!
Get more
#GreenEGU
tips:
Due to popular requests & with the release of the on-demand
#vEGU21
GDB1 session,
@HelenG66
&
@petervanderbee5
have organised an EXTENSION of
@PictureaSciFilm
screening to Sun 2 May as a thank you for your patience with us after Monday's disruption.
More:
If you have received emails saying that your
#EGU19
sessions have been cancelled, please do not undertake any action yet as we are currently looking into the situation. We will give updates when we have further information. Thank you!
This week's
#imaggeoOnMonday
is a photo of some spectacular folded limestones in Crete, the Diplono Petris (Διπλόνο Πέτρις), taken by Wolfgang Fraedrich.
Form more information:
If you have ever created a geoscience
#SciComm
project you have probably wondered how you can publish your results. On
#EGUblogs
Solmaz Mohadjer shares the details of an
#EGU23
short course that'll explain how to publish your study in
@EGU_GC
!
Read more:
Given recent developments regarding the
#coronavirus
outbreak COVID-19 we want to inform our members that EGU is carefully monitoring the situation in co-ordination with the
#EGU20
conference venue. All relevant conference updates will also be posted here:
The results are in.. and the winner of the
#EGU19
#EGUmug
challenge is this fantastic photo from
@ArnalLouise
and
@Jess_n1
!
A big thank you to all who took part in our fun competition to reduce plastic waste at the EGU General Assembly!
The Earth sciences take researchers all over the world! Share your fieldwork photos for all to see (and use!) on imaggeo:
📸: Elizaveta Kovaleva (distributed via )
Check out some of this year's winners of the
@geolsoc
2019 Earth Science Week photo competition:
"The photographs showcase the rich diversity of environments in which scientists, live, work and travel."
What processes create formations like this huge mud extrusion, photographed in Azerbaijan by Renaud Toussaint (
@renaudriton
) from
@ecole_terre
? In this week's
#imaggeoOnMondays
find out all about gryphons, mud volcanoes & slow mud flows.
Read more:
We have a new
#EGUpride
logo! All day today it is our handle icon, to show our
#pride
in our diverse community.
We hope to broaden the activities that our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion working group already do, so watch this space for more coming soon!
#shareEGU20
Phew! The first week of
#vEGU21
has ended and it's been amazing!!!! We are so excited for next week and the scientific sessions, but before then make sure you take the weekend to rest and recuperate, and we will see you bright and early at 08.00 CEST Monday 26th April!
#EGU21
Meet Kristel Chanard, the 2022 Early Career Scientist Awardee for the
#Geodesy
Division! In their blog,
@EGU_Geodesy
talks with Kristel about her research, what inspires her, & her message for girls & women interested in pursuing science.
Read more:
Can you believe it,
#shareEGU20
is over!!!
WHAT A WEEK!
Please join us for a special online closing party, to celebrate all you have achieved this week - you all have earned it!!
Join here:
Remember to pace yourself while participating in
#shareEGU20
. Whilst it can be tempting to go all in on the sessions, normally you could only attend ONE presentation at a time & it is tiring being online.
Be kind to yourself, the materials will still be there after this week.