Job alert! EGU Editorial Manager EGU news 13 September 2022 The Union is hiring an Editorial Manager to support our Publications Committee to assist the executive editors of its journals and EGUsphere, and support the numerous volunteer scientific editors and referees. Deadline for applications is Friday 14 October 2022. Read more
EGU awards Ayesha Tandon, Tim Kalvelage, Panos Tsimpoukis and Kerstin Hoppenhaus the 2022 Science Journalism Fellowships EGU news 13 September 2022 EGU’s funding will allow Tandon to travel to Thailand to report on the links between climate impact, migration and displacement patterns, Kalvelage to join the deep sea mining expedition in the Clarion-Clipperton-Zone (CCZ), Kerstin Hoppenhaus (with associate Sibylle Grunze) to follow scientists and miners down into the Zechstein to study its geology, raw material deposits, history and future, and finally Tsimpoukis to report from the oceanographic ship L’Europe and SANTORY: SANTORini’s Seafloor Volcanic ObservatorY.* Read more
EGU shares our condolences on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II EGU news 9 September 2022 EGU wishes to share our condolences on the passing Queen Elizabeth II, who died on Thursday 8th September. Read more
EGU turns 20! EGU news 7 September 2022 20 years ago today, two of Europe’s premiere geoscience organisations the European Geophysical Society and the European Union of Geosciences combined to form the European Geosciences Union! Join us as we reflect on the last 20 years and look forward to the future. Read more
New model predicts landslides along wildfire burn scars: an early warning system for high-risk areas Press release 27 July 2022 A new model can now be used in an early warning system to predict landslides for people living in high-risk areas, enabling them to evacuate before it’s too late. The study is published on 27 July in the European Geosciences Union journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. Read more
EGU’s Policy Pairing scheme – spend a week in Brussels with a Member of the European Parliament! EGU news 25 July 2022 The EGU, in close collaboration with the Secretariat of the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development, is providing an EGU member with the opportunity to visit Brussels and work alongside a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Read more
The bigger the temperature change, the larger the extinction event, reveals researcher Press release 22 July 2022 New research published today in the European Geosciences Union journal Biogeosciences reveals the relationship between extinction magnitude and climate change during major marine and terrestrial animal crises. Read more
EGU Autumn 2022 elections: call for Treasurer candidates EGU news 19 July 2022 EGU are seeking candidates to volunteer as our next Treasurer. You are invited to propose a candidate who is a current EGU member and who has experience with running the finances of a similar organisation by 15 September 2022. Members are able, and encouraged, to nominate themselves. The election will take place in November 2022. Read more
Submit your session ideas for the EGU General Assembly in 2023! EGU news 18 July 2022 The call for session proposals for the EGU23 General Assembly is now open! Until 19 September you can suggest new scientific sessions with co-conveners, submit short course ideas and/or submit proposals for Union Symposia and Great Debates. Session proposal options exist for both virtual and on-site participation in the EGU General Assembly, which is taking place in from 23–28 April 2023. Read more
Apply for EGU funding for training schools and conference series’ EGU news 11 July 2022 Need funding to help organise a training school or a conference in the Earth, planetary or space sciences? Up until 15 September 2022, any EGU member can apply for funding and support to help run a training school or a conference in the Angioletta Coradini, Mary Anning or Alexander von Humboldt Conference Series’. Read more
