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The European Geosciences Union’s annual General Assembly will be held from 03 - 08 May 2026 in a hybrid format. Journalists, science bloggers and other media participants can now browse the online press centre for press conferences and sessions of media interest.
The full EGU26 programme is now online, with a special highlight on the six provisional press conferences covering cutting edge research on climate studies, natural hazards, tectonics, space science, health and emissions, environmental policy, and more.
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Sharing our appreciation and gratitude with the more than 12,000 volunteers and members who generously donated their time to EGU in 2025!
The EGU will provide funding to support the organisation of 24 geoscience conferences and training schools run by EGU members in 2026. These events are proposed by EGU members from all career stages, and will be hosted in locations all over the world.
Every year at the General Assembly hundreds of students and PhD candidates present their research with a lot of time and effort going into preparing these presentations. With the aim to further improve the overall quality of poster presentations and more importantly, to encourage Early Career Scientists to present their work in the form of a poster, the Outstanding Student Presentations, or OSP Awards as they were formerly known, were born. Since the 2016 General Assembly, PICO presentations have been …
Profesor Saskia Goes is the receipent of the 2026 Augustus Love Medal of the Geodynamics Division for her outstanding contributions to our understanding of Earth structure and evolution, using integrative research at the confluence of geodynamics, seismology, mineral physics, and geochemistry. In this interview, she talks about her professional journey and shares her thoughts on what the future of geodynamics might hold. Saskia Goes’s Augustus Love Medal Lecture will take place on Tuesday 05 May at the EGU General Assembly. …
Spoiler warning! Have you ever watched a science fiction movie and thought, huh, I wonder if that is actually possible? Now, I hope by the time the dinosaurs turned up during this film, that this transient thought had departed from your mind, but to satisfy the idle curiosity of those who wondered this during Journey to the Centre of the Earth, and perhaps even impart some geodynamical lessons, I delved into the cinematic world of the Jules Verne adaptation. In …
