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EGU General Assembly 2025 – Meeting programme and provisional press conferences
  • 24 March 2025

The EGU General Assembly 2025 is fast approaching, and the full programme is now online! With over 1000 sessions and nearly 19,000 abstracts, the meeting will showcase groundbreaking research across the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. This year’s press conferences will highlight urgent topics, including climate hazards, air quality and public health, technological and social innovations for climate solutions, and even new discoveries from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter. For information on accommodation and travel, for in-person attendees, please refer to the appropriate sections of the main EGU General Assembly 2025 website.

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Extraordinary election: Biogeosciences Division President – vote!
  • 4 March 2025

The incoming Biogeosciences (BG) Division President will be unable to take their position in April 2025 for unforeseen health reasons, as such EGU are holding an extraordinary election for a new Division President. EGU members can now vote for the candidate of their choice by 24 March 2025.

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EGU leaving Twitter/X
  • 3 March 2025

Following a vote by EGU’s volunteer Council, the Union will no longer be posting on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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Calling all photographers! Enter your fieldwork or labwork photo and win free registration to EGU26!

Whether you work in the lab, the field, onboard an ocean vessel or using data from instruments hundreds of kilometers away, you probably know that feeling of taking a truly great photo of your experience as a researcher. If this is you then you are in luck as you have ONE WEEK LEFT to submit your photo to the EGU photo competition, and possibly win free registration to next years General Assembly! So which will you choose? Perhaps it’s a …

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Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 2

This miniseries features the tradition of ‘PhD hat’ making in German research institutes and universities. For those of you unfamiliar with this idea (as I once was), this is one of the final milestones a graduate student has before they are officially a “Dr.”. Upon the successful defense of a thesis, the labmates of the PhD student craft a graduation hat from a mishmash of scrap cardboard and memorabilia. Hours of work go into these beloved pieces, and you can …

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Sarakiniko: A unique geoheritage site under threat

Sarakiniko, a stunning geological landmark on the aegean island of Milos, Greece, is under imminent threat. Known for its breath-taking white tuff formations built by the deposition of submarine volcanic eruptions and sculpted by wind and water over millions of years, this site serves as both a natural laboratory for geoscience and planetary research and a worldwide significant geoheritage site. However, recent construction of a large-scale hotel and plans for expansion to multiple constructions in the near future within Sarakiniko …

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