The June issue of the quarterly newsletter of the European Geosciences Union, dedicated to the EGU 2013 General Assembly, is now published online. The Articles section, for example, highlights research presented at this year’s conference. It includes features on seismic monitoring in geomorphology, on the stability of methane stored in oceans sediments, and on dust-emission measurements tailored to climate models, as well as an interview with Andrew MacDougall, a young climate scientist. Also not to miss are the letter from the Chair of the General Assembly Programme Committee, Gert-Jan Reichart, about this year’s meeting and two interviews with teachers who participated in GIFT, the Geosciences Information For Teachers Workshop, during the April meeting.

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You can download the full newsletter as a single (interactive) PDF, or follow the Table of Contents links below for the PDFs of each individual section.

Table of Contents

• Editorial
• Articles
  • The hills have ears – 5
  • Sampling the methane buffet – 6
  • Scattered to the wind – 8
  • Interview with climate scientist Andrew MacDougall – 9
• EGU Voice
  
  • Letter from the 2013 Programme Committee Chair – 10
  • Division reports – 11
• EGU News
  
  • Looking back at the EGU 2013 General Assembly – 12
  • Austrian Science and Research Minister at the EGU General Assembly – 13
  • Launching a new EGU open access journal, ESurf – 14
  • Tweeting at a conference: the magic of a hashtag – 14
  • Winners of the 2013 Imaggeo Photo Competition – 15
• Press Releases
  
  • GPS solution provides three-minute tsunami alerts – 16
• Journal Watch
  
  • Annales Geophysicae (ANGEO) – 17
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) – 17
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT) – 18
  • Biogeosciences (BG) – 18
  • Climate of the Past (CP) – 20
  • Earth System Dynamics (ESD) – 20
  • Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems (GI) – 20
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS) – 21
  • Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) – 22
  • Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics (NPG) – 22
  • Ocean Science (OS) – 22
  • Solid Earth (SE) – 23
  • The Cryosphere (TC) – 23
• External News
  
  • Climate4impact: a new gateway for the global climate impact community – 24
  • From the bottom up: helping geologists lead the way for global development – 25
• Education
  
  • Interviews with GIFT 2013 participants – 27
• Books
  
  • Book review – Impacts of Climate Change on Rainfall Extremes and Urban Drainage Systems – 30
  • Book review – Earth Materials: Introduction to Mineralogy & Petrology – 31
• On the Web
  
  • EGU 2013 on the blogosphere – 32
• Events
  
  • Conferences, meetings and workshops – 33