ISSUE 50, FEBRUARY 2019

The beauty of shells, by Rene Hoffmann. Find geoscience images (and upload yours!) at imaggeo.egu.eu.

HIGHLIGHTS

The meeting programme for the EGU General Assembly 2019 (7–12 April, Vienna) was published this month. With more than 1000 scientific sessions, debates, short courses and side events, and close to 17,000 abstracts, it promises to be a varied and exciting meeting. If you have not yet registered, please do so by the end of today to get reduced registration rates.

This month the EGU has also issued a response to potential changes to the European Research Council, one of the world’s leading and most respected funders of frontier research, designed and governed by scientists. "Without this close relationship with the research community, the ERC’s ability to support the very best frontier science will be compromised," the statement reads.

The EGU has also announced a new award for Earth, planetary and space science journalism this month. The Angela Croome Award is the newest edition to the EGU awards and medals portfolio, joining the newly renamed Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal, the recently launched Katia and Maurice Krafft Award for geoscience outreach and engagement, and many other prestigious honours.

Last but not the least, we are sad to report that Lily Pereg, Deputy President and Programme Group Chair of the EGU Soil System Sciences (SSS) Division and Executive Editor of the SOIL journal, passed away in January. Read the obituary on the EGU website.

IN THIS ISSUE

General Assembly
EGU News
Journal Watch
EGU Blogs

General Assembly

EGU 2019 General Assembly programme is now online!
Travel to the EGU meeting by train! If coming from Zurich, you can take advantage of an SBB promotion
EGU 2019: Getting to Vienna, getting to sleep and getting to know the city
EGU 2019: How to make the most of your time at the General Assembly without breaking the bank
New: General Assembly Job Centre
Register for the EGU General Assembly (deadline for early registration today!)
Please note that the Vienna City Marathon (40,000 participants) will take place in Vienna on Sunday, 7 April, resulting in many hotels being fully booked the night before. Therefore, we strongly recommend booking accommodation as soon as possible

EGU News

More EGU news items are available on the EGU website.

Journal Watch

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP)

Evidence for a major missing source in the global chloromethane budget from stable carbon isotopes

Positive matrix factorization of organic aerosol: insights from a chemical transport model

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT)

Revisiting the differential freezing nucleus spectra derived from drop-freezing experiments: methods of calculation, applications, and confidence limits

Biogeosciences (BG)

Towards a more complete quantification of the global carbon cycle

Mineral formation induced by cable bacteria performing long-distance electron transport in marine sediments

Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of leaves, litter, and soils of various ecosystems along an elevational and land-use gradient at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Climate of the Past (CP)

Harmonising plant functional type distributions for evaluating Earth system models

Heinrich events show two-stage climate response in transient glacial simulations

Earth Surface Dynamics (ESurf)

Long-term erosion of the Nepal Himalayas by bedrock landsliding: the role of monsoons, earthquakes and giant landslides

Earth System Dynamics (ESD)

The role of moisture transport for precipitation in the inter-annual and inter-daily fluctuations of the Arctic sea ice extension

Geoscience Communication (GC)

Identifying and improving AGU collaborations using network analysis and scientometrics

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS)

A simple topography-driven and calibration-free runoff generation module

Emergent stationarity in Yellow River sediment transport and the underlying shift of dominance: from streamflow to vegetation

Solid Earth (SE)

Power spectra of random heterogeneities in the solid earth

The Cryosphere (TC)

The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica

Thaw processes in ice-rich permafrost landscapes represented with laterally coupled tiles in a land surface model

Four decades of Antarctic surface elevation changes from multi-mission satellite altimetry

Other papers highlighted by the editors of EGU open access journals are available online.

EGU Blogs

GeoLog, the EGU blog

Get involved: become an EGU early career scientist representative
Geosciences Column: Scientists pinpoint where seawater could be leaking into Antarctic ice shelves
GeoPolicy: The importance of communicating your research with the public
Iceland’s rootless volcanoes
How to increase reproducibility and transparency in your research
GeoTalk: Research reflections and lessons learned from Pinhas Alpert
GeoPolicy: getting ready for the European Parliament Election

EGU network blogs

Water: underground source for billions could take more than a century to respond fully to climate change, in WaterUnderground
The importance of wetlands, in Geology for Global Development
Geology for Global Development – Our Highlights from 2018 and Plans for 2019, in Geology for Global Development

EGU division blogs

Image of the Week – When “Ice, Ice Baby” puts rocks “Under Pressure”, in Cryospheric Sciences
Meeting Plate Tectonics – Roger Buck, in Tectonics and Structural Geology
Job matchmaking in the water sector, in Natural Hazards
New insights to the north-south asymmetries of auroral features, in Solar-Terrestrial Sciences
GSA Penrose Conference: CLAST2019, 4-10 August 2019, Juneau, Alaska, in Geomorphology
Demystifying the Peer-Review Process, in Geodynamics
The collapse of Anak Krakatau volcano: a scenario envisaged, in Natural Hazards
Image of the Week – Delaying the flood with glacial geoengineering, in Cryospheric Sciences
Minds over Methods: Massively dilatant faults in Iceland – from surface to subsurface structures, in Tectonics and Structural Geology

The beauty of shells, by Rene Hoffmann. Find geoscience images (and upload yours!) at imaggeo.egu.eu.

General Assembly

EGU 2019 General Assembly programme is now online!

Travel to the EGU meeting by train! If coming from Zurich, you can take advantage of an SBB promotion

EGU 2019: Getting to Vienna, getting to sleep and getting to know the city

EGU 2019: How to make the most of your time at the General Assembly without breaking the bank

New: General Assembly Job Centre

Register for the EGU General Assembly (deadline for early registration today!)

Please note that the Vienna City Marathon (40,000 participants) will take place in Vienna on Sunday, 7 April, resulting in many hotels being fully booked the night before. Therefore, we strongly recommend booking accommodation as soon as possible

EGU News

EGU Galileo Conference: Perturbations of Earth surface dynamics caused by extreme events (application deadline: 30 April)

EGU Galileo Conference programme: call for proposals (deadline today!)

More EGU news items are available on the EGU website.

Journal Watch

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP)

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT)

Biogeosciences (BG)

Climate of the Past (CP)

Earth Surface Dynamics (ESurf)

Earth System Dynamics (ESD)

Geoscience Communication (GC)

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS)

Solid Earth (SE)

The Cryosphere (TC)

Other papers highlighted by the editors of EGU open access journals are available online.

EGU Blogs

GeoLog, the EGU blog

Get involved: become an EGU early career scientist representative

Geosciences Column: Scientists pinpoint where seawater could be leaking into Antarctic ice shelves

GeoPolicy: The importance of communicating your research with the public

GeoTalk: Research reflections and lessons learned from Pinhas Alpert

GeoPolicy: getting ready for the European Parliament Election

EGU network blogs

Water: underground source for billions could take more than a century to respond fully to climate change, in WaterUnderground

The importance of wetlands, in Geology for Global Development

Geology for Global Development – Our Highlights from 2018 and Plans for 2019, in Geology for Global Development

EGU division blogs

Image of the Week – When “Ice, Ice Baby” puts rocks “Under Pressure”, in Cryospheric Sciences

Meeting Plate Tectonics – Roger Buck, in Tectonics and Structural Geology

Job matchmaking in the water sector, in Natural Hazards

New insights to the north-south asymmetries of auroral features, in Solar-Terrestrial Sciences

GSA Penrose Conference: CLAST2019, 4-10 August 2019, Juneau, Alaska, in Geomorphology

Demystifying the Peer-Review Process, in Geodynamics

The collapse of Anak Krakatau volcano: a scenario envisaged, in Natural Hazards

Image of the Week – Delaying the flood with glacial geoengineering, in Cryospheric Sciences

Minds over Methods: Massively dilatant faults in Iceland – from surface to subsurface structures, in Tectonics and Structural Geology

More posts from the EGU blogs are available at blogs.egu.eu.