Dear all,
Thank you for following this blog for more than a year. Thanks to your support and following, this blog has now be incorporated in the official EGU blog network (http://blogs.egu.eu/). As from now on all new posts will be posted in the Seismology Division blog on: http://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/sm/.
Have a nice and wonderful festive season.
This page is undergoing a major revamp! EGU is constantly working to improve its presence on the internet. Many of the blogs run by the young scientists of several divisions – like this blog dedicated to young seismologist of EGU – are being combined together into one dedicated EGU blog site.
The new design is electrifying. But, to view the new page, you would have to wait a few days until all the technical challenges are overcome and the new page is up and running.
A message from Laura Roberts: EGU Science Communication Officer
Dear EGU Young Scientist,
Firstly, let me take this opportunity to introduce myself, I am Laura Roberts, the new EGU Communications Officer and I will be your point of contact in the EGU office moving forward.
Preparations for the EGU 2015 General Assembly (12–17 April, Vienna, Austria) are in full swing, and there are a number of opportunities and news we wanted to draw your attention to, relating to the conference and more. Don’t forget to submit your abstract to the meeting by 7 January or, if you’d like to apply for financial support, by 28 November..
Travel funds
The EGU is committed to promoting the participation of young scientists (YS) who wish to present their work at the EGU General Assembly. In order to encourage participation, a limited amount of the overall budget of the EGU General Assembly is reserved to provide financial support to those who wish to attend the meeting.
Financial support includes a waiver of the registration fee and a refund of the Abstract Processing Charge (relating to the abstract for which support was requested). Additionally, the grant may include support for travel expenditures, at the discretion of the Support Selection Committee, to a maximum of €300.
Scientists who wish to apply for financial support should submit an abstract, on which they are first authors, by 28 November 2014. If you want to learn more about how the applications are evaluated and funding is allocate, this blog postincludes all the details.
Young scientist awards
Recently, the winners of the 2014 General Assembly Outstanding Poster (OSP) Award were announced. Make sure you put yourself forward for the award at next year’s conference if you are presenting a poster, it couldn’t be easier! You can express your interest in participating in the OSP contest when submitting your abstract and be sure to attach the OSP labelto your poster board at the EGU meeting.
The Division Outstanding Young Scientist awardees for 2014 have also been announced. You can find out more about the inspiring research of these young scientists at the meeting next year by attending their talks.
YS website
The YS website provides a hub of information for early career researchers. Make the website your one-stop shop for information regarding: financial support to attend the General Assembly, what is on at the conference with a strong YS focus, job opportunities, useful resources, listings of events and courses, as well as opportunities for getting involved with the Union.
Competitions
In the forthcoming months we will be opening the Imaggeo Photo Contest and the Communicate Your Science Video Competition. Pre-registered participants to the EGU 2015 Assembly can submit up to three original photos and one moving image on any broad theme related to the Earth, planetary, and space sciences via our open access image repository, Imaggeo, and be within the chance of winning a free registration for the 2016 General Assembly. Alternatively, you maywant to communicate your research to a wider audience and try your hand at video production, in which case the video competition is for you. The prize for the winning video is also a free registration to the 2016 General Assembly. More details on both these opportunities will follow shortly.
Get involved with the EGU
The EGU is a truly bottom-up organisation that relies on, and values, the input of its members on a variety of projects and activities. As young scientists, there are plenty of ways to get involved with the EGU, such as Union-wide volunteering opportunities in education and outreach and division specific openings, including being a YS representative. As well as giving you the platform to interact with a large network of researchers in your field, being a young scientist representative is a great opportunity to build on your communications skills, boost your CV and influence the activities of Europe’s largest geoscientific association.
Blogs and social media
The entirety of the EGU blogs, a community of geoscience bloggers, are undergoing a makeover and will be moving to a new and improved home on 3rd of December 2014. Additionally, a number of Divisions will be added to the EGU blogs providing division specific news and scientific content.
I look forward to meeting as many of you as possible in Vienna next year.
Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about any of these initiatives.
Best wishes,
Laura
This blog will soon be going through a major upgrade. Here is one of last year’s post dedicated to Movember
Movember is the new November when men grow and proudly show their defining moustaches. Have you grown your moustache? I have done so for the last month as evident in the introductory vid. Now, that I am close to return to my smooth-shaven chin and upper lips, I was wondering which famous seismologists had nice fluffy moustaches. I headed on to Googling some portraits. Here is what I came across:
Robert Mallet
Robert Mallett: Ireland’s ‘father of seismology’
John Milne
John Milne: Famous for inventing the horizontal pendulum seismograph.
It seems that having a moustache was the trend a century ago, irrespective of the shape and style; from “Handlebar” to “Horseshoe”, “Imperial” and “Mexican” (check out wikipedia). Look at this Meeting of world seismologists at the California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory in 1929.
Meeting of world seismologists at the California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory in 1929.
Andria Mohorovicic
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The EGU welcomes further proposals for Topical Meetings, Training Schools and Workshops, as well as applications for EGU Sponsorship of External Meetings, for the year 2015. Successful proposals result in high-profile EGU events with financial support.
Proposals for events in 2015 must be submitted by 31 December 2014 only via the online form on the EGU website (http://www.egu.eu/meetings/support-request/).
More information about the aims, format and mechanisms of the EGU Topical Events Programme together with application guidelines can be found at the above link.
Finally some sense: Appeals court overturns manslaughter convictions of six earthquake scientists. Various news portals are reporting that the top Italian scientists had their verdict over turned, hence found not guilty!
Read further here: http://news.sciencemag.org/earth/2014/11/updated-appeals-court-overturns-manslaughter-convictions-six-earthquake-scientists
The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster Awards is awarded to Men-Andrin Meier for the poster entitled: A Filter Bank Approach to Earthquake Early Warning.
Find out more in an interview with Men-Andrin on SeismoBlog.
You are invited to take part in the EGU Election Autumn 2014. You have the opportunity to vote for the next EGU Treasurer and Division Presidents. All candidates, their CVs and statements, as well as your electronic ballot paper can be found at:
http://www.egu-elections.eu/d97063230e00961cbf98009c44695e80de288c037b96072/
Please note that your electronic ballot paper key is unique and it will be invalid once you have completed your vote. Voting closes on 1st December 2014.
The seismological community is anxious with the ongoing court proceedings against fellow Italian seismologist with regards to the 6th April 2009 L’Aquila earthquake. The news of seismologists guilty of manslaughter was major news for the entire world (e.g., BBC) and condemnation came in fast (e.g., The Guardian, EOS, AGU). Internal discussions between scientists are still very active during major international conferences (e.g., EGU 2014) with many arguing that better outreach and education programs are needed to help the general public understand better seismic risk: “Earthquake experts must communicate public risk more effectively to avoid a repetition of the Italian media fiasco that a year ago culminated in jail terms for the academics involved” – http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk. A paper was also published in Natural Hazards: Communicating earthquake risk to the public: the trial of the “L’Aquila Seven”.
A dedicated blog has been set up to present the material and opinions concerning the trial of the seven scientists and officials who were indicted for manslaughter after taking part in the so-called “Great Risk Commission” meeting at L’Aquila, 31 March 2009. You can follow the ongoing appeal of the l’Aquila trial on this blog: http://eagris2014.com, also available in Italian http://terremotiegrandirischi.com.
The sentence of the appeal is expected in the coming days.
EGU is very pleased to announce the start of the Abstract submission for the EGU General Assembly 2015 (EGU2015), 12 Apr 2015 – 17 Apr 2015, Vienna, Austria.
The sessions are now online: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2015/sessionprogramme
Submitting an abstract is intuitive: For each session there is a link Abstract Submission followed by logging in the system. Abstracts may be submitted as plain text, LaTeX, or MicroSoft Word content. Detailed information on how to submit an abstract can be found at: http://egu2015.eu//abstract_management/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html
The deadline for the receipt of Abstracts is 07 Jan 2015.
If you would like to apply for support, please submit no later than 28 Nov 2014.
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