Apply for funding to attend the EGU General Assembly!

ON THE  BEHALF OF THE EGU EXECUTIVE OFFICE

Dear members,

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 providefinancial 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 post includes 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 label to 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 may want 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.

WORKSHOP: MANAGEMENT OF GEOLOGICAL RISKS IN LIMA AND CALLAO

The Geological Society of Peru and YES Network Peruvian Chapter with the  with support from the Peruvian Geological Survey (INGEMMET), the Peruvian Geophysical Institute (IGP) and other pervian entities organized the workshop entitled "MANAGEMENT OF GEOLOGICAL RISKS IN LIMA AND CALLAO" on 20 and 21 November 2014 in Lima.

The event aims to provide a space for exchange ideas about managing the risks of geologic origin in Lima, the capital of Peru, and also to present the projects which are being implemented to improve such management. It is a fundamental issue to be addressed comprehensively from the perspective of prevention is important geoscientific input from all levels of society.

For more information view the link:

http://www.sgp.org.pe/calendar/workshop-gestion-de-riesgos-geologicos-en-lima-metropolitana-y-el-callao/

ASSW Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts

ASSW Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Arctic in Rapid Transition (ART)
27-30 April 2015
Toyama, Japan
Abstract submission deadline: Monday, 17 November 2014.

Organizers of a session entitled "Arctic in Rapid Transition -- Future Research Directions from the Perspective of Early Career Scientists." This session will be held during the 2015 Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW), as part of the Third International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP III). The meetings are taking place 23-30 April 2015 in Toyama, Japan.

Much research has been conducted in the Arctic in the past few decades, however some areas received more scientific attention than others, i.e., Atlantic and Canadian Arctic is more advanced than Pacific and Central Arctic. Pan-Arctic research is important to quantify the changes occurring within the complex Arctic systems, especially since the ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles could have strong regional variability. Contribution from Asian countries to Arctic research is not large in comparison with European and North American countries due to geographical limitations. In order to fill the geographical gaps in Arctic research, it is fundamental that Asian early career to mid-career scientists become involved in international collaborations. Also, research resources such as personnel, facilities and funding are still limited in the world. Thus, involvement of Asian early to mid-career scientists into the frame of international collaborations is important to logistically, as well as scientifically, improve pan-Arctic research in coming decades.

This session specifically aims at allowing early career scientists, to get involved in international collaborations under the umbrella of the Arctic in Rapid Transition (ART) network, with especially encouraging scientists from Asia. The Arctic in Rapid Transition (ART; http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/en/ART/), an official network of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), is an integrative, international, interdisciplinary, Pan-Arctic network to study the spatial and temporal changes in biogeochemical cycling and ecosystem functioning of the Arctic Ocean over multiple time scales. Early career researchers' perspective is of great importance to ensure the involvement of the next generation of Arctic researchers, since they will be the ones sustaining current monitoring and implementing new projects into the future. The goal of this session is to integrate studies from various Arctic research fields in order to better understand the changing Arctic system beyond its regional variability and across multiple time-scales, and will also include outcomes from the former ART science workshop held in Sopot 2012 as well as the workshop in Brest 2014 (http://istas.sciencesconf.org/), and the session of the Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN; http://pyrn.arcticportal.org/index.php/en/) at the EUCOP-4 conference (http://www.eucop4.org/) in Portugal.

Abstract submission deadline: Monday, 17 November 2014.

For further information including a complete list of ISAR-4 and ICARP III session themes, abstract submission instructions, registration instructions, and to download the first, second, and third circulars, please go to: http://www.assw2015.org/.

Early Career Forum on 'Digital Management of Samples' at AGU (organized by EarthCube RCNs C4P & iSamplES)

To: Graduate Students, Post-Docs, Early Career Scientists

Do you deal with any type of samples as part of your research?

Could you use a stipend to help cover the cost of AGU registration or travel costs?  

Please come to the Early Career Forum while at AGU this December:

This is a lunchtime forum to meet and discuss the plans and challenges of creating and storing digital sample information, whether earth materials samples are solid, liquid, or gas, or even experimental run products. We will chat about developing best practices for sampling and preserving sample information to make our growing collections easily manageable and more useful.

When: Thursday December 18, 2014 11:45am-1:15pm

Where: Moscone Center (at AGU), San Francisco, CA

Lunch will be provided, plus a limited number of stipends (cost of Early registration) will be available to those who register for and participate in the forum.

This forum is for graduate students and early career scientists (those within 5 years of completion of a PhD). The project is sponsored by the NSF Earthcube Research Coordination Networks iSamplES and C4P (Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeoscience) and the results will help guide planning and development of an “internet of physical samples” for the earth sciences.

If you are interested, please fill out a simple application form by November 15, 2014.

More about iSamplES

More about C4P (Collaboration and Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeosciences)