Union-wide
Inter- and Transdisciplinary Sessions
Disciplinary sessions AS–GM
Disciplinary sessions GMPV–TS

Session programme

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US – Union Symposia

Programme group chairs: Peter van der Beek, Chloe Hill

US1

The European Green Deal, first announced in December 2019, sets ambitious targets, including reaching climate neutrality in Europe by 2050; addressing the drivers of biodiversity loss in Europe; restoring degraded ecosystems; and adopting a zero-pollution action plan for air, water and soils. Achieving these bold targets will require scientific expertise from many different geoscience areas.

This Union Symposium will provide participants with an introduction to the European Green Deal, highlighting aspects that require geoscience expertise and discussing how scientists can engage with, and effectively support, the Deal’s ambitious targets. The session will also discuss the different stages of development and implementation of the Green Deal’s targets, what’s coming next and where science can be integrated. As a European scientific union focusing on many aspects relating to the Green Deal, the EGU is well positioned to highlight these areas through this session and beyond.

The panel will include scientists working in areas related to the Green Deal and policymakers who either initially proposed the Green Deal roadmap or who are currently working on its implementation. The session will include presentations from these speakers as well as a moderated discussion on how geoscientists can best support the Green Deal’s targets and a Q&A with the audience. Despite being a European specific initiative, the Green Deal also outlines missions working with neighbouring countries to the EU and some countries in Africa. In addition, many countries outside of the EU have discussed similar strategies. This session will therefore be of interest to a broader international audience.

Public information:
Moderator: Chloe Hill, EGU Policy Officer

Speakers:
- Claire Chenu: Research Director at INRAE and Professor of soil science at Agroparistech.
- Jaroslav Mysiak: Director of the Risk Assessment and Adaptation Strategies division at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change. Member of the European Commission’s Mission Board for Adaptation to Climate Change Including Societal Transformation
- Joe Eisen, Executive Director, Rainforest Foundation UK)
- Diederik Samsom: Head of Cabinet, Europe Commission Executive Vice-President.

The EGU's 'How Geoscience can support the European Green Deal' publication provides specific examples of how geoscience is related to Green Deal policy areas ahead of this session and is available online here: https://egu.eu/7WFEBL/
Convener: Ned Staniland | Co-conveners: Chloe Hill, Maria-Helena Ramos, Claudio Zaccone
Programme
| Fri, 23 Apr, 09:00–11:00 (CEST)
US2

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a major trauma for humanity and naturally calls for multiple scientifically-based responses to mitigate the risks and build resilience to it and its potential successors. It should be stressed that the geosciences communities have already strived to respond to it, drawing on their expertise, even if they have also had to face various upheavals as a result of the pandemic.
The solicited talks of this Union Session will highlight these contributions but, more importantly, will seek to identify new developments. These include a better understanding of zoonotic spillovers, anomalous mechanisms and pathways of multi-scale transmission, the role of natural and man-made environmental complexity.
These developments are expected to greatly improve monitoring and governance of the epidemic at different scales and strengthen community engagement. Overall, they put geosciences into a post-Covid perspective.

Public information:
Related to US2:
- Town Hall meeting TM10 "Covid-19 and other epidemics: engagement of the geoscience communities", Wednesday 28 April 17:30–19:00
ZOOM data will be displayed in the programme 15 min prior to the meeting. please suggest short presentations on https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5KZ3NYV
- Inter-Transdisciplinary Session ITS1 "Covid-19 pandemic: health, urban systems and geosciences", Thursday 29 April 14:15-15:00 15:30-17:00
- a special issue of Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics is foreseen
Convener: Daniel Schertzer | Co-conveners: Alexander Baklanov, Paul Bourgine, Stefano Tinti, Benjamin F. Zaitchik
Presentations
| Fri, 23 Apr, 15:00–17:00 (CEST)
US3

In 2020, humanity faced up to an urgent and deadly challenge. The COVID-19 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spread rapidly and with shocking impacts, tragically claiming (at the time of writing) hundreds of thousands of lives.

Rapid and dramatic action was called for and – thankfully – was largely forthcoming, from governments, businesses and individuals.

Across the globe, drastic lifestyle changes were imposed, with freedoms curtailed and life for many stripped back to the necessities, and yet these changes were generally accepted. Welcomed even. They were to keep us safe. To protect us now and into the future.

The contrast with the Climate Emergency is fascinating. It too is an urgent and deadly existential challenge, and yet the consensus is that actions are too little, too slow, the urgency is lacking, the public buy-in largely absent.

Despite growing awareness over many decades, there is no effective, concerted programme to address this largest of all global problems.

It appears likely that any reduction in carbon emissions as a result of lifestyle changes to contain the spread of the Coronavirus will be only temporary. Furthermore, financial initiatives to help economies restart and other initiatives to prevent the spread of the disease, such as reduced use of public transport and a huge escalation in the use of single use plastics, are likely to bring increased environmental harm.

This Union session looks at the Climate and Ecological Emergency through the lens of the COVID-19 crisis, and asks, what lessons can we learn? How can some of that urgency be brought to this greatest existential challenge? Can lifestyle changes implemented during the crisis which bring positive outcomes for our future sustainability be maintained and enhanced? And can those which are increasing harm be turned around? In short, can this terrible global crisis serve as a wakeup call for action to protect all our futures?

This Union Symposium invites a broad range of thinkers and influencers, ranging from leading climate scientists to broadcasters, policymakers and influencers to provide their perspectives on how the COVID-19 crisis can help inform actions to address our generation’s greatest challenge.

As geoscientists, we watch over the health of our planet, we see the changes, we understand the impacts. We know the likely consequences of inaction. Our community has a vital role to play.

Public information:
Moderators:
- Rolf Hut, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geoscience
Netherlands
- Alberto Montanari, EGU Vice-President

Speakers:
- Katharine Hayhoe: Professor of political science at Texas Tech University, Director of the Climate Science Center. CEO of the consulting firm ATMOS Research and Consulting
- Andrea Hinwood: Chief Scientist, UN Environment Programme
- Mike Barry: Director of Mikebarryeco, Strategic Advisor for Instinctif Partners and Clim8 Invest, and Board Trustee of A Blueprint for Better Business
- David Mair: Head of Unit, Knowledge for Policy: Concepts and Methods, European Commission Joint Research Center
Convener: Nick Everard | Co-conveners: Hayley Fowler, Chloe Hill, Iain Stewart, Rolf Hut
Programme
| Tue, 20 Apr, 15:00–17:00 (CEST)
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The terrestrial biosphere exerts disproportionate influence on Earth's climate, making improvements in its representation key to reducing climate uncertainty. After 50 years of development, land surface models contain detailed processes of energy fluxes, photosynthesis, hydrology, C-N-P cycles, and land-use within coarse non-interacting grid cells. Remaining discrepancies in fidelity to observed carbon and water cycles appear primarily related to deficiencies in the representation of forests and human activity. These include the omission of spatial processes of disturbance, migration, adaptation, and management. Also missing is the generative process of life, evolution, which gives rise to life history strategies, trophic-metabolic networks, leaf economics, local adaptation (i.e., optimality, acclimation), and plant behaviour. Despite improvements in representing vegetation demography by utilizing emergent properties of allometric scaling, canopy geometric realism remains low. This may bias carbon and water cycles per radiative transfer and coupled processes of photosynthesis, regeneration, evapotranspiration, heterotrophic respiration, and disturbance.

We believe that physics-based botanical models, forest landscape models, and terrestrial biosphere models may soon merge into new multi-scale models. While low-dimensional representations of forests are often used to improve computational efficiency and cope with a dearth of 4-D forest observatories, deep learning may be combined with new autonomous scanning systems - proximal and/or remote - such as our proposed global tower-based '5DNet' to infer evolvable 4-D physics-based models. This includes learning multi-generation tree models with 4-D traits from image and/or laser scanning time-series. To date, 4-D ontogeny has been inferred from individual scans of mature trees, multi-plant phenological events have been tracked in real-time, and the self-similar and -organizing nature of plants has been used to efficiently compress tree models down to their generating parameters. Achieving leaf-to-global scaling may require co-processor acceleration and fusing deep learning with 3-D radiative transfer modeling to infer global surface properties. An additional focus on evolution and human activity comes as 21st century land surface models mature into general simulations of life on Earth.

This Union Symposium presents exciting work toward achieving this moonshot in Earth observation and systems modeling.

Convener: Adam EricksonECSECS | Co-conveners: Rico Fischer, Sujay Kumar, Annikki Mäkelä, Nikolay Strigul
Presentations
| Mon, 19 Apr, 15:00–17:00 (CEST)
US5 EDI

Patience Cowie revolutionised our understanding of the growth and interaction of faults, and the impact these have on the topography of extensional settings. Through her tenacious focus on the science, infectious enthusiasm, wonderful sense of humour and commitment to women in science, she inspired a generation of young researchers, many of whom are presenting in this Union Symposium.
Patience’s early research began with the growth and interaction of faults and their length/displacement scaling. She studied faults at different scales, from small scale, linking damage zone to displacement, to whole fault systems, demonstrating how the development of complex fault networks impacts fault slip rate. She built numerical models of fault interactions that integrated the response of river systems to the changing topography. The predictions of these models challenged geomorphological and stratigraphic understanding of extensional settings, and resulted in a wealth of research on the extraction of tectonic signals from river profiles, and the sedimentological record of these processes.
This Union Symposium aims to sustain the momentum of Patience Cowie’s multidisciplinary approach to tackling fundamental questions concerning the interactions between the brittle upper crust and the surface processes that govern much of Earth’s topography. We are now addressing the physical mechanisms that can lead to the variety of slip styles and frictional behaviour on faults; this is critical to forecasting seismic hazard. As faults propagate, they determine the geometry of river networks, the distribution of erosion and the response time of river channels. These interactions govern sediment routing systems and the stratigraphic record of these processes. This symposium seeks to explore a future vision for the science underpinned by the fundamental processes linking faults and topography, balanced by an awareness of the societal challenges of risk management to natural hazards in these settings.

Convener: Hugh Sinclair | Co-conveners: Mikaël Attal, Anneleen Geurts, Laura Gregory
Presentations
| Wed, 21 Apr, 15:00–17:00 (CEST)

MAL – Medal and Award Lectures

Programme group chair: Peter van der Beek

MAL0
EGU 2021 Angela Croome Award & Katja and Maurice Krafft Award Lectures
Conveners: Mioara Mandea, Terri Cook
Presentations
| Tue, 20 Apr, 17:00–18:45 (CEST)
MAL1a
EGU 2020/2021 Arthur Holmes Medal Lectures
Conveners: Alberto Montanari, Helen Glaves
Presentations
| Tue, 20 Apr, 11:30–14:30 (CEST)
MAL1b
EGU 2020/2021 Alfred Wegener Medal Lectures
Conveners: Alberto Montanari, Helen Glaves
Presentations
| Wed, 21 Apr, 11:30–14:30 (CEST)
MAL1c
EGU 2020/2021 Jean Dominique Cassini Medal Lectures & PS/ST Arne Richter Award for Outstanding ECS Lectures
Conveners: Alberto Montanari, Helen Glaves
Presentations
| Thu, 22 Apr, 11:00–15:00 (CEST)
MAL1d
EGU 2020/2021 Alexander von Humboldt Medal Lectures
Conveners: Alberto Montanari, Helen Glaves
Presentations
| Fri, 23 Apr, 11:30–12:30 (CEST), 13:30–14:30 (CEST)
MAL1e

Public information:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87893211057
Convener: Jonathan Bamber
Programme
| Mon, 19 Apr, 18:00–18:35 (CEST)
MAL2
AS 2020/2021 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal Lectures, 2020 Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture & 2021 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding ECS Lecture
Convener: Athanasios Nenes
Presentations
| Mon, 19 Apr, 15:00–17:00 (CEST)
MAL3
BG 2020/2021 Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal Lectures, 2020 Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture & 2021 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding ECS Lecture
Convener: Lisa Wingate
Presentations
| Fri, 23 Apr, 15:00–17:15 (CEST)
MAL4a
CL 2020/2021 Milutin Milankovic Medal Lectures & 2020 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding ECS Lecture
Conveners: Didier Roche, Irka Hajdas
Presentations
| Tue, 20 Apr, 10:30–12:30 (CEST)
MAL4b
CL 2020/2021 Hans Oeschger Medal Lectures & Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture
Conveners: Irka Hajdas, Didier Roche
Presentations
| Tue, 20 Apr, 15:00–17:00 (CEST)
MAL5

This session will present the award and medal lecture of the EGU Division of Cryospheric Sciences for 2020 and 2021.

The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Anna E. Hogg for outstanding research in the field of satellite remote sensing of the cryosphere and her contributions to science communications.

The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Christine L. Batchelor for her contributions to cryospheric sciences by her studies on glacial history and palaeo-ice sheet reconstructions.

The 2020 Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal is awarded to Julienne C. Stroeve for her fundamental contributions to improved satellite observations of sea ice, better understanding of causes of sea ice variability and change, and her compelling communication to the wider public.

The 2021 Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal is awarded to Martyn Tranter for his outstanding fundamental contributions in the innovative and emerging field of glacial biogeochemistry, leading to the paradigm shift in recognizing bio-albedo effects.

Conveners: Olaf Eisen, Carleen Tijm-Reijmer
Presentations
| Wed, 21 Apr, 10:30–12:30 (CEST)
MAL6a
EMRP 2020 Louis Néel Medal Lecture & 2021 Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture
Convener: Fabio Florindo | Co-convener: Sergio Vinciguerra
Presentations
| Fri, 23 Apr, 10:30–12:30 (CEST)
MAL6b
EMRP 2020 & 2021 Petrus Peregrinus Medal Lectures
Convener: Fabio Florindo | Co-convener: Sergio Vinciguerra
Presentations
| Fri, 23 Apr, 15:00–17:00 (CEST)
MAL7

Public information:
This session features outstanding early career scientists (ECS) lectures by our 2020 (Estanislao Pujades) and 2021 (Giorgia Dalla Santa) awardees. The current ERE president and vice president will intoduce the awardees and explain the context. Everyone is welcome to join these lectures, representing excellent research within the ERE domain!
Conveners: Sonja Martens, Viktor J. Bruckman
Presentations
| Tue, 27 Apr, 15:30–16:35 (CEST)
MAL8

This session is organised by the EGU Earth and Space Sciences Division to honour the recipients of the Ian McHarg Medal and the Early Career Scientist Award.

The Ian McHarg Medal is awarded for distinguished research in information technology applied to Earth and space sciences. It is named after Ian McHarg (1920-2001), a pioneer of the concept of ecological planning, who set forth the basic concepts of what was to become Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

The Earth and Space Science Informatics Division’s Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded for outstanding contributions to the field by researchers early in their career.

Convener: Jens Klump | Co-convener: Jane Hart
Presentations
| Tue, 20 Apr, 10:30–12:15 (CEST)
MAL9
G 2020/2021 Vening Meinesz Medal Lectures
Conveners: Johannes Böhm, Annette Eicker
Presentations
| Thu, 22 Apr, 15:00–17:00 (CEST)
MAL10

Public information:
This session honours the winners of the GD Division medals and awards in 2020 and 2021: The Augustus Love Medals and the Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards. The four winners will give lectures presenting their research.
Conveners: Paul Tackley, Jeroen van Hunen
Presentations
| Thu, 29 Apr, 15:00–17:00 (CEST)
MAL11
GI 2020/2021 Christiaan Huygens Medal Lectures & 2021 Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture
Conveners: Lara Pajewski, Francesco Soldovieri
Presentations
| Tue, 27 Apr, 10:30–12:30 (CEST)
MAL12

The Bagnold Medal Lectures from the medallists from 2020 and 2021 will be presented in this flagship GM session. The session will be introduced by the GM President, Daniel R. Parsons and citations given for each of the Medallists.

Convener: Daniel Parsons
Presentations
| Thu, 29 Apr, 18:00–20:00 (CEST)
MAL13
GMPV 2020/2021 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal Lectures & 2021 Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture
Convener: Marian Holness
Presentations
| Mon, 19 Apr, 15:00–17:00 (CEST)
MAL14a
HS 2020/2021 Henry Darcy Medal lectures & 2020 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding ECS Lecture
Convener: Maria-Helena Ramos
Presentations
| Tue, 20 Apr, 15:00–17:00 (CEST)
MAL14b
HS 2020/2021 John Dalton Medal Lectures & 2021 Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture
Convener: Maria-Helena Ramos
Presentations
| Thu, 22 Apr, 15:00–17:00 (CEST)
MAL15a
NH 2021 Plinius Medal Lecture & 2020 Sergey Soloviev Medal Lecture & 2020 Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture
Convener: Ira Didenkulova
Presentations
| Wed, 21 Apr, 15:00–17:00 (CEST)
MAL15b
NH 2020 Plinius Medal Lecture & 2021 Sergey Soloviev Medal Lecture & 2021 NH Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture
Convener: Ira Didenkulova
Presentations
| Thu, 22 Apr, 10:30–12:30 (CEST)
MAL16
NP 2020/2021 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal Lectures & Division Outstanding ECS Award Lectures
Conveners: Stéphane Vannitsem, François G. Schmitt
Presentations
| Fri, 23 Apr, 10:30–12:30 (CEST)
MAL17
OS 2020/2021 Fridtjof Nansen Medal Lectures & 2021 Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture
Conveners: Karen J. Heywood, Johan van der Molen | Co-convener: Meriel J. Bittner
Presentations
| Thu, 22 Apr, 15:00–16:50 (CEST)
MAL18
PS 2020 David Bates Medal Lecture & 2021 Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture
Conveners: Stephanie C. Werner, Stephen J. Mojzsis
Presentations
| Wed, 21 Apr, 15:00–17:00 (CEST)
MAL19
SM 2021 Beno Gutenberg Medal Lecture & Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture
Convener: Philippe Jousset
Presentations
| Wed, 21 Apr, 10:30–12:25 (CEST)
MAL20
SSP 2020/2021 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal Lectures & Division Outstanding ECS Award Lectures
Convener: Marc De Batist
Presentations
| Tue, 20 Apr, 15:00–17:00 (CEST)
MAL21
SSS 2020/2021 Philippe Duchaufour Medal Lectures & Division Outstanding ECS Award Lectures
Convener: Claudio Zaccone
Presentations
| Wed, 21 Apr, 15:00–17:00 (CEST)
MAL22
ST 2020 Hannes Alfvén Medal Lecture & 2021 Julius Bartels Medal Lecture & 2020 Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture
Convener: Olga Malandraki
Presentations
| Fri, 23 Apr, 15:00–17:00 (CEST)
MAL23
TS 2020/2021 Stephan Mueller Medal Lectures, 2021 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding ECS Lecture & 2020 Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture
Conveners: Claudio Rosenberg, Paola Vannucchi
Presentations
| Fri, 23 Apr, 10:30–12:30 (CEST)

SC – Short Courses

Programme group chairs: Michael Dietze, Anouk Beniest

SC1 – Welcome to EGU2021 (EGU-related courses)

Programme group scientific officers: Michael Dietze, Anouk Beniest

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Are you unsure about how to bring order in the extensive program of the General Assembly? Are you wondering how to tackle this week of science? Are you curious about what EGU and the General Assembly have to offer? Then this is the short course for you!

During this coursee, we will provide you with tips and tricks on how to handle this large conference and how to make the most out of your week at this year's General Assembly. We'll explain the EGU structure, the difference between EGU and the General Assembly, we will dive into the program groups and we will introduce some key persons that help the Union function.

Feel free to join us, we are looking forward to meeting you!

Convener: Anouk Beniest | Co-conveners: Gregor Luetzenburg, Meriel J. Bittner
Mon, 19 Apr, 09:00–10:00 (CEST)
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The European Geosciences Union is a the largest Geoscientific Union in Europe, largely run by volunteers. Perhaps you have been to the General Assembly before, maybe you have published in one of the EGU journals, or are you following EGU and/or several EGU divisions on social media.

Whatever your closest link with EGU, would you like to get involved?

This short course is aimed at Early Career Scientists and will provide an overview of all the activities of EGU, which are much more than just the General Assembly. We will give practical tips on how to get involved, who to contact and where to find specific information if you want to organise a event.

More than 50% of EGU's members consist of ECS, let's get active!

Convener: Anouk Beniest | Co-convener: Anita Di Chiara
Tue, 20 Apr, 10:00–11:00 (CEST)
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Recent publications show that many people working in academia experience mental health issues. Factors like job insecurity, limited amount of time and poor management often cause high stress levels and can lead to mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety or emotional exhaustion. Following the EGU blog series and short course ‘Mind your Head’ in 2019-2020, and the successful ECS Great Debate at the General Assembly in 2019, we aim to continue the dialogue and reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness.

In this short course we invite panelists to share their experiences, how they dealt with it and what support they received. Afterwards we aim to actively engage the audience to discuss how to take control of their mental wellbeing and prioritise it in the current academic environment. We invite people from all career stages and disciplines to come and join us for this short course.

Public information:
We kindly invite you to participate to the Short Course in which our two speakers will present their talks about “Mental Health in Academia: Unmet Needs and Self-Assessment" by Jessica Carrasco and
“Being a more mindful scientist” by Maria Scheel
Convener: Anita Di Chiara | Co-convener: Anouk Beniest
Tue, 20 Apr, 16:00–17:00 (CEST)

SC2 – Career development

Programme group scientific officers: Michael Dietze, Anouk Beniest

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COVID-19 has affected our daily lives in an unprecedented range of ways. It is a human, economic and social crisis that has potentially changed the way we live, work and interact with each other forever. Researchers have not been spared from this, facing numerous challenges since the start of the outbreak, both personal and professional. This session will focus on a couple of these challenges in detail and discuss the lessons that we can learn to strengthen the scientific community and research in the future.

The first challenge that this session will address is the impact COVID-19 has had on research activities directly. Since the introduction of lockdowns in Europe, many researchers have had to reduce their research activities due to additional responsibilities at home while others have been locked out of laboratories and libraries, of all kinds, or been unable to undertake fieldwork to collect primary data. This has not only impacted the careers of many scientists but also led to project goals becoming unachievable, issues with funding and PhD candidates unable to complete their research. In this short course we will look at what can be done on an individual level to improve the current situation that many researchers find themselves in.

In addition to the financial, structural difficulties, many researchers are starting to view the way that they do science as more flexible than they might have considered possible before the coronavirus outbreak. This short course will also make space for discussions about how the practicalities of doing research (be it infrastructure, work patterns or styles of employment) could change in the light of what we have learned during this challenging time. We will also ask the question ‘how can large organisations and institutions attempt to better prepare in case another global crisis arises in the future?’

Public information:
Moderator: Chloe Hill, EGU Policy Officer

Speakers
- Janet Metcalfe, Head of Vitae
- Florence Bullough, Head of Policy and Engagement, The Geological Society of London
Convener: Chloe Hill | Co-conveners: Florence Bullough, Hazel Gibson
Mon, 19 Apr, 16:00–17:00 (CEST)
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The European Research Council (ERC) is a leading European funding body supporting excellent investigator-driven frontier research across all fields of science. ERC calls are open to researchers around the world. The ERC offers various different outstanding funding opportunities with grants budgets of €1.5 to €3.5 million for individual scientists. All nationalities of applicants are welcome for projects carried out at a host institution in Europe (European Union member states and associated countries). At this session, the main features of ERC funding individual grants will be presented.

Convener: David Gallego-Torres | Co-conveners: Eystein Jansen, Claudia Jesus-Rydin, Barbara Romanowicz
Tue, 20 Apr, 14:30–15:30 (CEST)
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Drafting your first grant proposal can be daunting. Grant writing improves with experience, so how do early career scientists compete on equal footing with those who are more established? In this short course, a panel of scientists and funding agencies will share their experience on applying to different funding bodies and provide top tips to early career scientists. You can gain insight and (even better) inspiration by discussing with the panel the bits and pieces you may struggle with when writing a strong grant proposal. This session will be followed by a ‘pop-up’ session in the Networking and ECS lounge, for more specific questions to our panel.
NOTE - this course has a broader scope than the more specific ERC and Marie Curie short courses. This course gives broad tips and hints on how to write a successful proposal irrespective of the funding body.

Co-organized by EOS3
Convener: Mengze Li | Co-conveners: Carolyne PicklerECSECS, Jenny Turton
Wed, 21 Apr, 14:30–15:30 (CEST)
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After the PhD, a new challenge begins: finding a position where you can continue your research or a job outside academia where you can apply your advanced skills. This task is not always easy, and frequently a general overview of the available positions is missing. Furthermore, in some divisions, up to 70% of PhD graduates will go into work outside of academia. There are many different careers which require or benefit from a research background. But often, students and early career scientists struggle to make the transition due to reduced support and networking.
In this panel discussion, scientists with a range of backgrounds give their advice on where to find jobs, how to transition between academia and industry and what are the pros and cons of a career inside and outside of academia.
In the final section of the short course, a Q+A will provide the audience with a chance to ask their questions to the panel. This panel discussion is aimed at early career scientists but anyone with an interest in a change of career will find it useful. An extension of this short course will run in the networking and early career scientist lounge, for further in-depth or one-on-one questions with panel members.

Co-organized by AS6/CL6
Convener: Jenny Turton | Co-conveners: Francesco Giuntoli, Stephen Chuter, Anouk Beniest, Silvio Ferrero
Wed, 21 Apr, 16:00–17:00 (CEST)
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Diversity has many dimensions including, but not limited to, race/ethnicity, gender, disability status, nationality, language, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic background. Diversity is key for scientific progress and society because different perspectives and life experiences give rise to diversity in scientific questions and approaches to address them, and stimulate collaboration between academics and local communities. Nevertheless, geosciences remain the least diverse of all STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields.
In this short course, early career scientists will be presented with practical advice on how they can contribute to promoting diversity in both their present and future career stages and help to build a geoscience community that is welcoming and supporting to marginalized scientists.

The short course will consist of the following invited talks, followed by discussion with the speakers:

(1) Asmeret Asefaw Berhe: "Forms of diversity and how can early career scientists support it"

(2) Bala Chaudhary: "Building an anti-racist lab"

(3) Budiman Minasny: "The fair-play of scientific collaborations - beyond helicopter research"

Scientists of all career stages are welcome to participate and join the discussions!

Convener: Olga Vindušková | Co-conveners: Daniel Evans, Avni Malhotra, Layla Márquez San Emeterio, Erika Marín-Spiotta
Mon, 19 Apr, 10:00–11:00 (CEST)
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Bullying and discrimination within academia are widespread and impact science at all levels. Early Career Scientists of underprivileged and underrepresented groups are those most affected by such work environments. Thus, discriminatory work environments further contribute to the continued lack of diversity within the geosciences, ultimately hampering scientific advancement. Systemic power dynamics within academia lead to the fear of retaliation and the impunity of professors, which is why culprits get away with abuse far too often. Despite increased discussions about this topic, institutions tend to provide little or ineffective support for those affected, nor clear steps forward. In this interactive short course, an expert panel will (i) provide practical recommendations on how to combat discriminatory work environments and (ii) explain strategies for bystander intervention. This will be followed by an open discussion between the expert panel and all participants about how to battle discriminatory work environments in the geosciences.
This Short Course is a joint effort of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Working Group of EGU, the Young Hydrologic Society and EGU.
With Prof. Dr. Aradhna E. Tripati, Prof. Dr. Erika Marin-Spiotta, Dr. Anjana Khatwa and Dr. Moses Milazzo we have a great panel consisting of a diverse group of experts and ambassadors for more diversity and equity within the geosciences.

Co-sponsored by YHS
Convener: Andrea Popp | Co-conveners: Claudia Jesus-Rydin, Richard Pancost, Anouk Beniest, Hazel Gibson
Mon, 19 Apr, 14:30–15:30 (CEST)
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Careers in academia exist beyond research and publications. There are always aspects more than what meets the eye. Often, we tend to learn about what is made available and evident, leaving behind many questions. It is only natural for aspiring scientists to have questions that shape their minds and impact their research. Some questions pertain to professional realms, others may relate to more broader perspectives on ambitions, inspirations, and what one deems as meaningful. Not every day do we get the opportunity to present these floating concerns at a forum and have experts address and pay heed to the same. In this session, a successful scientist with many years of experience will provide a look back to give a personal perspective of her/his career.

This year, we have the absolute pleasure of having with us Professor Todd A. Ehlers, who is an all-round geologist, head of the Earth Surface Dynamics group at the University of Tuebingen, Germany. Todd’s work has been contributing to better understand how tectonic, climatic and biogenic forces interact and drive landscape evolution, using an ensemble of techniques such as thermochronology, cosmogenic nuclides, numerical modelling, near-surface geophysics. Besides his research expertise, we shall engage in conversations regarding the challenges that came his way, and the manner in which he overcame those, and how his research shaped his life and in turn, how his life is impacted by the research he does. The discussions shall offer a unique opportunity to learn and empathise with a scholar’s work and life that has inspired many. The session shall conclude with the prospect of questions that Todd shall be happy to answer.

Convener: Aayush Srivastava | Co-conveners: Andrea Madella, Daniel Parsons, Eric PohlECSECS
Tue, 27 Apr, 14:30–15:30 (CEST)
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Over the last decades, research in the Solar-Terrestrial sciences has greatly advanced our understanding of this huge and complex system. For half a century, satellites and a continuously growing network of ground-based observatories have allowed us to make observations in more remote regions of the Sun-Earth system and with higher precision than ever before. Besides, high-performance computing has enabled the development of powerful numerical models, which gives us an unprecedented insight into each level of solar-terrestrial couplings. As new space missions and breakthroughs in numerical simulations fill in today’s missing pieces of knowledge, new questions arise, that need to be tackled by new thoughts. Being an Early Career Scientist, it is often hard to identify which questions are new and what has been answered before. In this short course, we have invited a panel of renowned researchers. They will give their view on how far we have come in our understanding, and most importantly, on what open questions and challenges lie ahead for the young scientists to embark upon. This is an excellent opportunity to meet with the experts and discuss the future of our community. The target audience is students and early-career scientists who want to increase their awareness of current and future research challenges within solar-terrestrial sciences and to discuss their potential contributions. The audience is invited to propose specific topics and/or questions for discussion in advance to ecs-st@egu.eu.

Convener: Theresa RexerECSECS | Co-conveners: Maxime Grandin, Liliana MacotelaECSECS, Jone Peter ReistadECSECS, Christine Smith-JohnsenECSECS
Fri, 23 Apr, 10:00–11:00 (CEST)
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How do you peer-review? Apparently you are just supposed to miraculously know. Many of us never receive formal training in peer review, yet our peer-reviews are the cornerstone of scientific legitimacy. Constructive, respectful, coherent reviews nurture dialogue and advance research. So, how can we review papers in an efficient way? In this course, we suggest a process to help ensure that we give the authors the most useful feedback? We will hear from peer-review experts about how they go about the process and have an open discussion with the audience.

Convener: Mathew Stiller-Reeve | Co-convener: Bronwyn Wake
Fri, 23 Apr, 09:00–10:00 (CEST)
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Publishing your research in a peer reviewed journal is essential for a career in research. The EGU Journals are fully open access which is great, but the open discussion can be daunting for first time submitters and early career scientists. This short course will cover all you need to know about the publication process from start to end for EGU journals, and give you a chance to ask the editors some questions. This includes: what the editor looks for in your submitted paper, how to deal with corrections or rejections, and how best to communicate with your reviewers and editors for a smooth transition from submission to publication. An open discussion will be served to give you time for questions to the editors,and for them to suggest some ‘top tips’ for a successful publication. This course is aimed at early-career researchers who are about to step into the publication process, and those who are yet to publish in EGU journals. Similarly, this course will be of interest to those looking to get involved in the peer-review process through reviewing and editing.

Public information:
Speakers/contributors:

- Nanna Bjørnholt Karlsson (Chief-Executive Editor The Cryosphere)
- Sam Illingworth (Chief-Executive Editor Geoscience Communication)
- Daniel Schertzer (Executive Editor Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics)
Co-organized by GD10/NP9/OS5
Convener: Tommaso Alberti | Co-conveners: Meriel J. Bittner, Anna Gülcher, Jenny Turton
Thu, 22 Apr, 09:00–10:00 (CEST)
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Writing a scientific paper is an essential part of research, and is a skill that needs practice.

This session is organized in cooperation with the Young Hydrologic Society (http://younghs.com/).

Public information:
This years’ session will be formatted as a panel discussion with three speakers (Dr. Wouter Berghuijs, Dr. Manuela Brunner, Dr. Tim van Emmerik). Each speak will give a brief presentation (12-15 minutes) where they will share their experience in scientific writing. This will be followed by an open discussion that goes for 15-20 minutes. The duration of the short course is 1 hours long.
Co-organized by HS11
Convener: Harsh Beria | Co-conveners: Sina Khatami, Andrea Popp
Fri, 23 Apr, 14:30–15:30 (CEST)
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Meet editors of internationally renowned journals in biogeosciences and soil system science and gain exclusive insights into the publishing process. After a short introduction into some basics, we will start exploring various facets of academic publishing with short talks given by the editors on - What are the duties and roles of editors, authors and reviewers? - How to choose a suitable journal for your manuscript and what is important for early career authors? - How can early career scientists get involved in successful peer-reviewing? - What is important for appropriate peer-reviewing? - What are ethical aspects and responsibilities of publishing? - Together with the audience and the editors, we will have an open discussion of all steps and factors shaping the publication process of a manuscript. This short course aims to provide early career scientists across several EGU divisions (e.g. BG, SSS, NH and GM) the opportunity of using first hand answers of experienced editors of international journals to successfully publish their manuscripts and get aware of the potentials and pitfalls in academic publishing.

Public information:
With this short course, we would like to offer you the unique opportunity to meet and discuss with the Editors-in-Chief of four different journals spanning the fields of soil science, biogeosciences and broader earth and environmental sciences. The course is open to anyone interested in learning more about the publication in peer-reviewed journals. We encourage researchers and students from all disciplines to join in.

Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kögel-Knabner (Geoderma, Elsevier), Dr. Heike Langenberg (Communications Earth and Environment, Nature), Prof. Dr. Tina Treude (Biogeosciences, Copernicus) and Prof. Dr. Hermann Jungkunst (Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Wiley) will provide us their opinion on questions like:

What are the duties and roles of editors, authors and reviewers?

How to choose a suitable journal for your manuscript and how to address a broader audience?

What are the benefits of open peer-reviewing and what are potential obstacles of inter-/transdisciplinary research publications?

What are ethical aspects and responsibilities of publishing?

We will also be able to collect your questions via chat during our webinar and address them to the Editors.
Co-organized by BG1/GM13/NH11/SSS1
Convener: Marcus Schiedung | Co-conveners: Hana JurikovaECSECS, Steffen A. Schweizer
Fri, 23 Apr, 16:00–17:00 (CEST)
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The short course aims to present the current status of the training and education in raw materials in the world, the evolution of skills and competences in the raw materials sector and show to attendants the free online educational platform developed by the INTERMIN Team. Users will be guided through the diverse facilities of the portal such as a searchable wiki of training centres database interlinked with a geographic information system of the available raw materials training programmes at a global scale. This facility shall be organised by the user based on the interesting skill to be acquired with the different training programmes.
The platform is a tool to help career guidance and lifelong learning within the raw materials community. It encompasses details of the database of training programmes, its strengths, weaknesses, protagonists, languages, content in relation to other courses, number of participants, target audience, duration & workload, and nature of classes. The platform facilitates discussions to support career guidance with the aim of enhancing collaboration between students, career guidance services, employers, education and training institutions, and NGOs. The portal and its network are thus expected to pave the way for establishing common training programmes in the raw materials sectors.
The International Network of Raw Materials Training Centres (INTERMIN) involves a network that represents more than 550 000 geoscientists working in academic research, industry, governments, and NGOs in 5 continents. The network develops synergies and international cooperation with the relevant EU Member States and the leading counterparts in third countries, based on specific country expertise in the primary and secondary raw materials sectors. The network has mapped skills and knowledge in the EU and the third countries, identified key knowledge gaps and emerging needs, developed a roadmap for improving skills and knowledge, as well as established common training programmes in the raw materials sectors.


INTERMIN project has received funding from the EU Horizon2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 776642

Convener: Laura QuijanoECSECS | Co-conveners: Manuel Regueiro, Slavko Šolar, Krishnan Subramani Ramakrishnan
Mon, 26 Apr, 16:00–17:00 (CEST)

SC3 – Science communication

Programme group scientific officers: Michael Dietze, Anouk Beniest

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Preparation and presentation of research findings at conferences are an important and time-consuming part of a scientist’s life. From a scientific perspective, the lack of time and orientation on how to create the poster one would like to present, can be very dissatisfying. Similar sensations are coming up while attending poster sessions at a conference: often, it’s just being overwhelmed by the amount of information presented in a non-reader-friendly way. Although a properly designed poster gains more attention, is easier to understand and can therefore improve visibility and the chances of having interesting discussions about one’s research, it is still difficult to achieve a well-designed poster. Why is this still the case in times where we can easily look up the Do’s and Don’ts of poster design online?
One reason is that there is more to professional graphic and information design than choosing the right font size or deciding upon the best color combination. Therefore, in this short course we will take a step back and have a look on how professional designers are planning their projects, starting their workflow and how this can help a scientist to design a poster for a conference effectively and properly. The design thinking process consists of a phase of emphasizing, defining the problem, ideating, creating a prototype, testing - and most important: improving again. Implementing this process helps to develop a detailed plan, which can give guidelines and structure when designing posters.
We will go through the design process theoretically and then discuss the different questions together addressing the scientific poster. All you need is curiosity when it comes to visual communication of your research and the willingness to discuss the topic with other participants of the course. Furthermore, it will be useful to bring something to note your thoughts during the course to create your own cheat-sheet to which you can come back to when starting the work on your next poster.

Convener: Dorothee Post | Co-convener: Linda SteinerECSECS
Tue, 20 Apr, 09:00–10:00 (CEST)
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The work of scientists does not end with publishing their results in peer-reviewed journals and presenting them at specialized conferences. One side of the work that is becoming more and more relevant and often is required by funding agencies to be specified in one’s project proposal is outreach. What does outreach mean? Very simply, it means to engage with the non-scientific public and a wider audience than you are commonly used to. There are many ways to do outreach, from blogging and vlogging, using social media, write for a science dissemination journal, participate as a speaker to local science festivals, organize open-days in the laboratory and so on.
With this short course, we aim at giving you some practical examples of different outreach activities and tips and suggestions from personal and peers experiences. In the last part of the course, you will work singularly to come up with an outreach idea based on your research activity. You may use it on your next proposal, you never know!

Public information:
Look for the "Outreach - get your science out there! - Meet the speakers " pop-up event in the related programme section to meet and talk further with the speakers!
Co-organized by EOS6/SSP5
Convener: Anita Di Chiara | Co-conveners: Meriel J. Bittner, Valeria Cigala, Janneke de Laat, Shreya Arora
Thu, 22 Apr, 10:00–11:00 (CEST)
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“Science isn't finished until it's communicated. The communication to wider audiences is part of the job of being a scientist, and so how you communicate is absolutely vital.” - Professor Sir Mark Walport, Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK government

Science is vital to society. It allows civilisations to advance, economies to prosper and provides solutions to societal problems. Unfortunately, the benefits of science aren’t automatically understood by the wider public – they must be communicated!

Communicating your science to a broader audience can also be hugely beneficial on a personal level – potentially boosting you profile as an expert, connecting you with new research and/or industry partners, and sparking ideas for new areas of research. Communicating your research to citizens is obviously important but how to communicate effectively to a non-scientific community isn’t always so straightforward. The first half of this session will outline some tips to communicate your research with the public, the challenges that scientists may face and how these can be overcome.

The second half of the session will feature speakers who are working to bridge the gap between research and society. They will outline some institutionalised routes that scientists can take to connect with citizens and provide examples of when it has had unexpected benefits.

Public information:
Session Moderator: Alicia Newton: Director of Science and Communications, Geological Society of London

Speakers:
- Phil Heron: Winner of a 2019 EGU Public Engagement Grant (https://egu.eu/0FZFM7/)
- Aisling Irwin: freelance science journalist and winner of EGU's 2020 Science Journalism Fellowship (https://egu.eu/9MN60T/)
- Sam Illingworth: Associate Professor at Edinburgh Napier University and Chief Executive Editor of Geoscience Communication (www.samillingworth.com)
Co-organized by SSP5
Convener: Chloe Hill | Co-convener: Alicia Newton
Thu, 22 Apr, 14:30–15:30 (CEST)
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Science and policy often feel like two different worlds, working on different timescales and using different languages. Despite this, almost every policy decision has a scientific component to it. And while science alone will never make policy, it can allow policymakers to more accurately assess the benefits and potential consequences of different policy pathways.

This session will highlight some of the key messages from the European Commission Joint Research Centre's recently published ‘Science for Policy Handbook’ (https://egu.eu/0HNFV9/). It will be hosted by two of the Handbooks key authors, Marta Sienkiewicz and Lene Topp.
Some of the key topics that will be outlined include:

- The importance of strategic planning for engaging relevant policymakers
- The different policy actors and their role in the policymaking process
- Examples of how you can speak the language that policymakers understand and pay attention to
- Finding windows of opportunity and building relationships

Attendees will also be given the opportunity to ask any questions they have about the Handbook or working at the science for policy interface more generally. This session is open to all EGU scientific divisions and scientists at all stages of their careers.

The Joint Research Centre’s Science for Policy Handbook is available free online and will give you a sneak peek into some of this session’s content! https://egu.eu/0HNFV9/

Public information:
Session moderator: Chloe Hill, EGU Policy Officer

Speakers:
- Lene Topp, Project Officer, Knowledge Management for Policy training and network, European Commission Joint Research Centre
- Marta Sienkiewicz, Project Officer, Knowledge Management for Policy training and network, European Commission Joint Research Centre

The Joint Research Centre’s Science for Policy Handbook is available free online and will give you a sneak peek into some of this session’s content! https://egu.eu/0HNFV9/
Convener: Chloe Hill | Co-conveners: marta sienkiewicz, Lene Topp
Tue, 27 Apr, 10:00–11:00 (CEST)
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Never has it been more important that geoscience research feeds into political decisions and policymaking. What is more, today many policymakers and institutions are increasingly receptive to scientific evidence. Yet, whilst researchers are increasingly keen to influence policy and policymaking, for many the mechanisms for engagement and impact seem unclear and inaccessible.

This course will demystify policymaking and give researchers the tools to be able to engage with policy through their research. Researchers will learn about how parliaments use evidence in their policy-shaping processes and the mechanisms that feed science advice into Parliament. This session will be hosted by individuals who work at the interface of science and policy, drawing from real-life examples and providing plenty of opportunities for attendees to ask questions.

Public information:
Moderator: Chloe Hill, EGU Policy Officer

Speakers:
- Sarah Foxen: Knowledge Exchange Lead at POST, UK Parliament
- Theodoros Karapiperis, Head of Scientific Foresight (STOA) Unit at European Parliament
Convener: Sarah Foxen | Co-convener: Chloe Hill
Wed, 28 Apr, 16:00–17:00 (CEST)

SC4 – Scientific approaches & concepts

Programme group scientific officers: Michael Dietze, Anouk Beniest

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This 60-minute short course aims to introduce non-geologists to structural and petrological geological principles, which are used by geologist to understand system earth.

The data available to geologists is often minimal, incomplete and representative for only part of the geological history. Besides learning field techniques to acquire and measure data, geologists need to develop a logical way of thinking to close gaps in the data to understand the system. There is a difference in the reality observed from field observation and the final geological model that tells the story.

In this course we briefly introduce the following subjects:
1) Geology rocks: Introduction to the principles of geology and field data acquisition
2) Failing rocks: From structural field data to (paleo-)stress analysis
3) Dating rocks: Absolute and relative dating of rocks using petrology and geochronology methods
4) Crossover rocks: How geology benefits from seismology and geodynamic research and vice-versa

Our aim is not to make you the next specialist in geology, but we would rather try and make you aware of the challenges a geologist faces when they go out into the field. Additionally, the quality of data and the methods used nowadays are addressed to give seismologists and geodynamicists a feel for the capabilities and limits of geological research. This course is given by Early Career Scientist geologists and geoscientists and forms a trilogy with the short course on ‘Geodynamics 101 (A&B)’ and ‘Seismology 101’. For this reason, we will also explain what kind of information we expect from the fields of seismology and geodynamics and we hope to receive some feedback in what kind of information you could use from our side.

Co-organized by SSP5
Convener: Richard Wessels | Co-conveners: Anouk Beniest, David Fernández-Blanco, Francesco Giuntoli
Wed, 28 Apr, 14:30–15:30 (CEST)
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The main goal of this short course is to provide an introduction into the basic concepts of numerical modelling of solid Earth processes in the Earth’s crust and mantle in a non-technical manner. We discuss the building blocks of a numerical code and how to set up a model to study a simple geodynamic problem. Emphasis is put on what numerical models are and how they work while taking into account the advantages and limitations of the different methods.

We go through the following topics:
(1) The basic equations used in geodynamic modelling studies, what they mean, and their assumptions
(2) A brief introduction to the various numerical methods
(3) The importance of benchmarking a code
(4) How to go from a geological problem to the model setup
(5) How to set initial and boundary conditions
(6) How to interpret the model results
We will use a simple example from the code ASPECT (https://aspect.geodynamics.org) to illustrate points 4-6 through an in-class demonstration. Participants are not required to bring a laptop or have any