The ISIMIP Groundwater sector is new to the ISIMIP family. In this splinter meeting, we will discuss the progress of the Groundwater sector and upcoming model outputs we anticipate for this sector. This meeting is open for current sector participants and we encourage other groundwater modelers working at large-scale to join us too.

This splinter meeting aims to bring together scientists who use stable isotopes to study the critical zone. The meeting will allow ample time for networking, to meet other researchers in the field and to catch up with colleagues. It will also provide an update on the activities of the WATSON Cost Action (https://watson-cost.eu/). The splinter meeting is open to all critical zone scientists and anyone who wants to learn more about the WATSON Cost Action.

The International Commission on Human-Water Feedbacks of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) was founded in 2023 to capitalise on the momentum of the scientific decade Panta Rhei – Change in Hydrology and Society (2013–2023).
We focus on the feedbacks between humans and water over decadal and centennial time scales. We therefore mainly consider changes that involve a two-way coupling between human actions and water quantity and quality, i.e. how the water environment and humans coevolve. We are inclusive and interdisciplinary and invite all interested people, regardless of their field, be it social sciences, economics, engineering, hydrology, etc., from all career levels and regardless of memberships in commissions or IAHS.
Come to our splinter meeting when interested in collaborating and discussing on Human-Water Feedbacks, e.g. sharing knowledge, information, papers and organise joint studies and activities.

The meeting will bring together international scientists and practitioners working with models of human-water interactions with the goal of simulating scenarios or transformational and robust adaptation to water scarcity and climate change under deep uncertainty.

During the 2024 EGU General Assembly, the first in-person meeting of the Joint Working Group “Tailored Parameterization Strategies for Climate Applications of Satellite Gravimetry” of the Inter-Commission Committee Geodesy for Climate Research (ICCC) of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) will take place.
This working group focuses on identifying and implementing spatiotemporally tailored parameterization strategies for satellite gravimetry observations designed for different climate applications. Building up from the simulation environments implemented in previous working groups, parameter models can be evaluated concerning their capabilities to represent climate-related mass transport signals and their feasibility in real data applications. To envision the possibilities that will arise with upcoming satellite gravity missions, improvements expected from MAGIC and future mission concepts shall be investigated next to current single-pair satellite GRACE-type missions. The parameter models shall be defined in close interaction with the respective applications to identify the main criteria to allow new science to emerge from the advanced parameterization strategies.
In the meeting, the newly launched JWG will discuss planned activities, possible collaboration, and future research activities.

Some years ago a group of interested geoscientists aimed to establish an international research network related to the topic "mountain glaciations". Two application for a COST action to create such a network have been prepared and submitted, unfortunately without success but with partly encouraging feedback. After pausing all related activies during the Covid 19 pandemic, the former coordinators of these applications want to utilise the opportunity that many previously involved or potentially interested colleagues will gather at the EGU General Assembly to discuss possibilities of a future revival of such activities in whatever format. This splinter meeting will be related to a proposed scientific session at EGU and should make former and potential future directions of this initiative public.

The splinter meeting will inform about the joint forces of the Horizon Europe project group of AVENGERS, EYE-CLIMA, and PARIS and offers a discussion platform for project activities.
The shared objective is to improve emissions data to support the implementation of the Paris Agreement. The projects provide GHG and aerosol emissions estimates using observation-based methods to improve estimates of national emissions and national greenhouse gas inventories (NGHGIs). They collaborate with NGHGI stakeholders, government entities, NGOs, and policy makers.

Allin-Wayra is the new IGAC Activity on small sensors. Do you use low-cost sensors or small small sensors in your atmospheric science research? Would you like to connect with others in the community? Then come to our splinter meeting and learn more about Allin Wayra, what we offer and how you can be involved. Our mission is to construct a diverse, inclusive, global community of practice around small sensors. Allin Wayra aims to advance knowledge and responsible use of small sensors in air quality and atmospheric science, with a particular focus on regions lacking air quality measurements. In the context of the activity, we will also address urgent issues related to small sensors in atmospheric science, foster capacity, and champion accessibility through collaborative initiatives. Learn more, provide input on directions for the activity and exchange with colleagues.

EXCITE is a Horizon Europe project, aiming to integrate X-ray and electron microscopy techniques applied to earth materials and to make those accessible for new and existing users. The splinter meeting will be a networking platform for researchers who need access to European microscopy facilities. We will present an overview of available facilities, introduce researcher to the application procedure and encourage the exchange of experiences exchange of experiences between former and future users.

The meeting is inteneded to provide crosslinks between recent activties on studying the lithosphere in Greenland.
We summarize current activties targeted at the Greenland lithosphere and discuss ongoing or planned field installations. We will also report on a workshop on the Greenland lithosphere to be held in Copenhagen in March 2024 to inform participants not able to join us there.

Meeting of the ORFEUS Executive Committee

Meeting of the ORFEUS Executive Committee

Meeting of the ORFEUS Board of Participants

The World Heat Flow Database Project aims to develop a new research data infrastructure for the IHFC Global Heat Flow Database that offers a one-stop shop for comprehensive information on heat-flow related data, publications, projects, and researchers. Supported by the International Heat Flow Commission (IHFC), this new user-oriented web service will offer to the geoscientific community quality-proofed, up-to-date, well-documented, extended, enriched, and restructured heat-flow data. The project supports the Global Heat Flow Data Assessment Project, led by IHFC and Task Force VIII of the International Lithosphere Program (ILP).

The splinter meeting will be an intermediate step in the global stakeholder process on the platform development.

We will report on the status of AdriaArray – a seismic experiment to cover the Adriatic Plate and its actively deforming margins by a dense broad-band seismic network. We will discuss the time schedule, participating institutions, mobile station pools, maps of temporary station distribution, station coverage, data transmission and access. We will also report on the work of Collaborative Research Groups. Invited scientific contributions will be presented during the splinter meeting too. We will share the outcomes of the AdriaArray meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, 12. - 15. March 2024.

The Deep-time Model Intercomparison Project (DeepMIP-Eocene; https://www.deepmip.org/), is a large, international effort aimed at improving our understanding of climate during the early Eocene and PETM. In this splinter session, we will bring together the paleoclimate data and modelling communities to evaluate lessons learned from phase one of DeepMIP-Eocene (2016-2022) and explore future directions for phase two (2023-onwards).

This is the mid-term project meeting for the European metrology project isoMET funded by EURAMET.

One of the easiest ways that scientists can start engaging with policymaking is through the established, institutionalised mechanisms hosted by the European Commission that aim to collect expert input and feedback on their legislative proposals. This Short Course will provide participants with all the information that they need to start engaging with these formal engagement processes. The convening team and invited experts will provide an overview of a range of Commission-driven mechanisms including the EU Transparency Register, EU Consultations, and EU Expert Groups.

Make sure you bring your laptop so that you can join the walkthrough of the European Commission website and access these mechanisms.

As the amount of information needed to make an informed decision that adequately considers policy options increases, so too does the need for scientific evidence and those who are able to communicate it accurately and concisely. This role, between science and policy, is becoming increasingly recognised as a necessary profession with the number of knowledge brokers and those working on the interface expanding.

But what does a career in between science and policy look like? What types of positions exist and what skills do professionals who work on the science-policy interface need? Join us in this session to meet those working across the science-policy spectrum, learn about how they developed the necessary skills, and find out what their tips are for those who want to take the next step in their own career!

The European Union’s proposed Nature Restoration Law aims to provide essential guidance and support to restore ecosystems, habitats, and species across the EU’s land and sea areas. Expertise from researchers has played a vital role in creating and supporting this legislation that not only aims to restore degraded ecosystems but also improve soil health and water management, support the mitigation of climate change, and increase Europe’s resilience to droughts, floods, and other extreme weather events.

During this interactive session, experts involved in the creation of the EU Nature Restoration Law will share insights on the legislation process, the decisions that were taken, how scientific information was used to support the process, and what the next steps will be. Members of the EGU Biodiversity Task Force will also share their experiences engaging with this policy and the lessons that they learned along the way.

This session will not only provide participants with information on the Nature Restoration Law but also on how scientists can engage with the European Parliament in other legislative areas.

Understanding the aspects of your research and expertise that are relevant and of interest to policymakers is a key component of engaging in the policymaking process. This session will give you the opportunity to present the key aspects of your research to a panel of policymakers and those working on the science-policy interface! The panel will then give their feedback and provide insights on areas that you can improve on when discussing your research with policymakers in the future. This will not only allow you to develop your science-policy presentation and communication skills but also highlight areas that you can consider including to ensure that your research resonates with the policy community moving forward! The panel will also provide feedback on the policy areas in which they believe your research could be relevant, including current and upcoming policies.

The panel will assess up to eight scientists during this session. Timeslots will be allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis. You can submit your topic for consideration here: https://www.egu.eu/forms/Pitching4Policy/

This interactive Short Course will provide practical examples from EGU’s Policy Programme - including the Science-Policy Pairing Scheme, Science for Policy Working Group, and Biodiversity Task Force - and explain how these initiatives can be replicated.

During the first half of this session, leaders from these initiatives will be invited to present their experiences and give practical insights from the lessons that they learned. Session participants will then be invited to share their own experiences and brainstorm potential methods of creating science-policy spaces and dialogues within their own scientific organisations and research institutes.

Please bring questions and some of the challenges that you or your organisation is experiencing so that these can be discussed!

Policy briefs are concise, accessible documents that aim to communicate the practical implications of research to a particular policy audience and provide them with solutions to a specific issue. Although policy briefs are just one method to communicate information to a policy audience, they can be a valuable communication tool when effectively written and disseminated.

This Splinter Meeting will be run in the form of an interactive workshop. Participants will be provided with tips and tools to create their own policy brief as well as interactive exercises to work on with other attendees and the session’s leaders.

Participants are requested to bring along one of their (single-authored or collaborative) publications to use during the workshop. If attendees do not yet have any publications, they may bring along an article authored by someone else that they are familiar with.

The objective of Task Force VIII of the International Lithosphere Program (ILP) is to coordinate the "Global Heat Flow Data Assessment Project" in support of the International Heat Flow Commission (IHFC). The splinter meeting of the ILP Task Force will be used to present our activities, the current status, on-going work, and the next steps of the ILP Task Force. It opens space for networking and creating connections to other activities.

EOV's are essential ocean variables, that reflect physical, chemical, or biological processes in the oceanic system. EOV's are defined by the Ocean Observations Physics and Climate Panel (OOPC) of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), which in turn is led by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO.
In a collaborative joint development (IHFC of IUGG, TF8 of ILP), the definition of a new EOV is prepared that reflects the heat flow at the interface between lithosphere and oceanic hydrosphere. Heat-flow and oceanic experts will discuss and develop the foundation for such a new EOV definition. During the open splinter meeting, the process will be introduced to interested EGU attendees. This open meeting is followed by a two-day writing workshop.

Welcome to our splinter meeting on the science-policy-interface! We would love to exchange ideas, network, share experiences and insights with scientists, science managers, science communicators, and policymakers alike. Whether you're deeply involved in policy discussions or eager to learn more about how science informs policy-making, you are warmly welcome to join us for snacks and drinks!

We also invite you to continue the dialogue at our session on Thursday, "EOS4.1 Science Policy Interface: Shaping Debates" (https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/session/49288). This session will identify the most effective formats for science-policy engagement and highlighting success stories and lessons learned from scientists and communicators who have engaged in policy and made critical societal impacts – either on a European, national, or local level.

The ordinary meeting of the governing bureau of International Lithosphere program. The meeting will review the status of ILP: https://ilp.nju.edu.cn/main.htm

ILP (International Lithosphere Program) has a tradition to present and discuss its activities during the EGU GA. The meeting will include presentation of this year's Burov medal and Flin-Hart award.

This meeting is open to all interested participants. More information is available at https://ilp.nju.edu.cn/main.htm Public information:

The meeting will begin at 17.30 and continue until 20.00 with a break mid-way. Everyone interested in the activities of ILP is invited to participate.

To bring together key datasets in the OceanICU project from different groups.

The EGU’s policy programme hosts several initiatives and activities that help researchers to engage more with European policymaking processes… but some EGU Divisions also have representatives that can help you to connect and engage!

Want to learn more about what EGU Policy Officers and Representatives do? Want to share your ideas and experiences? Or just join in on the discussion and meet others within your division who are interested in Science for Policy? Then join this Splinter Meeting meet and greet!

This splinter meeting aims to have a short report on the UPFLOW project and start brainstorming with the European community on future European OBS initiatives and on how to improve OBS experiments. From early-stage planning, pre- and post-processing, to publishing data reports and sharing final outputs. So far exchange between different institutes and projects has been limited. We want to encourage the exchange of knowledge in the European OBS community, improve current practices and develop new strategies which could ease challenges for future OBS projects.

The Drought in the Anthropocene research network connects scientists that aim to gain a better understanding of the feedbacks between drought and human society at different scales.
As the IAHS HELPING scientific decade has just started, the Drought in the Anthropocene research network is collecting new collaborative ideas.
We will hold discussions around our 3 new research questions, together with the 3 questions of the Panta Rhei decade, and see how we can proceed working on solving these.

The Working Group (WG) "Co-Creating Water Knowledge" of the HELPING Initiative of IAHS (https://iahs.info/Initiatives/Topic-for-the-Next-IAHS-decade/helping-working-groups/) is active as a community of practice of researchers on different topics, working in understanding how the concept of co-creation can be used to integrate local and indigenous knowledge in hydrological sciences, and how hydrological knowledge can be integrated into them. This Splinter Meeting is an in-person opportunity to meet the WG and follow up on its activities.

The IAHS Drought in Mountain Regions Working Group is working within the IAHS HELPING decade. It is a global initiative including scientists and practitioners working on droughts in mountain regions. We aim at organizing an on-site meeting at EGU to meet all participants to this WG who are also at EGU.

The Floods Working Group (FWG) of the Past Global Changes project (PAGES) aims to bring together all the scientific communities reconstructing past floods (historians, geologists, geographers, biologists, etc.) and those studying current and future floods (hydrologists, modellers, statisticians, etc.) to coordinate, synthesize and promote data and results on the natural variability of floods. The splinter meeting at the EGU 2024 is the 2024 annual meeting of the FWG and the kick-off meeting of the third phase 2024-2026 of the working group. During the meeting, the steering committee will propose and discuss the scientific activities planned for the next three years: pilot projects, special issues, topic sessions and workshops and a new call for the Open-access flood metadata base. The splinter meeting is open to FWG Group members, early-career researchers and anyone interested.

IRISCC is a new European Research Infrastructure project providing services for research on Climate Change Risks. The splinter meeting will facilitate the start up phase of the IRISCC project and interaction with its target groups.

Adaptation to climate change requires in-depth understanding of climate change driven risks, including their determinants (hazards, exposure and vulnerabilities) and impacts to human, production and natural systems. Integrated Research Infrastructure Services for Climate Change Risks (IRISCC) is a consortium of diverse and complementary leading research infrastructures (RIs) covering disciplines from natural sciences to social sciences, across different domains and sectors. IRISCC provides scientific and knowledge services to foster cutting-edge research and evidence-based policymaking to improve Europe's resilience to climate change. IRISCC ensures a “one-stop-shop” for various user communities on climate change risk related RI services by setting up a dedicated Catalogue of services and related access management system both for granting transnational (onsite and remote) and offering virtual access. The Catalogue of services will be built through three consecutive releases, each
delivering increasingly integrated services to its user communities. The IRISCC service integration will include Service Design Labs employing co-design and transdisciplinary action, and Service Demonstrators benchmarking the integrated cross-RI services. In addition to services aimed towards the scientific community, IRISCC will offer knowledge services aimed towards policymakers and other stakeholders. This is done together with risk management platforms. The research enabled by IRISCC contributes to future reports on climate change effects (IPCC, IPBES) as well as policy- and decision-making to meet the targets of climate adaptation strategies. IRISCC contributes to training a new generation of scientists to efficiently use RI services and for data stewardship. Data from IRISCC will be open and made available in compliance with FAIR principles and linked to European initiatives such as EOSC. Strong links will be created between IRISCC and current and future efforts under Horizon.

Calving Model Intercomparison Project – updates and discussion of progress

This splinter meeting will host an open discussion on open source and benchmarking-ready open-data approaches for simulation tools in the field of gravitational mass flows. We want to, but not exclusively, discuss the following: i) benchmarking and model/simulation comparison, ii) open-data common data formats, iii) cascading processes, slow-flows, deformation control and iv) modes of communicating results, including virtual reality interfaces and probabilistic hazard maps.

The Geological Service for Europe Project (https://www.geologicalservice.eu/) aims to establish a sustainable organisation (GSE) from 2027 that will provide European institutions, academia, research organisations, national and regional policymakers, industry and citizens with up-to-date, high-quality EU/national level aggregated geoscientific information and advice about sustainable use and management of the subsurface.
The data core of the GSE is and will be the European Geological Data Infrastructure (EGDI). EGDI provides access to Pan-European and national geological datasets, tools, trainings and services from the Geological Survey Organisations of Europe.
EGDI gives access to more than 800 map layers as well as a large number of documents (reports, images, spreadsheets, etc.). The layers can be shown on maps and all the information can be searched in a free text search system.
During the GSEU Project, new components will be implemented and developed in EGDI to meet the needs of scientific users and support research in the areas of expertise for decision support, visualisation, Big Data approaches and the enhancement of a comprehensive Linked Data knowledge base.
Moreover, the IT infrastructure will be consolidated and made highly scalable. The improvement of the existing repositories, search system and semantic web technologies will facilitate the transition to a knowledge infrastructure.
In this splinter session, GSEU application will present to industry stakholder major benefits provided by the EGDI platform in terms of georesources exploration and exploitation. State of art and future development will be discussed engaging participants to collect market’s needs and expectations.

The Geological Service for Europe Project (https://www.geologicalservice.eu/) aims to establish a sustainable organisation (GSE) from 2027 that will provide European institutions, academia, research organisations, national and regional policymakers, industry and citizens with up-to-date, high-quality EU/national level aggregated geoscientific information and advice about sustainable use and management of the subsurface.
The data core of the GSE is and will be the European Geological Data Infrastructure (EGDI). EGDI provides access to Pan-European and national geological datasets, tools, trainings and services from the Geological Survey Organisations of Europe.
EGDI gives access to more than 800 map layers as well as a large number of documents (reports, images, spreadsheets, etc.). The layers can be shown on maps and all the information can be searched in a free text search system.
During the GSEU Project, new components will be implemented and developed in EGDI to meet the needs of scientific users and support research in the areas of expertise for decision support, visualisation, Big Data approaches and the enhancement of a comprehensive Linked Data knowledge base.
Moreover, the IT infrastructure will be consolidated and made highly scalable. The improvement of the existing repositories, search system and semantic web technologies will facilitate the transition to a knowledge infrastructure.
In this splinter session, a core group of GSEU and EGDI professionals will present the newest developments of the EGDI platform and will actively engage with the session’s attendees via use cases and feedback sessions to collect precious feedback to further tailor the features of the EGDI platform to the needs of current and future users.

"The time for climate action is now. Science is critical in shaping the policies and actions to tackle the global climate change challenge,” said former IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee. Scientist Rebellion is an international movement of scientists and scholars who are extremely concerned about the climate and ecological crisis and believe the scientific community has the responsibility to step up and join the forefront of the environmental movement.
Unless those who are best placed to understand this crisis behave according to the emergency we live in, we cannot expect the public to do the same. The latest IPCC report notes “Any further delay in concerted action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all.”
We believe that we must expose the reality and severity of the climate and ecological emergency through nonviolent direct actions, including civil disobedience. In this Splinter meeting we would like to share how we work and what we do. If you want to have a chat with some of us to see if this is a network you would like to join, feel free to stop by at this informative splinter meeting organized by EGU participants who are also member of Scientist Rebellion.

The process of transforming research outputs into policy and practice outcomes is described using various terms influenced by factors such as geography, time, domain, trends, and personal preferences. Research translation, knowledge translation, research utilization, knowledge transfer, and knowledge-to-action, among others, are some of these keywords. Regardless of the word choice, there is a growing global interest in this paradigm across diverse disciplines. The reason for this is the widespread acknowledgment that the conventional steps of knowledge creation (primary research), knowledge distillation (systematic reviews and guidelines), and knowledge dissemination (journal publications and presentations) fall short in ensuring that users beyond academia in industry, government and community can effectively leverage scientific knowledge for demonstrable real-world changes. This is especially important now as the world races to achieve just and timely decarbonisation and sustainabl e development.

Whilst knowledge translation practices focus primarily on the gap between research outputs and outcomes, gaps between evidence and decision-making exist at every stage of the research and development pipeline, spanning research infrastructure to long-term positive impacts for societies, environments and economies. In this meeting, we will share knowledge translation initiatives undertaken within research infrastructures AuScope (in the Australian context) and EPOS (in the European context), who support diverse users in academia, industry, government and community across those continents, respectively. We invite you, as a member of the global research and user community, to join us in exploring gaps in research innovation ecosystems around the world, and creative ways that we can work together to overcome them.

Meeting of the Volcanology Section - Spanish Commission of Geodesy and Geophysics addressed to researchers of Spanish and Portuguese groups working on volcanology-related topics. The aim of this meeting is to carry on networking activities, look for joint initiatives and explore future collaborations.

GERI member networks (SAEON/South Africa, TERN/Australia, CERN/China, NEON/USA, ICOS/Europe, eLTER/Europe, and others) will have invited talks and workshop activities to advance our goals to develop harmonized data systems and foster opportunities for collaboration, training and development. Open and all are invited, pending available space.
We will first focus on a use case of 'ecological drought' and will also bring together other collaborators, including the International Drought Experiment (Drought-Net) at Colorado State University, the Sullivan Lab at Oregon State University, and additional partnerships in Mexico and Latin America. Moving forward, GERI welcomes participation by other large-scale ecological networks and drought researchers.

The Elmer/Ice ice-flow model community regularly meets in person at the EGU to discuss latest developments, both, in code base as well as applications.

DeepSoil 2100 is a network for whole-ecosystem warming experiments. The aim of DeepSoil 2100 is to bring together researchers working on long-term experiments, whole soil or ecosystem manipulations (warming depth ideally greater than 30 cm, with or without other manipulations such as water and carbon dioxide concentrations), and studying responses of plants, soil biogeochemistry, ecology, etc.

https://iscn.fluxdata.org/network/partner-networks/deepsoil2100/

AntClimNow invites researchers, and especially ECRs, with an interest in near-term Antarctic climate variability to a 2-part workshop.
In Part 1, we will introduce AntClimNow’s Antarctic Climate Indicators project and invite participants to explore ways to characterise and visualise the state of all components of the Antarctic Climate System (atmosphere, ocean, ice).
Part 2 aims to provide an informal forum to network and exchange information on ongoing and planned work to apply machine learning techniques to help answer major science questions in Antarctic climate science.
Anyone interested in either aspect is encouraged to attend both sessions to join our discussions and look for future opportunities to collaborate.

Meeting for PAGES PlioMioVAR Working Group.

Discuss advances in tsunami modelling within the European tsunami community, related to ongoing progress in EU projects, as well as community building (Global Tsunami Model, EPOS).

PAGES welcomes all those interested in past global changes. You are much welcome to come and ask questions, whether it is about PAGES activities, how to organize one, how to attend one, or about the special events, such as the open science meeting(OSM in 2024 in Shanghai) or the topical science meeting . All the questions about PAGES will be welcome. We hope to make you more familiar with PAGES.

Cryospheric-specific climate interventions focused on sea level rise have been discussed for at least the past 40 years, but 2023 has had a significant increase in these discussions including several new research papers, two community workshops, and an AGU Town Hall event. The workshops took place in Chicago (Oct 2/3) and Stanford (Dec 9/10), and included ~60 glaciologists. Methods discussed focused mainly on ocean interventions (blocking warm water from reaching the ice sheet) and subglacial interventions (removing subglacial water or heat to slow down ice streams).
We seek broad community input on what a responsible intervention strategy would look like, how to think about the risks of intervening (or not intervening) to reduce rates of sea-level rise, and additional intervention approaches or other methods to reduce sea level rise rates beyond the necessary (but perhaps now insufficient) step of emission reduction.

A meeting for anyone interested in contributing and/or using ADMAP digital magnetic anomaly products in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. We aim to summarize and identify newly available data sets, and discuss progress towards the next version of the group's compilation product.

Several initiatives are developing to facilitate co-ordinated analysis of legacy core material and associated assets from the IODP and its predecessors. As part of the PAGES-PlioMioVAR initiative we here seek presentation and discussion of potential Pliocene-focussed legacy projects, which could be focussed by region, time interval, proxy etc.
The meeting is open to anyone interested in developing a legacy project, but spaces are limited so please express your interest by emailing the convenors.

The SURFEIT project, managed by the British Antarctic Survey (PI Louise Sime), will be running a project meeting as many international project partners will be attending EGU.

The gravity field community has become familiar with the ICGEM service during the last 20 years. ICGEM is now planning to realise the need for scientific and technical expansion, modernisation, and upgrading of the existing database, as well as its calculation and visualisation components, in which the scientific community and society have a great interest. At this meeting, we would like to discuss about the future goals and plans of the ICGEM service with global gravity field model (GGM) developers, experts, geoscientists and users. We would like to address why it is important to know how to respond to the growing need and demand for improved and quality-assured, well-documented GGMs and related products with additional types of datasets and data representations that are enriched with metadata and provided in a sustainable and freely accessible research data infrastructure. Over the next 3 years, ICGEM will be rebuilt and integrated with other geodetic services with the aim of servi ng global users. Such a platform will make the quality-assured data and products exchangeable and supports education, science, and society. We should therefore discuss future steps and exchange ideas as the community of experts and users.

The communication gap that exists between scientists and journalists is well established, but the first step to closing it is to understand why it exists. This by-invitation only meeting will be recorded to provide educational material for scientists and journalists working on the science-media interface. It will offer room for open discussion on the expectations and challenges of each side and explore new ways that both can find to share science more accurately and effectively with the world.

Earthquake hazard analyses rely on the availability of seismogenic source models. The recently released European Fault-Source Model 2020 (EFSM20), which was one of the primary input datasets of the European Seismic Hazard Model 2020, was entirely based on reusable data from existing active fault regional compilations. As scientific research on identifying and characterizing active faults progresses, the systematization and distribution of such research outputs should keep pace with the most recent technical developments in data distribution and usage.
The aim of this meeting is to identify the future perspectives of seismogenic fault databases at various scales, analyze their user needs (e.g., earthquake hazard analysts), and discuss how to tackle the challenges ahead of us.

In the context of space-borne geodetic techniques, Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (DInSAR) has demonstrated its efficacy in measuring surface displacements in different conditions and deformation scenarios. In particular, the advanced DInSAR method referred to as Parallel Small BAseline Subset (P-SBAS), developed by IREA-CNR, has emerged as particularly suitable to effectively and efficiently investigate the temporal evolution of surface displacements both in natural and anthropogenic hazard contexts. We refer to volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, or human-induced deformation like subsidence from fluid exploitation, mining activities, and the construction of large infrastructures.

The P-SBAS algorithm has been released as an on-demand web-based tool by integrating it within the EarthConsole® platform and currently contributes to the on-demand remote sensing component of the EPOSAR service. In particular, EarthConsole® is a cloud-based platform supporting the scientific community with the development, testing, and hosting of their processing applications to enable Earth observation data exploitation and processing services. Nevertheless, the P-SBAS processing capability is still available through EPOSAR, the processing service developed by IREA-CNR, also accessible in the framework of the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) Satellite community, that provides systematic ground displacement products of several areas on Earth.

The herein presented on-demand P-SBAS tool enlarges the EPOSAR service portfolio and empowers users to seamlessly generate surface displacement maps and time series exploiting C-band satellite data. In particular the P-SBAS service allows the scientific users to process both Sentinel-1 and ENVISAT SAR images in fully autonomous manner, through a user-friendly web graphical interface which permits them to follow the progress of the processing tasks and avoids the need of data download on their own processing and archiving facilities.

The presented on-demand P-SBAS/EarthConsole® processing service will be accessible for the scientific community through the Network of Resources (NoR). In particular, the NoR is an ESA initiative that, among several missions, sponsors the scientific users to exploit commercial platform resources and services in the Earth Observation field, like EarthConsole®.

The training course has been designed to be a hands-on session structured in three main modules:

1. Overview on the Advanced DInSAR technique with a focus on the P-SBAS algorithm for obtaining displacement time series and corresponding mean deformation velocity maps;

2. Introduction to the EarthConsole® platform and its processing environment;

3. Presentation of the on-demand P-SBAS/EarthConsole® service for C-band satellite data interferometric processing focused on the Sentinel-1 platform, with also a brief overview on the ENVISAT one.

Requirements and materials:

1. To ensure an optimal learning experience, we kindly ask you to confirm your participation at this link: https://www.eventbrite.it/e/training-course-on-the-p-sbas-dinsar-web-tool-for-earth-surface-deformation-tickets-853458857417

2. To follow this training course a basic knowledge of SAR data is desirable. A laptop with internet connection will be needed.

The goal of this meeting is to gather ca. 20-30 scientists to prepare a MSCA doctoral network proposal on the general theme of paleogeography. The first part of the meeting will consist in presenting and discussing the overall doctoral network proposal goals and training activities. The second part is a workshop in breakout groups defined by the work packages of the proposal. The meeting is for people involved in the proposal, please contact the meeting convener if you are interested to participate in the project.

This COPDESS meeting agenda includes an update on current work and next steps for the group. COPDESS: Coalition on Publishing Data for the Earth and Space Sciences.

Coordination activity that aims to build a global RI network for the solid Earth and related disciplines and domains.

This meeting follows on from the meeting held at EGU 2023 with the intention of continuing discussions on common challenges and progressing opportunities for co-development to address specific issues.

Agenda will focus on next steps, tangible coordinated actions, and engaging with other relevant initiatives.

This splinter meeting is for members of the WCRP Regional Information for Society (RIfS) Scientific Steering Group, and the CORDEX Science Advisory Team who are present at EGU to share information, brainstorm, and consider opportunities to integrate activities with aligned purpose. RIfS is a relatively new project that is still being structured, and CORDEX is a well-established effort with a long history and the largest network under the RIfS umbrella. This will be an opportunity to co-produce some potential next steps and align on vision and ways of structuring collaborations across themes. In particular we wish to coordinate on themes that have broader reach than the individual CORDEX regions. We will briefly summarize some of the activities that are planned this year. We also will brainstorm ways to incorporate the experiences from across the CORDEX regions with other efforts to produce regional information for society. For example, we may discuss ways to piggyback additional elem ents on existing CORDEX activities, or develop activities that address common barriers and challenges across different regions. This is an open discussion for these committee members to bring up anything of interest, and also to get to know one-another better. Other WCRP project leads are welcome to attend.

The international initiatives CATCH, PACES, BEPSII, ASPeCt and QUiesCENT will hold a joint meeting bringing together scientists with an interest in atmosphere-ice-ocean research focussing on chemical, biogeochemical and physical processes in the Arctic and Antarctic and links to climate change. Cold regions which are seasonally or permanently covered by snow and ice, notably the Third Pole, are also of interest. The primary objective of this meeting is to strategize for the 5th International Polar Year 2032 planning workshop scheduled to take place in Aussois, Alps, France, in November 2024.

The Rock Glacier Inventories and Kinematics (RGIK) initiative invites all interested researchers to meet and discuss the current and future developments within the community. Potential discussion topics include amongst others rock glacier database, rock glacier velocity products, new research topics in the field of rock glaciers, etc.

PEOPLE-ER is a European Space Agency supported research project to develop open Earth observation tools for ecosystem restoration assessment and monitoring. The PEOPLE-ER final project meeting will include presentation and discussion of the open spectral recovery tool for forest restoration monitoring, with use cases in Finland, Romania, and Canada. Project website: https://www.people-er.info/

The OneGeochemistry initiative is an international collaboration between organisations that support geochemistry capability and data accessibility. The initiative focuses on coordinating and consolidating global efforts in geochemical data standardisation in order to create a sustainable data infrastructure that guarantees persistent, machine readable access to the global wealth of FAIR geochemical data. OneGeochemistry has formed a Working Group as part of the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and invites the wider community to engage in the creation and publication of standard geochemical data formats and data gathering-creation-storage workflows. This Splinter Meeting is intended to provide updates on OneGeochemistry activities and offer a forum for engagement and discussion.

During this Town Hall, the OneGeochemistry initiative will give an update on activities and progress and invite feedback and suggestions from all disciplines. We invite you to join a discussion on how the community can best help and participate in the creation of geochemical data standards. Our goal is to broaden community awareness of and participation in the initiative, and to further learn from successful initiatives in other disciplines.

The AGU and EGU Hydrology communities are embarking on a project to co-develop discipline-specific data management guidance. In this splinter we will provide an update on the progress and next steps.

We invite all hydrologists or researchers in any discipline interested in supporting this work.

European FRIEND (EURO-FRIEND) is one of the eight regional groups of the FRIEND programme.
FRIEND (Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data) is an international research programme within the framework of IHP. Its objective is to study the spatial and temporal variability of hydrological regimes on a European scale and in other regions outside Europe. Originally initiated in Northern Europe, FRIEND has developed into a worldwide network of similarly structured projects. Today about 140 countries in different parts of the world participate in this programme.

EURO-FRIEND has evolved into a well-developed network of hydrologists, who are implementing an active research programme within five scientific project groups:

Project 1: European Water Archive
Project 2: Low Flow and Drought
Project 3: Large-scale Variations in Hydrological Characteristics

During this meeting, we will review the latest advances of the group, identify emerging challenges, and discuss potential funding sources (research grant, PhD, etc...).

This meeting is open to existing members of the EURO-FRIEND Project-3 and scientists from diverse disciplines wishing to join our discussion (and the group).

The correct measurement and availability of soil moisture data is crucial for the assessment of plant available water and the separation of energy and water fluxes on the land surface. Furthermore, in situ soil moisture data is used as “ground truth” to improve soil moisture model or satellite data products in many disciplines and communities, like climate and environmental sciences, hydrology, meteorology, agricultural engineering, decision making, disaster risk assessment and management. Although, in situ measurement error sources are well understood, there are still many unknowns concerning the uncertainties and their magnitudes that need to be considered when using in situ soil moisture data as a reference.

The collection, harmonization and quality control of freely available in situ soil moisture is the main mission of the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN). In the last decade data from more than 77 networks (~3000 stations, ~12000 time series) covering the time period from 1952 until near real time were collected by the ISMN. This extensive database enables us to take the next important steps towards reliable model and satellite soil moisture product validation: identifying error sources of in situ soil moisture measurements, and calculating the uncertainty budgets of individual soil moisture sensors. For this purpose, ESA`s “Fiducial Reference Measurement for Soil Moisture” (FRM4SM) project and EURAMET`s “Soil Moisture Metrology” (SoMMet) Green Deal project were initiated in 2021 and 2022, respectively. All three initiatives—ISMN, FRM4SM, and SoMMet—are interdisciplinary collaborations that bring together a number of scientific communities to tackle data availabil ity and the deeper understanding of the soil moisture measurement, e.g., remote sensing, metrology, soil science, hydrology, and sensor production.

Within this splinter meeting, we want to take the opportunity to facilitate a lively discussion between soil moisture enthusiasts, users, data providers, and sensor manufacturers that are interested in the assessment of in situ soil moisture and their uncertainties. Our goal is to get a better understanding of:

· data availability, usage, and quality control · influences and error sources that drive the in situ soil moisture component, · challenges currently faced (e.g., missing standards to derive reliable data, etc.) · what we are still missing (e.g., stations at certain locations, etc.) in order to answer the questions: (1) what are the error sources; and (2) how can we derive a traceable uncertainty budget.

If you are working with in situ soil moisture probes, calibration, installation, or data, you are very welcome to join this open discussion round, organized by the FRM4SM, SoMMet, and ISMN project teams.