(Logo: European Geosciences Union) European Geosciences Union General Assembly will start on Sunday, 27th of April 2014.

The EGU General Assembly 2014 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences.

 

The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geosciences. For the first time, in 2014, the EGU General Assembly will have a theme!

Like a human face, our planet exhibits a large diversity of intricate shapes and patterns. In the dynamic Earth system, processes continuously create, modify and destroy specific forms while, at the same time, individual forms and larger patterns constrain how processes operate.

The Face of the Earth theme intends to celebrate the diversity of geoscience processes and the great variety of associated forms, across all scales and from the core of the Earth to interplanetary space. This diversity is reflected in the five subtopics of the 2014 meeting: Rocks of the Earth, Waters of the Earth, Life of the Earth, Atmosphere of the Earth, and Space and the Earth.

 

The APECS – Austria Kick – off evening will take place on Monday, 28th of April at 7 p.m

Opening talks will be made by Univ. Prof. Dr. Peter Schweitzer (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Univ. of Vienna, Austrian Polar Research Institute), Univ.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Richter (Department of Department of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research, Univ. of Vienna, Austrian Polar Research Institute), Mag. Sigrid Schiesser (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Univ. of Vienna, APECS Austria).

On April 28th, the organizers will celebrate the foundation of APECS Austria, which is part of the international and interdisciplinary Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS).

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