YES Network Activites at the 2010 EGU General Assembly Meeting

Each year, four themes of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) broad interest are selected for attention in the Union Symposiums at the EGU General Assembly meeting. Each symposium lasts 90 minutes, with up to six talks from leading scientists/speakers. Some of these symposiums are followed by a 90 minute event in which young scientists meet with (some of) the invited speakers from the symposium for a roundtable discussion.

Additionally, the YES Network is organizing and hosting one 90 minute symposia at the
EGU, that will be followed by a 90 minute roundtable  discussion. The symposia and roundtable discussion will be broadcasted as live virtual webinars so those unable to attend EGU this year will be able to participate virtually. It is expected that this event will launch the start of a long-term collaboration between the EGU and the YES Network.

For more information about the EGU 2010 meeting, visit http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2010/.

 

Unfortunately, the YES Network is unable to fund travel sponsorships to this event. As such, we encourage all YES Network members who are planning on attending this event and who are in need of financial assistance to procure their own resources.

SCHEDULE

Information on schedules and room locations will be posted soon!

 

REGISTRATION

Virtual participants are required to register in order to participate in the symposia and roundtable discussions. We will be posting the registration links soon!

 

INFORMATION FOR MODERATORS

Moderators will be in charge of keeping the roundtable discussions and YES Network symposia running smoothly – both virtually and live. For the YES Network Symposia, moderators will be responsible for keeping the speakers on time and fielding questions. For the roundtable discussions, moderators will be responsible for fielding questions for the panel discussion (from both the audience and virtual participants). Moderators will also be responsible for distilling the comments of the speakers and the results of the roundtable discussions into a short document that will be posted on the YES Network site after the EGU meeting.

There will be a roundtable moderator meeting at EGU (date/time TBD). During this meeting, we will go over the roles and responsibilities of moderators and will have a brief training session of how to use the webinar software to moderate virtual speakers and participants.

 

YES NETWORK ROUNDTABLE SYMPOSIA

The "OneGeology" Initative

Conveners & Moderators
YES Network Convener:
Eveline Speelman, Utrecht University, Netherlands (e.speelman@geo.uu.nl)

YES Network Roundtable Moderators:
To be announced soon.

Description
This roundtable session will focus on building the awareness of geoscience applications for the greater public as a means to strengthen the “One Planet One Future” vision. One recently developed international initiative is the founding of the “OneGeology” initiative, during IYPE. This international initiative aims to create a web-based dynamic geological map data of the world that is freely accessible. During this roundtable, we will explore the “OneGeology” initiative, its progress and current applications of this dynamic web-based map. We aim to identify areas of cooperation between the YES Network and the “OneGeology” initiative, and explore the potential merits of using the YES Network to make the "OneGeology” initiative more broadly known both within and outside of the international geoscience community. We also aim to identify new applications of the “OneGeology” initiative as part of YES Network outreach activities that promote an understanding and appreciation of the earth sciences.

 

Invited Speakers

Speaker information will be posted soon!