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| Titel |
Recent activities of the Seismology Division Early Career Representative(s) |
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Matthew Agius, Koen Van Noten, Laura Ermert, P. Martin Mai, Charlotte Krawczyk |
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EGU General Assembly 2016
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en
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In: GRA - Volume 18 (2016) |
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250134799
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2016-15565.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The European Geosciences Union is a bottom-up-organisation, in which its members are represented by their respective scientific divisions, committees and council. In recent years, EGU has embarked on a mission to reach out for its numerous ‘younger’ members by giving awards to outstanding young scientists and the setting up of Early Career Scientists (ECS) representatives.
The division representative’s role is to engage in discussions that concern students and early career scientists. Several meetings between all the division representatives are held throughout the year to discuss ideas and Union-wide issues. One important impact ECS representatives have had on EGU is the increased number of short courses and workshops run by ECS during the annual General Assembly. Another important contribution of ECS representatives was redefining ‘Young Scientist’ to ‘Early Career Scientist’, which avoids discrimination due to age.
Since 2014, the Seismology Division has its own ECS representative. In an effort to more effectively reach out for young seismologists, a blog and a social media page dedicated to seismology have been set up online. With this dedicated blog, we'd like to give more depth to the average browsing experience by enabling young researchers to explore various seismology topics in one place while making the field more exciting and accessible to the broader community. These pages are used to promote the latest research especially of young seismologists and to share interesting seismo-news. Over the months the pages proved to be popular, with hundreds of views every week and an increased number of followers. An online survey was conducted to learn more about the activities and needs of early career seismologists. We present the results from this survey, and the work that has been carried out over the last two years, including detail of what has been achieved so far, and what we would like the ECS representation for Seismology to achieve. Young seismologists are continuously encouraged to voice their ideas and contribute to the Seismology Division. |
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