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Rony Küchler
Report of GLOMAR PhD student Rony Küchler about his participation in the EGU General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria, 22 - 27 April 2012
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2012 took place in the so-called Austria Center Vienna. This huge annual meeting has gathered 11,275 participants from 95 countries with more than 4,400 oral and 9,000 poster presentations covering the full range of geoscientific aspects. According to these statistics, it was already a challenge in advance to find your way through hundreds of scheduled sessions.
During the Open Session on Climate: Past, Present and Future, I was given the opportunity to present the results of my first sub-project in a talk entitled “An apparent contradiction in plant-wax-specific isotopes: How can more rain favor aridity-adapted plants?”. In general, speakers were given 12 minutes for their actual presentation and 3 minutes for discussion afterwards. Thou the immediate feedback was relatively moderate, which was likely due to the wide scope of topics in this session, it was still possible to pick up helpful suggestions in the course of the conference. This was especially aided by discussions during various poster sessions where interesting people were available at a given time slot.
From my point of view, the greatest advantage of such a big event is the chance of getting insights into research fields with a different focus than one’s own and also the chance to establish interdisciplinary collaborations with people from those fields. For instance, within my research focus in organic geochemistry, I am trying to decipher past climate and vegetation changes in NW Africa, which can be further linked to some stages in the evolution of mankind. Thus, it was of great interest to me to join a session like Walking on sunshine – Was human migration affected by past climate changes?, which lead to socializing with a new contact including the chance for potential teamwork. In contrast to the advantage of having all areas covered by such a big conference, the main disadvantage is also its size, making it a bit difficult to meet with people, at least by chance.
Overall, I really enjoyed the attendance of this year’s EGU General Assembly, as it constitutes Europe’s most comprehensive framework for geoscientists to exchange, besides the collateral comfort of meeting both old and new friends. GLOMAR’s financial support for this conference trip is greatly acknowledged.
During the Open Session on Climate: Past, Present and Future, I was given the opportunity to present the results of my first sub-project in a talk entitled “An apparent contradiction in plant-wax-specific isotopes: How can more rain favor aridity-adapted plants?”. In general, speakers were given 12 minutes for their actual presentation and 3 minutes for discussion afterwards. Thou the immediate feedback was relatively moderate, which was likely due to the wide scope of topics in this session, it was still possible to pick up helpful suggestions in the course of the conference. This was especially aided by discussions during various poster sessions where interesting people were available at a given time slot.
From my point of view, the greatest advantage of such a big event is the chance of getting insights into research fields with a different focus than one’s own and also the chance to establish interdisciplinary collaborations with people from those fields. For instance, within my research focus in organic geochemistry, I am trying to decipher past climate and vegetation changes in NW Africa, which can be further linked to some stages in the evolution of mankind. Thus, it was of great interest to me to join a session like Walking on sunshine – Was human migration affected by past climate changes?, which lead to socializing with a new contact including the chance for potential teamwork. In contrast to the advantage of having all areas covered by such a big conference, the main disadvantage is also its size, making it a bit difficult to meet with people, at least by chance.
Overall, I really enjoyed the attendance of this year’s EGU General Assembly, as it constitutes Europe’s most comprehensive framework for geoscientists to exchange, besides the collateral comfort of meeting both old and new friends. GLOMAR’s financial support for this conference trip is greatly acknowledged.
