European Geosciences Union
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The European Geosciences Union (or EGU) is an interdisciplinary learned non-profit association open to individuals who are professionally engaged in or associated with geosciences, planetary and space sciences, and related studies.
The objectives of the EGU are the promotion of
- the sciences of the Earth and its environment and of planetary and space sciences, and
- cooperation between scientists.
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[edit] History
The EGU was established by the merger of the European Geophysical Society (EGS) and the European Union of Geosciences (EUG) on 7 September 2002.
[edit] Publications
The EGU publishes several peer-reviewed research journals and book series, including Advances in Geosciences, Annales Geophysicae, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Biogeosciences, Climate of the Past, eEarth, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Ocean Science, The Cryosphere, and the Stephan Mueller Special Publication Series. The EGU has pioneered the use of online, open-access journals.
[edit] Meetings
A meeting of the EGU members is convened at least once per year as Plenary Session of the Union.
[edit] Awards
The EGU awards a number of annual medals to recognize scientific achievements, such as the Milutin Milankovic Medal EGS EGU for "outstanding research in long term climatic changes and modeling."
