News

Who will be there?
The following people registered so far:

Jonathan Leake, Sunday Times, UK
Roland Pease, BBC, UK
Albert Gerdes, University of Bremen, Germany
Axel Bojanowski, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany
Kristen Kusek, freelance, USA
Michael Jensen, freelance, Austria
Hildegard Marc – Ziegler, Interessant Das Magazin, Austria
Erika Ziegler, freelance, Austria
Juliane Mossinger, Nature, UK
Sven Titz, freelance, Germany
Jesse Smith, Science, USA
Dagmar Roehrlich, freelance, WDR, Deutschlandfunk Radio, Germany
Holger Kroker, freelance, Die Welt, VDI-Nachrichten, Germany
Christian Schmidt, Welt der Wunder TV, Germany
Charlene Crabb, Freelance for Science, France
Jonathan Amos, BBC News Interactive, UK
Marco Schicker, Pester Lloyd Hungary´s German Weekly, Austria
Chris Haderer, freelance Radio, Austria
Heike Langenberg, Nature, UK

Tsunami

EGU 2005 will be the first international science conference after the December 2004 Asian tsunami disaster.

A special "Union Symposium" will be held presenting the latest reports from scientists who have been working in the area before and after the event.

US7 The Sumatra earthquake and the Indian Ocean tsunami
Convener: F. Guzzetti, Co-Convener: E. Pelinovsky, E. Schrama, J. Smit, C. Stark, S. Tinti, T. Van Dam, T., B. Vermeersen. Details can be found here.

Great Debates in the Geosciences
For the first time, the EGU Assembly in Vienna will feature "Great Debates in the Geosciences", dedicated to major controversies in the Earth and Planetary Sciences. These sessions are open to everyone. The first one, entitled "Flood volcanism is the main cause of mass extinctions", will be held on Wednesday, 27 April 2005, 17:30–18:30. The second session, entitled "Oxygenic photosynthesis appeared on Earth at least 3.8Ga ago", will be held on Thursday, 28 April 2005, 17:30–18:30.