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EGU21 – Call for abstracts

The EGU General Assembly 2021, traditionally held each spring in Vienna, Austria, will instead take place entirely online due to the continuing risks posed by the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting restrictions on international travel. In its place, EGU will host vEGU21: Gather Online (#vEGU21), a completely virtual event that will take place from 19–30 April and bring together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences.

With this call for abstracts, all scientific sessions are open to receive your contribution. The deadline for abstract submission is 13 January 2021, 13:00 CET. Only 2021 EGU members will be able to submit abstracts to the 2021 meeting and, with a few exceptions outlined below, only one abstract as first author will be permitted.

You are kindly invited to find a session for your abstract at: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU21/programme

(1) How to submit your abstract
Each session shows the abstract submission link. Using this link, you are asked to log in to the Copernicus Office Meeting Organizer with your Copernicus Office user ID. An abstract processing charge (APC) of €40.00 gross will be levied.

Detailed information on how to submit an abstract can be found at:
https://egu21.eu/abstracts_and_programme/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html

(2) One-abstract rule
Authors are allowed as first author to submit either one regular abstract plus one abstract solicited by a convener, or two solicited abstracts. A second regular abstract can be submitted to sessions led by the Educational and Outreach Sessions (EOS) programme group (maximum number of abstracts, including solicited abstracts, remains two). Possible submissions for first authors are: 1 regular + 1 solicited abstract; or 2 solicited abstracts; or 1 regular or solicited abstract + 1 regular or solicited abstract submitted to EOS-led sessions. Participants can be co-authors on additional abstracts on which they are not first author. Submission of solicited presentations requires a transaction number (TAN) that can be obtained from the convener of the respective session.

(3) Required 2021 EGU membership for first authors Only 2021 EGU members can submit an abstract as first author to the 2021 General Assembly. Please renew your EGU membership directly through the abstract submission form or beforehand at: https://www.egu.eu/membership/. In the latter case, please ensure to select the 2021 membership and use identical user accounts for the membership application as well as for the abstract submission. EGU members get a substantial reduction on the registration fee to the General Assembly.

(4) Late abstracts
Abstracts sent to conveners after 13 January 2021 for submission on your behalf need to reach conveners well in advance (20 January 2021) of their strict upload deadline of 22 January 2021, 13:00 CET. An increased abstract processing charge (APC) of €80.00 gross will be levied for such late abstracts.

(5) Further information
Further information about the EGU General Assembly 2021 can be found at: https://egu21.eu/

You can stay up-to-date with General Assembly information by subscribing to the EGU blog (https://geolog.egu.eu/) and by following the EGU on Twitter (https://twitter.com/EuroGeosciences, #EGU21 as well as #vEGU21) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanGeosciencesUnion).

In case any questions arise, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts and thank you very much for your cooperation.
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Naturae theatrum et mundum/ The theatre of nature and the world/ O teatro da natureza e o mundo

This month – "On an old cork oak in Citânia de Briteiros", by Manuel Miranda Fernandes pdf.EN

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Este mês - "Sobre um sobreiro velho da Citânia de Briteiros", por Manuel Miranda Fernandes pdf.PT

Manuel Miranda Fernandes (CEGOT / FLUP) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328772341_Acacias_errantes_acacias_infestantes_notas_sobre_a_ascensao_e_queda_de_uma_utopia_florida

 

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Portuguese Parks to the world/Parques Portugueses no Mundo

 Nesta rubrica destacamos alguns dos principais parques naturais portugueses, valorizando o seu contributo para a divulgação do património ambiental.

 

Este mês – Parque Natural do Tejo Internacional (Portugal)

O Tejo Internacional, zona que abrange o vale do troço fronteiriço do rio Tejo, bem como vales confinantes e zonas aplanadas adjacentes, é uma área de reconhecida importância em termos de conservação da natureza, destacando-se o conjunto das arribas do Tejo, que desempenha um papel fundamental na conservação das espécies da flora e da fauna, juntamente com outros biótopos característicos das paisagens meridionais.

A Paisagem do Parque Natural do Tejo Internacional é constituída essencialmente por montado de azinho, sobro e misto, formações ripícolas (tamujais e salgueirais), estepe cerealífera, matagal mediterrânico (azinhais e zambujais), olival de encosta e povoamentos florestais (eucalipto, sobreiro e estevais). De entre os diversos tipos de comunidades existentes destaca-se, pela superfície ocupada, o montado de azinheira Quercus rotundifolia e sobreiro Quercus suber, que se apresenta ora com árvores isoladas e culturas arvenses sob coberto, ora com árvores de menor porte ou bosquetes, restringindo-se a cultura arvense às baixas e encostas menos pedregosas. As várias linhas de água presentes, com comunidades vegetais ripícolas associadas, constituem igualmente um importante património natural a conservar.

Destacam-se ainda várias espécies estritamente protegidas por convenções internacionais, algumas das quais classificadas como espécies em perigo de extinção, outras com o estatuto de vulneráveis e outras ainda consideradas raras. O Tejo Internacional e seus afluentes é um dos raros locais onde se pode observar a cegonha-preta Ciconia nigra, ave com estatuto de "raro" e ocupando extensos territórios.

Mais informação em http://www2.icnf.pt/portal/ap/p-nat/pnti

Roteiros de visita: http://www2.icnf.pt/portal/ap/resource/ap/pnti/descobert-pnti

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This month – Tejo Internacional Nature Park (Portugal) 

The border section of International Tagus River, as well as the valleys and surrounding areas, is an area of recognized importance in terms of nature conservation, particularly the ensemble of the Tagus cliffs, which plays a fundamental role in the conservation of species of flora and fauna.

The Landscape of the Tejo Internacional Natural Park presents a geological substrate predominantly shale and contains an interesting set of characteristic flower species from the meridional landscapes, namely cork and holm oak woods, dense olive groves, sometimes ledged, and steppes of cereal. In the least fertile soils the gum rockrose dominates. Among the existing communities, the holm oak forest Quercus rotundifolia and cork oak Quercus suber stand out, restricting the arable culture to the low and less stony slopes.The existing water lines, associated with riparian vegetable communities, are also an important natural heritage to conserve.

From the existing species, many of them with protection status, we highlight the otter, the wild cat and the common genet as well as a deer population along the Tagus and Erges valleys. This is also an important area for birds - highlighting the presence of the black stork, symbol of the park, and also numerous birds of prey that nest in the river cliffs. 

More information at https://natural.pt/protected-areas/parque-natural-tejo-internacional?locale=en

 

 

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Call for Books: Turku Book Prize 2021

The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) are pleased to announce the Turku Book Prize in environmental history. The Turku Book Prize is intended to identify and encourage innovative and well-written scholarship in the field of European environmental history and carries a prize of € 3,000. The prize will be awarded at the Eleventh Biennial ESEH Conference to be held in Bristol, UK in July 2021.
 
To be eligible, books must be:
- single author
- published in 2019 or 2020
- environmental history
- written on a primarily European topic
- preferably (but not necessarily) written by a European author or an author affiliated with a European University
 
Applicants are asked to submit three copies* of the monograph by mail to the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, as well as a digital copy (preferably a PDF file) to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..  If the monograph is written in a language other than English, please include a one-page English summary. 
 
Monographs must be received by 31 January 2021.
 
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
Turku Book Prize
Leopoldstrasse 11a
80802 München, Germany
 
Members of the 2021 Turku Prize Committee are:
 
Martin Knoll (Salzburg University, Austria)
Christof Mauch (Rachel Carson Center, LMU, Germany) (Chair)
Ruth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Doubravka Olšáková (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
Ulrike Plath (Talinn University, Estonia)
 
* We realize that for some publication models (e.g. print on demand, open access), it may be difficult to supply three hard copies of the monograph. If this is the case, please get in touch with us via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  and we will advise further.
 
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CFP: Beyond Control and Eradication: Mosquitoes, Environment, Politics and Society (ESEH, Bristol, 5-9.7.2021)

Beyond Control and Eradication: Mosquitoes, Environment, Politics and Society
A Session at the 11th Biennial European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference in Bristol, 5-9 July 2021
Organised by Maya Duany (Tel Hai College) and Dan Tamïr (University of Zurich)
 
Since January 2020, global attention regarding pathogens is focused on SARS-COV-19. Notwithstanding the havoc that virus has caused and is causing in all aspects of modern life on Earth, other older pathogens are still just as lethal and widespread – if not more. These include the pathogens responsible for malaria, dengue, yellow fever and other mosquito borne diseases, killing hundreds of thousands of humans annually, while sickening and debilitating millions more.
 
Mosquitoes accompany human beings in close proximity for tens of thousands of years already. Abundant historical literature has documented both the misery inflicted by mosquito borne diseases and campaigns for these creatures’ control and eradication. In this panel, however, we would like to examine the relations between humans and mosquitoes on the broadest scope possible, beyond the questions of the diseases the latter transmit and the technical attempts to mitigate or eliminate them. Our basic assumption is that since mosquitoes and humans have such a tight and long relationship, this relationship includes social, political, emotional and economic dimensions, who reach further than control or eradication.
 
For this session we are looking for two more papers historically examining human-mosquitoes relations. Questions to be discussed include but are not limited to:
 
- What were the social and economic conditions which enabled successful dealing with mosquitoes and MBDs?
- How did mosquitoes influence domestic policy home politics, not part of imperial or colonial projects?
- How did the attitude towards mosquitoes influence attitudes towards wetlands?
- Can one trace changes in the social attitude towards mosquitoes? Where, and what were the causes of such changes?
- What may the public perceptions of mosquitoes teach us about public perceptions of other environmental issues?
- How does human coping with mosquitoes and MBDs reflect economic power relations?
 
Please send a 200-300 words abstract and a short biography to Dan Tamïr (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Maya Duany (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by October 20, 2020. We are especially interested in presentations of ongoing projects, raising questions and asking for discussion on points not yet answered. We welcome proposals from scholars who may attend the conference physically, as well as from scholars who are planning to join it virtually via the internet.
 
Contact Info:
Maya Duany (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Dan Tamïr (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
 
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International Conference on the History of Chemistry – ICHC2021 - POSTPONED

The 13rd International Conference on History of Chemistry (13ICHC) organized by the EuChemS Working Party on the History of Chemistry (WPHC), in cooperation with Vilnius University, was be announced to be held in Vilnius (Lithuania), from the 18th to the 22nd of May 2021. See: https://www.ichc2021vilnius.chgf.vu.lt/.

Due to the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic the conference has been postponed to May 2023.

The conference will be hosted by Vilnius University (established in 1579), in the premises of old city. The Department of Chemistry was established in 1797, still holding a position of one of the most popular departments at the University. The education of history of chemistry reaches outside the University, also involving initiatives for community and younger generation. The conference will invite historians of chemistry from Europe and other countries of the world to share the good practice examples to educate history of chemistry. Ideas of modern patterns and attractive lessons are welcome; also overviews of media and broadcasting projects on history of chemistry may be presented

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XVI Trobada d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica

La Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica organitza a Alacant, del 12 al 14 de novembre, la XVI Trobada d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica. Aquesta reunió científica general organitzada cada dos anys té per objectiu acollir els treballs de recerca i les activitats que duen a terme els seus socis, així com els treballs d’història de la ciència, de la medicina i de la tècnica que es vulguen presentar. (Degut, la crisi de la COVID19, la Trobada tindrà lloc en les dates previstes si bé en un format virtual, no presencial).

Es pretén afavorir la presentació d’un ampli ventall de qüestions històriques, com ara:
• Salut, malaltia i medicina
• Experts, ciència i guerra
• Espais museus i instruments científics
• Salut pública i riscos (químics, nuclears, ambientals, etc)
• Governança i finançament de la ciència i tecnologia
• Ensenyament, didàctica i comunicació de la ciència

Para mais informações: 16-thct.iec.cat

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