The EGU General Assembly is the largest geosciences meeting in the Europe. The conference took place at the Austria Center Vienna from 8-13 April. This year more than 15,000 scientists from 106 countries participated at the conference with 4,776 oral presentations, 11,128 posters and 1,419 PICO presentations. I was for the first time in such large conference. The schedule of the conference was quite intensive with a lot of sessions on different scientific topics. Sometimes the talks from the different sessions I was interested in were at the same time and it was difficult to attend all of them. However, I attended a lot of talks and poster presentations from different sessions during the five days of the conference. It was a great opportunity to learn more about the current state of the research in the field I am working. Moreover, during other sessions I got a lot of useful information on the related topics that have an input for my own study.

At the fourth day of the EGU I presented the poster at the session “Clouds and precipitation in the Polar regions: sources, processes and impacts.” It was a great opportunity to show the work I have finished so far within my PhD project and to collaborate with other scientists. The number of people passing by the poster was very high and the discussions were very fruitful. I received a lot of positive feedbacks, interesting questions and ideas for my future work.

I appreciate the GSGS Committee for funding the traveling to this conference. It was quite productive and fruitful week with a lot of discussions that enhanced my knowledge about different topics and will help in my future scientific work.

Tatiana Nomokonova
PhD student

PhD project: “Characterization of cloud conditions at Ny-Ålesund using sensor synergy and representativeness of the observed clouds across Arctic sites”.

Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology

Presentation at EGU Conference: “Statistics on clouds and their relation to thermodynamic conditions at Ny-Ålesund using sensor synergy”. (Poster)
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/EGU2018-1657.pdf