EGU Session: Early Career Perspectives on Research Challenges

[Ignacio Aguirre Belmar]

Apologies for cross-posting.

 

Dear Colleagues,

I hope this email finds you well.  We cordially invite you to submit your work to our EOS session “Learning to fly: Inviting diverse Early Career Perspectives on Research Challenges” during the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2026 (https://www.egu26.eu/).  This is an Education and Outreach Session (EOS), and thus excepted from the one abstract rule. Therefore, presenters can choose to present in the EOS session in addition to an abstract submitted to regular disciplinary sessions.

Session Description:

Science is best learned by doing, yet starting out is rarely easy. This session invites reflections on the challenges encountered during research, from forgetting a screwdriver during a field day, to not being able to compile software. Sharing challenges and their solutions is critical for Early-Career Scientists, as it can (1) lead to the development of better protocols for fieldwork, modeling, and data analysis, (2) reduce impostor syndrome while doing science, and (3) highlight the human side of science, not only in papers and conferences, but also in the people and their experiences behind them.

The goal of this session is to bring together a wide variety of experiences, stories and people. We invite submissions from any geoscientific field in two specific categories:

First, any submissions that showcase a specific problem, your Eureka moment if there was one, and your solution to it. The goal of such submissions should be to show that unforeseen problems happen to everyone, but that it is possible to overcome these.

Second, any submissions that provide an Early Career Perspective on the grand challenges in your specific field or the geosciences as a whole, and your proposed solutions to these. Examples may include (but are not limited to):

 

The abstracts can be submitted here,

https://www.egu26.eu/authors/abstract_submission.html

The deadline for abstract submission is Thursday, 15 January 2026, 13:00 CET.

Conveners: 

•               Ignacio Aguirre, University of Calgary (Canada)

•               Angela Che Ing Tang, University of Toledo (USA)

•               Moctar Dembélé, International Water Management Institute (Ghana)

•               Konstantinos Papoulakos, National Technical University of Athens (Greece)

•               Shubham Goswami, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA)

 

Please reach out to us if you have any queries and forward this email to your colleagues who might be interested in submitting their work in our session. We are especially excited for early-career contributions.

We look forward to your contributions!

Best regards,

Ignacio Aguirre