Breaking with tradition, this year the annual EGU General Assembly was held online, in an unusual way at the originally scheduled week between 4-8 May 2020. The event was named EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online, which brought part of the activities of the EGU General Assembly 2020 online, as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic situation.
On this online event, ENeRAG project co-organized a session, ’Groundwater flow and geofluids system understanding with regard to environmental problems and resource management (HS8.2.9)’ with RGFC-IAH (Regional Groundwater Flow Commission of International Association of Hydrogeologists). The session’s convenors were Manuela Lasagna, Daniela Ducci, Jim LaMoreaux, John Molson, Judit Mádl-Szőnyi (ELTE), Ádám Tóth (ELTE), Corrado Camera (UMIL), Hanneke Verweij. The session aimed to bring together scientists studying different aspects related to groundwater circulation, interaction among fluids of different nature and management of groundwater, geothermal energy and hydrothermal mineral resources.
36 abstracts were submitted to the session, which was held in a form of a live text chat on 5 May 2020 between 2-6 pm. During this timespan 25 presentations were discussed together with a fantastic number of about 100 individual users, who joined the chat. With this number of participants, this session was one of the most popular in the Groundwater session group.
The abstracts and presentations of the session can be read and downloaded from here.
The EGU General Assembly 2020 in the online format Sharing Geoscience Online was an exciting and new experience for all the attendees of the ENeRAG project. The event gave an excellent chance to meet online and share research and ideas among other researchers.
We were happy to try this new platform, thereby also fostering the acquisition of new experiences in geofluid research and we could build new liaison with scientists from all over the world.
