The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2016 takes place from April 17 – 22, 2016 in Vienna, Austria. Geoscientists from all over the world come to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. They present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience. 52°North experts participate with the following contributions.

Tuesday, April 19

Poster session NP4.5/ESSI1.5   Big data and machine learning in geosciences

• 17:30–19:00   The Challenge of Handling Big Data Sets in the Sensor Web (Christian Autermann, Christoph Stasch, and Simon Jirka)

Wednesday, April 20

ESSI1.1   Informatics in Oceanography and Ocean Science

• 08:30–08:45   Marine Profiles for OGC Sensor Web Enablement Standards (Simon Jirka and the Marine Profiles for OGC Sensor Web Enablement Standards Team)

ESSI2.4   International cross-project collaboration and interoperability of data management systems

• 18:30–18:45   Sharing environmental models: An Approach using GitHub repositories and Web Processing Services (Christoph Stasch, Daniel Nuest, and Benjamin Pross)

Friday, April 22

ESSI2.7 The Networks of Earth Observation, its coordination and their infrastructures to enhance international geoscience information access, provision and use

• 11:15–11:30   Sensor Web Standards for Interoperability between in-situ Earth Observation Networks (Matthes Rieke, Raquel Casas, Oscar Garcia, Simon Jirka, Lionel Menard, Thierry Ranchin, Christoph Stasch, and Lucien Wald)