HIGH Horizons was represented at this year’s European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna by consortium members from the University of Graz, Ilona Otto, lead of the project’s work package 2, Climate Scientist Chloe Brimicombe and two graduate students Tobias Monthaler and Katharina Wieser.
Ilona Otto presented during the session ‘Earth resilience, tipping points, planetary boundaries and human-Earth system interactions in the Anthropocene’. Ilona presented her findings on Socio-metabolic class conflicts in the Anthropocene and highlighted some of the work of HIGH Horizons. The session was well attended and deepened the understanding on the systematic inequality of energy consumption in western societies.
Chloe Brimicombe, Tobias Monthaler and Katharina Wieser brought a first glimpse of their study titled ‘Beyond Ambient Temperature: A Comparative Analysis of Heat Metrics for Detecting Heatwaves on a Country Level’ to the conference. The team chose to present during the poster session ‘Extreme temperatures: processes, health impacts, physiological responses and adaptation in a warming climate’ to share their preliminary outcomes, receiving a ‘Highlight’ by the conveners of the session for their abstract, meaning that this research is of public interest. The poster presentation was a great success and provided the group the opportunity to introduce the HIGH Horizons project to many more people, even those which are normally not in touch with similar fields of interest.
As Early Career Scientists, the team presented their poster in the Outstanding Student and PhD Candidate Presentation and also hosted an informal heat-health early-mid career meetup, which was a fantastic opportunity to discuss their ongoing research and share experiences.