With 5,531 oral presentation and 9,432 posters, the EGU General Assembly 2019 was one of the major events among the Geoscience community. Scientist from all over the globe gathered in Vienna to discuss research objectives and exchange ideas.

The CRC 1211 had the great pleasure to host a special session, a poster session and a ‘Townhall Meeting’. The objective of the session was to showcase the CRC research on the mutual evolutionary relationships between Earth surface processes and biota in arid to hyper-arid systems.

The concept of the Townhall meeting was to advertise the CRC to our peers and to facilitate contacts with fellow scientists that could become collaborators in the second phase. Both events were very well received, promoted scientific exchange and led to some great discussions.