 It's been my first time at each of you and for some reason I got involved in so many things and there are so many events and sessions going on. It's really overwhelming but on the other hand I think it's really good to meet so many people. It's been really good although it's been a really big conference to attend. It's nice to get my research out there. I managed to present an oral presentation yesterday afternoon. It was really interesting to get some feedback and reviews and comments to that. I kind of hoped going away to get at least one contact out of it and I've had quite a few people coming up to me and speaking to me. So as an early career scientist it's really useful to get my feet on the ground and get my research out there and make some contacts. It's been really useful for that. As a whole when I think about the EGU conference for me it's a great way to put faces to the names of the people that I've heard multiple times. As I'm researching, as I'm writing papers, reviewing literature and yesterday at my poster session I was talking to individuals that I've been familiar with their names for years and suddenly they show up at my poster and they want to talk about the research that I've been doing and this was really the highlight for me to be able to connect those faces with their names and also have an opportunity to discuss science with them. That was important to me. For me the highlight was actually going to a session that's outside of my usual field of research. So I'm a sedimentologist, geomorphologist and I'm more familiar with those areas. So this year I thought I'd go to some climate dynamic sessions and a guy presented just by Fluke a talk that really overlaps with my study area. So afterwards we went for lunch, started chatting and I might go and visit him to give a talk in his department and set up a collaboration. So for me this was really profitable. I think going to a session in a slightly different field is a good way of learning who's who, learning what's going on and really getting a quick foot in the door. Yeah, I would definitely recommend EGU for early career scientists and I would say mostly because of the short courses because this is something that you won't find at any smaller conference and it really gives you the possibility to learn a lot of new stuff and I had the chance to co-convene one and to be a panelist of another one and it's really nice to see so many young people involved and what others do from different background areas. One event I think I'd just come out of actually it was the policy interface event with the young career scientists, the early career scientists event just then talking about how science and policy making can come together and obviously make good policy out of good science and that was a really interesting event to attend. It's a really good way to meet up with people that you know already and talk about what you've done before, promote your own research but at this stage I've just started my first postdoc so I'm also spreading out into other areas and thinking which research avenues can I go down so it's the quickest and easiest way to see who's working on what and where I might go in the future.