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The best of Imaggeo in 2015: in pictures

December 28, 2015
The best of Imaggeo in 2015: in pictures
Some of the best 2015 images from imaggeo, picked by our Facebook followers.

Last year we prepared a round-up blog post of our favourite Imaggeo pictures, including header images from across our social media channels and Immageo on Mondays blog posts of 2014. This year, we want YOU to pick the best Imaggeo pictures of 2015, so we compiled an album on our Facebook page, which you can still see here, and asked you to cast your votes and pick your top images of 2015. From the ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Flying Rocks

December 14, 2015
Imaggeo on Mondays: Flying Rocks
Flying Rocks . Credit: Franziska Glueer (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The picture was taken at a hillslope close to the glacier tongue of the Great Aletsch Glacier, the largest glacier in the Alps. With a length of 23 km it is located in the eastern Bernese Alps of Switzerland and composed of the three smaller glaciers Aletschfirn, Jungfraufirn and Eternal snow field converging at Concordia where the ice thickness was measured to be around 900m. The whole area was d ...[Read More]

Geoscience hot topics – Part II: the Earth as it is now and what its future looks like

December 11, 2015
Geoscience hot topics – Part II: the Earth as it is now and what its future looks like
The Waxing Earth from a Geostationary Perspective. Credit: Maximilian Reuter (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

What are the most interesting, cutting-edge and compelling research topics within the scientific areas represented in the EGU divisions? Ground-breaking and innovative research features yearly at our annual General Assembly, but what are the overarching ideas and big research questions that still remain unanswered? We spoke to some of our division presidents and canvased their thoughts on what the ...[Read More]