Tectonics and Structural Geology

Get involved: become an early career scientist representative

Laura Roberts-Artal February 17, 2017

Early career scientist representatives met at the EGU General Assembly in 2016. Credite: Roelof Rietbroek

Early career scientists (ECS) make up a significant proportion of the EGU membership and it’s important to us that your voices get heard. To make sure that happens, each division appoints an early career scientists representative: the vital link between the Union and the ECS membership. After tenure of two or four years, a few of the current ECS Representatives are stepping down from their post at ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Deep in the Himalayas

Laura Roberts-Artal February 6, 2017

The Himalayas: vast, formidable and home to the Earth’s highest peaks. The mountain range stretches inexorably through Indian, Bhutan, Nepal, China (Tibet) and Pakistan separating the Tibetan Plateau to the north from India’s alluvial plains to the south. India, as we know it today, started life much further south, as an island not far off the coast of Australia. It was separated from ...[Read More]

Announcing the winner of the EGU Best Blog Post of 2016 Competition

Laura Roberts-Artal January 18, 2017

Image modified from Moonscape by Alvaro Folhas (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

There is no doubt that 2016 was packed full of exciting, insightful and informative blog posts. An impressive 360 posts were published across the EGU’s official blog, GeoLog, as well as the network and division blogs! In December, to celebrate the excellent display of science writing across the network and division blogs, we launched the EGU Blogs competition. From a list of posts selected by our ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: Beatriz Gaite on why videos are a great tool for communicating your research to a broad audience

Laura Roberts-Artal January 13, 2017

Meet Beatriz, who's short film was voted the winning entry of the 2016 Communicate Your Science Video Competition. Credit: Jordi Cortés.

If you’ve not heard about our Communicate Your Science Video Competition before it gives early career scientists the chance to produce a video up-to-three-minutes long to share their research with the general public. The winning entry receives a free registration to the General Assembly the following year. In this GeoTalk interview, Laura Roberts talks to Beatriz Gaite an early career scientist wh ...[Read More]