GeoLog

GeoLog

Bringing scientists and teachers together for the Cape Town GIFT workshop

Bringing scientists and teachers together for the Cape Town GIFT workshop

Many teachers follow path writ by a particular diction, which reads “lifelong learning”. There is no other way, actually, to keep track of all of these fast changing issues and challenges of today’s world, which, in many ways, touch geoscientific topics (climate change, food security, geopolitics, to name but a few). Consequently many teachers are eager to learn from science as much as they can in ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during January!

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during January!

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we put the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights roundup. For January, the Divisions we are featuring are: Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology (GMPV) and Tectonic and Structural Geology (TS). They are served by the journals: Solid Earth (SE) and Geoscientific ...[Read More]

The many ways of using art for science education: by artist and illustrator Heike Jane Zimmermann

The many ways of using art for science education: by artist and illustrator Heike Jane Zimmermann

This week – on 24 January – the world observed the International Day of Education. At EGU, it felt like the perfect time for us to explore the intersection of science and art, and how they can be used in creative ways to educate and inform people regardless of their age and background. I spoke to Heike Jane Zimmermann who is an illustrator and sculptor with a particular passion for eco ...[Read More]

EGU Photo Competition 2024: Now open for submissions!

EGU Photo Competition 2024: Now open for submissions!

If you are registered for the EGU24 General Assembly (14 – 19 April), you can take part in our annual photo competition. Winners receive free registration to next year’s General Assembly! It’s that time of year again! Yes, today the fourteenth annual EGU photo competition opened for submissions!! Until 28 March, every participant registered for the General Assembly can submit up to three ori ...[Read More]