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GeoTalk: Meet Tim van Emmerik, hydrologist and Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems Division Early Career Scientist representative.

Hazel Gibson February 26, 2021

Hi Tim, thanks for talking with us today, can you start by telling us a little about yourself and your research background? As experimental hydrologist I aim to provide reliable data to solve water-related societal challenges. For over a decade I have been working on developing new, better or cheaper measurement methods to quantify components of the water cycle. My first projects focused on estima ...[Read More]

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GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during February!

Hazel Gibson February 25, 2021

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we will be putting the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights roundup. For February, the Divisions we are featuring are: Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems (GI), Planetary & Solar System Sciences (PS) and Solar-Terrestrial Sciences (ST). They are served by the jo ...[Read More]

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Imaggeo On Monday: Aurora Australis with Southern Cross and Pointer stars

Ulrich Schreiber February 22, 2021

This view from the Port Hills of Christchurch in New Zealand glances South over Governors Bay into the distance, where an Aurora Australis is visible near the horizon. Almost in the center of the starry sky the Southern Cross with its 2 Pointer stars are showing prominently. Description by Ulrich Schreiber, after the description on imaggeo.egu.eu. Imaggeo is the EGU’s online open acc ...[Read More]

GeoLog

A Mission to Mars

Hazel Gibson February 19, 2021

February 2021 is an important month for Martian missions, with three arriving at our planetary neighbour within 10 days. Many people have been following the USA’s NASA Perseverance mission, as they landed the new Perseverance rover, with it’s specially designed Ingenuity helicopter in the Jezero Crater in the last 24 hours. Earlier this month the Chinese mission Tianwen-1 also entered ...[Read More]

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Want to GreenEGU in 2021? Five environmentally friendly things to try whilst working from home.

Hazel Gibson February 17, 2021

Normally at this time of year we would already have shared with you several ways that you could make your EGU General Assembly experience greener, from travelling by train where possible, to using re-usable cups instead of disposable ones. Taking the General Assembly online in 2020 and again this year in 2021 changed all of that, as usually our ideas were based around the fact that you couldn̵ ...[Read More]

SSS

Soil System Sciences

The importance of our SSS (…Soil Support Staff!) #4

Dan Evans February 17, 2021

This month, we marked International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and to continue the celebrations we are delighted to showcase the work of Lea Piscitelli in our monthly feature, Technician of the Month! Lea Piscitelli works as a research technician in the Laboratory of Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry at CIHEAM Bari in Italy. Don’t forget that each month, we’ll spotlight a technicia ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Imaggeo On Monday: Increasing Moon – seen from Hamburg

Wolfgang Fraedrich February 15, 2021

The image shows the increasing moon on March 16, 2016, seven days before the full moon. 53.3% of the lunar front are already illuminated. The moon does not glow on its own, but its surface reflects the sunlight. The sun always illuminates a complete half of the moon, which, in its orbit around the earth, always turns its face (which we see at full moon) toward the earth. The reason for the ...[Read More]

GeoLog

New for EGU in 2020

Hazel Gibson February 12, 2021

2020 was a year of new challenges and new ways of working for many. As thousands of people began working in news ways, embracing digital life even more than had previously been imagined, EGU was also trying new things – not least of which our emergency online replacement for the General Assembly in the spring of 2020: Sharing Geoscience Online. Because of the number of changes we went throug ...[Read More]

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The women of EGU in 2021!

Hazel Gibson February 11, 2021

Happy International Women in Science Day 2021! We at EGU are very lucky to have many outstanding women who participate in the running of the European Geosciences Union. We are delighted to introduce you to just a few of our hard working, inspiring, creative and passionate women of EGU – especially as several of them will be stepping down at the General Assembly this year as their terms of se ...[Read More]

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Imaggeo On Monday: Transit of Venus over the Sun

Eliza Teodorescu February 8, 2021

The object of this photo is the transit of planet Venus in front of the Sun which took place on June 6th 2012 and was the last event of this kind until 2117! This is a very rare event with respect to a human life span and the transit always happens in pairs, 8 years apart, with a repeatability of more than two centuries. The picture was captured on the shore of the Black Sea, in Vama Veche, Romani ...[Read More]