For this month’s episode of HydroTalks, we’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Hossein Hashemi, an associate professor in the Division of Water Resources Engineering at Lund University in Sweden and a member of the Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies. His research focuses on groundwater and surface water management in arid and water-scarce regions, combining remote …[Read More]
Extreme heatwaves of unprecedented magnitude are expected to become increasingly frequent in coming decades. These heatwaves come with severe consequences for human health, infrastructure planning, and economic prospects – particularly during events lasting multiple weeks [10]. In recent decades, Western Europe has become a hot-spot for record-breaking and long-lasting heatwaves [9], raising a critical question: …[Read More]
By Aris Kwadijk, PhD candidate, Mountain Hydrology group, Department of Physical Geography at Utrecht University, and Walter W. Immerzeel, Professor, Mountain Hydrology group, Department of Physical Geography at Utrecht University. Email: a.kwadijk@uu.nl, w.w.immerzeel@uu.nl. Website: https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/AKwadijk, https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/WWImmerzeel. Was the catastrophic flood wave in the Himalaya on 26 August a consequence of climate change, and therefore the fault of the …[Read More]
Everyone wants something from Arrakis. The Emperor wants control, the great houses want spice, and the Fremen would quite reasonably like everyone else to leave. I would settle for a geological map. Preferably with a few cross-sections, although I realise that asking someone to carry a seismic survey across sandworm territory might complicate the risk …[Read More]
It took almost two years to write this blog post – not because the challenges described below are rare, but because the scarcest resource for parents in academia is uninterrupted time. Academic careers are built on time: time to think, to meet collaborators, to develop the next research proposal, and to finally get that paper …[Read More]
Have you ever wondered what makes a good peer review? Are you an early career scientist preparing to review your first manuscript, or curious about what happens behind the scenes in academic publishing? The Early Career Scientists (ECS) team of the EGU Solar-Terrestrial Sciences (ST) Division is delighted to invite you to our upcoming ST-ECS …[Read More]
On 25 August 2025, SONABEL – Burkina Faso’s national utility – began releasing water from the Bagre Dam two days ahead of schedule. The reservoir had reached 90% of its capacity, just 0.73 metres below its maximum retention limit [9]. The Water Resources Commission and the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) in Ghana issued immediate …[Read More]
Welcome to GeoTalk, Caitlyn and John! Could you please briefly introduce yourselves to our readers? John Hillier (Interim Division President): I have a very mixed research background. I started off in marine geophysics and then I moved to glacial geomorphology. At the end of that I worked for an insurance company as a catastrophe modeller, …[Read More]
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 section. For September, we are featuring Geoscience and Society (GS), Geomorphology (GM) , Biogeosciences (BG). They are represented by the journals Geoscience Communication (GC), Earth Surface Dynamics (ESurf), …[Read More]
How do geodesists measure gravity? And what does it reveal about our planet? Gravitation is one of the most familiar forces in everyday life, yet almost no one can explain how geodesists use it to monitor a changing Earth. A new short film from IAG’s Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS), “Gravity – The Invisible Force …[Read More]
