What are the most pressing research topics in the international community of hydrologists? What are people working on? And how can you become involved? Many hydrologists, especially early career scientists, struggle to find answers to these questions. That is where the scientific decades of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) come in. Specifically, its …[Read More]
With love for geoscience comes a zest for exploring the natural world. What we want to explore might not always be close to us. But science finds a way, even if it means sailing to the middle of the ocean. This week, we are going to dive into the nuts and bolts of how research …[Read More]
The Montejaque dam, with its 84 meters of height, is one of the first vaulted dams built in Europe. Currently, it remains only as a vestige of one of the major hydroelectric projects by the “Sevillana de Electricidad” company. Preliminary studies for its construction began in 1917. Some of these studies indicated that the project …[Read More]
On 20 October 2023, a team of geoscientists will host EGU’s Geoscience Day in Santorini and Nisyros (Greece) with a diverse audience: 60 young students from Nisyros Elementary School, 120 students from the Vocational High School of Santorini, educators, local journalists and representatives of the tourism industry. With such a mixed group of attendees, one …[Read More]
You might have missed our weekly blog posts, but we are back! This week’s post highlights four field work campaigns our cryo community conducted. Join us on a journey to Greenland, Svalbard and Alaska to learn about methane emissions, glacier flows, tundra fires and ice microbes. Chasing methane in Greenland The subglacial environment of the …[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 roundup. For August, the Divisions we are featuring are: Cryospheric Sciences (CR), Energy, Resources and the Environment (ERE) and Atmospheric Sciences (AS). They are served by …[Read More]
As with all professional activities, one of the greatest challenges for us, geoscientists, is how to reduce our own CO2 emissions linked to our research activities over the coming decades. A collective of 57 researchers came together in 2021-2022 to promote awareness and concrete action to decarbonize scientific activities: it was the birth of Ma …[Read More]
As a result of Earth’s mantle convection, rocks in the earth’s interior flow and develop a crystallographic texture. These textures reveal the planet’s thermal and tectonic history and are responsible for the viscous anisotropy, which can be used to study the planet’s deeper recesses that are not visible through other means. This necessitates the use …[Read More]
Emma Lodes, PhD student, GFZ-Potsdam (Germany) Twitter: @LodesEmma | email: lodes@gfz-potsdam.de When I consider places with exciting geomorphology, Germany’s capital does not spring to mind. Berlin is an isolated urban hub encircled by the flat, agriculturally dominated state of Brandenburg. Northeastern Germany was leveled by ice sheets during the last several glaciations, and …[Read More]
Hello everyone!! In an earlier blog, my colleague Eliot Carter discussed the etymology of elements. As a PhD student in geochemistry, mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology, we all regularly deal with a large number of minerals. Among them, some are very common and a few are hardly known. However, sometimes we forget the basics to deal …[Read More]
