Active volcano Eyjafjallajökull is covered by 80 square kilometres of glaciers. Quite often one can feel the warmth from the red igneous rocks that protrude from the ice cap. The volcano is known for the eruption in April 2010, which released ash clouds so large that in some areas they turned daylight into darkness. Many …[Read More]
Hi Ann-Sofie. Thank you for joining this GeoTalk! To break the ice, could you tell us a bit about yourself and what got you interested in the Antarctic? Hi Simon, thanks for inviting me! That’s easy! As a child I always used to be ice cold… No, just kidding! I guess I have always been …[Read More]
Geoscientists explore the nature from a different perspective than the commoners. In this week’s blog, Stephanie Sparks from Arizona State University shares her story how her passion for mountains gradually became her profession. Her journey through different regions in Himalaya leads her to understand the exhumation rate and the underlying geodynamic processes behind the formation …[Read More]
At EGU’s GA this year we managed to catch up with Dr Alice-Agnes Gabriel, Associate Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, and the new head of the Seismology Division. Over the interview she gave us insights into her relationship with seismology over the years, what she hopes to achieve in her …[Read More]
Thirteen years ago, a roughly 251 km2 chunk of ice (or 97 miles2) broke off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier. This Amsterdam-sized piece of ice was the largest to calve in the Arctic since 1962. The massive iceberg traversed the Nares Strait, which lies between Canada’s Ellesmere Island and Greenland, and into the northern part of Baffin …[Read More]
2023 has been a year of big changes in the GMPV Division, with our new President Holly J. Stein, and in the GMPV Early Career Scientists (ECS) Committee, with new ECS Representative, Blog in Chief Editor and Chief organizer of the Campfires! First of all, we would like to thank Giulia Consuma for her amazing …[Read More]
Summer is not over yet, so today I prepared a list of science YouTube channels to check out during the lazy summer afternoons. Scientists and teachers love to share their research, experiments and insights with anyone who is willing to listen, so there are many fantastic science channels to watch. These people work hard to …[Read More]
The history of hydrology stretches back millennia: from the engineers of ancient high cultures over scientific pioneers like Da Vinci and Pallisy to modern groundbreaking modellers. However, so far, few hydrologists have worked to systematically record the history of their discipline – especially in its more recent decades. That is a gap that the History …[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 July, the Divisions we are featuring are: Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics (EMRP) and Seismology (SM). They are served by the journals: Solid Earth …[Read More]
by Emma Lodes, PhD student, GFZ-Potsdam (Germany) Twitter: @LodesEmma | email: lodes@gfz-potsdam.de Research in Earth Science starts with the spark of an idea, and is then often challenged by issues with access, temporal or spatial scaling, lack of knowledge in specific domains, or simply road bumps in our lives. As Early Career Scientists …[Read More]
