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Geomorphology

In conversation with the new GM Division President Kristen Cook

In conversation with the new GM Division President Kristen Cook

Kristen Cook, Research Officer for the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), based at ISTerre, University of Grenoble, is the new elected president of the EGU’s Geomorphology Division. As she prepares to assume her new role during the 2023 General Assembly, the outgoing Early Career Scientist (ECS) representative, Aayush Srivastava, postdoctoral researcher at the …[Read More]

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Geodesy

Women in Geodesy: Rebekka Steffen

Women in Geodesy: Rebekka Steffen

As you might know, after our blog post on women in the history of Geodesy last month, we turned the spotlight to more recent influential women in geodesy, and this time we would like to give the spot to an early career scientist, more specifically to our co-ECS representative and the Outstanding Early Career Scientist …[Read More]

GeoLog

Meet our EGU23 Communications Team!

Meet our EGU23 Communications Team!

Everything you see and hear about EGU’s upcoming General Assembly EGU23 is carefully created, designed and posted by our talented communications team! That’s right, this team – our fabulous four if you will – works diligently behind the scenes to manage our social media, blogging and the press conferences. These interns and volunteers are going …[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

Citizen Scientists wanted for a project on hydrological data in Italy: SIREN (Saving Italian hydRological mEasuremeNts)

Citizen Scientists wanted for a project on hydrological data in Italy: SIREN (Saving Italian hydRological mEasuremeNts)

The SIREN (Saving Italian hydRological mEasuremeNts) project aims to digitize the historical series of daily flows by crowd-sourcing the recovery of hydrological measurements from historical Hydrological Yearbooks and to produce a consistent dataset. With your help, we can save Italy’s hydrological measurements and keep up the data flow!  In Italy, hydro-meteorological data collection has been …[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Meet the blog illustrators: Vojta Hýbl

Meet the blog illustrators: Vojta Hýbl

Vojta Hýbl from the blog illustration team (photo taken by India Hunkin). Spreading research news to a broad audience is important but difficult work for scientists. Luckily, we have an amazing illustration team who are happy to share their artistic creation. Their artwork has helped us expand the readership and made our blogs increasingly popular. …[Read More]

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

GMPV Early Career Scientists at #EGU23

GMPV Early Career Scientists at #EGU23

Spring is here and EGU23 is approaching fast! Are you ready for a full immersion into every aspect of Geosciences? Anyway, EGU is not only scientific sessions, presentations, and posters… but also social events and networking! The ECS team of GMPV (and other Divisions) will be there, ready to meet you on many occasions. Here …[Read More]

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Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology

The Geology of the Galápagos and Its Impact on the Wildlife

The iconic view of volcanic terrain at Bartholomé Island Introduction The Galápagos Islands, located around 1000 km off the Ecuadorian coast, are justifiably known as one of the world’s premier wildlife viewing destinations. The isolated terrain hosts some extraordinary animals and plants, many endemic to the islands. It was here that Charles Darwin was inspired …[Read More]