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Book Review: The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales

Book Review: The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales

Looking for your next read? 📚 Our previous book recommendations took us through ocean physics in Blue Machine – How the Ocean Shapes Our World, bioluminescence and deep-sea exploration in Below the Edge of Darkness, and ocean-inspired science fiction in The Swarm. Most recently, we ventured beyond the ocean with Invisible Women, exploring data bias …[Read More]

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Robots in the Arctic: An autonomous adventure to Greenland’s outlet glaciers

mountainous coast with a glacier cutting through the center, opening to ocean

Research cruises are a fundamental part of the cryospheric sciences. As the Arctic warms, the systems that shape our world look much different from one season to the next, making it more critical than ever to measure the changes of our icy world. Here, three early-career researchers share insights from a cruise they took part …[Read More]

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Conference “at home”

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Apart from scientific exchange and networking opportunities, conferences normally provide the chance to go places, to get out of the office, and see something new. But what happens when the conference is taking place in your home town? At your university? On your campus? Does this differ from going to other conferences or not at …[Read More]

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Bridging the Gap Between Global Tech and Local Expertise: Why We Open-Sourced Google’s Hydrology Framework

Bridging the Gap Between Global Tech and Local Expertise: Why We Open-Sourced Google’s Hydrology Framework

Dear EGU Hydrology community, Over the past few years, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence have fundamentally changed what is possible in large-scale hydrological modeling. At Google, our team has worked to develop machine learning river forecast models that operate globally, extending reliable forecasting to ungauged basins and covering almost two billion people through the …[Read More]

Mars’ lost oceans: Inside the new planetary hydrology model published in EGU’s Geoscientific Model Development (GMD)

Mars’ lost oceans: Inside the new planetary hydrology model published in EGU’s Geoscientific Model Development (GMD)

If we look at Mars today, we’ll see a cold, dusty desert, but peel back the surface geology, and the planet tells quite a different story! Networked river valleys, ancient deltaic fans, carved impact crater lakes, and potential palaeoshorelines all point to a warm and active past during the Noachian and early Hesperian epochs, circa …[Read More]

GMPV-PS Campfire: Rocks across the Solar System: From planetary differentiation to surface processes

GMPV-PS Campfire: Rocks across the Solar System: From planetary differentiation to surface processes

What can meteorites tell us about Earth’s environment? How do minerals record a cosmic collision? And could Venus be hiding lava tubes? Our joint GMPV–PS Campfire brings together four talks exploring these questions and the early differentiation of Mars, plenty of planetary ground to cover! From environmental and shock processes preserved in chondrites to the …[Read More]

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A Remote Sensing Solution for Nitrous Oxide: The Greenhouse Gas We Need to See Better

A Remote Sensing Solution for Nitrous Oxide: The Greenhouse Gas We Need to See Better

When we talk about greenhouse gases and climate change, carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) usually receive most of the attention. Yet another gas, nitrous oxide (N2O), quietly plays an important role in our changing climate. Commonly known as “laughing gas”, N2O is a powerful greenhouse gas with nearly 273 times the warming potential of …[Read More]