Join our enthusiastic team of social media managers! We are looking for new people who are interested in joining an enthusiastic team of young researchers to help manage the EGU Geodynamics social media platforms (Facebook and/or Twitter) for the new academic year. This is an excellent opportunity for early-career researchers to expand their scientific circle while …[Read More]
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Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology
EGU GMPV Campfires: See you in September!
The GMPV Campfires will take a summer break and will be back in September! We would like to thank all the speakers for sharing their science with the GMPV community and all the attendees for participating and helping to improve the discussion so far. Our goal is to create a network of early career scientists, …[Read More]
GeoLog
Imaggeo On Monday: Rock pyramid shaped by weathering
The almost perfect rock pyramid in the foreground was formed by physical weathering and found in the Los Glaciares National Park in southern Argentina. The block was deposited on top of a rock surface polished by glacial erosion. The pyramidal peaks in the background are also the result of glacial erosion, albeit on a much …[Read More]
WaterUnderground
Hey groundwater instructors! Here’s a new resource for bringing diverse voices and research into your classroom
Tom Gleeson (University of Victoria), Viviana Re (University of Pisa) Now that we have your attention… We have started releasing the Water Underground Talks that we introduced in this post. You can find the full list of talks on this new webpage. Our motivation from the start was to provide new resources to instructors around …[Read More]
Geodynamics
The Sassy Scientist – Run For The Hills
Annalisa is in the final stretch of her PhD. Just a couple of paragraphs to jot down, an introduction to write and some final touches to finalize the figures. Whilst looking around for new opportunities, she comes across an opportunity in her own department. Struggling to decide what to do, she inquires: Should I do …[Read More]
Soil System Sciences
The importance of our SSS (…Soil Support Staff!) #7
Let’s once again pause to celebrate the wonderful work carried out by technicians, laboratory assistants, and research support staff in soil science. This monthly blog post is our opportunity to thank these key individuals, and their tireless efforts to maintain our laboratories, carry out fieldwork, and make research happen! You can read our previous conversations …[Read More]
Tectonics and Structural Geology
Mind your Head: Five tips on mindful productivity at work
This Mind your Head blog post is a follow-up from Maria Scheel’s talk during the latest short course around mental health at #vEGU21. Before guiding a wonderful mindfulness pop-up event, Maria talked about how she struggled with unrealistic expectations, feeling insufficient and alone as a PhD student during the last lockdown. She turned this around …[Read More]
Hydrological Sciences
Hydrological modelling in times of flooding
What a strange summer! Depending on where you live, you might currently be suffering from heat. In Switzerland, we are suffering from an exceptionally rainy and stormy weather situation, with high to very high flood danger issued for many major rivers and lakes (see warning map above, taken from the Federal Office for the Environment …[Read More]
Climate: Past, Present & Future
Bomb 14C – a tracer and time marker of the mid-20th century
1950 CE is known as the year zero in the so-called ‘BP time scale.’ The BP stands for, “Before Present,” and has its roots in the development and conventions of radiocarbon dating [1]. The radioactive isotope of carbon (14C) with a half-life of 5700 years [2; 3] is a cosmogenic isotope produced in the atmosphere …[Read More]
Geodynamics
The geophysicist’s toybox
Simplified models or toy models explain the complex Earth processes fairly well, even though they are far from reality. In this week’s Geodynamics 101, Adam Beall, Research Associate at Cardiff University, discusses some of his favourite geophysical toy models! I remember being excited to first hear about scientists doing Earth modelling and imagined impressive computer visualisations of …[Read More]