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GeoLog

GeoTalk: Meet Tim van Emmerik, hydrologist and Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems Division Early Career Scientist representative.

Hazel Gibson February 26, 2021

Hi Tim, thanks for talking with us today, can you start by telling us a little about yourself and your research background? As experimental hydrologist I aim to provide reliable data to solve water-related societal challenges. For over a decade I have been working on developing new, better or cheaper measurement methods to quantify components …[Read More]

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Geodynamics

The Sassy Scientist – Out of Orbit

The Sassy Scientist February 26, 2021

After reading last week’s post Ilona asks how to switch research topics to something more impactful during their lifetime: How do I transition from a PhD in mantle convection to a postdoc in satellite geodesy? Dear Ilona, What a moon-shot you are aiming for! But, have no fear, nothing is impossible. Undoubtedly, space is cool. …[Read More]

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Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

GMPV ECS online talks! Wednesday 17th March 11am CET

Giulia Consuma and GMPV ECS Campfires Team February 25, 2021

The Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology division’s early career scientists talks (EGU campfires) will return on Wednesday 17th of March at 11am CET! The speakers of the 9th edition are: Tommaso Tacchetto (PhD Student @ Curtin University) – Disorientation control on trace element segregation in fluid-affected low-angle boundaries in olivine Kyra Cutler (PhD Student @ …[Read More]

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Seismology

Earthquake Watch January: Guyana Mw 5.6

EGU Seismology ECS Team February 25, 2021

South America is one of the most seismic regions where the collision of several tectonic plates is shaping the topography along the Pacific coast. On January 31, an Mw5.6 earthquake hit Southern Guyana near the border with Brazil. This event was largely felt in Boa Vista (Brazil), the nearest main city close to the epicentre …[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during February!

Hazel Gibson February 25, 2021

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we will be putting the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights roundup. For February, the Divisions we are featuring are: Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems (GI), Planetary & Solar System Sciences (PS) and Solar-Terrestrial Sciences …[Read More]

GeoLog

vEGU21 to GreenEGU ’22: what can we learn from a fully digital conference?

Hazel Gibson February 24, 2021

With EGU’s General Assembly fully virtual again this year, everyone attending will already be saving a huge amount of carbon by not travelling, sometimes across huge distances, to Vienna in Austria. But what about next year, and other future events when we will once again be able to meet in person? Are there things we …[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

Open teaching to navigate hydrology: how ready are we?

Bettina Schaefli February 24, 2021

Around a year ago, I all of a sudden had to find a quick solution to do online teaching. The timing was perfect: start of the semester, start of online teaching, video conference infrastructure unavailable, three kids at home and me, a hydrology teacher who has never produced any kind of video exceeding a 20s …[Read More]

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Geodynamics

The Indian Ocean Geoid Low at a plume-slab overpass

Elodie Kendall and edited by Anne Glerum February 24, 2021

In this week’s News & Views, Postdoc Elodie Kendall from GFZ Potsdam shares with us recent work on the mantle structures that could explain the Indian Ocean Geoid Low. What is the geoid, what does it look like and what can it tell us about mantle structure? The geoid is …[Read More]

GeoLog

Imaggeo On Monday: Aurora Australis with Southern Cross and Pointer stars

Ulrich Schreiber February 22, 2021

This view from the Port Hills of Christchurch in New Zealand glances South over Governors Bay into the distance, where an Aurora Australis is visible near the horizon. Almost in the center of the starry sky the Southern Cross with its 2 Pointer stars are showing prominently. Description by Ulrich Schreiber, after the description …[Read More]

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Natural Hazards

2020: The escalation of extreme rainfall events in Brazil

Paulo Hader February 22, 2021

In summer 2020, extreme rainfall events dumped up to 320 mm of rain in a single day in the Baixada Santista metropolitan region, São Paulo state, breaking Brazil’s record for the biggest rainfall in a single event and demonstrating one of the greatest threats of climate change. The damage caused by the associated landslides led …[Read More]