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#vEGU21 – Session in the Spotlight: Volcanic Plumes: Volcanic Emissions and their Impact on the Environment and Health

January 4, 2021
#vEGU21 – Session in the Spotlight: Volcanic Plumes: Volcanic Emissions and their Impact on the Environment and Health

Today we are highlighting session ITS3.6/GMPV2: “Volcanic Plumes: Insights into Volcanic Emissions and their Impacts on the Environment and Health”, organised by Pasquale Sellitto (Paris), with Amy Donovan (Cambridge), Emily Mason (Cambridge), Tjarda Roberts (Orleans) and Giuseppe Salerno (Etna Observatory). Find their session and submit an abstract here! The convenors say: Volcanoes release gas effluents …[Read More]

BG
Biogeosciences

vEGU21 BG sessions in the spotlight: social geosciences, resilience and policy making

January 2, 2021
vEGU21 BG sessions in the spotlight: social geosciences, resilience and policy making

The deadline for vEGU21 abstract submission is coming closer – over the course of the next two weeks, we highlight sessions across the five BG themes, starting with General Biogeosciences sessions focused on social geosciences, community and earth resilience, health and urban systems and geoscience knowledge transfer to policy and society. With Social Geosciences: A …[Read More]

GeoLog

Top 5 GeoLog posts of 2020!

January 1, 2021
Top 5 GeoLog posts of 2020!

Happy New Year!!   2020 has been a pretty relentless and turbulent year – and a lot has happened. Here at EGU headquarters (currently spread across our staff’s several homes) we all know how much we owe to you, our members, followers and friends, this year, through all the highs and the lows. We honestly …[Read More]

HS
Hydrological Sciences

2020 Recap of the HS Blog

December 31, 2020
2020 Recap of the HS Blog

It may seem strange to stop and look back on 2020. What a complicated year it was! We may however enjoy talking about good things that also happened this year. There may be many things we wish we coud have done (or done differently). We all missed our annual GA in Vienna, and learned how …[Read More]

GeoLog

The most-read EGU journal articles in 2020!

December 30, 2020
The most-read EGU journal articles in 2020!

This year EGU published more than 3,300 peer-reviewed articles in our 19 Open Access journals. Upon learning about this impressive number of articles, which equates to just over 61,000 journal pages, we wondered: which of these were the most popular? You can find out in the following list of the most-read article for each EGU …[Read More]

GeoLog

Imaggeo On Monday: Konsfjorden and Kronebreen glacier

December 28, 2020
Imaggeo On Monday: Konsfjorden and Kronebreen glacier

Taken shortly after our departure from Ny-Ålesund after our first “Lost Meteorites” field trial in Greenland testing new equipment that can be used to discover ‘missing’ iron meteorites in Antarctica, the return flight gave incredible views of the surrounding landscape. This photo was taken looking down to the icy waters of Kongsfjorden on the west …[Read More]

TS
Tectonics and Structural Geology

TS Must-Read – Sibson (1977) Fault Rocks and Fault Mechanism

December 28, 2020
TS Must-Read – Sibson (1977) Fault Rocks and Fault Mechanism

The paper “Fault Rocks and Fault Mechanisms” by R. H. Sibson (1977), was one of the first studies that established major connections between the rocks that form in faults, and their conditions and mechanics during formation at crustal scale. Concretely, Sibson (1977) established: 1.) links among the textures and lithologies that develop along fault zones …[Read More]

OS
Ocean Sciences

Happy Holidays

December 23, 2020
Happy Holidays

We would like to end this year by looking back and thanking you! In July we finally launched the Ocean Sciences blog and joined the EGU blogsphere. Since then we had nine blog posts. Thank you to all the great guest authors we had this year. After the initial Ocean Sciences blog team of Gwyn …[Read More]