If you are registered for the EGU26 General Assembly (3 – 8 May), you can take part in our annual photo competition. Winners receive free registration to next year’s General Assembly! It’s that time of year again! Yes, today the sixteenth annual EGU photo competition opened for submissions!! Until 8 April, every participant registered for the General …[Read More]
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Introducing the new chief editors of the cryo blog
New year, new team! We have some changes in our editorial team and would like to introduce our new chief editors to you today – please say hi to Mack and Leah! Mack and Leah will be taking over the role as chief editors from Maria Scheel, Lina Madaj, Emma Pearce and Loeka Jongejans. You …[Read More]
Highlighting: Strike-Slip Faults! (Interview with Tamara Aránguiz-Rago)
This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact Emma Lodes and Anna van den Broek (GM blog editor, elodes@asu.edu, a.j.vandenbroek@uu.nl), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others. Interview with Tamara Aránguiz-Rago, PhD student, University of Washington. Email: tarangui@uw.edu. Website: https://taranguiz.github.io Can you describe in …[Read More]
GeoTalk: meet Silke Asche, researcher of the origin of life on other planets!
Hello Silke and welcome to GeoTalk! Before we dig into your topic of expertise, could you introduce yourself to our readers? Hello, Simon. My name is Silke Asche, and I am a chemist in astrobiology and part of the Agnostic Biosignature Collective led by Dr Heather Graham at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight enter. My Ph.D. …[Read More]
Why Strike and Dip Conversions Confuse Even Professional Geologists ?
Whether you are a student, educator, or industry professional, you have likely encountered the myriad conventions used for recording geological orientations. For students, this landscape can be perplexing; for professionals, it may lead to the sinking feeling that a crucial undergraduate lecture was missed. Indeed, converting strike and dip measurements between different systems, such as …[Read More]
Is How We View the Atmosphere Too Dry?
Many people think about air as a fixed mix of gases like nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide (CO2). But the main reason the composition of air changes—water vapour—tends to get overlooked. Scientists often remove it from atmospheric samples before analysing air composition, and this convenient habit can make us forget something surprising: water vapour isn’t …[Read More]
Writing for the BG blog
Thank you for your interest in writing for the Biogeoscience Blog! The BG blog is created for and by EGU’s biogeoscience community. Please do not hesitate to reach out with any ideas, feedback or questions. What we publish Broadly speaking anyone can write for the blog and all ideas are welcome. Since the main readership …[Read More]
25 years of Wikipedia: The only thing more layered than the Grand Canyon!
The year was 2001. A time before smartphones, before social media took over, and back when scrolling usually involved a physical microfilm reader at the library. On January 15 of that year, something revolutionary erupted onto the scene: Wikipedia was launched. As we celebrate its 25th anniversary, it’s time we come clean. While we might …[Read More]
Prevent before repair: What a new hydrology-based index reveals about river ecological status
When I first began analysing agricultural pressures in German river networks, I expected the familiar story of nutrient loads, pesticide traces and differences between landscapes. What I did not expect was how narrow the ecological safe operating space has become for many rivers. Even small increases in agricultural pressure, especially from pesticides, reduced the likelihood …[Read More]
Mathematical closed-form solutions in Geodynamics: insightful or detrimental?
Mathematics is certainly not every scientist’s cup of tea. Despite the latter, they are, for the most part, very important, since most problems, regardless of their complexity, start and end with a mathematical equation (or set of equations). In this week’s blog, Dimitrios Papadomarkakis (student at the National Technical University of Athens), discusses the subject …[Read More]