EGU Blogs

Lenka Zychova January 4, 2023

This image shows four tactile images created to share space weather phenomena with blind and visually impaired learners. The image shows a representation of the magnetosphere (a small blue ball with black concentric circles surrounded by dots to the left and right, the ones on the left are smaller), aurora formation (a small blue ball with black concentric circles to the left and right with dots on the circles) and radiation belts ( a small blue ball with a yellow and brown pair of rings extended evenly to the left and the right). All the images are on a white background.

We can all probably agree that the Northern Lights are one of the world’s most spectacular natural displays. But how do we share this beauty with children who are blind? How do we explain the processes behind the aurora creation to the visually impaired when all the illustrations of Earth’s magnetosphere are in 2D? The Northern Lights are just one of the consequences of ‘space weather’. Space weat ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Imaggeo On Monday: Aurora show on the road

Junbin Zhao January 2, 2023

In Sweden a beautiful Northern Lights show proceeds unnoticed by the busy drivers passing by. The Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis are spectacular lights created as a result of disturbances in the Earth’s magnetosphere caused by solar winds. They are visible at both polar regions and or often seen as veils or lines of greenish-blue light. Photo by Junbin Zhao shared on imaggeo.egu.eu. &nbs ...[Read More]

GeoLog

EGU’s Life-Work Balance Group shares their New Year’s resolutions

Gillian D'Souza December 21, 2022

With 2023 just around the corner, we asked EGU’s Life-Work Balance Group members what their New Year’s resolutions are, and we want to share them with you! ‘I live in the Arctic, where we don’t get much sunlight and the brightest part of the day I usually spend in my (windowless) office. I will make a better attempt to go outside for a quick walk, or to get some fresh air during the d ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Imaggeo On Monday: Melt water lake on 79°N Glacier in Greenland

Ole Zeising December 19, 2022

Melt water lakes are an impressive and beautiful consequence of warm summer temperatures on Greenlands glaciers. This photo of such a lake with clear blue water was taken from a helicopter on the 79°N Glacier in northeast Greenland during an expedition in July 2018. Supraglacial melt water runs along the surface slope into depressions where the water is accumulating until it refreezes or drains. P ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoTalk: meet Francesco Avanzi, researcher in meltwater security!

Simon Clark December 15, 2022

Hi Francesco. Thanks for agreeing to this interview! To break the ice, could you tell our readers a bit about yourself and your research? Hey Simon! I’m an Italian hydrologist and earned a PhD at Politecnico di Milano with a dissertation on how snowmelt contributes to seasonal runoff. I then did a postdoc at UC Berkeley, California, where I collaborated with a major US hydropower company to improv ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during December!

Hazel Gibson December 15, 2022

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we put the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights roundup. For December, the Divisions we are featuring are: Cryosphere (CR), Nonlinear Processes in Geoscience (NP) and Soil System Science (SSS). They are served by the journals: Biogeosciences (BG), Earth Surface Dynamics (ESu ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Imaggeo On Monday: Arctic Winter Sun in Tromsø

Maria Scheel December 12, 2022

During parts of the dark Arctic winter, the sun only as much as touches the horizons, melting sunrise into sunset in a dramatic flash of red light. Photo by Maria Scheel, description from imaggeo.egu.eu. Imaggeo is the EGU’s online open access geosciences image repository. All geoscientists (and others) can submit their photographs and videos to this repository and, since it is open access, ...[Read More]

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Seismology

Opinion: self-supervised Machine Learning in seismology

Martijn van den Ende December 12, 2022

Martijn van den Ende, a Postdoctoral research fellow at Université Côte d’Azur, writes about his thoughts on the state of Machine Learning in seismology… At this moment of writing, it is unlikely that any experienced seismologist is unaware of the recent advancements of Machine Learning (ML) methods in Earth Sciences. Some pioneering studies started paving the way for ML in the early 1 ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoPolicy: 5 ways for scientists to take the lead on evidence-informed policymaking

Chloe Hill December 9, 2022

On 15 November 2022, the EGU and the European Parliament Intergroup on ‘Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development’ jointly coordinated an event, ‘Supporting the EU’s Biodiversity Targets by Bridging the Science-Policy Divide’. The event highlighted how science could be used to support the ambitious targets outlined in the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and proposed EU Nature Rest ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Are you ready to vote for your favourite Division blog of 2022?

Gillian D'Souza December 9, 2022

It’s that time of the year again! With the holiday season around the corner, many of us tend to reflect on the year gone by, with its ups and downs, and lessons and learnings. At EGU, reflection is a year-long process, but we like to end our year on a note of appreciation: for yet another year of impressive blog posts submitted and published across the EGU’s official blog, GeoLog, and our di ...[Read More]