EGU Blogs

Elliot Carter December 1, 2021

Crater lakes, Kelimutu Volcano, Indonesia.

During this past October, a team of researchers took part in a “hackathon” organised by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to generate data and new ideas to increase diversity in geoscience. This was an extremely hectic, sometimes stressful but fun and illuminating experience which ultimately culminated in a pilot funding bid (which we learned this week has been successful!). Our i ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

On talking about hydrology at non-academic events

Nilay Dogulu December 1, 2021

Many of us have given talks (or are preparing their first one coming soon) at academic and non-academic events. What are the differences and what should we expect from both types of events? How can early career scientists (ECS) navigate through these two types of events? I wrote this blog post as an attempt to encourage more ECS talks in non-academic events and share my experiences, hoping that it ...[Read More]

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Seismology

“State of the ECS”: Getting back to normal…?

EGU Seismology ECS Team December 1, 2021

Matthew here! Since the end of the Summer, across Europe there were a few months of some kind of normality, and the ECS team enjoyed the freedoms that were on offer. Field work! In-person conferences! Actually seeing someone else in the office!?! As the winter draws in (how can it be December already?!?), and the future looks a bit more uncertain, we hope reading about what the team have been gett ...[Read More]

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Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology

Tracing Atmospheric dustiness in the Permo-Carboniferous of northeastern Gondwana

Mehrdad Sardar Abadi and Lynn Soreghan November 30, 2021

Cyclic Permian carbonates above Carboniferous contain dust deposits, Central Alborz Mountains (Iran)

This blog summarizes two recent articles about dust in the Paleozoic. Planet Earth is presently undergoing a profound climatic turnover. Improved understanding of both the mechanisms contributing to the present climate change and its consequences for the biosphere, including human society, will not only provide the knowledge required to cope with its effects, but may also shed light on the forces ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during November!

Hazel Gibson November 30, 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 November, the Divisions we are featuring are: Energy, Resources and Environment (ERE), Nonlinear Processes in Geoscience (NP) and Seismology (SM). They are served by the journals: Geoscientific Model De ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Imaggeo On Monday: Chuquicamata copper mine, Chile

Martyn Unsworth November 29, 2021

Aerial view of the Chuquicamata copper mine in Northern Chile. This is the largest open pit copper mine in the world by volume (at the time of sharing). At this location the copper and molybdenum is extracted from a porphyry deposit that was formed beneath a volcano in the Andean subduction zone. Description by Martyn Unsworth, after the description on imaggeo.egu.eu. Although much o ...[Read More]

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Natural Hazards

Define and assess drought, the herculean challenge!

Joana Parente November 29, 2021

The frequency and intensity of drought periods have increased since the 1950s over most land areas [1]. In fact, between 1998 and 2017, drought was the sixth natural hazard associated with disasters (4.8% of the total number of disasters) but the second in terms of the total number of affected people (33% of the total number of affected people), causing more than 21,000 deaths [2]. For example, in ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Are we equipped to meet the Glasgow Climate Pact?

Gillian D'Souza November 26, 2021

November 2021 once again put climate change in the spotlight for Europe and the world. Close to 200 countries came together this month for the UN’s annual climate summit, COP26, and after much deliberation, adopted the Glasgow Climate Pact. Some key commitments had countries pledging to limit their emissions by 2030; forming the first-ever alliance targeting fossil fuel extraction; setting u ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Will the ice break out? – a story from the farthest north ice trails

Dyre Oliver Dammann November 26, 2021

Man on snow machine looks bake to the canoe he is towing across ice.

"For over two decades, the sea ice group at the University of Alaska has worked with the community of Utqiaġvik, establishing an integrated observing network. This network includes local observations, a coastal radar system to monitor ice conditions, an in-situ mass balance site monitoring environmental change such as ice growth and snow cover, and the mapping of community sea ice trails." In thi ...[Read More]

GMPV

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

#EGU22 session in the spotlight: Volcanic hydrothermal systems and hydrothermal alteration

Franziska Keller November 24, 2021

The abstract submission for the General Assembly in 2022 is open now! Our colleagues from the organization were very engaged and we are more than happy to share that the EGU22 is aimed to take place in a hybrid version! To celebrate this opportunity we will highlight some of our many GMPV sessions in the course of the next few weeks, to give everyone a broad overview of the amazing sessions EGU22 ...[Read More]