EGU Blogs

Cryospheric Sciences

Do you know about OGGM-Edu? An open-source educational platform about glaciers and glacier modelling

Zora Schirmeister, Patrick Schmitt & Fabien Maussion March 12, 2021

Are you teaching about glaciers and looking for fun educational activities for your students? Are you planning a workshop about glacier modelling and want to make it interactive, with a low entry level? Are you interested in learning about glaciers and glacier modelling, and looking for a simple way to get started? On top of that, do you want to do all of the above without installing anything on y ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

2021 Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics Developers Workshop

Brad Aagaard and edited by Menno Fraters March 10, 2021

On February 23 and 25, 2021, the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG) organized its first Developer Workshop. CIG is a community organization that advances Earth science by developing and disseminating software for geophysics and related fields. The goal of the meeting was to bring the CIG developer community together to discuss current issues and opportunities. Brad Aagaard (U.S. Ge ...[Read More]

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Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

Gneiss Chats Podcast, fun geoscience learning for all!

Dr. Vitor Barrote (Dr. B), Dr. Silvia Volante, Dr. Bryant Ware, Dr. Francesca Miozzi and Mikaela Moore March 10, 2021

The Gneiss Chats podcast is an interview podcast where the host (under the secret identity of Dr.B, because most people can’t pronounce Barrote) interviews an expert and asks them a bunch of questions about a certain theme in the field of geosciences including Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology. The idea behind the show is to teach the listener about an interesting topic tha ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Imaggeo On Monday: the EGU Photo Competition – more than landscapes

Hazel Gibson March 8, 2021

In 2010 EGU held our first annual Photo Competition at the General Assembly in Vienna. Since then hundreds of photos have been shared on imaggeo by geoscientists and researchers just like you, with a lucky few being selected each year to be highlighted during the meeting and voted on by our members. These images can be of anything to do with geology or geoscience – we get many beautif ...[Read More]

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Climate: Past, Present & Future

Life of a Climate scientist presents Holly Kyeore Han

March 8, 2021

About the blog series: Life of a Climate scientist Life of a Climate Scientist is a new blog series started by the EGU Climate Division. The main focus of this series is to provide a platform for climate scientists to tell their stories of life in research. We will be covering a wide-range of subjects, from their scientific endeavors and maintaining work-life balance to challenges they have faced ...[Read More]

GeoLog

#NominateHer – gender matters in awards and medals

Hazel Gibson March 8, 2021

Today is International Women’s Day around the world, a day where we celebrate the progress that women, and people across the gender spectrum, have made towards gaining equity, but also take a hard look at how we can do better to support these under-represented groups in our societal structures. For scientific organizations, one of the most visible ways that we can note both the disparity bet ...[Read More]

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Seismology

“State of the ECS”: (Co)-Working

EGU Seismology ECS Team March 8, 2021

Hi – Chiara here. I have just joined the EGU ECS Team and hope to provide my little contribution to the seismology community, but also have fun and meet cool people (unfortunately, for now just virtually!). I make my living as a global seismologist using earthquakes to explore the Earth’s deep interior. This would be in principle a very exciting job – at least to me – but I have to admit that in t ...[Read More]

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Natural Hazards

From caves explorer to landslides scientist: Fausto Guzzetti 2021 Soloviev Medal

Luigi Lombardo March 8, 2021

Dr Fausto Guzzetti, current Research Director of the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy, has been awarded the 2021 Sergey Soloviev Medal for “his fundamental contributions to the field of natural hazards and his remarkable efforts to link the scientific community and civil protection authorities to mitigate risk for exposed populations”. From his passion for mountains and caves and his “hope ...[Read More]

GMPV

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

We are upgrading the GMPV blog!!

Franziska Keller March 8, 2021

We are looking back to almost 4 years of GMPV blog history which covered a wide range of very interesting GMPV related topics from how experiments can help to understand volcanic eruptions to what role GMPV scientists can play in sustainable development. Within the last year, however, our blog team grew significantly (you can see part of our members here) allowing us to restructure the blog a litt ...[Read More]

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Soil System Sciences

Gender Equity in (Soil) Science

Olga Vindušková, Sílvia Poblador Ibáñez, Bertold Mariën and Anna Gunina March 8, 2021

Today, as we celebrate International Women’s Day, let’s take a moment to acknowledge our progress in the challenge of reaching gender equity in science, and soil science in particular. Despite the crucial contributions of women, and the fact that an increased gender diversity can contribute to the collective worldwide performance [1], women remain underrepresented and face gender bias in science w ...[Read More]