EGU Blogs

Marine Geoscience through art and storytelling: An interview with Fergus McAuliffe, winner of the EGU Geoscience Day Award

Asmae Ourkiya August 21, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Fergus McAuliffe, the Communications and Public Engagement Manager at iCRAG, University College Dublin in Ireland, to discuss his award-winning project, “Marine Geoscience for All.” During our conversation, Fergus shed light on the innovative ways his project aims to connect the public with marine geoscience through art, dialogue, storytelling, and …[Read More]

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Geodynamics

The nature of the shortening in the Central Andes : Part 1

Michaël Pons August 21, 2024

GeoLog

Indigenous resilience through the waters: The story of the Aldeia Maraka’nà

Natalia Médici August 19, 2024

The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, observed each year on August 9, seeks to raise awareness and protect the rights of indigenous communities around the globe. To honour this, I have invited a few guest authors to write a series of blog posts that celebrate indigenous knowledge and highlight the intersection of natural …[Read More]

GeoLog

Higher Education Resource: River Flood Hazard Modelling & Management

Simon Clark August 16, 2024

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) supports bringing science into the classroom at all learning levels, from schools to universities. Since the Higher Education Teaching Grant programme launched in 2020, EGU has funded 24 projects to develop useful and freely-available geoscience resources to university educators. This blog is part of a series of blogs highlighting the …[Read More]

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Tectonics and Structural Geology

Inverted River Channels in Alcaniz: Insights into Mars’ Fluvial History

Faris Beg August 16, 2024

This edition of ‘Features from the field’ is brought to you by Faris Beg, a masters student on the EU Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s program in planetary geosciences—GeoPlaNet. This blog is a result of a geological field excursion carried out collectively in groups by students, organized by the GeoPlaNet consortium in Alcañiz, Spain. He will …[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

Hortonian overland flow: when theory becomes reality

Bettina Schaefli August 15, 2024

Hortonian overland flow – if you have ever followed a hydrology class, you have certainly come across this jargon: this is the name of a hydrological process – when rainfall flows off at the terrain surface because the rainfall intensity is so high that not all the water can infiltrate into the soil (rainfall intensity …[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Climate and DRR Education as a Case for Lifelong Learning

Joshua L. DeVincenzo, Syeda Kainaat Jah and edited by Kleoniki Lydia Theodoridou August 14, 2024

We live in a society where climate change has already shown its impact across the world with devastating consequences. The alarming frequency of extreme weather events leading to tremendous disasters leaves us all perplexed and anxious about what will be coming next without taking any immediate action. Bearing that in mind, Dr. Joshua L. DeVincenzo …[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

Midnight stutters of an environmentalist, an open letter to the people and places of the planet

Sina Khatami August 13, 2024

We are in a state of environmental crisis. As someone who knows something about this, i’m really worried about the rising food crisis (due to ongoing wars in regions of russia-ukraine and israel-palestine), and waves of environmental refugees. In this strip of lands, soil is getting ruined daily. Every bomb ruins a patch of soil …[Read More]

GeoLog

Imaggeo On Monday: Teyuna (Ancient Tayrona indigenous settlement)

Guest author August 12, 2024

Nestled within the mountains and dense jungles of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia’s Caribbean region lies an ancient Tayrona indigenous settlement and archaeological site. Known to the Tayrona people as Teyuna, this site is more commonly referred to today as the “Lost City.” The Sierra Nevada, revered as a sacred landscape by …[Read More]

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Seismology

Seismology Job Portal

EGU Seismology ECS Team August 12, 2024

On this page, we regularly update open positions in Seismology for early career scientists. Do you have a job on offer? Contact us at ecs-sm@egu.eu Please, note that other available research positions are displayed on the EGU Jobs Portal. Latest open positions: Post-doctoral Fellowship in Fault Mechanics and Earthquake Triggering Institute: Florida International University, Miami, …[Read More]