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Immersive virtual reality for engaging students and the public in geological surveys – an EGU Public Engagement Grant project

GeoVires Team December 8, 2023

Why choose immersive virtual reality for teaching and learning about volcanoes? This is a common question that arises when approaching this modern way to explore volcanoes. The answer is clear to those accustomed to working in these captivating regions. Traditional approaches to reaching volcanic areas are fraught with challenges (danger, complex logistics, and high costs). Moreover, these locati ...[Read More]

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Mind Your Head: How to have a mindful December and holiday season

ECS group: Work-Life Balance December 1, 2023

It’s December and the Life-Work-Balance group is recalling the “Mind Your Head” blog posts, a blogpost series which started in May 2018. We invite you to join our journey through 11 inspiring blog posts and five simple activities to foster our life-work-balance, revive knowledge and find new inspiration during this holiday season. A word at the beginning: perhaps your current life and daily routin ...[Read More]

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GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during November!

Hazel Gibson November 30, 2023

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 November, the Divisions we are featuring are: Biogeosciences (BG) and Geodesy (G). They are served by the journals: Biogeosciences (BG), SOIL, Solid Earth (SE) and Geoscientific Model Development (GMD). Feat ...[Read More]

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Top 5 Gifts for Geoscientists (2023 edition!)

Hazel Gibson November 29, 2023

The nights are growing darker and there is snow on the ground here in Munich as winter draws close in the Northern Hemisphere, and at this time of year you are probably thinking about what gifts to get that special geoscientist in your life! We know sourcing appropriately nerdy and/or geology related gifts can sometimes be a challenge, so we in the EGU office are back again to help you out with ou ...[Read More]

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GeoPolicy: Science for Policy Internships & Traineeships – a regularly updated list

Chloe Hill November 24, 2023

Internships and traineeships are a great way to gain a better understanding of the political system and how policymakers use scientific evidence! This month’s GeoPolicy Blog post highlights various European-based opportunities that researchers can apply for. Understanding Europe’s political landscape and the information that policymakers need to make evidence-informed decisions is one of the most ...[Read More]

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GeoTalk: meet Andreas Kvas, researcher of Earth’s gravity affected by climate change!

Simon Clark November 17, 2023

Hello Andreas. Welcome to GeoTalk! You’re a specialist in Geodesy, and your research surveys the Earth’s spatial and gravitational properties as they relate to climate change. Could you tell us more about how Geodesy can help us understand climate change? Geodesy studies Earth’s geometric shape, orientation in space, and gravity field. Each of these components changes in time and is af ...[Read More]

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Learning from EGU’s first Peer Review Training: In conversation with Kifle Aregahegn

Eduardo Queiroz Alves and Gillian D'Souza November 15, 2023

For the first time, EGU organized a Peer Review Training in September and October this year. It was attended by 50 participants, most of whom were early career scientists with little to no background in the peer review process. The training comprised three online sessions and an at-home exercise of reviewing real manuscripts. And of course, with feedback being key in such trainings, all participan ...[Read More]

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Dive into the depths: 90 Years of Loch Ness monster lore

Devayani Khare November 10, 2023

Folk tales and myths, they’ve lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them. ~ Patrick Ness, American-British author (*nae, this Ness isn’t related to Nessie) Is it an eel? Is it a snake? Is it a diplodocus with fins? No, it’s Nessie! If there’s one myth that has weathered the passage of time and stands in defi ...[Read More]

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Geodesists on Tour: On a Campaign in the Arctic with a Giraf(f)e in the Aircraft

Tim Jensen and edited by Rebekka Steffen November 6, 2023

Way too early on a Saturday morning in late June 2023 I woke up and started my travel to a small airport in Akureyri, North-East Iceland. This is the location of an Icelandic charter company called Norlandair that we used for our airborne geophysical surveys and logistic operations in the Arctic. For a few months I had been preparing a survey to test a new quantum-based technology for airbo ...[Read More]

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Biosphere Reserves: What are they and why must we care for them?

Gillian D'Souza November 3, 2023

Today, 3 November, is globally recognized as the International Day for Biosphere Reserves. The first edition of this observance day was marked last year, with UNESCO urging our relationship with nature needed “a radical rethink.” As Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO explains, “The logic is simple: to improve our relationship with nature, we must first improve our understanding of how we a ...[Read More]