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Alessandro Musu November 17, 2021

Volcano Watch the Podcast, a weekly walk through the amazing world of Volcanoes!

Are you interested in Volcanoes? Do you want to learn more about volcanic activity, geysers, magma dynamics and the relationship between humans and volcanoes, from the mythology to the art and the agriculture? Or maybe you just want to be updated on the worldwide ongoing eruptions and listen to nice interviews with people who actually works on volcanoes? Well, if it is like so we strongly recommen ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Magma-Assisted Flexure in Hawaiian Lithosphere?

Daniel Douglas and edited by Menno Fraters November 17, 2021

This week Daniel Douglas, who is now a PhD student at New Mexico Tech, discusses his master thesis research while at the university of Hawaii. He investigated the role of magma in the flexure of the Hawaiian lithosphere. When a topographic load is applied to the lithosphere, the lithosphere accommodates the load by flexing. The observed flexure can be measured through seismic methods, gravity anom ...[Read More]

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Climate: Past, Present & Future

High school-University Connection: Teaching experiences in rural communities regarding climate change

Professor Lennin Florez-Leiva and The OCE team November 16, 2021

Understanding how our environment is changing under a warmer climate will be one of the new challenges our children will face. Meanwhile, teachers are challenged to seek new pedagogical strategies for teaching climate change in the youngest, especially in rural communities, which are one of the most vulnerable to climate change impacts, as they lack resilience towards surviving extreme events. Alt ...[Read More]

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Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences

NP Interviews: the 2021 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal Berengere Dubrulle

Tommaso Alberti, Davide Faranda and Jonathan Demaeyer November 15, 2021

Today’s NP Interviews hosts the 2021 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal Berengere Dubrulle. Berengere is senior scientist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and presently Director of the Les Houches Physics School. She received her PhD in astrophysics in 1990 under the supervision of J.-P. Zahn. She is a specialist of turbulence, and its application to astro and geophysical flows using th ...[Read More]

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Natural Hazards

Is it time to think about the EGU General Assembly 2022? Yes, it is!

Vale Cigala November 15, 2021

Blue background, yellow text: EGU General Assembly. #EGU22 3-8 April 2022

The General Assembly (GA) 2022 will take place from 3 to 8 April 2022, and, as of now, it is thought to be hosted in a hybrid format with in-presence events in Vienna (Austria) and online events on an interactive platform. The conference is still so far away, why do you have to think about it now? Well, for once, the call for abstracts is open! So, it is time to review the provisional progr ...[Read More]

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Biogeosciences

Biogeosciences in the blue zone- COP26.

Ben Fisher November 15, 2021

Our Editor, Ben Fisher, writes about his experience as an observer at COP26 and the representation of biogeosciences in the negotiation area. I was extremely fortunate to have the opportunity attend the second week of COP26 as a delegate of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Having been a rather last minute addition to the attendance list (I found out I’d got credentials ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Women of Cryo V: Women and Glaciers in the Chilean Andes (Part I)

Paola Araya & Helena Valenzuela-Astudillo November 12, 2021

Women make up 50.8% of the worlds population, yet fewer than 30% of the world’s researchers are women. Of this percentage, BAME (Black Asia and Minority Ethnic) comprise around 5%, with less than 1% represented in geoscience faculty positions. The divide between women in the population and women in STEM needs to be addressed. Through a series of blog posts we hope to raise the voice of women in th ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

The Sassy Scientist – Stating The (not so) Obvious

The Sassy Scientist November 12, 2021

Applying for tenure-track (or something close to that) positions is the very reason for many brilliant scientists to eventually run away from academia as fast as they can. Finding an opening, preparing your application and bracing yourself for the n-th `no thank you, but you should really try again!’ is a tedious, time-consuming, numbing, soul-destroying, kill-me-now process. Among the many ...[Read More]

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Geodesy

Around the world with Professor Vening Meinesz onboard the submarine K-XVIII: Exploration of the Solid Earth

Bart Root and edited by Rebekka Steffen November 12, 2021

On 14th of November 1934, the Dutch travelled to the harbor of Den Helder situated in the north of the Netherlands to catch a glimpse of the departure of Hr. Ms. K-XVII: A submarine of the Royal Dutch Navy setting sail on a trip around the world. Onboard was a unique traveler and with his non-typical height of 2 meters tall, he towered above the average submarine sailor. Professor Vening Me ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

To boldly go… deep sea exploring to study Earth’s interior

Molly Anderson, edited by Arushi Saxena and edited by Michael Perfit November 10, 2021

As geodynamicists, we are sometimes oblivious on how we get the geophysical constraints in our numerical models. This week Molly Anderson, a PhD student at the University of Florida, takes us on a exciting dive to study the geochemical signatures of the East Pacific Ocean seafloor! People are often surprised to hear that the seafloor is covered with volcanoes, let alone that the most extensive cha ...[Read More]