About

Editors

Contact: blog-bg@egu.eu

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  Ana Bastos
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  Bikem Ekberzade
  An Earth System Scientist with a PhD in Climate and Marine Sciences and a focus on terrestrial ecosystems from Eurasian Institute for Earth System Sciences at Istanbul Technical University. Associate Researcher at Geohazard Research Group. Avid researcher on the impacts of disturbances on (currently terrestrial) ecosystems. Wildfire modeller. Field research enthusiast. For detailed information on her ongoing scientific research and outputs: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bikem-Ekberzade Author of Standing Rock: Greed, Oil and Lakota's Struggle for Justice (Zed Books, 2018). Science-policy advocate. Member of European Geosciences Union's Biodiversity Task Force, and scientific officer in the Biogeosciences Division. A former photojournalist with a keen eye on under-reported conflicts/humanitarian emergencies/environmental catastrophes; a former videographer eager to document the marginal/controversial/under reported issues/people/situations; a documentary producer willing to leave behind stories of ordinary people with their extra-ordinary joie de vivre/courage.
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  Elsa Abs
  Elsa is an ECS representative of the Biogeosciences Division and a CNRS researcher at the Laboratory for Sciences of Climate and Environment (LSCE) near Paris, where they lead the ERC Starting Grant project GAMEchange. They use mathematical models at different scales to understand how climate change impacts soil microbes and how microbial adaptation, in turn, modifies biogeochemical cycling and climate.
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  Franziska Lechleitner
  Franziska is a group leader at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL. In her research, she works on understanding biogeochemical cycles in the critical zone, particularly where soils meet rocks and groundwater. Her main goal is to understand how climate change will affect biogeochemical processes in the deeper subsurface.
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  Lucia Layritz
  Lucia Layritz is the Editor-in-Chief of the Biogeosciences blog. Currently a Postdoc at UC Berkeley, she researches vegetation recovery from natural and human disturbances in boreal, Mediterranean and desert ecosystems. You can find her under @lucialayr around the internet.
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  nicola
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  Robyn Pickering
  I am an isotope geochemist with leanings towards palaeoanthropology and archaeology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. My research seeks to understand where, and most importantly when, our early prehuman relatives evolved and what the environment they lived in was like. I have spent the last 17 years at the forefront of development of the U-series technique, working out how to date cave rocks associated with early human (hominin) fossils. I lead a productive research group at UCT, focused on the age and development of Quaternary landscapes, as recorded by rivers, lakes and caves. We have established the first U-series dating laboratory in South Africa, and indeed Africa, as well as pioneering the U-series technique to include time and cost saving in situ analysis. I direct field programs in the Cradle of Humankind, at the Kalkkop meterorite impact crater palaeolake and in the southern Kalahari. I co-direct the Human Evolution Research Institute (HERI), which aims to disrupt, deconstruct and transform patriarchal narratives of human evolution. I am active in the transformation and decolonisation of the earth sciences and improving field experiences for women and underprivileged students.
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  Saule Akhmetkaliyeva

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Giant Sequoia Trees
Credit: Ioannis Daglis (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

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