Biogeosciences

Eco-Omics: Harnessing meta-omics to understand the biogeosciences across scales: from the cell to Earth system.

Lisa Wingate, Elsa Abs and Christoph Keuschnig April 5, 2024

Representation of the diverse ecosystems studied by the Biogeoscience community. Original Artwork provided by Lucia Layritz.

Spatial and temporal changes in environmental conditions over billions of years have driven the evolution of diverse microbial, fungal and plant species that have shaped the ecosystems, atmosphere and climate of our Earth system. Understanding the function and resilience of organisms and our biomes in response to climatic change and their complex feedbacks requires knowledge of its component parts ...[Read More]

Go to EGU by train!

Elsa Abs November 12, 2024

Going to EGU by train

We encourage you to travel to EGU by train! Here are 4 train journey stories from the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden and France to inspire your trip. From the UK with Interrail (by Becky Varney) 🇬🇧 What was your motivation to take the train? As travelling to a primarily climate focused conference, I wanted to try and reduce my carbon footprint as best I could. I also think trains are a really nice wa ...[Read More]

Meet your BG team 2024/2025

robynpickering July 18, 2024

The EGU Biogeoscience Division Team 2024-2025

The Biogeoscience division team has changed over the last year, and in this blog post, we are delighted to introduce our new team of representatives and describe their roles and research interests so that you can get to know them better. Our division is led by a President and Deputy President, supported by two Early Career Scientist Representatives and several sub-division officers who cover vario ...[Read More]

Five questions to our new Biogeoscience Early Career Scientist Representatives

Lucia Layritz, Elsa Abs and Sílvia Poblador June 27, 2024

There have been some changes in our division lately! The most important one is the election of our two new ECS Representatives: Elsa Abs and Sílvia Poblador! Sílvia and Elsa will be responsible for all things early career in the BG Division during the 2024 – 2026 term. We took the opportunity to ask them some questions about their scientific journeys and their plans for the upcoming year. W ...[Read More]

Getting to EGU ‘by fair means’

Ben Meyer March 15, 2024

A happy ben lifting up his bike in front of the conference center under a sign saying 'Welcome'

Welcome to EGU!

How to commute from Freising to Vienna by bike In the world of alpinism, the phrase “by fair means” is ubiquitous, though its definition is vague. Most people would agree that a key requirement of a “fair means ascent” is minimizing the tradeoff between convenience and reliance on external aids. If that sounds like it leaves a lot of room for interpretation, it’s beca ...[Read More]

Guest post: Pal(a)eoPERCS

Rehemat Bhatia (Pal(a)eoPERCS Funding Officer), Jana Burke (Pal(a)eoPERCS social media and advertising officer), Pedro Godoy (Pal(a)eoPERCS video editor), Chrissy Hall (Pal(a)eoPERCS scheduler), Natasha Sekhon (Pal(a)eoPERCS website manager) and Elizabeth Sibert (Pal(a)eoPERCS Email list manager and general “catch-all”) March 28, 2023

This logo contains images from: [1] Fox and Wade (2013), J. Foraminiferal Res., 43 (4), 374-405 [2] Pearson et al. (2018), J. Micropaleontol., 37, 97-104 [3] Chatterjee & Templin (2012), Earth and Life, p. 585-612 [4] C. Scotese, PALEOMAP [5] Thewissen et al., (2009) Evolution: Education & Outreach 2, 272-288. Core images courtesy of ECORD-IODP

June 2020, amidst a global COVID-19 pandemic where social distancing and isolation brought the world to a standstill, a grassroots seminar series (Pal(a)eoPERCS) was started with the aim to bolster scholarly engagement and create a convivial space through weekly virtual seminars for Early Career Researchers and Professionals (ECRs). Three years later, with June 2023 quickly approaching, Pal(a)eoP ...[Read More]

What’s new at EGU23?

Sinikka Lennartz January 6, 2023

EGU23 is back with longer talks, posters and PICO sessions! While EGU is always great to catch up with colleagues in classical sessions offered every year, here, we want to highlight some new sessions that will premier at EGU23. We have selected a few from each Subdivision to show the broad range of topics covered. General Biogeosciences The PICO session “It’s all about migration!” focuses on migr ...[Read More]

The sedaDNA scientific society, a collaborative network of international researchers working with sedimentary ancient DNA

Eric Capo October 26, 2022

Emergence of the field of molecular paleoecology Sequencing DNA of organisms that died a long time ago sounds like the synopsis of the movie Jurassic Park (1993). Let’s make it clear right now, dinosaur DNA has never been collected by humans. To date, the oldest DNA recovered is more than one million years old and comes from mammoths. In addition to the DNA recovered from fossils, aquatic and terr ...[Read More]

The hidden importance of Amazon forests

Laynara F. Lugli, Caroline Miron and Tatiana Reichert September 29, 2022

Figure 1. Minirhizotron image acquisition in the field near Manaus, Brazil (photo credit Caroline Miron From different parts of continental Brazil, now working in different areas of Germany, we, three women scientists, share one more thing in common: our interest in making the hidden importance of the Amazon forest visible. In other words, we are root-nerds! Studying something that cannot i ...[Read More]

Meet your BG team 2022/23

Ben Fisher September 21, 2022

The Biogeosciences division is pleased to have substantially grown over the last year! In this blog post we’ll introduce you to our new representatives and detail how you can get involved in BG activities over the next year. President: Lisa Wingate (INRAE) Lisa (she/her) has been president of the BG division since 2020 and has been elected to serve until 2025. She works as a researche ...[Read More]