Climate: Past, Present & Future

Parenting in Academia: Challenges and Perspectives

January 14, 2022

Children pave the way to the future, but the parents need support. [credit: Suzi Kim at Unsplash.com]

Trying to juggle teaching, advising, publishing, finding a new (or permanent) job, relocating, attending conferences, and actually doing research sometimes requires more hours in the day than exist (oh and that global pandemic situation is sticking around). Additionally, many scientists have children or are starting a family at the same time as maintaining and building a career. In this week’s blo ...[Read More]

Life of a Climate Scientists presents: Dr. Kaja Fenn

Ichiko Sugiyama December 14, 2021

Image credit: Ichiko Sugiyama.

About the blog series: Life of a Climate scientist Life of a Climate Scientist is a new blog series started by the EGU Climate Division. The main focus of this series is to provide a platform for climate scientists to tell their stories of life in research. We will be covering a wide-range of subjects, from their scientific endeavors and maintaining work-life balance to challenges they have faced ...[Read More]

Seasonal love letter

December 8, 2021

Dear Climate enthusiasts, dear EGU lovers, dear early and senior climate scientists, I write to you in the second of two very challenging years for each and everyone of us. We faced many difficulties, hardships, and maybe even some opportunities and it is the time of the year to reflect on that. For geoscientists it is also the time of the year to plan the next conferences and consider what to sub ...[Read More]

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

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

Figure 1. A world of words that describe the project of rural communities in Colombia.

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]