by Viktor Bruckmana and Klaus Katzensteinerb aCommission for Interdisciplinary Ecological Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna; bInstitute for Forest Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna Options for Integrated Forest Management in the Gaurishankar Conservation Area is the title of one of our ongoing projects with collaborating partners from Nepal, China and Austria. …[Read More]
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Earth Sciences: ‘Rocks for Jocks’, or hard science?
According to some Republicans in the US, Earth Sciences cannot be regarded as one of the ‘pure sciences’, or hard science. Is Earth Sciences simply Rocks for Jocks, or do the earth sciences actually encompass some fundamental work here? Suggestions have been made that NASA should steer its focus away from Earth Sciences and more …[Read More]
ERE Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award: who would you nominate?
Every year the EGU rewards outstanding young or early career scientists with the Arne Richter Outstanding Young Scientist Award (OYSA), or one of the Division Outstanding Young Scientist Awards. These awards are granted for an outstanding research contribution in the Earth, planetary and space sciences, and are intended to identify the awardees as role models …[Read More]
The Sound of Climate Change: ‘Planetary Bands, Warming World’ by Daniel Crawford
For scientists, it can often be challenging to convert all our numbers and figures into something that is understandable for laymen. How can you make all these findings and knowledge we have tangible, speaking to people’s emotions? Daniel Crawford from the University of Minnesota translated NASA‘s climate change data to a musical composition. Each of the …[Read More]
Words on Wednesday: Flow-through experiments on water–rock interactions in a sandstone caused by CO2 injection at pressures and temperatures mimicking reservoir conditions
Words on Wednesday aims at promoting interesting/fun/exciting publications on topics related to Energy, Resources and the Environment. If you would like to be featured on WoW, please send us a link of the paper, or your own post, at ERE.Matters@gmail.com. This week, we would like to share with you the latest manuscript of Farhana Huq, who was …[Read More]
In NY Times: Butting Heads in the Himalayas
The environment we live in is shaped by many factors. It is not just how we use the land, resources and energy that is provided to us, there may also be factors that are simply out of our control. In recent weeks, this has become painfully clear in the area near Kathmandu, Nepal. Two devastating …[Read More]
From EGU to the Real World: meet ERE Young Scientist Farhana Huq
The ERE Division loves to hear from its Young/Early Career Scientists. What is it that you do that relates to ERE? What lies beyond an ERE-oriented study or PhD? Tell us what you like about working on Energy, Resources and Environment-related research. We’d love to hear it! 🙂 Today we have Farhana Huq, who gives us some insight into …[Read More]
What to see at EGU?: Words on Wednesday – The Green River Natural Analogue as A Field Laboratory To Study the Long-term Fate of CO2 in the subsurface
Words on Wednesday aims at promoting interesting/fun/exciting publications on topics related to Energy, Resources and the Environment. If you would like to be featured on WoW, please send us a link of the paper, or your own post, at ERE.Matters@gmail.com. If you are interested in today’s WoW, some of the results will be presented during the EGU …[Read More]
What to see at EGU?: ERE 1.3 Fractures, mechanics and flow in tight reservoirs
Within a week the EGU General Assembly will kick off! This year the topic will be A Voyage Through Scales. For those that will attend for the first time, the scale of EGU itself may be impressive enough already. So how do you decide where to go? Here we hope to point you to a …[Read More]
What to see at EGU?: Young Scientist events
Within a week the EGU General Assembly will kick off! This year the topic will be A Voyage Through Scales. For those that will attend for the first time, the scale of EGU itself may be impressive enough already. So how do you decide where to go? Here we hope to point you to a …[Read More]