Summer time can be stressful – you have plenty of things to do at work but at the same time you’re thinking about your next vacation all the time. This is at least how I was feeling, combined with some curiosity, I asked chatGPT to write a blog post about vacation destinations for geologist around volcanoes in Europe – here are the results, I hope you get inspired: Calling all g ...[Read More]
EGU23 is finally starting! Hopefully many of you were able to join the icebreaker events yesterday evening and have a smooth start into the conference today! So why not kick the day off by listening to the Xin Zhong’sECS awards lecture on his outstanding work on grain-scale stress variation in metamorphic rock? Alternatively, next to many more exciting scientific sessions (e.g. a session on volcan ...[Read More]
The abstract submission for the General Assembly in 2023 is open now until 10. January 2023! The #EGU23 is set to again become a forum for innovation and debate about the latest progress in the geosciences, with a mixture of broader and more focused sessions. Today, we highlight one of those targeted sessions GMPV8.2 which aims to spark debate at the edge of the push in the GMPV community towards ...[Read More]
In the recent past, a lot of effort has been directed toward evaluating the consequences of the rapidly rising global temperatures. Among them, one very alarming consequence is ocean acidification (Fauville et al, 2012; Gatusso et al, 2015). Ocean acidification is the direct result of atmospheric CO2 increase caused in part by anthropogenic activities such as burning fossil fuels for energy activi ...[Read More]
Happy Friday! The last day of the #EGU22 has arrived! I really hope you had a great conference experience so far and we would be grateful if you would share your feedback here with us! But now some last tips on how to spend your last day of the general assembly. We hope you recovered already from our dinner yesterday, because Friday morning starts off quite intense right at 8:30 am. How about star ...[Read More]
It’s Thursday! Many European countries would actually have a holiday today with a long morning in bed or a nice stroll around nature, but what is there that’s better than spending this day at the EGU conference center?! To help you make the best out of this holiday, we’ll give you some highlights of the day to navigate around! We suggest you to start your day early, there are some great sessions o ...[Read More]
“What am I doing here?”, “Am I really good enough for this job?”, or “I was lucky this time” are thoughts that have probably crossed the minds of most of the readers here at least at some point in their careers. Even though a healthy level of self-doubt is normal for everyone, these thoughts and especially the feeling of being a fraud, can be signs of the so called imposter “syndrome”. It is estim ...[Read More]
The hard truth is, that the geosciences are among the least diverse disciplines in the wide fields of the natural sciences. When we look at the time span from 1973 to 2016, we find that 14,246 PhD degrees were given to white men, while “only” ~5234 were earned by white women in the US. These numbers are already quite shocking, but I promise you it will even get worse: a total of only 163 PhD degre ...[Read More]
The #EGU22 abstract submission is almost here – less than a week until it closes on January 12th at 13:00 CET. So it is time to wrap up our sessions in the spotlight with a last highlight – the interdisciplianry session GMPV9.3 “Volcano-glacier interactions: Arctic, Antarctic, and globally“. This session is organized by a diverse team consisting of Eva Eibl, Iestyn Barr, Ad ...[Read More]
How to better start the new year than with submitting your abstract to #EGU22? In case you still did not find the right session yet, we have another great session in the spotlight today – GMPV 2.2 “Mass transfer in subduction zones: Metamorphism, fluids, and melts“, which focusses on the fundamental role fluid and melt expulsion from the slab plays in subduction zones. This inter ...[Read More]