Natural Hazards

The new President-elect of the EGU Natural Hazards Division: a talk with Heidi Kreibich

Paulo Hader May 30, 2022

Credit: Christian Wasserfallen (https://www.pexels.com/pt-br/foto/ponte-em-arco-ponte-arqueada-calamidade-desastre-8770485/)

In today’s interview, we have the pleasure of talking with Dr Heidi Kreibich, lecturer at the Geography Department at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and head of the working group “Flood risk and climate adaptation” at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ). From her interest in investigating different types of flooding associated with complex physical and anthropogenic ...[Read More]

Ready to be a great conference presenter?

Negar Vakilifard and Vale Cigala May 16, 2022

With the EGU General Assembly just around the corner, it’s time to pay special attention to how present your research, ideas, and messages to leave the best impression on a broad scientific community. However, it’s not always easy to stand out from the crowd at such big events and get people to notice you and remember your work. In the webinar organised by the ECS group of the EGU Natu ...[Read More]

“This is a man’s world” – Challenges in being women in science

Silvia De Angeli May 2, 2022

Asimina Voskaki, Climate risk consultant | Valeria Cigala, Postdoctoral researcher in Volcanology |Silvia De Angeli, Fixed-term Assistant Professor in Hydrology | Negar Vakilifard, Postdoctoral researcher in Environmental and Climate modelling |Giulia Roder, Data Analyst | Joana Parente, Postdoctoral researcher in Wildfire Risk | Shreya Arora, Visiting Assistant Professor in Paleoseismology | Fabiola Banfi, PhD candidate in Compound weather and climate events |

Gender equality is a fundamental human right and a basis for building a peaceful and sustainable future for our society. It has been identified by the United Nations as one of the seventeen urgent goals – the so-called Sustainable Development Goals – to be achieved by all countries to ensure sustainability on a global scale [1]. #genderequality is a hashtag used (and overused) to tag millio ...[Read More]

Breaking the glass ceiling in diversity, equity, and inclusion in geosciences

Shreya Arora April 22, 2022

"Having privileges as a consequence of being White does not mean that one has not experienced other forms of oppression, it just means that racism is not one of them" Dutt, 2020

Despite many efforts around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), a noticeable disparity in geosciences still exists. To understand the root cause and steps we can take forward, it was my privilege to talk with Dr Kuheli Dutt, Assistant Dean for DEI at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Before MIT, Dr Dutt was an Assistant ...[Read More]