Divisions

Giulia Consuma October 19, 2021

Meet the new GMPV Early Career Scientists Team!

2021 has been a year of great change for the Early Career Scientists (ECS) Committee of the GMPV Division. We have formed a new ECS team for the organization of our monthly GMPV Campfires, and recruited new members in the Blog and Social Media Team, with a total of 16 members! Before introducing the new team, we would like to thank Emily Mason for her great work as ECS coordinator for the years GA ...[Read More]

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Natural Hazards

Should I stay or should I go? Insights from an expert on a career outside academia

Shreya Arora October 18, 2021

Trying something new and thinking outside the box is always challenging, both within and outside academia. Exploring alternative paths outside academia can be daunting, but you can also have a great time seizing every opportunity available. To shed a bit of light on this quest, it is my pleasure to interview Dr Alka Tripathy-Lang. Thank you, Alka, for accepting this interview! Alka received her Ph ...[Read More]

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Soil System Sciences

The importance of our SSS (…Soil Support Staff!) #8

Dan Evans and Dan Evans October 16, 2021

Our monthly series, Technician of the Month, is back after a restorative Summer break. This month, we continue on our quest to celebrate the wonderful work carried out by technicians, laboratory assistants, and research support staff in soil science. This monthly blog post is our opportunity to thank these key individuals, and their tireless efforts to maintain our laboratories, carry out fieldwor ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Vernagtferner: My First Encounter with an Alpine Glacier

Eduardo Queiroz Alves October 15, 2021

In July 2021, together with a group of MSc students from the University of Bremen, I set off from the flat plains of Northwest Germany and embarked on a journey to the mountainous regions of Austria, with the Vernagtferner Glacier as our final destination. My aim was to learn as much as I could in the glaciology field course offered by the university. During my student days in Brazil, glaciers fil ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

The Sassy Scientist – Bad Coffee

The Sassy Scientist October 15, 2021

Worldwide scientific cooperations, international meetings, internet-based literature. In today’s world we are deeply interconnected and the leading expert on that obscure method or topic you need to make your proposal truly interdisciplinary is just one email away. After all, global problems require global efforts (and lots of cheap labor bright and motivated young minds). Fen has a question ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Thermodynamics and Geodynamics: The perfect couple? Part II

Juliane Dannberg and edited by Menno Fraters October 13, 2021

In January of this year, Bob Myhill wrote about the coupling of geodynamics and thermodynamics, and why this coupling is so valuable. This blog post, Juliane Dannberg follows up on this topic, looking at it from the geodynamics perspective. In other words, discussing the question: Where does it make a difference in geodynamic models if we include realistic thermodynamic models or not? In geodynami ...[Read More]

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Geodesy

Geodesists on Tour: GPS measurements on Antarctica

Stephanie Konfal and edited by Rebekka Steffen October 10, 2021

Stories from the field – how exactly are those GPS data collected? The geodesy community at large benefits from the many science projects with open data policies. A user simply has to navigate to a data portal, download the data, and within a matter of moments a world of possibilities opens up for potential research. But where exactly do these data come from? While scientific results get ...[Read More]

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Geodesy

EGU Campfire Geodesy – Share Your Research – Second Edition

edited by Rebekka Steffen and Andreas Kvas October 9, 2021

We all welcome you around our second EGU Geodesy Campfire to listen to two exciting talks by Laura Jensen and Susanne Glaser. The new Geodesy EGU Campfire Events “Share Your Research” will give early career researchers the chance to talk about their work. Below you can find detailed descriptions about their talks. We will have time for networking after the presentations. Please join us on Z ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

The Sassy Scientist – Uncertain Certainties For A Certain Uncertainty

The Sassy Scientist October 8, 2021

Whilst in constant debate with himself on how to address his own insecurities, Harry dabbles in the secret art of interdisciplinary studies. Specifically, mechano-thermo-chemical modeling with the input from experimental studies. Trying to move forward, he struggles: How can we combine all the uncertainties on experimental rock studies with modelling studies? Dear Harry, We can only try. Yours tru ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Cryo-Adventures – Hunting snow algae in the Alps

Biagio Di Mauro October 8, 2021

We are used to think of algae as marine or lacustrine organisms, but they are actually able to thrive also on the cryosphere. In a previous post, we learnt how snow algae live and reproduce on snow. Now we will explore how and why scientists study snow algae, and how social media can be used for identifying new study areas. Snow algae in the Alps Snow algae in the Alps have been overlooked or conf ...[Read More]