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Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

#vEGU21 – Sessions in the Spotlight: Earthquake swarms and complex seismic sequences driven by transient forcing in tectonic and volcanic regions

November 26, 2020
#vEGU21 – Sessions in the Spotlight: Earthquake swarms and complex seismic sequences driven by transient forcing in tectonic and volcanic regions

The vEGU21 abstract submission is now open until 13 January 2021!! Every week from now on we will highlight a GMPV session on our blog to help you navigating your way through the wild jungle of almost 700 available EGU sessions! Today we will start our journey with session SM6.1: “Earthquake swarms and complex seismic sequences driven by transient forcing in tectonic and volcanic regionsR ...[Read More]

CL
Climate: Past, Present & Future

LOESS IN TRANSLATION

November 25, 2020
LOESS IN TRANSLATION

Loess is a mineral, aeolian deposit with a range of definitions in literature, which class it as either a sediment, soil, or rock. Some classic texts suggest that “loess is not just the accumulation of dust” [1], and it must include additional processes such as loessification, calcification, pedogenesis, and in-situ weathering. The definition adopted depends on the scientific background and the qu ...[Read More]

SM
Seismology

Field work in winter in Iceland: The beautiful nature of Strokkur geyser

November 24, 2020
Field work in winter in Iceland: The beautiful nature of Strokkur geyser

I was fascinated and excited on my first trip to Iceland in August 2010; just a few months after the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull that affected the air traffic across Europe for a few days. Besides these dangerous volcanoes, the Icelandic landscape is beautiful, rough, wide and impressive with elements such as water and ice interacting directly at some locations. Part of this trip was, of course, ...[Read More]

OS
Ocean Sciences

Career Progression – from Academia to Industry

November 24, 2020
Photo credit: Maria Tsekhmistrenko, Imaggeo

During the summer Liam Brannigan contributed to an EGU careers workshop. Liam has had a diverse career, following his masters in maths at Edinburgh University he worked for several years as an investment consultant. In 2010 however, he fancied a change and embarked on a career in physical oceanography, completing his MSc at Bangor University and his PhD at the University of Oxford. A few post-docs ...[Read More]

NH
Natural Hazards

#vEGU21: Gather Online – what you need to know.

November 23, 2020
#vEGU21: Gather Online – what you need to know.

On November 2nd, EGU opened the call for abstracts and communicated that 2021 will see the General Assembly going again fully virtual. It seems a very considerate choice, giving that the COVID-19 pandemic still pervades our lives and makes impossible safe planning of events that include travelling and in-person contacts so far ahead in time. Let’s see what we have to know to get ready for it based ...[Read More]

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

The GMPV “Must-read Papers” is here!

November 23, 2020
The GMPV “Must-read Papers” is here!

Moving in the wide scientific literature can be overwhelming, can’t it? Especially if you are at the beginning of your research journey. Or maybe you just need the right hint to improve your research. Well, we are here to help! The EGU’s GMPV Early Career Scientist committee would like your contribution to the “GMPV Must-read papers” initiative! Following the “TS Must-read” of the EGU Tectonics an ...[Read More]

NP
Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences

The never-ending 2020 hurricane season

November 23, 2020
The never-ending 2020 hurricane season

Iota, this is the name of the last category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean. Iota is a non-name because normally hurricanes are named by NOAA starting from A to Z but when the alphabet is over, they are just identified from a letter of the Greek alphabet. Iota is a special cyclone not just because its name implies that the hurricane season is particularly rich in storms but also because of its e ...[Read More]

CR
Cryospheric Sciences

Did you know… that you can read the edge of Greenland’s ice as an open book?

November 20, 2020
Did you know… that you can read the edge of Greenland’s ice as an open book?

Scientists struggle to get ice samples from the depths of glaciers where fundamental pieces of information about the climate of Earth are stored. But in many places around the periphery of the Greenland Ice Sheet, you don’t need to drill a deep ice core to obtain ancient ice, you can simply walk across the ice sheet’s margin and look at the layered ice surface. There you can read the ice as though ...[Read More]

GD
Geodynamics

The Sassy Scientist – The Final Hurdle

November 20, 2020
The Sassy Scientist – The Final Hurdle

While coming down from a caffeine-high after his online thesis submission, Giulio think about the next step: How should I prepare for my geodynamics PhD viva? Dear Giulio, I like how you omitted to specify if your viva is online or offline, but I am working under the assumption that everything happens in the virtual realm now. It seems unbelievable now that busy academics such as myself used to fl ...[Read More]

GD
Geodynamics

On the way back to Mercury

and November 18, 2020
On the way back to Mercury

It is the smallest planet of the Solar System, the closest to the Sun and the quickest at orbiting around it, the one with the least inclined and most elongated orbit, the only one where a day lasts two-thirds of a full year, the one with the highest bulk density. Mercury is a planet of extremes, but rarely visited by space missions (compared to Mars, Venus and the Moon). This week Dr. Nicola Tosi ...[Read More]