Divisions

Natural Hazards

NH Medallists episode III – Claire Horwell and her interdisciplinary work on volcanic emission hazards for human health

Vale Cigala June 8, 2020

In today’s interview, we talk with Prof. Claire J. Horwell. Claire has been awarded the 2020 Plinius Medal for her outstanding interdisciplinary research on the respiratory health implications of inhaling volcanic emissions, and other particulates. my research focuses on protecting communities from exposures to potentially harmful airborne particulates Hi Claire, can you please briefly introduce ...[Read More]

NP

Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences

Is planting trees a feasible large-scale solution to mitigate climate change?

Davide Faranda June 8, 2020

In the last few years it has become a common practice to compensate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by planting trees. This idea is simple and rooted on a very basic principle: trees get the energy of sunlight, and by photosynthesis they take water from the ground and CO2 from the air, releasing oxygen in the atmosphere. The CO2 is then stored in trees and surrounding soil. Tree planting efforts ar ...[Read More]

GMPV

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

The inaugural GMPV webinar: 29th June

Mike Jollands June 7, 2020

The EGU’s GMPV Early Career Scientist committee is delighted to invite you to our first ever webinar, with contributions spanning the whole range of topics encompassed by the GMPV section. The webinar will be hosted on zoom (apologies if you already have zoom fatigue…) at 16:00 Central European Summer Time, on Monday 29th June. There will be four presentations, each around 10 minutes l ...[Read More]

CR

Cryospheric Sciences

Women of Cryo I: Dr Emma Smith

Emma Pearce June 5, 2020

Women make up 50.8% of the world’s population, yet fewer than 30% of the world’s researchers are women. Of this percentage, women of colour comprise around 5%, with less than 1% represented in geoscience faculty positions. Women are published less, paid less, and do not progress as far in their careers as men. Even within our EGU community, women account for only one third of all members, an ...[Read More]

GD

Geodynamics

The Sassy Scientist – Meddle With Medals

The Sassy Scientist June 5, 2020

Befuddled by the yearly returning celebration of science during the Nobel award ceremonies, and heavy-heartedly noticing the absence of Earth sciences at this ball time after time, Pippi pulled herself out of her rationally induced depression and asked: Shouldn’t there be a Nobel prize in Earth sciences? Dear Pippi, Well, isn’t that a particular poignant question? Earth sciences simply being denie ...[Read More]

SSS

Soil System Sciences

Plant carbon allocation, soil nutrient availability and the mycorrhizal business

EGU Guest blogger June 4, 2020

The soil market: plants spend some of their carbon on buying nutrients from mycorrhizae Similar to the way that we take up carbon (C) through the food we eat, plants absorb C in the form of CO2 from the atmosphere through photosynthesis, and use it to build sugars (Fig. 1). After having a good snack, our body decides where to send the C it has just gained: should I use it to grow muscles (or fat), ...[Read More]

GMPV

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

Call for presentations: Early Career Scientist Webinar series

Mike Jollands June 4, 2020

The EGU GMPV ECS** committee are pleased to invite you to contribute to a new series of webinars, highlighting new research by early career scientists. These webinars will be one hour long, made up of four talks (8-10 minutes each) from across the breadth of GMPV, with time for discussions. Whilst the exact timings are TBD, they will be run during the day in the European time zones, probably alter ...[Read More]

GD

Geodynamics

Starting to teach? Here are 3 tips!

Editorial team 1 June 3, 2020

Starting to teach a course at a university can be an exciting but daunting experience. In today’s post Menno Fraters shares his experiences of starting to teach a class of 100+ students during the challenging time of the COVID-19 pandemic. He provides three quick tips for when you start teaching, that may be useful for teaching in academics. During your time as a PhD student, you may have al ...[Read More]

HS

Hydrological Sciences

Hydrological tipping points: Can we tip the bucket?

EGU Guest blogger June 3, 2020

We live in a time of unprecedented pressure on water resources. The combination of drivers, such as human water use and land use, climate change by greenhouse gases and the human modification of other components of the Earth system coupled to the water cycle, may be pushing water resources beyond levels of sustainability at all spatial scales (Gleeson et al., 2020; Zipper et al., 2020). A particul ...[Read More]

SM

Seismology

Seismology Job Portal

Marina Corradini June 1, 2020

On this page, we regularly update open positions in Seismology for early career scientists. Do you have a job on offer? Contact us at ecs-sm@egu.eu Please, note that other available research positions are displayed on the EGU Jobs Portal.