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Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

EGU GMPV Campfires – Special Edition: Experimental Petrology Wednesday 1st December 4pm CET

November 19, 2021
EGU GMPV Campfires – Special Edition: Experimental Petrology Wednesday 1st December 4pm CET

The EGU Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology division’s early career scientists committee is excited to announce out 15th edition of EGU GMPV campfires – Experimental Petrology Special Edition! Our speakers on Wednesday 1st December 4pm CET will be:   Kara Brugman   Post-doc at Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth & Planets Laboratory Presenting:  “Making exoplanet …[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Cryo-adventures: Ninja goes south – Life and science onboard an icebreaker in the Weddell Sea (Antarctica)

November 19, 2021
Cryo-adventures: Ninja goes south – Life and science onboard an icebreaker in the Weddell Sea (Antarctica)

Hello there! I’m Ninja – a curious little LEGO-figure who doesn’t know much about the cryosphere, but who’s learning! Maybe you read about me in the blogpost by ice sheet modeler Petra Langebroek a few years ago? She brought me to the ice-core drilling camp called EASTgrip, on top of the Greenland icesheet. Together, we …[Read More]

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Geodynamics

The Sassy Scientist – To A Galaxy Far Far Away

November 19, 2021
The Sassy Scientist – To A Galaxy Far Far Away

Jesper has a lot of green on his mind. No not money, you capitalists. Nature. The environment. Basil and chives. With the recent advent of billionaires finding new ways to caress their egos, and in a totally-not-aiming-to-start-mining-other-celestial-bodies kinda way, Jesper has some troubled thoughts: Should we really colonize other planets? We are already destroying this …[Read More]

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

Volcano Watch the Podcast, a weekly walk through the amazing world of Volcanoes!

November 17, 2021
Volcano Watch the Podcast, a weekly walk through the amazing world of Volcanoes!

Are you interested in Volcanoes? Do you want to learn more about volcanic activity, geysers, magma dynamics and the relationship between humans and volcanoes, from the mythology to the art and the agriculture? Or maybe you just want to be updated on the worldwide ongoing eruptions and listen to nice interviews with people who actually …[Read More]

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Climate: Past, Present & Future

High school-University Connection: Teaching experiences in rural communities regarding climate change

and November 16, 2021
High school-University Connection: Teaching experiences in rural communities regarding climate change

Understanding how our environment is changing under a warmer climate will be one of the new challenges our children will face. Meanwhile, teachers are challenged to seek new pedagogical strategies for teaching climate change in the youngest, especially in rural communities, which are one of the most vulnerable to climate change impacts, as they lack …[Read More]

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Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences

NP Interviews: the 2021 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal Berengere Dubrulle

, and November 15, 2021
NP Interviews: the 2021 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal Berengere Dubrulle

Today’s NP Interviews hosts the 2021 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal Berengere Dubrulle. Berengere is senior scientist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and presently Director of the Les Houches Physics School. She received her PhD in astrophysics in 1990 under the supervision of J.-P. Zahn. She is a specialist of turbulence, and its …[Read More]

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Biogeosciences

Biogeosciences in the blue zone- COP26.

November 15, 2021
COP26 plenary room

Our Editor, Ben Fisher, writes about his experience as an observer at COP26 and the representation of biogeosciences in the negotiation area.  I was extremely fortunate to have the opportunity attend the second week of COP26 as a delegate of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Having been a rather last minute addition to …[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Women of Cryo V: Women and Glaciers in the Chilean Andes (Part I)

and November 12, 2021
Women of Cryo V: Women and Glaciers in the Chilean Andes (Part I)

Women make up 50.8% of the worlds population, yet fewer than 30% of the world’s researchers are women. Of this percentage, BAME (Black Asia and Minority Ethnic) comprise around 5%, with less than 1% represented in geoscience faculty positions. The divide between women in the population and women in STEM needs to be addressed. Through …[Read More]