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Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

EGU GMPV ECS Campfires – Thursday March 21st @ 4pm CET

March 12, 2024
EGU GMPV ECS Campfires – Thursday March 21st @ 4pm CET

    The second edition of the Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology division’s ECS talks – the Campfires – of 2024 is right at the door and will take place on Thursday March 21st at 4pm CET on Zoom. This edition will be a Scientific Campfire, during which three early career scientists will present their latest work to the community.  Our speakers for this edition are:  Abim ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

SciComm notes: can Granny understand your science?

March 11, 2024
A conversation between a person and a smiling elder lady.

As an EGU division blog, we facilitate that the most recent cryoscientific insights reach a wider audience. To do this, we have a team of experienced editors (and former authors), but we also love helping first time authors getting experience with outreach. But if you have ever written an outreach piece, you might know that it can be more difficult than expected to write down your research in simp ...[Read More]

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Natural Hazards

“Studying earthquakes is a great opportunity to learn every day a lot about many different fields of earth sciences” Yann Klinger- Stephan Mueller Medalist-2024

March 11, 2024
“Studying earthquakes is a great opportunity to learn every day a lot about many different fields of earth sciences” Yann Klinger- Stephan Mueller Medalist-2024

Hi Yann,  first of all, congratulations on the Stephan Mueller Medal, and it is my pleasure to interview you!! To all my readers, the Stephan Mueller Medal is one of the prestigious medals awarded for exceptional contributions to tectonics and structures by the European Geosciences Union (EGU).  Dr Yann Klinger wears many hats, he is a seismologist who studies recent and past earthquakes and is al ...[Read More]

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Climate: Past, Present & Future

Misinterpretation of glacial aridity in subtropical environments in the Southern Hemisphere

and March 11, 2024
Misinterpretation of glacial aridity in subtropical environments in the Southern Hemisphere

To understand Earth’s changing climate, scientists often examine how the climate has varied in the past, by studying geological records. These records allow us to reconstruct past climates and help us predict planet’s responses to different climate forcings. In this context, it has long been thought that past ice ages on Earth were relatively dry, whereas the warm periods between ice ages we ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

Thirsty Earth: a multiplayer online game for water resources education and research

and March 7, 2024
Thirsty Earth: a multiplayer online game for water resources education and research

The Rising Need for Interdisciplinary Literacy The sustainable management of water resources requires cooperative institutions whose development are rarely included in already overloaded engineering and earth sciences curricula. The resilience of such institutions in the context of climatic and demographic change is also poorly understood. Enter “Thirsty Earth,” an online open-access m ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

How we made QUARTETnary – the card game about the geological time scale

March 6, 2024
How we made QUARTETnary – the card game about the geological time scale

QUARTETnary is an educational card game about the geological time scale. Consisting of 60 beautifully illustrated cards, QUARTETnary explores the events in Earth’s history: from dinosaurs to humans and from the formation of the Alps to the formation of the Himalayas. It was designed by Iris van Zelst (me! Your fabulous former Editor-in-Chief), and illustrated by Lucia Perez-Diaz (also a former edi ...[Read More]

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

Call for a new X (Twitter) Account Manager!!

March 4, 2024
Call for a new X (Twitter) Account Manager!!

The Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology division of the European Geosciences Union is looking for a new X (Twitter) Account! We are a group of 16 early career scientists working on GMPV topics. You can have a look (and learn more) about our team and what we do during the year here! We are looking for an Early Career Scientist (ECS) who can share all the activities of our group and ...[Read More]

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Geodesy

Bits and Bites of Geodesy – Satellite radar altimetry: How do we know that sea level is rising?

and March 1, 2024
Bits and Bites of Geodesy – Satellite radar altimetry: How do we know that sea level is rising?

In a previous post, Thomas Frederikse briefly explained how geodesy is used to observe sea level change. In this part of Bits & Bites, Bene delves deeper into the topic. Rising sea levels are one of the consequences of climate change that already impacts people in low-lying coastal regions, and the future prospects are not exactly encouraging as well. We know that rising sea levels are caused ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

Overlooked tips for the lost art of fieldwork

February 29, 2024
Overlooked tips for the lost art of fieldwork

Not so long ago, almost all hydrologic data depended almost exclusively on fieldwork.  Today, sure, you can download data from repositories, there are satellites that beam you magic numbers that you can interpret to give you almost any variable, and some (less than we might hope) long-term monitoring has been outsourced to governments (or in some cases to citizens with sensors).  But somewhere in ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Regional viscosity variations in Earth’s mantle

and February 28, 2024
Regional viscosity variations in Earth’s mantle

For understanding the dynamics and evolution of the Earth’s mantle, knowledge of mantle’s viscosity structure is very important. In this week’s blog, Kenneth Gourley from University of Arizona discusses the variation of viscosity structure in Earth’s mantle in regional scale.   In order to understand the dynamics and evolution of the Earth’s mantle, geodynamicists model mantle fl ...[Read More]