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Cryospheric Sciences

Feeling (un)frozen lands: What we can learn from research on ecological grief

and April 4, 2025
Light shines through the edge of melting ice on a rock.

Retreating glaciers, shrinking sea ice or thawing permafrost – many of you might have witnessed formerly familiar landscapes being transformed by climate change over the last years, maybe even beyond recognition. And perhaps these undeniable changes have left you feeling sad, angry or anxious about the future, fearing what lies ahead. But did you know there is an entire academic field out there re ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

HydroTalks:  Dr. Ilja Van Meerveld and Sara Blanco on Landscape-Vegetation Interactions, Citizen Science, and CrowdWater

April 3, 2025
HydroTalks:  Dr. Ilja Van Meerveld and Sara Blanco on Landscape-Vegetation Interactions, Citizen Science, and CrowdWater

Welcome to HydroTalks, the EGU HS division’s podcast series where we discuss advancements, challenges, and opportunities in hydrology.  In this episode, we interviewed Dr. Ilja van Meerveld, a Group Leader at the University of Zurich, focusing on hydrological processes, landscape, and vegetation and one of the coordinators of the CrowdWater Citizen Science project. We were also joined by Sar ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Into the world of Girls into Geoscience: inspiring the future generation of female geoscientists

, and April 2, 2025
Into the world of Girls into Geoscience: inspiring the future generation of female geoscientists

“Girls into Geoscience” is a UK-based outreach initiative aiming at encouraging female (and female identifying and non-binary) to pursue a career in Geosciences. I had the pleasure to interview the founders of this initiative, Prof. Sarah Boulton and Dr. Jodie Fisher, and discuss about their experiences, how the landscape of student recruitment has changed over the years and the challe ...[Read More]

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Tectonics and Structural Geology

TS Must-Read – Rowe and Griffith (2015) Do faults preserve a record of seismic slip: A second opinion

April 1, 2025
TS Must-Read – Rowe and Griffith (2015) Do faults preserve a record of seismic slip: A second opinion

Earthquakes shake the Earth almost every day, but what exactly happens within rocks during these seismic events is a matter of debate in the scientific community. The article “Do faults preserve a record of seismic slip: A second opinion,” published in 2015, offers a thoughtful review of the sure and potential records of seismic slip in rocks. The paper examines the notion that rocks i ...[Read More]

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Solar-Terrestrial Sciences

Decoding the Sun’s Past: Dr. Theodosios Chatzistergos, 2024 e-SWAN Alexander Chizhevsky Medalist, on his Scientific Journey

April 1, 2025
Decoding the Sun’s Past: Dr. Theodosios Chatzistergos, 2024 e-SWAN Alexander Chizhevsky Medalist, on his Scientific Journey

1. Congratulations on receiving the e-SWAN Alexander Chizhevsky Medal for outstanding contributions to space weather and space climate. How does this recognition reflect your work and impact in the field? Thank you! I am deeply honored to receive this award, which recognizes not just my work but the collective efforts of many collaborators over the years. My research has focused on reconstructing ...[Read More]

GM
Geomorphology

The community development of TopoToolbox starts now

March 28, 2025
The community development of TopoToolbox starts now

Please contact one of the GM blog editors, Emily (eb2043@cam.ac.uk) or Emma (elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on the blog!  by Wolfgang Schwanghart (Researcher, University of Potsdam, Germany), Dirk Scherler (Professor, Freie Universität Berlin and GFZ-Potsdam, Germany) and William Kearney (Research Software Engineer, University of Potsdam, Germany) Email: schwangh@uni-potsdam.de We al ...[Read More]

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Geodesy

Do’s and Don’ts for the EGU OSPP award

March 28, 2025
Do’s and Don’ts for the EGU OSPP award

Hi there, I am Marius, an Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) awardee from 2023 for the Geodesy Division. I want to share my experiences on the competition with you. EGU’s General Assembly is approaching, and many of you are probably preparing your contributions and thinking about how you will present your results in a few weeks. I want to give you an overview of DoR ...[Read More]

HS
Hydrological Sciences

Your top 3 must-reads for a new PhD student in hydrology

and March 27, 2025
Your top 3 must-reads for a new PhD student in hydrology

Starting a PhD can feel overwhelming. Objectives and deadlines pile up, making it seem like you are juggling a thousand tasks at once. However, there are a few steps that do help you navigate this experience. One of the very first steps is to perform your literature review, which will serve as the foundation for your research. To help other early career scientists tackle this activity at the begin ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Halokinesis: the effect and importance of the most “liquid” rocks in geodynamics

and March 26, 2025
Halokinesis: the effect and importance of the most “liquid” rocks in geodynamics

Evaporitic rocks possess unique properties that enable them to form crucial structures for petroleum systems. Salt basins are globally distributed, particularly along the Atlantic margins. Their thermal and mechanical properties can influence the Earth’s crust, altering structural styles and basin architecture, with significant implications for hydrocarbon exploration and geodynamic processes. How ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 2

March 21, 2025
A group of people standing around a person holding a decorated hat in their hand.

This miniseries features the tradition of ‘PhD hat’ making in German research institutes and universities. For those of you unfamiliar with this idea (as I once was), this is one of the final milestones a graduate student has before they are officially a “Dr.”. Upon the successful defense of a thesis, the labmates of the PhD student craft a graduation hat from a mishmash of scrap cardboard and mem ...[Read More]