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Geodynamics

Balancing pregnancy, family, and a scientific career: a look at the challenges faced by women in STEAM

and May 14, 2025
Balancing pregnancy, family, and a scientific career: a look at the challenges faced by women in STEAM

In this week’s blog post, Dr. Katherine Villavicencio (University of Pisa) explores how women in STEAM navigate pregnancy and family life while advancing in their careers and examines the support (or lack thereof) provided by academic and research institutions. Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) careers are undoubtedly demanding. For women in these fields, juggling the ...[Read More]

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Climate: Past, Present & Future

Early farmers of the Pacific recorded in sediment cores from Vanuatu

and May 13, 2025
Early farmers of the Pacific recorded in sediment cores from Vanuatu

The Pacific Ocean is a vast expanse that is punctuated by diverse islands and archipelagos. Some of these islands closer to Asia and the Australian landmass have been home to humans for tens of millennia. Others – spread across Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia – make up Remote Oceania and were only settled by humans within the past few thousand years. Archeological investigations have provided ...[Read More]

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Solar-Terrestrial Sciences

Meet Sandra Catherine Chapman, 2024 Hannes Alfvén Medalist, honoured for her groundbreaking contributions and vision in space plasma physics

May 12, 2025
Sandra Catherine Chapman

Congratulations on receiving the 2024 Hannes Alfvén Medal for your pioneering work and outstanding leadership in advancing our understanding of space plasma physics, including its fundamental processes and impacts throughout the solar system and beyond. What does this recognition mean to you personally, and how does it impact your work in this fascinating field? I am deeply honoured to be awarded ...[Read More]

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Natural Hazards

We want you! Join the EGU Natural Hazards Blog Team

May 12, 2025
We want you! Join the EGU Natural Hazards Blog Team

Are you passionate about natural hazards? Do you want to explore and enhance your science communication skills? The EGU Natural Hazards Division Blog seeks beautiful minds to become enthusiastic new editors and join our diverse and inclusive team. The blog serves as a platform for the natural hazards community to share updates on the latest research, insights, and perspectives on issues relevant t ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

Meet your ECS Rep – Melissa Reidy

May 8, 2025
Meet your ECS Rep – Melissa Reidy

Melissa Reidy is a postdoctoral researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala. For 2025, she is the Early Career Scientist Representative for the Hydrological Sciences division. Can you tell us about the focus of your research?  A common theme throughout all my research has been connections between land and water. What has been different is the ecosystems that I’ve s ...[Read More]

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Solar-Terrestrial Sciences

Meet the InterALAGE Board Members

May 7, 2025
Meet the InterALAGE Board Members

We are excited to introduce the InterALAGE Team! and share their vision for the future of the organization! To get to know them better, our Media and Communications Officer conducted an in-depth interview with the new board members. In this engaging conversation, the board members share their personal backgrounds, journeys within InterALAGE, and goals during their term. 1. To start off, could you ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 3

May 4, 2025
Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 3

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]

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

EGU25 Friday Highlights

May 2, 2025
EGU25 Friday Highlights

Finally, the last day arrived. It’s time to enjoy the last moment of the 2025 General Assembly. Today, there are a total of 5 sessions solely organised by the GMPV- In line with the significant breakthroughs in modern Earth Science, particularly due to the development in observational, analytical, and modelling methods by introducing micro to nano analytical tools, GMPV has scheduled a sessi ...[Read More]

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

EGU25 Thursday Highlights

May 1, 2025
EGU25 Thursday Highlights

Four days in and we are just getting started! Grab your morning coffee or beverage of choice and check out the suggestions from the GMPV ECS Team for a day full of learning, discussion and networking opportunities at EGU25.  Starting at 8:30 (CEST) and continuing throughout the morning, we have the ‘Understanding magmatic processes: from magma storage to eruptive behaviour, and implications for vo ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Iris van Zelst – GD Outstanding ECS Award 2025

and April 30, 2025
Iris van Zelst – GD Outstanding ECS Award 2025

The 2025 Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award of the Geodynamics Division was awarded to Iris van Zelst in recognition of her outstanding ability to connect research fields including earthquake dynamics, planetary sciences and geodynamics, along with her profound engagement with science outreach and promotion of diverse and inclusive working enviroments. In this interview, Iris -also former EG ...[Read More]