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Announcement: Seismology Workshop at EGU General Assembly

Title: The Art of Science Time: Thursday, April 21, 2016; 13:30 – 15:00  Location: EGU conference center, Room -2.61 or -2.85 (in the basement) Description: This is a workshop for professionals wishing to perfect the practical skills needed for a successful research career. In the workshop we will choose topics from the following list: choosing a research portfolio; making a workplan; mentoring an ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Image of the Week – Antarctic fieldwork 50 years ago!

Image of the Week – Antarctic fieldwork 50 years ago!

So far this blog has published many pictures of current polar field work campaigns. Today, we would like to take you back to Antarctic expeditions during the 1960s. The photos presented in this post date back from the Belgian-Dutch Antarctic field campaigns of 1964-1966. The first picture shows Ken Blaiklock (red overalls) with a Belgian surveyor. Ken was part of the 1955–58 Commonwealth Trans-Ant ...[Read More]

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Atmospheric Sciences

How does weather affect volcanoes?

How does weather affect volcanoes?

I was taking a plane trip home recently. To kill the time I got talking with the person sitting next to me and naturally one of their first questions was to ask me what I did for a living. To avoid a complicated discussion about the nuances of my research I summarised – ‘I am a volcanic meteorologist’. They were interested and wanted to know all about how volcanoes affect the weather, ...[Read More]

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Seismology

Bulgarian seismologists deploy seismic station in Antarctica

This week we caught up with Gergana Georgieva, an early career seismologist working at the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, Sofia University. Gergana is an assistant professor, and a board member of the Bulgarian Geophysical Society. The team she is working in from Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Sofia University has recently been awarded funding from the Science Research Fund of the Bu ...[Read More]

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Seismology

Icequakes! Stick-Slip motion under Western Greenland

Check out this very interesting read about Icequakes, available at the Cryospheric Sciences blog page. Cryosphere is the frozen water part of the Earth system, which includes ice that is found in the ocean, such as waters surrounding Antarctica and the Arctic. Read here: Cryospheric Sciences | Image of the Week: Icequakes! Stick-Slip motion under Western Greenland

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Cryospheric Sciences

Image of the Week – Changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet Documented by Satellite

Image of the Week – Changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet Documented by Satellite

Monitoring the changing ice mass of the Greenland Ice Sheet provides valuable information about how the ice sheet is responding to changing climate, but how do we make these measurements over such a large area of ice? Using NASA’s GRACE satellites (twin-satellites flying in formation) it is possible to make detailed measurements of the Earth’s gravitational field. As ice is gained/lost from ...[Read More]

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Seismology

Consider this: Take your career one step further

Young scientists meeting corner at EGU General Assembly

Early Career Scientist representative for the Seismology Division Why not take your career one step further? The Seismology Division within the European Geosciences Union is looking for an enthusiastic person to take the role of Early Career Scientist representative for the young generation of seismologists. Making awesome science is very important, but the scientific community does not only need ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Image of the Week — Happy ValentICE’s day

Image of the Week — Happy ValentICE’s day

On the eve of 14 February, love and little hearts are everywhere, even trapped in lake ice! The EGU Cryosphere blog team wishes you a happy Valentine’s Day :-) Behind this nice picture, there is also science This picture was taken during a laboratory experiment that aimed to reproduce the bubbles observed in Arctic lake ice in the winter. In this shot, we can see two types of gas bubbles in ...[Read More]

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Seismology

The publication circle

Stock photo from: https://www.pexels.com

In this and upcoming posts guest writer Kathrin Spieker will share her thoughts and experience about how to improve writing skills specifically aimed for publishing in scientific journals. Kathrin is a young seismologist who has recently started publishing her research as part of her PhD study. In this little series, I will talk about the three main parts of scientific publication. The first part ...[Read More]

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Soil System Sciences

The long, long travel from rock to soil (I)

The long, long travel from rock to soil (I)

  There is hardly a subject in all nature, of which the majority of people has so unclear terms and which has hitherto been so completely misunderstood, as the soil on which they walk. F.A. Fallou Soil is often considered as the skin of the Earth and is located at the interface between the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere. Air, water, rock and living beings interact to form ...[Read More]