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Cryospheric Sciences

Image of the Week — Future Decline of sea-ice extent in the Arctic (from IPCC)

Sophie Berger December 1, 2015

The Arctic sea-ice extent has declined in the past 20 years and its future is uncertain. In the end, greenhouse gas emissions will determine the impact on the sea-ice from man-made climate change through radiative forcing (i.e. Representative Concentration Pathways or RCPs). The COP21 can determine the path we will follow and which course we will take to reduce emissions. Reduction in sea-ice cove ...[Read More]

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Energy, Resources and the Environment

Financial support for Early Career Scientists

loveless November 29, 2015

As an Early Career Scientist you are eligible to apply for financial support to travel to the EGU General Assembly 2016. Financial support includes a registration fee waiver and a refund of the Abstract Processing Charge (APC) related to the abstract for which support was requested. Additionally, financial assistance towards travel expenditures may be provided at the discretion of the support sele ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Image of the Week — Ice Sheets and Sea Level Rise (from IPCC)

Sophie Berger November 27, 2015

Context On the eve of the COP21, it is of paramount importance to recall how strongly the cryosphere is affected by Climate Change. Today, we present the impact of melting ice on sea level rise, as it is presented in the latest assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Quick facts -Since 1992, the Glaciers, Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets have risen the sea level by 14 ...[Read More]

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Seismology

Post-doctoral position in seismology at ICTP

Matthew Agius November 27, 2015

Post-doctoral position in seismology is available at the Earth System Physics (ESP) section of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). The position is funded by the GENERALI Group – a major player in the global insurance industry, in the framework of a research project integrating earthquake fault studies and simulations of the ground-motion. ICTP offers internationally comp ...[Read More]

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Biogeosciences

Welcome to the multi-faceted world of biogeosciences

Jasper Bloemen November 25, 2015

“From marine micro-organisms to mountain ecosystems” Welcome to the official blog of the Biogeosciences (BG) Division of the European Geoscience Union! This blog is run by biogeoscience enthusiasts with very different backgrounds, ranging from plantecophysiology over geology to geomicrobiology. Therefore we think that the variety of posts, will make this blog interesting for all intere ...[Read More]

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Energy, Resources and the Environment

Understanding groundwater – students’ pre-conceptions and conceptual change by a theory-guided multimedia learning program

loveless November 25, 2015

Words on Wednesday aims at promoting interesting/fun/exciting publications on topics related to Energy, Resources and the Environment. If you would like to be featured on WoW, please send us a link of the paper, or your own post, ERE.Matters@gmail.com *** Citation: Unterbruner, U., Hilberg, S. and Schiffl, I. Understanding groundwater – students’ pre-conceptions and conceptual change by a th ...[Read More]

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Seismology

Job opportunity at the University of Malta

Matthew Agius November 22, 2015

The Seismic Monitoring and Research Group (SMRG) within the Department of Geosciences at the University of Malta requires the services of a Research Support Officer to work on projects and activities conducted by the group. The position requires the successful applicant to: contribute actively towards the operation and maintenance of the Malta Seismic Network and Virtual Mediterranean Regional Net ...[Read More]

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Seismology

L’Aquila seismologists cleared for good

Matthew Agius November 22, 2015

Many European and international seismologists have been following the court saga that taunted the local earthquake scientist following the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake (central Italy). Finally, the Italian supreme court has cleared the scientists for good ! Several website, blogs, journals and even conference sessions have highlighted the case: BBC, The Guardian, EOS, AGU, EGU, Natural Hazar ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Image of the Week: Under the Sea

Sophie Berger November 20, 2015

Always wondered how it looks like under the sea ice? Getting an answer is simpler than you might think: Just go out to the front of McMurdo ice shelf in Antarctica and drill a tube into the sea ice. Then let people climb down and take pictures of the ice from below. More information: – Photo taken by Marcus Arnold, Gateway Antarctica, University of Canterbury during his November 2015, Antarc ...[Read More]

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Seismology

EGU2016: Early Career Scientist’s Travel Award

Matthew Agius November 19, 2015

The European Geosciences Union is pleased to announce the start of the abstract submission for the EGU General Assembly 2016 (EGU2016), 17–22 Apr 2016, Vienna, Austria. You are cordially invited to browse through the sessions at: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/sessionprogramme Each session shows the Abstract Submission link. Using this link you are asked to log in to the Copernicus ...[Read More]