Rising sea levels due to climate change. Natural climatic cycles, like El Niño. Land subsidence due to fluid pumping. There are many reasons that can increase the risk of flooding of cities and other areas. We might not always be able to control it, but is there a way to better predict and prepare for it? I come from the Low Lands (Netherlands), and that means we are very close to water, living on ...[Read More]
Seismology
Six Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Earth Systems (including seismology)
Six new post-doctoral fellowships have been made available at the Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), Lisbon, Portugal. IDL, an Associate Laboratory hosted by the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, is seeking 6 highly motivated post-doctoral fellows to integrate its research groups. IDL research covers broad range Earth System Science and its applications, in areas such as Meteorology, Climatology, ...[Read More]
Energy, Resources and the Environment
Words on Wednesday: Effects of land use changes and soil conservation intervention on soil properties as indicators for land degradation under a Mediterranean climate
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, at ERE.Matters@gmail.com. *** Y. Mohawesh, A. Taimeh, and F. Ziadat: Effects of land use changes and soil conservation intervention on soil properties as indicators for l ...[Read More]
Energy, Resources and the Environment
Words on Wednesday: Brief Communication – The dark side of risk and crisis communication: legal conflicts and responsibility allocation
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, at ERE.Matters@gmail.com. *** Scolobig, A.: Brief Communication: The dark side of risk and crisis communication: legal conflicts and responsibility allocation, Nat. Hazar ...[Read More]
Atmospheric Sciences
Urban Climate
The 9th International Conference on Urban Climate and the 12th Urban Environment Symposium are taking place this week in the “Pink City” Toulouse. With the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) which will be held in December in Paris, the obvious focus topic for the urban climate conference is the mitigation and adaptation to climate change in urban environment. But, first of all, why should we even ...[Read More]
Energy, Resources and the Environment
Booming Beijing: the impact of urban growth on local environment
The global population is ever-growing. Cities are expanding at a rapid pace. A recent study by Mark Jacobsen of Stanford University and Son Nghiem of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory investigated the urban growth of Beijing, China (published on June 15th in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres). Their results showed that the city had quadripled in size in the span of a dec ...[Read More]
Energy, Resources and the Environment
Need support? Check EGU Meetings Support for 2016
Are you planning to host a meeting, workshop or training school, but need some support? Check out the EGU Meetings Support scheme for 2016. *** The EGU welcomes proposals for Topical Meetings, Training Schools and Workshops, as well as applications for EGU Sponsorship of External Meetings, for the year 2016.Successful proposals result in high profile EGU events with financial support. Proposals fo ...[Read More]
Energy, Resources and the Environment
Towards observation-based gridded runoff estimates for Europe
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, at ERE.Matters@gmail.com. *** Gudmundsson, L. and Seneviratne, S. I.: Towards observation-based gridded runoff estimates for Europe, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 2859-28 ...[Read More]
Cryospheric Sciences
Science and Shovels: Traversing across the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Moving 150 tonnes of equipment more than 450km across the Greenland Ice Sheet sounds like a crazy idea. In that context, moving a 14-metre high, dome-shaped, wooden structure seems like a minor point, but it really is not. I do not think I realised what an awesome and awe-inspiring project I was part of, until I was out there, in the middle of the blindingly white ice sheet, and I saw the enormous ...[Read More]
Geomorphology
9th I.A.G./A.I.G. SEDIBUD Workshop – Sediment Dynamics in Cold Climate Environments, Kaunertal, Tyrol/Austria, 7-10.09.2015
Changes in climate have a major impact on sediment dynamics in cold environments from high arctic/antarctic and subarctic/subantarctic to alpine and upland sites. Climate changes influence the nature and extent of glaciers, permafrost areas, ice sheets and the extent and intensity of glacial, peri-, pro- and paraglacial processes. In this context major foci of the workshop are related to: Observat ...[Read More]