Hello, welcome, or welcome back! As of today ERE Matters, the blog of the Energy, Resources and Environment Division has been added to the EGU Blogs family :D (we thought about bringing cake, but that turned out to be a logistic distaster…) For some of you, we are the new kid on the block, but we actually have been around already for a few months! So please, join us for your regular dose of ...[Read More]
Climate: Past, Present & Future
EGU, Vienna 2015: the round-up
EGU by numbers In April, the EGU returned to Vienna for their annual Congress meeting. Over 11,837 scientists from 108 countries descended in the Vienna International Centre for the six-day conference. Delegates enjoyed over 4,870 oral presentations, 8,489 posters, and 705 PICO presentations. That’s a lot of science! Science and ice cream for everyone! As always, the EGU were excellen ...[Read More]
Energy, Resources and the Environment
Words on Wednesday: Remediation of degraded arable steppe soils in Moldova using vetch as green manure
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. *** Wiesmeier, M., Lungu, M., Hübner, R., and Cerbari, V., 2015. Remediation of degraded arable steppe soils in Moldova using vetch as green man ...[Read More]
Energy, Resources and the Environment
Words on Wednesday: Poroelastic responses of confined aquifers to subsurface strain changes and their use for volcano monitoring
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. *** Strehlow, K., Gottsmann, J. H., and Rust, A. C., 2015. Poroelastic responses of confined aquifers to subsurface strain changes and their use ...[Read More]
Energy, Resources and the Environment
Whodunit?: It was Mankind With the Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere
Last week I came across this beautifully illustrated account of what is causing the planet’s rising temperature, based on findings obtained by NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies. The graphic is designed by Erik Roston and Blacki Migliozzi, in collaboration with Kate Marvel and Gavin Schmidt of NASA-GISS. Check out the full article What’s really warming the world? on Bloomb ...[Read More]
Cryospheric Sciences
From the Poles to Paris — An interview with Erlend Moster Knudsen
What do polar bears and emperor penguins have to do with the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame? Pole to Paris has the answer. Erlend Moster Knudsen earned his PhD in climate dynamics after four years of research from the University of Bergen, Colorado State University and University of Alaska Fairbanks on Arctic sea ice and its interaction with atmospheric circulation. He took some time to answer ...[Read More]
Seismology
1-PhD Scholarship in numerical modeling of the Iberian lithospheric structure and topographic evolution
Last-minute call among your students, since the deadline is June 29th at 15:00. The full information for this position is available from the http://www.ictja.csic.es/ website Department of Structure & Dynamics of the Earth CSIC-Institute for Earth Sciences Jaume Almera Within the Framework of the research project: Modeling the Topographic Evolution of Iberia A geoscience project has been fund ...[Read More]
Atmospheric Sciences
What is the biggest air pollution event in the modern era?
It’s hard to think of the scale of the biggest air pollution event in the modern era. Immediately my mind conjures up memories of black and white photographs of the Great London Smog of 1952. Then I start thinking bigger, how about the 1.2 billion vehicles world-wide on the road churning out nitrogen dioxide every single day? Well these are a drop in the ocean compared with bigger industrial pollu ...[Read More]
Energy, Resources and the Environment
Words on Wednesday: Effects of soil settlement and deformed geometry on a historical structure
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. *** Yardım, Y. and Mustafaraj, E., 2015. Effects of soil settlement and deformed geometry on a historical structure, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sc ...[Read More]
Seismology
IASPEI-IUGG Symposium on Nepal earthquake at IUGG2015
The 26th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) event will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, from the 22nd of June to the 2nd of July 2015. Amongst the several sessions taking place, there is one dedicated to the recent Nepal Earthquake The following notification is taken from http://www.iugg2015prague.com/iaspei-symposia.htm IASPEI-IUGG Symposium on Nepal ea ...[Read More]