Divisions

Cryospheric Sciences

High-tech science, old-school ship – Anne-Katrine Faber and Malte Winther

Nanna B. Karlsson March 17, 2015

Last summer we got the chance to participate in an incredible Arctic expedition. The mission was clear and yet unclear at the same time: Bring your fanciest laser technology on a wooden schooner. Then cross the Atlantic and sail to the fjords of southern Green land and conduct science throughout the journey. During most of our expedition, our “scientific lab” contained icebergs, glaciers and beaut ...[Read More]

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Seismology

First TIDES Training school on Seismic Data

Matthew Agius March 16, 2015

A, not-to-miss, training school for PhD students and young seismologists. Full information is provided on the website http://tides-cost.eu First TIDES Training school on Seismic Data Bertinoro (FC) Italy June 1-5 2015 Application form deadline: March 31, 2015 In the framework of COST Action TIDES (TIme-DEpendent Seismology) — a network of 19 European countries supported by the COST Association, we ...[Read More]

ERE

Energy, Resources and the Environment

I’m a Geoscientist: Suzanne Hangx – ‘Subsurface’ Officer

ERE Matters March 16, 2015

It’s I’m a Geoscientist week! Or more exactly: weeks. From March 9 until March 20, the EGU supports I’m a Geoscientist to help students engage with scientists about real science. The Energy, Resources and Environment Division of the European Geosciences Union encompasses a broad range of different ERE-related topics, from surface to subsurface, spanning all aspects of geosciences ...[Read More]

ERE

Energy, Resources and the Environment

I’m a Geoscientist: Viktor Bruckman – ‘Above Ground’ Officer

ERE Matters March 13, 2015

It’s I’m a Geoscientist week! Or more exactly: weeks. From March 9 until March 20, the EGU supports I’m a Geoscientist to help students engage with scientists about real science. The Energy, Resources and Environment Division of the European Geosciences Union encompasses a broad range of different ERE-related topics, from surface to subsurface, spanning all aspects of geosciences ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Do Beers Go Stale in the Arctic? – Jakob Sievers

Nanna B. Karlsson March 13, 2015

A story about CO2 -fluxes between sea-ice and the atmosphere What’s it all about? Whenever I have had to describe my PhD research project to people outside of my research community, I have always found it useful to use an analogy most people are familiar with, namely beers. Now that I have the full attention of the entire class, allow me to explain. Say you were to find yourself at an outside café ...[Read More]

ERE

Energy, Resources and the Environment

I’m a Geoscientist: Michael Kühn – Deputy President

ERE Matters March 11, 2015

It’s I’m a Geoscientist week! Or more exactly: weeks. From March 9 until March 20, the EGU supports I’m a Geoscientist to help students engage with scientists about real science. The Energy, Resources and Environment Division of the European Geosciences Union encompasses a broad range of different ERE-related topics, from surface to subsurface, spanning all aspects of geosciences ...[Read More]

SSS

Soil System Sciences

Soil science, food production and hunger in Africa

Antonio Jordán March 10, 2015

A child dies from malnutrition or related causes every five seconds. Every child who dies from hunger is assassinated. And we have a herd of market traders, speculators and financial bandits who have turned wild and constructed a world of inequality and horror. We have to put a stop to this. Jean Ziegler Soil as a resource A long history of land use Ever since man learned to cultivate, soil has be ...[Read More]

CR

Cryospheric Sciences

Only extremes – Babis Charalampidis

Nanna B. Karlsson March 9, 2015

– In fieldwork, you have no average. You just have extremes. When Daniel spoke his mind out loud we were facing a bright sunny day coming in from the opening of our tent. We were very glad to see that and ready to engage with our glaciological tasks. Our camp site was at the immediate fore field of the A. P. Olsen ice cap in Northeast Greenland. We had arrived there the previous evening and ...[Read More]

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Seismology

An interesting read about Inge Lehmann

Matthew Agius March 9, 2015

Inge Lehmann lived a long life from May 13th, 1888 to February 21st, 1993. She was a Danish seismologist who discovered the Earth’s inner core. In 1936 she postulated from existing seismic data that the Earth’s core is not a single molten sphere, but that an inner core exists, which has physical properties that are different from those in the outer core. A recent tribute has been publi ...[Read More]

ERE

Energy, Resources and the Environment

I’m a Geoscientist: Chris Juhlin – President

ERE Matters March 9, 2015

It’s I’m a Geoscientist week! Or more exactly: weeks. From March 9 until March 20, the EGU supports I’m a Geoscientist to help students engage with scientists about real science. The Energy, Resources and Environment Division of the European Geosciences Union encompasses a broad range of different ERE-related topics, from surface to subsurface, spanning all aspects of geosciences ...[Read More]