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ERE
Energy, Resources and the Environment

Words on Wednesday: Cobalt, chromium and nickel contents in soils and plants from a serpentinite quarry

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. *** Lago-Vila, M., Arenas-Lago, D., Rodríguez-Seijo, A., Andrade Couce, M. L., and Vega, F. A., 2015. Cobalt, chromium and nickel contents in so ...[Read More]

ERE
Energy, Resources and the Environment

ERE Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award: who would you nominate?

Every year the EGU rewards outstanding young or early career scientists with the Arne Richter Outstanding Young Scientist Award (OYSA), or one of the Division Outstanding Young Scientist Awards. These awards are granted for an outstanding research contribution in the Earth, planetary and space sciences, and are intended to identify the awardees as role models for the next generation of young scien ...[Read More]

ERE
Energy, Resources and the Environment

The Sound of Climate Change: ‘Planetary Bands, Warming World’ by Daniel Crawford

For scientists, it can often be challenging to convert all our numbers and figures into something that is understandable for laymen. How can you make all these findings and knowledge we have tangible, speaking to people’s emotions? Daniel Crawford from the University of Minnesota translated NASA‘s climate change data to a musical composition. Each of the four zones in the Northern Hemi ...[Read More]

ERE
Energy, Resources and the Environment

Words on Wednesday: Flow-through experiments on water–rock interactions in a sandstone caused by CO2 injection at pressures and temperatures mimicking reservoir conditions

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. This week, we would like to share with you the latest manuscript of Farhana Huq, who was our guest-blogger on Monday! :) *** Huq, F., S.B. Hader ...[Read More]

ERE
Energy, Resources and the Environment

In NY Times: Butting Heads in the Himalayas

The environment we live in is shaped by many factors. It is not just how we use the land, resources and energy that is provided to us, there may also be factors that are simply out of our control. In recent weeks, this has become painfully clear in the area near Kathmandu, Nepal. Two devastating earthquakes have taken place within only a short amount of time, leaving a trail of destruction. We kno ...[Read More]

ERE
Energy, Resources and the Environment

From EGU to the Real World: meet ERE Young Scientist Farhana Huq

The ERE Division loves to hear from its Young/Early Career Scientists. What is it that you do that relates to ERE? What lies beyond an ERE-oriented study or PhD? Tell us what you like about working on Energy, Resources and Environment-related research. We’d love to hear it! :) Today we have Farhana Huq, who gives us some insight into how her PhD project lead to a job on the boundary between ...[Read More]

GM
Geomorphology

Call for nominations: R.A. Bagnold medal and Outstanding Early-Career Scientist Award

Today I would like to draw your attention to the EGU Awards and Medals programme of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) for the year 2016, which is now open for nominations. The Geomorphology Division awards the Ralph Alger Bagnold medal to individuals in recognition of their outstanding scientific contribution to the study of geomorphology: http://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/ralph-alger-bagnold/ Th ...[Read More]

CR
Cryospheric Sciences

My first journey to Antarctica – Brice Van Liefferinge

My first journey to Antarctica – Brice Van Liefferinge

19 November 2014, the Iliuchine 76 gently lands on the runway of the Russian Antarctic station, Novolazarevskaya, in Dronning Maud Land. For the first time, I’m in Antarctica! It is 4 o’clock in the morning and we need to hurriedly offload 2 tons of material intended for our field mission near the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Station. I’m deeply impressed by the landscape although it is dotted with ...[Read More]

SM
Seismology

A great success

The EGU General Assembly 2015 was  a great success with 4,870 oral, 8,489 poster, and 705 PICO presentations as well as 11,837 scientists attending from 108 countries. Please find more details at: http://www.egu2015.eu Give us feedback To help improve improve the quality of the conference  and also your experience with EGU please provide your feedback at: http://egu2015.eu/feedback Upload your pre ...[Read More]

SSS
Soil System Sciences

Fire and soil microorganisms: where should we focus on?

Fire and soil microorganisms: where should we focus on?

Gema Bárcenas-Moreno University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain Currently, the complexity of soil microbial ecology on soil systems is a hot topic in the environmental sciences, since the scientific community has achieved a deep knowledge of the relevance of microorganisms in soil processes. After several decades of study of the effects of wildfires on soils, one of the main conclusions is that soil mi ...[Read More]