Surge-type glaciers are the bi-polar member of the family of glacier dynamics. Every now and then they go into a complete fury and nobody really understands why. What are surge-type glaciers? Surge-type glaciers typically go through what we call the “surge cycle”. It is divided into two phases; a long quiescent phase during which the glacier is more or less dormant, followed by much shorter phase ...[Read More]
We are looking for individuals interested in helping with the running of this blog dedicated to the Seismology Division (SM) within EGU. Single contributions are also welcome. The aim of this blog is to share latest news, ideas, promote upcoming events/conferences, and other information that is relevant to the seismological community. The blog is run in conjunction with a dedicated Facebook Page f ...[Read More]
This is a guest post written by Jürgen Kusche, who has convened numerous sessions on various international conferences, and had the wonderful idea to use the geodesy division blog to initiate an open discussion on the topic session convening. For that reason, readers are encouraged to comment at the end of this post. Currently, Jürgen Kusche is professor at the Chair of Astronomical, Mathematical ...[Read More]
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. *** Pluymakers, A. M. H., J. E. Samuelson, A. R. Niemeijer, and C. J. Spiers (2014), Effects of temperature and CO2 on the frictional behavior o ...[Read More]
Everyday we come into contact with technology that has changed the way we work, live and even think. Yet it is still easy to forget how integral satellite technology is to our daily lives; over two thousand artificial satellites currently orbit our planet – satellites for navigation, for telecommunication, for meteorology, and for environmental and climate monitoring. The latter two categori ...[Read More]
I came across the VERCE Workshop which I think could be of interest to many within the Seismology Division. The details provided below are also available on the VERCE website. Free VERCE training on Forward modelling and data intensive seismology using the VERCE platform. VERCE is developing a data-intensive e-science environment to enable innovative data analysis and data modelling methods that f ...[Read More]
Every year, young students have the opportunity to compete for the Outstanding Student Poster Award (OSPA) at the EGU General Assembly. The OSP Award is intended to further improve the overall quality of poster presentations and, most importantly, to encourage younger colleagues in presenting their work in form of a poster. Last year’s OSPA Winner in the Energy, Resources and Environment Div ...[Read More]
You’re an early career scientist (ECS), or maybe you mentor one. So you know that we ECS are busy people, with responsibilities ranging from coursework to teaching, research to outreach, and labwork to fieldwork. And now there is this listicle (no, I’m not embarrassed about choosing this format) telling you to make time in your already packed day to volunteer some of your time to a(n early career) ...[Read More]
Hello fellow scientists! We hope you had a good start of the new year: may it be filled with plenty of exciting new research :) As a quick reminder, the EGU abstract submission deadline is this week: on Wednesday the 7th of January at 13.00 CET. Don’t forget to submit your abstract to one of our ERE sessions and share your interesting work with us! You can submit your abstract via the EGU we ...[Read More]
Shortly before leaving our offices for Christmas holidays, we’d like to whish you all a merry Christmas and a perfect start into the new year! But before saying goodbye to you for 2014 we want to announce 3 important geomorphology events in 2015: EGU 2015 abtract submission on January 7th. In 2015 the EGU General Assembly will be from 12-17 April. The “2nd International Young Geomorphl ...[Read More]
