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Tectonics and Structural Geology

Gifting geologist made easy – a guide to spoil your favorite persons

November 27, 2025
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The end of the year is around the corner. For many of us, it will be a time of celebration, gathering, party, and GIFTS! And if you think spoiling a geologist is hard, then I’ve got your back. In this post I gather diverse gift ideas, the classics of course and some really unique treasures to get to your favorite geologist (who can be yourself of course). You’ll find ideas whatever you ...[Read More]

HS
Hydrological Sciences

ROBIN: Tracking Climate Change Through the World’s Most Natural Rivers

and November 27, 2025
ROBIN: Tracking Climate Change Through the World’s Most Natural Rivers

Hydrological change is one of the clearest signals of climate variability and human impact on the environment. Yet detecting these changes reliably requires robust, long-term data from river basins that are as close to “natural” as possible, with little influence from dams, abstractions, land use change or any other human influences. That’s where the ROBIN project comes in.  ROBIN, or the Referenc ...[Read More]

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Solar-Terrestrial Sciences

A talk with scientists across Europe: building the future of European heliophysics together

November 23, 2025
A talk with scientists across Europe: building the future of European heliophysics together

“Heliophysics studies the Sun, its sphere of influence, and how it affects the bodies in the solar system.” – this holistic approach to understanding our space environment is at the heart of the European Heliophysics Community (EHC), an open and inclusive network of researchers across Europe (https://www.heliophysics.eu/). The EHC promotes collaborative, curiosity-driven science that explore ...[Read More]

CR
Cryospheric Sciences

When August Brought Snow: Unseasonal Snowfall Disrupts Life in Ladakh’s High Valley Village

, and November 21, 2025
When August Brought Snow: Unseasonal Snowfall Disrupts Life in Ladakh’s High Valley Village

August in Ladakh is a time of golden fields and harvest songs, not snowstorms. Yet in 2025, this rhythm broke. Panikhar village in Ladakh woke beneath fifteen centimetres of snow, an unseasonal blanket that changed the functioning of the valley and stunned its people. What began as a glaciological field trip turned into a firsthand encounter with climate uncertainty. This blog captures those extra ...[Read More]

TS
Tectonics and Structural Geology

Beyond Tectonics (and Beyond Earth): On the geological timescales of other rocky bodies in our solar system

November 20, 2025
Beyond Tectonics (and Beyond Earth): On the geological timescales of other rocky bodies in our solar system

Geological timescales Unless you regularly work in “deep” time or are very interested in Earth’s very ancient history you might not be too familiar with Earth’s geological timescale. What I am referring to is this:     From the very beginning of Earth’s formation ~4.5 billion years ago to today each period is defined and catalogued by events that occurred wi ...[Read More]

GM
Geomorphology

Highlighting: Crete!

November 17, 2025
Highlighting: Crete!

This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact Emma Lodes (GM blog editor, elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others.  Interview with Richard Ott, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam. Email: r.f.ott@uva.nl, personal website: https://richardott.weebly.com/ Questions by Emma Lodes. We’re continuing ...[Read More]

NH
Natural Hazards

How can we encourage and empower Early Career Researchers? Reflections on a short course held at EGU 2025

, , , , and November 17, 2025
How can we encourage and empower Early Career Researchers? Reflections on a short course held at EGU 2025

At the EGU General Assembly 2025, we initiated a short course entitled “Best Practices for Early Career Researcher (ECR) Engagement and Empowerment in Research Projects”, designed and led by Early Career Researchers (ECRs). The goal was to provide an interactive platform for ECRs, project leaders, and anyone involved in research projects to come together, reflect, share experiences, co-learn, and ...[Read More]

CR
Cryospheric Sciences

Geysers, Geese, and Graph Neural Networks: Impressions from the Glaciology in Machine Learning Summer School (GlaMacLeS)

, and November 14, 2025
Geysers, Geese, and Graph Neural Networks: Impressions from the Glaciology in Machine Learning Summer School (GlaMacLeS)

An isolated, idyllic, and inspiring setting in the gorgeous Centennial Valley of Montana, where nothing pulls your attention from the task ahead, a motivated group of PhD students and postdocs in glaciology, and five energetic lecturers: the perfect combination for tackling the ambitious challenge of exploring the interface between glaciology and machine learning. Who wouldn’t learn well here, esp ...[Read More]

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Atmospheric Sciences

“You Can’t Get Around Clouds”: A Conversation with Climate Scientist Ulrike Lohmann

November 13, 2025
“You Can’t Get Around Clouds”: A Conversation with Climate Scientist Ulrike Lohmann

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lohmann is a leading atmospheric physicist and climate scientist at ETH Zurich’s Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, renowned for her pioneering work on clouds, aerosols, and their interactions within the Earth’s climate system. Her research has significantly advanced our understanding of how microscopic particles influence cloud formation and, in turn, the global ...[Read More]

HS
Hydrological Sciences

Where The River Feeds The Wells: A Story Of Smart Monitoring For Safe Drinking Water Supply

, and November 13, 2025
Where The River Feeds The Wells: A Story Of Smart Monitoring For Safe Drinking Water Supply

When a river becomes your drinking water  When you open the tap in Tarnów, a charming city in southern Poland with a history dating back to the Middle Ages, chances are that most of the water you are about to drink once flowed in the nearby Dunajec River. Yet between the river and your glass lies an invisible world: a network of sand and gravel that filters, delays, and transforms the river’s wate ...[Read More]