Recently, an increased number of visually striking “scientific” images have been found online: snapshots of turbulent flows with dreamlike structure, eerily symmetric cloud patterns, and what appeared to be global temperature fields annotated with plausible colormaps and scientific-looking labels. Many of these posts quickly go viral on social media. And yet, in many cases, the …[Read More]
How do earthquakes start? Earthquakes occur when a block of rock rapidly slides past another along an interface or a discontinuity in the medium and release energy in the form of seismic waves. Turns out, the surface of the earth is riddled with a lot of these discontinuities, which we call “faults”. If we plot …[Read More]
The Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems (GI) Division is one of the many divisions within the EGU. However, have you ever wondered what the GI division does? Our mission is to advance geoscientific research by promoting innovation, collaboration, and knowledge exchange in instrumentation, technology, and data systems across all geoscience disciplines. We are an interdisciplinary …[Read More]
On this page, we regularly update open positions, workshops, schools or internships in Seismology for early career scientists. Do you have a job on offer? Would you like to advertise your workshop? Contact us at ecs-sm@egu.eu Please, note that other available research positions are displayed on the EGU Jobs Portal. We invite you to explore …[Read More]
When we think of Earth’s rotation, it is tempting to imagine a perfectly smooth spin. But in reality, Earth’s rotation is irregular and dynamic, and is influenced by forces inside and outside of our planet. To describe the changing orientation of the Earth in space over time Earth Orientation Parameters (EOPs) are measured with fundamental …[Read More]
This miniseries features the tradition of ‘PhD hat’ making in German research institutes and universities. For those of you unfamiliar with this idea (as I once was), this is one of the final milestones a graduate student has before they are officially a “Dr.”. Upon the successful defense of a thesis, the labmates of the …[Read More]
Walking the halls of the EGU General Assembly 2025 a few weeks ago, I was full of child-like curiosity. Being surrounded by people doing fascinating, creative, and innovative research felt like a dream come true. New faces every day, big talks on small advances and complicated methodologies. I learned about mountain ecology and failing snow-models, …[Read More]
Hello there! It’s Constanza and Michaël your GD editors-in-chief once again. End of June marks the 8th anniversary of the blog, so happy birthday to the blog! It’s been some pretty busy weeks of preparation behind the scenes after the EGU General Assembly to bring together the new blog team for the year 2025-2026. We …[Read More]
We’re excited to invite you to the fifth edition of the Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology Campfires of the 2024/2025 season! Join us on Thursday, June 26th at 4 pm CEST on Zoom for a Scientific Campfire, during which three Early Career Scientists will present their research to the community. Our speakers for this edition …[Read More]
The original goal of this study was to understand how the local dimension of the attractor of a dynamical system could be used to estimate the predictability of the future state of the system, and apply this in the case of radar images of rain. The local dimension using Extreme Value Theory (EVT) has been …[Read More]
