Divisions

Elisabetta Billotta and Gino González-Ilama June 1, 2022

Can human curiosity affect dynamic risk?

In simple words, the volcanic risk (R) can be defined as R = Value × Vulnerability × Hazard. The value is a figure that varies according to the total number of population and / or infrastructures at risk during a volcanic eruption, vulnerability is the percentage of value at risk for a given volcanic event and the hazard is the probability that a certain place may be affected by a determined hazar ...[Read More]

ST

Solar-Terrestrial Sciences

Reflection after the investigation of the direct First Parker Solar Probe Observation of the Interaction of Two Successive ICMEs

authored by Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla, Nathalia Alzate, Hebe Cremades, and Laura Rodríguez-García, edited by Luke Barnard May 31, 2022

In Heliophysics there is a scarcity of in-situ buoys that allows us to monitor and track the solar wind changes in our Sun’s atmosphere, the heliosphere. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission is one of those buoys that, together with Solar Orbiter (SolO, ESA/NASA Collaboration), is bringing a breath of fresh air in the effort to fully characterize the solar wind and study the evolution of the em ...[Read More]

TS

Tectonics and Structural Geology

The ECS TS team, and their activities between GAs

Hannah Davies May 30, 2022

As member of the EGU Tectonics and Structural Geology (TS) Early Career Scientist (ECS) Representative team, and with the outlook of the first hybrid EGU General Assembly (GA), I take the opportunity to highlight some of the activities and news of the ECS TS team. The ECS TS team has been very active all year round between last year’s #vEGU21 and the upcoming #EGU22 General Assembly. The activitie ...[Read More]

TS

Tectonics and Structural Geology

Features from the Field: Dikes and Sills

Samuele Papeschi and Hannah Davies May 30, 2022

Volcanoes are everywhere along plate margins and on hot spots on the planet’s surface. Just in the past 2 years, we have witnessed enormous explosive eruptions such as that of the Hunga Tonga volcano which released an amount of energy equivalent to hundreds of atomic bombs, and massive lava flows, as at the Cumbre Vieja at La Palma, which was estimated to have a total volume of 80 million cubic me ...[Read More]

NH

Natural Hazards

The new President-elect of the EGU Natural Hazards Division: a talk with Heidi Kreibich

Paulo Hader May 30, 2022

In today’s interview, we have the pleasure of talking with Dr Heidi Kreibich, lecturer at the Geography Department at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and head of the working group “Flood risk and climate adaptation” at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ). From her interest in investigating different types of flooding associated with complex physical and anthropogenic ...[Read More]

CR

Cryospheric Sciences

Meet Carleen Tijm-Reijmer, our fearless CR Division President!

T.J. Young May 27, 2022

Every division within the European Geosciences Union is led by a senior and junior representative, who oversee the happenings within their respective divisions. The senior representative of the Cryosphere Division is Carleen Tijm-Reijmer, who we’ve managed to track down here at EGU! We ask Carleen to explain her role within EGU and the CR Division. Please tell us a little bit about yourself! ...[Read More]

GD

Geodynamics

The Sassy Scientist – Programmed Screaming

The Sassy Scientist May 27, 2022

Live from the EGU assembly, from an anonymous chair in an anonymous room in the Vienna International Centre, during an anonymous session on some geoscience-related topic, my commitment of reporting the truth as-is does not stop. Siri has recently asked a very practical question concerning the organisation of your EGU experience: How do you make your own personal programme for EGU without screaming ...[Read More]

GMPV

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

EGU22: Friday Highlights

Franziska Keller May 27, 2022

Happy Friday! The last day of the #EGU22 has arrived! I really hope you had a great conference experience so far and we would be grateful if you would share your feedback here with us! But now some last tips on how to spend your last day of the general assembly. We hope you recovered already from our dinner yesterday, because Friday morning starts off quite intense right at 8:30 am. How about star ...[Read More]

NP

Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences

ClimarisQ: A game on the complexity of the climate systems and the extreme events

Davide Faranda May 26, 2022

ClimarisQ is a smartphone/web game from a scientific mediation project that highlights the complexity of the climate system and the urgency of collective action to limit climate change. It is available in four languages: English, French, Spanish and Italian. It is an app-game where players must make decisions to limit the frequency and impacts of extreme climate events and their impacts on human s ...[Read More]

GMPV

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

EGU22: Thursday Highlights

Franziska Keller May 26, 2022

Grand Prismatic Spring by David Mencin (via imaggeo.eu)

It’s Thursday! Many European countries would actually have a holiday today with a long morning in bed or a nice stroll around nature, but what is there that’s better than spending this day at the EGU conference center?! To help you make the best out of this holiday, we’ll give you some highlights of the day to navigate around! We suggest you to start your day early, there are some great sessions o ...[Read More]