Division blogs

Hydrological Sciences

Organizing a Workshop as an ECS: Lessons learned from “Cryosphere-groundwater interactions: a missing link in mountain water research”

Marit van Tiel, Lauren Somers, Caroline Aubry-Wake and Franzi Koch July 12, 2023

Plenary discussion on the outcomes of one of the group discussions on “where does the water go in the glacierized landscape”?

Despite the importance of mountains for downstream water supply, there are large gaps in our scientific understanding of how snow and ice meltwater travels through the landscape, specifically which flowpaths meltwater takes below the surface. Plus, existing knowledge is scattered throughout various sub-disciplines of mountain hydrology: glaciology, snow science, hydrogeology, and surface hydrology. That is …[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Linking slab graveyards and ghost-arc geochemical signatures in the South Atlantic and Southwest Indian Mid-Ocean Ridges

Guido Gianni and edited by Constanza Rodriguez Piceda July 12, 2023

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Natural Hazards

Five (or more) reasons why… you should become a blog editor about natural hazards!

Asimina Voskaki and Silvia De Angeli July 10, 2023

If you want to be a blog editor about natural hazards… This post is for you! The EGU Natural Hazards Division Blog Editorial Team is looking for new motivated blog editors to join our interdisciplinary and inclusive team. Now you are wondering why you should join us. There are plenty of good reasons, indeed. In …[Read More]

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Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

A Geologist’s Dream Vacation: Exploring Europe’s Volcanic Wonders!

Franziska Keller July 10, 2023

Summer time can be stressful – you have plenty of things to do at work but at the same time you’re thinking about your next vacation all the time. This is at least how I was feeling, combined with some curiosity, I asked chatGPT to write a blog post about vacation destinations for geologist around …[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Did you know there is light pollution even in the Arctic?

Loeka Jongejans July 7, 2023

Light emissions are increasing worldwide and much of the world is light polluted due to excessive and inefficient light use. This has negative consequences for many organisms, such as birds, insects, fish, plants and humans. Even in the high Arctic, which is remote and sparsely populated, and experiences the polar night for a large part …[Read More]

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Climate: Past, Present & Future

Put a Climate lab in school and make it better!

Roy Arindam July 6, 2023

Put a Climate lab in school and make it better “The car will not go through this road”, the driver replied. Well, the path, which he was mentioning was a mudslide made up of clay soil, completely wet from the rain the previous day. We were traveling to a small village in Sundarban to establish …[Read More]

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Geodynamics

How has the Gibraltar slab influenced the Alboran domain deformation?

Pedro J. Gea, edited by Zhibin Lei and edited by Michaël Pons July 5, 2023

Figure 1. Topography of the Gibraltar Arc region. The shaded area indicates the position of positive seismic velocity anomaly supposedly representing the position of the slab at 270 km depth from seismic tomography (Amaru, 2007). The purple line shows the position of the modelled cross-section for the model shown in this blog. Blue dots indicate …[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Hidden Ice of the Greater Caucasus

Levan Tielidze June 30, 2023

In this week’s blog, Levan Tielidze tells us about the first inventory of rock glaciers from the Greater Caucasus as an important basis for further research of geomorphology and palaeoglaciology in this region. What are Rock Glaciers? Rock glaciers are distinctive geomorphological landforms of frozen debris that are supersaturated with ice. The low ice velocity …[Read More]

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Geodynamics

The Sassy Scientist – A survival guide for grant writing

The Sassy Scientist June 30, 2023

Well, well, well, what do we have in here? Is that another fellow geoscientist going after a fund? Yes, seems like it. First of all good luck mate, a tough journey is ahead of you. I hope you have a lucky item with you to keep you alive during this period. So this time we …[Read More]

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Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology

The effects of water pollution on tiny algae

Cinzia Bottini June 29, 2023

With an increase in the Earth’s population, development and industrialization are taking place rapidly and these get the major source of water contamination. Heavy metals are one of the most toxic contaminants of the aquatic ecosystems. Increasing industrialization and anthropogenic activities are causing an increasing pollution in soils and water. More than 100,000 chemicals are …[Read More]