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GD
Geodynamics

Sliding across the Solar System – The missing origins of gigantic landslides

and November 3, 2021
Sliding across the Solar System – The missing origins of gigantic landslides

Landslides can be impressively huge and fast and can occur on all sorts of places including asteroids, rocky moons and Mars! Giulia Magnarini Post Doctoral Researcher at the Natural History Museum in London writes all about these gigantic landslides and the clues they could hold into the martian past! Gigantic landslides are ubiquitous in our solar system. Indeed, Earth, Mars, Mercury, Venus, aste ...[Read More]

HS
Hydrological Sciences

Vienna or not Vienna? On the way to #EGU22

November 3, 2021
Vienna or not Vienna? On the way to #EGU22

The EGU Programme committee (PC) usually meets several times in a year to prepare the EGU General Assembly (GA). In these “virtual” times, they have met even more than usual, as more issues have to be discussed and reflected upon: hybrid format, accessibility, fees and registration rates, travel support, education, outreach, communication, side events, etc. The PC meeting dedicated to finalize the ...[Read More]

NH
Natural Hazards

Building a risk-aware culture

November 1, 2021
Building a risk-aware culture

Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The future depends on what you do today”. In the past months, we have witnessed extreme weather events, wildfires, earthquakes, and volcanic activity in different parts of the world. Although this activity is ordinary for a living planet like Earth, it can disturb the modern way of living and put people at risk. Even for the events that can be predicted with a higher deg ...[Read More]

BG
Biogeosciences

Write for the BG Blog!

October 29, 2021
Write for the BG Blog!

We are delighted to be able to invite members of the Biogeosciences community to contribute to our division blog. This is a fantastic opportunity to share your research, fieldwork or opinion/comment piece. Our editors will work with you to perfect your posts and we will share the blog through our social media channels to ensure it reaches a wide audience. We will be accepting blog posts in the fol ...[Read More]

CR
Cryospheric Sciences

Of Polar Bears and Sediment Cores: a Scientific Cruise in the Arctic

October 29, 2021
Of Polar Bears and Sediment Cores: a Scientific Cruise in the Arctic

Through the scientific excursion part of the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) course ‘Arctic Late Quaternary Glacial and Marine Environmental History’, a few lucky grad students got to visit Nordaustlandet, northeastern Svalbard. This is the story of our research adventure in this beautiful, remote part of the Arctic. On a bright and early morning in late August, a group of 16 students, 4 prof ...[Read More]

GD
Geodynamics

The Sassy Scientist – Need For Compliments

October 29, 2021
The Sassy Scientist – Need For Compliments

Scientists are starved for recognition. When that little compliment we have been fishing for does not arrive from our supervisor, but from an unkown benefactor, we tend to open our hearts to them. But we should be careful about our new email besties. Delfina asks: Publishers have approached me for a book deal. How do I proceed? Dear Delfina, For the vast majority of the times, ignore them. Chances ...[Read More]

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

EGU GMPV ECS Campfires – Wednesday 10th November 11am CET

October 29, 2021
EGU GMPV ECS Campfires – Wednesday 10th November 11am CET

The 14th edition of the Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology division’s early career scientists Campfire will be a general format event. The talks will be held on Wednesday 10th November at 11am CET on Zoom. Our three ECS speakers are:   1. Alessia Falasconi (Instagram: @la.lessie) Ph.D. Student @ the University of Florence, Italy Title: The opening phase of the Pomici di Avell ...[Read More]

GD
Geodynamics

The Deccan Chronicle: Plume or no-Plume? Perspective from a Deccan dyke swarm

and October 27, 2021
The Deccan Chronicle: Plume or no-Plume? Perspective from a Deccan dyke swarm

Deccan volcanism is one of the landmark events in India’s geodynamical history. Yet, its origin is still under debate regarding its association with the Réunion plume.  In this week’s news and views, Ayanangshu Das, a PhD student at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, explains their recent study to understand the emplacement mechanism by observing the magm ...[Read More]

NP
Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences

From the eyes of tropical cyclones to flooded strands : how climatologists use weather events to make climate predictions?

October 26, 2021
From the eyes of tropical cyclones to flooded strands : how climatologists use weather events to make climate predictions?

While extreme events are meteorological in nature, climatologists collect them to draw conclusions about the state of the present climate and to get clues how they possibly change in the future. Thus, climate and weather find common ground. If we consider an event alone, we are not studying the climate, we are in the field of meteorology, the goal of climatologists is therefore to put extreme even ...[Read More]

NP
Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences

The 2021 Nobel Prize on Physics awarded to the physics of complex systems!

October 25, 2021
The 2021 Nobel Prize on Physics awarded to the physics of complex systems!

On October 7th, the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 was announced. It came as a stunning surprise for the Non-linear Processes and Climate communities, the recipients of this year’s award being two outstanding senior climate scientists, Klaus Hasselmann and Syukuro Manabe, and a theoretical physicist specialized in complex systems, Giorgio Parisi. For many, this award was welcomed as a long-awaited re ...[Read More]