GeoLog

GeoTalk: Meet Marie Cavitte, policy officer for the Cryosphere Division, member of the EGU Climate Hazards Task Force, former Blue Book trainee

Damla Posta February 17, 2026

Marie Cavitte, during a welcome session at the EU Parliament

Welcome, Marie! Could you please introduce yourself to our readers? Hi, my name is Marie Cavitte. I’m a glaciologist and climatologist with a passion for the polar regions. I spent 10 years studying Antarctica. I started off during my Masters, then PhD, looking at the oldest ice on Earth, hunting for THE region of the ice sheet that might contain million-year-old ice. An ice core has been drilled ...[Read More]

McMurdo Sound’s 40th anniversary: An expedition journal by Julia Martin

Julia Martin February 16, 2026

The author, Julia Martin, on the sea ice in McMurdo Sound. (Photo: Alex Parkin)

It was October 28, 2022 around 3 p.m. Fascinated by the majestic white snow-covered mountain caps, deep-blue sea ice cracks and light-blue pressure ridges, I gently press my nose against the cold double-glassed window of the Royal New Zealand 757. The tires smoothly touch the ground, and the warm voice of the flight attendant fills the dry air in the aircraft: “Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Ant ...[Read More]

International Day of Women and Girls in Science : Refection from Simona, a Rome-based seismologist

Simona Gabrielli February 11, 2026

Simona Gabrielli, the author, on the georadar campaign she worked on on Mount St Helens.

Hello you, and happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! My name is Simona Gabrielli, and I am a researcher at the INGV (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy), where I study seismic attenuation (in other words: how earthquakes lose energy while passing through rocks), to understand the presence of fractures and fluids. My specialization in recent years has been in tec ...[Read More]

“Should I just jump in the lake in my lab coat?” EGU’s Teacher-Scientist Pairing Scheme

Laura Coulson and Sarah Coulson February 10, 2026

Laura Coulson steps out of her lab and jumps into the lake to bring science into classrooms.

This was the moment when our video duet lesson really started to take shape. Yes, we’d already sketched the idea for a lake stratification lesson months earlier when we applied for EGU’s Teacher–Scientist Pairing Scheme, supported by the Education and Outreach committees, but we wanted an opening that would stop students in their tracks. Nothing like a cold plunge to get everyone’s attention! We b ...[Read More]