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Damla Posta

Damla Posta is a Science Policy Assistant at EGU since December 2024. She is currently pursuing an MSc degree in Environmental Governance at the University of Freiburg. She has an interdisciplinary background in Sociology, Economics, and Anthropology with experience in urban and global studies and policy analysis.

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]

GeoPolicy: The first case of rights of Nature in Europe: The Mar Menor Lagoon

Damla Posta October 17, 2025

Eutrophication in Ioannina lake in Epirus, Greece. Photo by Konstantinos Kourtidis, Demokritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece. Source: Imaggeo

The rights of Nature: A new paradigm Does Nature have inalienable rights just as humans do? This is what the rights of Nature paradigm stands for, marking a radical departure from the assumption that Nature is property under the law. The idea of rights for Nature stems from legal philosophy and political science. Partially, it is a product of the concept deep ecology, developed by the Norwegian ph ...[Read More]