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Bárbara Ferreira

Bárbara Ferreira was the Media and Communications Manager of the European Geosciences Union from 2011 to 2019. Bárbara has also worked as a science writer specialising in astrophysics and space sciences, producing articles for the European Space Agency and others on a freelance basis. She has a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Cambridge.

At the Assembly: Monday highlights

April 18, 2016
At the Assembly: Monday highlights
Participants arriving at the EGU General Assembly 2015(Credit: EGU/Foto Pfluegl)

Welcome to the 2016 General Assembly! This is the first full day of sessions and there’s a feast of them to choose from. Every day we’ll be sharing some super sessions and events at EGU 2016 here on GeoLog and you can complement this information with EGU Today, the daily newsletter of the General Assembly. And you can always follow the going-ons at the conference online, through the #EGU16 hashtag ...[Read More]

Job opportunity at the EGU General Assembly: press assistant

January 7, 2016
Job opportunity at the EGU General Assembly: press assistant
Press conference at the EGU 2015 General Assembly (Credit: EGU/Stephanie McClellan)

We have a vacancy for an early career science communicator or science journalism student in Europe to work at the press office of the 2016 General Assembly, which is taking place in Vienna, Austria, from 17–22 April. Applications from geosciences students with science communication experience are also welcome. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from people with experience in ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Mount Etna

October 5, 2015
Imaggeo on Mondays: Mount Etna
Mount Etna. Credit: Alicia Morugán (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

In this week’s Imaggeo on Monday’s image an almost Martian looking landscape, with ombre coloured soils, gives way to gently rolling hills, covered in luscious woods and vegetation. Were it not for the trees in the distance, you would be forgiven for thinking this image had been captured by a Mars rover. In truth, it is an entirely more earthly landscape: welcome to the slopes of Mt. Etna! Keep on ...[Read More]

Geosciences Column: What made the comet sing?

August 19, 2015
Geosciences Column: What made the comet sing?
Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 31 January 2015, at the time when it was still singing. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM

Late last year the Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) announced that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft has been studying since August 2014, was singing into space. Now, in a paper published today in the EGU’s open access journal Annales Geophysicae, the RPC team reveals more details about 67P’s song, including why the comet was singing. The sounds ...[Read More]