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Hazel Gibson

Hazel Gibson is Head of Communications at the European Geosciences Union. She is responsible for the management of the Union's social media presence and the EGU blogs, where she writes regularly for the EGU's official blog, GeoLog. She has a PhD in Geoscience Communication and Cognition from the University of Plymouth in the UK. Hazel tweets @iamhazelgibson.

Get the picture? How choosing the right photograph can add value to your science communication

August 13, 2021
Get the picture? How choosing the right photograph can add value to your science communication
Photo by Isaac Kerlow (from imaggeo)

If you are a scientist you probably know the value of a good, well designed image. The right graph or diagram can help the reader to really grasp the meaning of a complicated theory or process, help to illuminate a critical piece of data, or highlight a key finding. But whilst much advice exists about how to create effective, accessible images, what about photographs?   In our early training, ...[Read More]

Where can I watch the vEGU21 keynote sessions?

August 6, 2021
Where can I watch the vEGU21 keynote sessions?

Each year EGU presents several keynote sessions called the Union Symposia and Great Debates. These Union-wide events are carefully selected each year to cover topics that are of broad interest to our members, regardless of which Division or field of Geoscience they most closely associate with.   During the two weeks of the meeting we shared ten Great Debates and Union Symposia streamed live d ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during July!

July 30, 2021
GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during July!

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we will be putting the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights roundup. For July, the Divisions we are featuring are: Natural Hazards (NH) and Geomorphology (GM). They are served by the journals: Geoscientific Model Development (GMD), Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences ( ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during June!

June 30, 2021
GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during June!

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we will be putting the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights roundup. For June, the Divisions we are featuring are: Ocean Science (OS) and Biogeosciences (BG). They are served by the journals: Geoscientific Model Development (GMD), Ocean Sciences (OS), Biogeosciences (BG) and ...[Read More]