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Sara Mynott

Sara Mynott is a science writer and communicator, specialising in stories about wildlife and the environment. Sara has over a decade of experience engaging policymakers, practitioners and the broader public, and holds a PhD from the University of Exeter. Her research background is interdisciplinary; spanning fields as diverse as ecology, social science, and animal behaviour.

Imaggeo on Mondays: Scorching the soil

 This week’s Imaggeo on Mondays is brought to you by the photographer himself, Antonio Jordán (Univerity of Sevilla, Spain), who describes the impact of forest fires on soil properties. This photo was taken while planning some field experiments: in the image, several water drops are resting on a surface soil layer without infiltrating. This process is known as water repellency. Water repellency is ...[Read More]

Fancy joining the EGU Blog Network?

The time has come to expand the EGU blog network! We currently feature blogs in palaeontology (Green Tea and Velociraptors), international development (Geology for Global Development) and geochemistry (GeoSphere) – we love them, but it simply isn’t enough. With so much great geoscience out there, we’d love to hear from more fields within the Earth, planetary and space sciences! The aim of the netw ...[Read More]

Photo competition at the EGU 2013 General Assembly

If you are pre-registered for the 2013 General Assembly (Vienna, 7—12 April), you can now submit photos and moving images to our annual competition! Winners receive a free registration to next year’s General Assembly. The fourth annual EGU photo competition is now open! Up until 26 March, every pre-registered participant of the General Assembly can submit up to two photos on any broad theme relate ...[Read More]

Become a book reviewer for the EGU newsletter!

Interested in free books and getting published? The European Geosciences Union has an opportunity for you… The Union’s newsletter, GeoQ, is a magazine distributed for free to all Union members – that’s around 12,000 scientists – and we’re looking for reviewers wiling to write short book reviews for it! Whether you are a young scientists or an established researcher in the Earth, planetary an ...[Read More]