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EGU Photo Competition 2024: Now open for submissions!

Hazel Gibson January 22, 2024

One of last year's winners: The Power of the Atlantic by Glenn Strypsteen

If you are registered for the EGU24 General Assembly (14 – 19 April), you can take part in our annual photo competition. Winners receive free registration to next year’s General Assembly! It’s that time of year again! Yes, today the fourteenth annual EGU photo competition opened for submissions!! Until 28 March, every participant registered for the General Assembly can submit up to three ori ...[Read More]

Are you ready to vote for your favourite Division blog of 2023?

Gillian D'Souza January 11, 2024

Our EGU blogging team has had a fantastic 2023 posting across our official blog, GeoLog and the division blogs. With the Near Year now officially upon us, you may know that we like to pause and reflect on our blogging efforts of the year gone by! Much like previous years, we saw yet again an impressive and insightful collection of blog posts throughout 2023. Most of our readers appreciate EGU’s bl ...[Read More]

Mind Your Head: How to have a mindful December and holiday season

ECS group: Work-Life Balance December 1, 2023

The EGU Life-Work-Balance group takes you on the road to a healthy life-work-balance. Behind every curve on this road, new aspects of mindfulness at work await you. (Image Credit: Ökyü Koç)

It’s December and the Life-Work-Balance group is recalling the “Mind Your Head” blog posts, a blogpost series which started in May 2018. We invite you to join our journey through 11 inspiring blog posts and five simple activities to foster our life-work-balance, revive knowledge and find new inspiration during this holiday season. A word at the beginning: perhaps your current life and daily routin ...[Read More]

Dive into the depths: 90 Years of Loch Ness monster lore

Devayani Khare November 10, 2023

An oil painting of the Loch Ness monster by Austrian artist Hugo Heikenwaelder. Image credits: Hugo Heikenwaelder, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons

Folk tales and myths, they’ve lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them. ~ Patrick Ness, American-British author (*nae, this Ness isn’t related to Nessie) Is it an eel? Is it a snake? Is it a diplodocus with fins? No, it’s Nessie! If there’s one myth that has weathered the passage of time and stands in defi ...[Read More]