Cryospheric Sciences

#vEGU21: #EGUartKIDS Hall of Fame – Extreme e-ART-h!

Hazel Gibson May 12, 2021

Extreme e-ART-h logo created by Hannah Turton.

The EGU Kids Art activity normally happens in person in the creche at the conference centre during the General Assembly, but first last year and now this year we have had to move all our activities online instead. Working together – two of our Division Early Career Scientist teams, one from Natural Hazards and one from Cryospheric Sciences came up with this year’s theme ‘Extreme ...[Read More]

Winners of the EGU Best Blog Posts of 2020 Competition

Hazel Gibson February 5, 2021

2020 was a brilliant year for our blogging network here at EGU. Across the EGU’s official blog, GeoLog, as well as the network and division blogs there were so many interesting, educational and just downright entertaining posts this year it was hard to get the blog editors to choose their favourites! Nevertheless at the beginning of January, to celebrate the excellent display of science writing ac ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Konsfjorden and Kronebreen glacier

Andy Smedley December 28, 2020

Konsfjorden and Kronebreen glacier . Credit: Andy Smedley (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Taken shortly after our departure from Ny-Ålesund after our first “Lost Meteorites” field trial in Greenland testing new equipment that can be used to discover ‘missing’ iron meteorites in Antarctica, the return flight gave incredible views of the surrounding landscape. This photo was taken looking down to the icy waters of Kongsfjorden on the west coast of Svalbard and the ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Nature of ice crystals

Katarzyna Walczak December 21, 2020

Nature of ice crystals . Credit: Katarzyna Walczak (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Moisture coming from the ground is freezing at the entrances of small ground pockets, shaping wonderful natural ice crystals, during a very cold and dry winter in Poland in 2019. Description by Katarzyna Walczak, after the description on imaggeo.egu.eu. Imaggeo is the EGU’s online open access geosciences image repository. All geoscientists (and others) can submit their photographs and video ...[Read More]