Early Career Scientists

#NominateHer – gender matters in awards and medals

Hazel Gibson March 8, 2021

Retreat of the ice giants. Credit: Gabriel Sigmund (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Today is International Women’s Day around the world, a day where we celebrate the progress that women, and people across the gender spectrum, have made towards gaining equity, but also take a hard look at how we can do better to support these under-represented groups in our societal structures. For scientific organizations, one of the most visible ways that we can note both the disparity bet ...[Read More]

The women of EGU in 2021!

Hazel Gibson February 11, 2021

Mapping the Algerian shoreline . Credit: Filippo Dallosso (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Happy International Women in Science Day 2021! We at EGU are very lucky to have many outstanding women who participate in the running of the European Geosciences Union. We are delighted to introduce you to just a few of our hard working, inspiring, creative and passionate women of EGU – especially as several of them will be stepping down at the General Assembly this year as their terms of se ...[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]

How many transdisciplinary researchers does it take to find out how an ocean sinks?

Grace Shephard and Fabio Crameri November 27, 2020

The 14 early career (PhD students, postdocs and lecturers) members of the SZI Database team. (Photo credit CEED, University of Olso)

There is no shortage of increasingly uphill challenges in the current research landscape, especially for Early Career researchers: discouragingly long-standing science questions; minimal freedom for developing methodologies; invariably ambivalent proposal reviews; an academic grading scheme based mainly on publication productivity and impact; and enforced competition for few permanent research pos ...[Read More]