GeoLog

Early Career Scientists

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

and November 27, 2020
How many transdisciplinary researchers does it take to find out how an ocean sinks?
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]

First-time convening an EGU session? Some advice from the Early Career Scientists.

, and November 6, 2020
First-time convening an EGU session? Some advice from the Early Career Scientists.

With the most recent call for sessions for the next European Geosciences Union General Assembly, a diverse provisional programme has been put together. If you have been assigned your first EGU session as a convener – congratulations! But what happens now? Early Career Scientists representatives Andrea Madella (GM), Anna Gülcher (GD), and Tommaso Alberti (NPG) discuss what it’s like to conven ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: A window into a career in Science Policy, as EGU’s first Policy Intern.

September 4, 2020
GeoPolicy: A window into a career in Science Policy, as EGU’s first Policy Intern.
Photo Credit: Ned Staniland

My name is Ned Staniland and I am a third year PhD student in space physics at Imperial College London. I study the magnetic field of Saturn using data from the Cassini-Huygens mission that was launched in 1997. In July 2020, I was lucky enough to be EGU’s first intern where I worked in their policy and communications team.   Finding an Internship Since the beginning of my PhD, I have kept an ...[Read More]

Geotalk: Olga Vindušková, the Soil System Sciences Division’s co-blog and social media co-ordinator!

August 21, 2020
Geotalk: Olga Vindušková, the Soil System Sciences Division’s co-blog and social media co-ordinator!
Credit: Jaroslav Kukla

Hello Olga, thanks for speaking with us today, can you tell us a little about your background and how you got to where you are now? Thank you for inviting me for what might be my first interview! My background is in environmental science and I chose to study soils because of how useful they are (in supporting ecosystems and our well-being) and how interdisciplinary their study is, spanning biology ...[Read More]