Early Career Scientists

GeoTalk: meet David Fernández-Blanco, your new Union-level Early Career Scientist Representative!

Simon Clark May 24, 2023

David Fernández-Blanco

Hello David. Thank you for agreeing to this interview! To break ground, could you tell our readers about yourself and your career background? Hi Simon. It’s my pleasure, thank you for inviting me. Well, I’m a Spanish “tectonicist” and I’ve been lucky to work in great institutions all over Europe; Amsterdam, Paris, Zürich, London, and Barcelona, where I live now… ...[Read More]

Honest observations about EGU23 poster designs: from geophysicist and graphic designer Fabio Crameri

Fabio Crameri May 3, 2023

Poster Hall at the EGU 2018 General Assembly at the Austria Center Vienna (Credit: EGU/Keri McNamara)

Science tells us: more is more, and less is less. As geoscientists, we therefore intuitively conceive paragraphs of text as a lot of information, and a generous selection of colours as strongly eye-catching. But text-filled, rainbow-coloured poster presentations communicate neither effectively nor in an accessible manner. After working for months or even years on a geoscience project, we have a lo ...[Read More]

EGU23 Photo Competition finalists – who will you vote for?

Hazel Gibson April 17, 2023

This year’s Photo Competition judging panel did a fantastic job of narrowing down the outstanding photo submissions to the EGU’s Photo Competition to just 10 finalists! The finalist photos are listed below and on the Imaggeo website where you can vote for them from Sunday 23 April until Thursday, 27 April 2023 – voting closes at 18:00 CEST. The three photos with the most votes will be ...[Read More]

How to make your geoscience communication publishable: Find out at EGU23

Solmaz Mohadjer April 14, 2023

Solmaz Mohadjer is the winner of one of the first EGU Public Engagement Grants competition in 2016. Credit: Solmaz Mohadjer

A long time ago, when I walked into the Ministry of Education building in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) to inquire about offering an earthquake education workshop in a public school, I had no research agenda, let alone thinking about publishing it one day. All I wanted was to do something useful: sharing earthquake science with school children. Recognizing the value of geoscience communication, my graduat ...[Read More]