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Congratulations to the 2025 winner of the first ever Geolog post of the year!

Congratulations to the 2025 winner of the first ever Geolog post of the year!

At EGU, we’re always looking for new ways to celebrate and amplify the voices of our community. For our second edition of the top Geolog post of the year in 2025, we selected the top five performing blog posts and held an internal vote within the EGU Executive Office to select the winner. We are now excited to announce that the award for the best blog of 2025 goes to (drumroll …) CJ Rajendra ...[Read More]

Congratulations to the winners of the best EGU division blogs of 2025!

Congratulations to the winners of the best EGU division blogs of 2025!

If you’re a regular reader of the EGU blogs, you may notice a certain annual tradition of ours: we like to celebrate the contribution of our science writers and bloggers over the year gone by. And 2025 was no exception of course; we had a number of inspiring and thought-provoking blog posts published across the EGU’s official blog GeoLog and division blogs. Thank you to each one of you for your ti ...[Read More]

“Should I just jump in the lake in my lab coat?” EGU’s Teacher-Scientist Pairing Scheme

“Should I just jump in the lake in my lab coat?” EGU’s Teacher-Scientist Pairing Scheme

This was the moment when our video duet lesson really started to take shape. Yes, we’d already sketched the idea for a lake stratification lesson months earlier when we applied for EGU’s Teacher–Scientist Pairing Scheme, supported by the Education and Outreach committees, but we wanted an opening that would stop students in their tracks. Nothing like a cold plunge to get everyone’s attention! We b ...[Read More]

Geoscientific perspectives on global wetland systems: Between traditional knowledge and cultural heritage

Geoscientific perspectives on global wetland systems: Between traditional knowledge and cultural heritage

Today marks World Wetlands Day, and this year, the theme is Wetlands and traditional knowledge: Celebrating cultural heritage. Each year, February 2 is a day dedicated to recognising wetlands as places that store carbon, protect water, and hold complex cultural meaning. Wetlands such as mangroves, salt marshes, seagrass beds, peatlands, and floodplains are extremely good at taking carbon out of th ...[Read More]