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The geological period that no one talks about: menstruation in the field

Robyn Pickering and Rivoningo Khosa May 12, 2023

Photo credit: Human Evolution Research Institute (HERI)

Try typing the phrase ‘period in geosciences’ into Google. You’ll get something like ‘divisions of geological time’, and how we divide ancient earth time into eras, periods and epochs. We learn about this in the first year and again in every subsequent year of geological training. We are both geochronologists, so this is a topic we are deeply familiar with. But we are also both women. To us, and e ...[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]

Meet our EGU23 Communications Team!

Gillian D'Souza April 19, 2023

Everything you see and hear about EGU’s upcoming General Assembly EGU23 is carefully created, designed and posted by our talented communications team! That’s right, this team – our fabulous four if you will – works diligently behind the scenes to manage our social media, blogging and the press conferences. These interns and volunteers are going to be assisting EGU Media and ...[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]