Regular Features

Imaggeo on Mondays: the rocks that look like Swiss cheese

Laura Roberts-Artal September 26, 2016

Sardinian coastal scenery . Credit: Michael Grund (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Over the course of centuries and millennia, the force of winds, seas, ice and rains, sculpt rock formations around the globe. From the world-famous glacier carved landscapes of Yosemite National Park, to the freeze-thawed hoodoos at Bryce National Park, through to the wind battered stone pillars of South China Karst, boundless geological formations have been transformed by the power of erosion and ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: Investigating the transport of plastic pollution in the oceans

Laura Roberts-Artal September 23, 2016

Plastic pollution . Credit: bilyjan (distributed via Pixabay)

Geotalk is a regular feature highlighting early career researchers and their work. In this interview we speak to Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer at the Grantham Institute at Imperial Collage London, and winner of the 2016 OS Outstanding Young Scientist Award. As an expert in understanding how oceans transport all kinds of materials, from water and heat through to plastics, Erik has gained detai ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: The road to nowhere – natural hazards in the Peloponnese

Laura Roberts-Artal September 19, 2016

Find a new way . Credit: Romain Hemelsdael (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The Gulf of Corinth, in southern Greece, separates the Peloponnese peninsula from the continental mainland. The structural geology of the region is complex, largely defined by the subduction of the African Plate below the Eurasian Plate (a little to the south). The Gulf itself is an active extensional marine basin, i.e., one that is pulling open and where sediments accumulate. Sedimentary basins r ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: Science and the policy cycle

Sarah Connors September 14, 2016

One way to improve the impact of your scientific research is to engage with policy. Doing so can create new opportunities for yourself and your research. The main challenges are knowing when and how to effectively communicate scientific results to policy. If the wrong timing or communication method is chosen then results are less likely to be incorporated into the policy process. This month’s GeoP ...[Read More]