Regular Features

Imaggeo On Monday: the EGU Photo Competition – stunning natural phenomena

Hazel Gibson March 6, 2023

Nacreous clouds in Husavik. Credit: Sigurjon Jonsson (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

In 2010 EGU held our first annual Photo Competition at the General Assembly in Vienna. Since then hundreds of photos have been shared on imaggeo by geoscientists and researchers just like you, with a lucky few being selected each year to be highlighted during the meeting and voted on by our members. These images can be of anything to do with geology or geoscience – we get many beautif ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during February!

Hazel Gibson February 28, 2023

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we put the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights roundup. For February, the Divisions we are featuring are: Geodesy (G), and Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (SSP). They are served by the journals: Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) and Solid Earth (SE). Featu ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: the EGU Photo Competition – dynamic geoscience

Hazel Gibson February 27, 2023

The late Holocene fever. Credit: Christian Massari (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

In 2010 EGU held our first annual Photo Competition at the General Assembly in Vienna. Since then hundreds of photos have been shared on imaggeo by geoscientists and researchers just like you, with a lucky few being selected each year to be highlighted during the meeting and voted on by our members. These images can be of anything to do with geology or geoscience – we get many beautif ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Fingerprint in the cotton

Petra Schneider February 20, 2023

Fingerprint in the cotton. Credit: Petra Schneider (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

This photo is taken at the Pamukkale (meaning “cotton castle” in Turkish), a natural site near Denizli, Turkey. This location is world famous for terraces made of snow-white travertine, a sedimentary rock deposited by water from the hot springs, and a stunning turquoise water color. Close look at the surface texture reveals an extraordinary pattern created by the thermal water slowly f ...[Read More]