Regular Features

Imaggeo On Monday: Aurora show on the road

Junbin Zhao January 2, 2023

Aurora show on the road. Credit: Junbin Zhao (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

In Sweden a beautiful Northern Lights show proceeds unnoticed by the busy drivers passing by. The Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis are spectacular lights created as a result of disturbances in the Earth’s magnetosphere caused by solar winds. They are visible at both polar regions and or often seen as veils or lines of greenish-blue light. Photo by Junbin Zhao shared on imaggeo.egu.eu. &nbs ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Melt water lake on 79°N Glacier in Greenland

Ole Zeising December 19, 2022

Melt water lake on 79°N Glacier in Greenland. Credit: Ole Zeising (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Melt water lakes are an impressive and beautiful consequence of warm summer temperatures on Greenlands glaciers. This photo of such a lake with clear blue water was taken from a helicopter on the 79°N Glacier in northeast Greenland during an expedition in July 2018. Supraglacial melt water runs along the surface slope into depressions where the water is accumulating until it refreezes or drains. P ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: meet Francesco Avanzi, researcher in meltwater security!

Simon Clark December 15, 2022

Francesco Avanzi

Hi Francesco. Thanks for agreeing to this interview! To break the ice, could you tell our readers a bit about yourself and your research? Hey Simon! I’m an Italian hydrologist and earned a PhD at Politecnico di Milano with a dissertation on how snowmelt contributes to seasonal runoff. I then did a postdoc at UC Berkeley, California, where I collaborated with a major US hydropower company to improv ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during December!

Hazel Gibson December 15, 2022

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 December, the Divisions we are featuring are: Cryosphere (CR), Nonlinear Processes in Geoscience (NP) and Soil System Science (SSS). They are served by the journals: Biogeosciences (BG), Earth Surface Dynamics (ESu ...[Read More]