Regular Features

GeoPolicy: Competencies for researchers to achieve policy impact

Chloe Hill July 27, 2022

Lene Topp, presenting at EGU22. Credit: Chloe Hill

This month’s GeoPolicy Blog post features the Competence Framework ‘Science for Policy’ for researchers developed by the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC). This newly developed framework introduces the different competences scientists can collectively build to increase their policy impact, and how it can be used by research institutions and organisations. Throughout this post, ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: The Papingo’s rock pools

Athanasios Serafeim July 25, 2022

The Papingo’s rock pools. Credit: Athanasios Serafeim (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The Papingo’s rock pools are located at the mountainous area of Epirus in northwestern Greece, at an altitude of 980 meters. The Rogovo stream, over the years, has eroded the limestone rocks creating a complex of water falls and cavities (natural rock pools) with clear and cold running water, which the locals call “ovires”. Photo by Athanasios Serafeim, as described on imaggeo.egu.eu. ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: meet Abraham Dabengwa, Early Career savanna conservationist!

Simon Clark July 22, 2022

Hello Abraham. Thank you for speaking with us today! Could you tell our readers a bit about yourself and your research? Thanks, Simon! It’s a pleasure to be invited to share about my work. Well, where do I begin? For starters, I’m a Genus Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. I describe myself as an early-career African ecologist with a keen inte ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Ninepin Group: the spectacular hexagonal columns

Angel Ling July 18, 2022

Ninepin Group: the spectacular hexagonal columns. Credit: Angel Ling (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The picture shows the world’s rarest hexagonal rhyolitic volcanic rock columns on the northern island of the Ninepin Group in the easternmost waters of Hong Kong. These rocks columns are believed to form about 140 million years ago after a major volcanic eruption near Sai Kung. When the volcanic ash and lava slowly cooled down, joints and cracks started to develop on the surface and then extended ...[Read More]