Regular Features

Imaggeo On Monday: Geodesy on Zugspitze

Christian Voigt August 2, 2021

Geodesy on Zugspitze. Credit: Christian Voigt (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

The Zugspitze Geodynamic Observatory Germany (ZUGOG) has been setup on the summit of mountain Zugspitze at an altitude of almost 3000 m during 2018 with the main scientific objective being a better understanding of seasonal and long-term mass redistributions in the European Alps. This knowledge is very important (e.g. with regard to water storage and its high sensitivity to climate change), but is ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during July!

Hazel Gibson July 30, 2021

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we will be putting the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights roundup. For July, the Divisions we are featuring are: Natural Hazards (NH) and Geomorphology (GM). They are served by the journals: Geoscientific Model Development (GMD), Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences ( ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: A Climate and Ecological Emergency: Can a pandemic help save us…?

Chloe Hill July 28, 2021

Giant Hands, called Support, in a rare snowy event in a floating city of Venice. Credit: Hung Vuong Pham, distributed via Imaggeo

The EGU’s #vEGU21 streamed a wide variety of virtual sessions from Short Courses to Union Symposia. While most #vEGU21 sessions had a specific scientific focus, a few highlighted topics that were of interest to geoscientists across multiple disciplines. The Union Symposia 3: “A Climate and Ecological Emergency: Can a pandemic help save us…?” was one of these sessions with a high level of participa ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: An ever evolving landscape – Orog Nuur, Mongolia

Jorien van der Wal July 26, 2021

An ever evolving landscape - Orog Nuur, Mongolia. Credit: Jorien van der Wal, (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

At the transition from the Gobi Altay ranges to the Valley of the Lakes in South West Mongolia, the Ikh Bogd mountain towers almost 3000 m above the aridifying endorheic Orog Nuur Basin. The actively deforming mountain front shows traces of multiple earthquakes, which in turn affect the alluvial sediments deposited in the basin. Simultaneously, strong south-eastward winds create beautiful barchan ...[Read More]