Regular Features

GeoPolicy: From research to regulation – unpacking the EU Soil Directive

Chloe Hill October 27, 2023

Agriculture - Stellenbosch. Image credit: Joyce Schmatz. Distributed via Imaggeo.

This month’s GeoPolicy Blog post unpacks the Directive on Soil Monitoring and Resilience, it’s impacts from research to regulation and how scientists can get involved with it. It can be challenging for scientists to understand and engage with the European policymaking process. The intricacies and nuances of the legislative process, with its numerous institutions, committees, and political pr ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: Meet Liliana Macotela, researcher of radio waves at the Earth-Space boundary & Solar-Terrestrial ECS Representative!

Simon Clark October 20, 2023

Liliana Macotela Cruz

Hi Liliana. Welcome to GeoTalk! Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your background? Hi, I was born in the highlands in Peru. This gave me the advantage of living more in contact with nature. Since I remember, I was fascinated about the shape of the clouds, the sounds of the wind in the mountains or trees, the sounds of the rain and what they do to our surrounding; the lightning flashes and t ...[Read More]

International Archaeology Day: Challenging stereotypes about migration

Devayani Khare October 13, 2023

Illustration: Nikola Radosavljević, for Migration Narratives in Archaeology, Sidestone Press

Discoveries like excavations of prehistoric civilizations, shipwrecks with long-lost treasures, forgotten cities, and ancient tombs and temples, paint a vivid picture of archaeology and human history. Yet understanding how cultures evolved is often a more laborious process focused on prosaic finds; pottery shards, tools, implements, skeletal remains, art, inscriptions, pollen or soil samples, amon ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during September!

Hazel Gibson September 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 September, the Divisions we are featuring are: Climate: Past, Present & Future (CL), Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) and Hydrological Sciences (HS). They are served by the journals: Climate of the Pa ...[Read More]