Regular Features

Imaggeo on Mondays: Tertiary Flying Saucers

Bernardo Cesare March 2, 2020

Polarized light photomicrograph of a thin section of a fossiliferous limestone from Lake Garda, Italy: Tertiary Flying Saucers. Credit: Bernardo Cesare (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Besides for the purposes of documenting my research, I like to take photos of rocks under the microscope also because of their aesthetic appeal. It’s an hidden, marvelous world. These flying-saucer-looking objects are in fact the fossil skeletons of a Nummulites (the larger) and a Discocyclina (the one on top left), both belong to the phylum of Foraminifera. These single-celled organisms occupyied ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: How to become a Seconded National Expert for the European Commission

Chloe Hill February 28, 2020

Nicolas Sifakis, a scientist and former Seconded National Expert who is currently working for the European Research Council Executive Agency.

The European Seconded National Expert programme is a fantastic opportunity for scientists who are currently working in a national, regional or local public administration of an EU member state or an intergovernmental organisation to gain experience working within a European policy institution. In most cases, secondments are between six months and four years during which time the Seconded National ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: The Tempest

Hazel Gibson February 24, 2020

The Tempest. Credit: Cyril Simon Wedlund (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Measuring the aurora. This picture was taken while doing an optical/radar coordinated campaign in Svalbard, Norway, near the settlement of Longyearbyen. In this campaign, we were measuring for the first time the polarisation of the auroral ‘red line’ of atomic oxygen with a photopolarimeter and were running the radars in order to have a better understanding of the state of the ionosphe ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: Joel Gill discusses the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the ‘Decade of Action’

Hazel Gibson February 21, 2020

Joel and the Geology for Global Development team representing geoscience interests at the United Nations (Photo credit: Geology for Global Development)

Geotalk is a regular feature highlighting early career researchers and their work. In this interview we speak with Joel Gill who a geoscientist, based in the UK, who works at the British Geological Survey, supporting their international development programmes, whilst also researching multi-hazards and disaster risk reduction. In addition he leads a not-for-profit organisation, Geology for Global D ...[Read More]