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Imaggeo on Mondays: Setting trees aflame to understand the carbon balance of fires

Olivia Trani December 9, 2019

Smoke clears after an experimental wildfire in Australian eucalyptus forest. Credit: Stefan Doerr (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Smoke clears after an experimental wildfire in Australian eucalyptus forest carried out for carbon balance estimations of wildfires. We meticulously measured the carbon in all leaves, twigs, logs and bark in a forest block about 35km east of Manjimup and then they set it on fire with help from the Dept. of Parks and Wildlife, [Western Australia]. We the counted the carbon all over again including ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Mount Bromo – volcanic deity

Olivia Trani December 2, 2019

Mt. Bromo, East Java, Indonesia. Exploring Remote Spaces. Credit: Matteo Basilici & Roberto Ercoli (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Featured in this photo, rising out from a sea of violet fog at dawn, is one of Indonesia’s most iconic volcanoes, Mount Bromo. The mountain is a large volcanic crater, also known as a caldera, which formed when an ancient cone volcano collapsed in the late Pleistocene and early Holocene epochs, between 126,000 and 8,300 years ago. The current structure stands at 2,392 metres in the eastern region ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: Communicate Geoscience? Let’s do it!

Alexander Roesner November 29, 2019

Shaping EU Missions panel speakers (from left to right): Constantin Ciupagea (Head of Land Resources Unit, Joint Research Centre), Gesine Meißner (Member of the Mission Board for ‘Healthy Oceans, Seas, Coastal and Inland Waters’) and Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (President of the European Research Council)

This month’s GeoPolicy Column was written by Alexander Roesner, a researcher at MARUM (the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences) and the winner of the EGU’s 2019 ECS Policy Competition, which provides the winner with funding to attend the EGU’s science-policy event, Shaping EU Missions in Brussels. Roesner outlines his motivation for applying for the competition and reflects on his experience. ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Journey to Bolivia’s Laguna Negra

Olivia Trani November 25, 2019

Laguna Negra, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. Credit: Katleen Wils (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu).

This week’s featured photo showcases one of the most geologically diverse landscapes of South America: the Altiplano, the high plateau of the Andes. This plateau covers roughly 200,000 square kilometres in central South America, stretching from southern Peru to northern Argentina. The high-elevation plain sits between the eastern and western chains of the Central Andes and is home to a myriad of n ...[Read More]