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EGU Photo Competition 2026: only ONE WEEK left to submit!

EGU Photo Competition 2026: only ONE WEEK left to submit!

Until 8 April, every participant registered for the General Assembly can submit up to three original photos and one moving image on any broad theme related to the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. Photos submitted can be recent or from previous years so if there’s a beautiful photo that you’ve been holding onto, this could be your year to enter it! A panel of judges will shortlist ...[Read More]

Congratulations to the 2025 winner of the first ever Geolog post of the year!

Congratulations to the 2025 winner of the first ever Geolog post of the year!

At EGU, we’re always looking for new ways to celebrate and amplify the voices of our community. For our second edition of the top Geolog post of the year in 2025, we selected the top five performing blog posts and held an internal vote within the EGU Executive Office to select the winner. We are now excited to announce that the award for the best blog of 2025 goes to (drumroll …) CJ Rajendra ...[Read More]

Congratulations to the winners of the best EGU division blogs of 2025!

Congratulations to the winners of the best EGU division blogs of 2025!

If you’re a regular reader of the EGU blogs, you may notice a certain annual tradition of ours: we like to celebrate the contribution of our science writers and bloggers over the year gone by. And 2025 was no exception of course; we had a number of inspiring and thought-provoking blog posts published across the EGU’s official blog GeoLog and division blogs. Thank you to each one of you for your ti ...[Read More]

Are you ready to vote for your favourite Division blog of 2025?

Are you ready to vote for your favourite Division blog of 2025?

Our EGU blogging team has had a fantastic 2025 posting across our official blog, GeoLog and the division blogs. Most of our readers appreciate EGU’s blogs for their informative yet accessible style, and for our bloggers’ ability to take complex geoscience content and make it fun and relevant to the reader. If this sounds like something you’d like to get involved in, we encourage you to get i ...[Read More]

EGU Photo Competition 2026: Now open for submissions!

EGU Photo Competition 2026: Now open for submissions!

If you are registered for the EGU26 General Assembly (3 – 8 May), you can take part in our annual photo competition. Winners receive free registration to next year’s General Assembly! It’s that time of year again! Yes, today the sixteenth annual EGU photo competition opened for submissions!! Until 8 April, every participant registered for the General Assembly can submit up to three ori ...[Read More]

A Geoscientist’s Colorful Journey from Research to Children’s Books

A Geoscientist’s Colorful Journey from Research to Children’s Books

In today’s blog we’re having a chat with our very own Dr Lucia Perez-Diaz. As Lucia put it at the start of this year’s General Assembly, us scientists get to wear many “hats”, and she lives up to that statement. Besides a brilliant geoscientist, she is an incredible artist – also featured as last year’s artist in residence – and a budding press assistant! But more importantly, she is the author of ...[Read More]

Calling all photographers! Enter your fieldwork or labwork photo and win free registration to EGU26!

Calling all photographers! Enter your fieldwork or labwork photo and win free registration to EGU26!

Whether you work in the lab, the field, onboard an ocean vessel or using data from instruments hundreds of kilometers away, you probably know that feeling of taking a truly great photo of your experience as a researcher. If this is you then you are in luck as you have ONE WEEK LEFT to submit your photo to the EGU photo competition, and possibly win free registration to next years General Assembly! ...[Read More]

Congratulations to the 2024 winner of the first ever Geolog post of the year!

Congratulations to the 2024 winner of the first ever Geolog post of the year!

At EGU, we’re always looking for new ways to celebrate and amplify the voices of our community. That’s why I am thrilled to introduce the Geolog Top Blog Post of the Year Competition—a new initiative where we recognise the most impactful and engaging post from the past year. For our very first edition in 2024, we selected the top five performing blog posts and held an internal vote within the EGU ...[Read More]

Congratulations to the winners of the best EGU division blogs of 2024!

Congratulations to the winners of the best EGU division blogs of 2024!

If you’re a regular reader of the EGU blogs, you may notice a certain annual tradition of ours: we like to celebrate the contribution of our science writers and bloggers over the year gone by. And 2024 was no exception of course; we had a number of inspiring and thought-provoking blog posts published across the EGU’s official blog GeoLog and division blogs. Thank you to each one of you for your ti ...[Read More]

How to make a personal change this year: part 2 – growth

How to make a personal change this year: part 2 – growth

It is the new year and new resolutions draw you onward. Yet motivation is fickle, and too often good intentions wither before bearing fruit. You may have drawn a plan to keep you in check, but how do you build on this to achieve sustainable growth? Sustainable growth has been a crucial throughout my career: from projects management and scientific research to building a charity, all required the ab ...[Read More]