Welcome to GeoTalk, Caitlyn and John! Could you please briefly introduce yourselves to our readers? John Hillier (Interim Division President): I have a very mixed research background. I started off in marine geophysics and then I moved to glacial geomorphology. At the end of that I worked for an insurance company as a catastrophe modeller, …[Read More]
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 section. For September, we are featuring Geoscience and Society (GS), Geomorphology (GM) , Biogeosciences (BG). They are represented by the journals Geoscience Communication (GC), Earth Surface Dynamics (ESurf), …[Read More]
Imagine standing in the middle of an eighty-year-old Norway spruce forest in Central Europe. The canopy overhead forms a dark, emerald tomb that locks away decades of atmospheric carbon. For years, climate models and European policy frameworks treated mature forests like this as permanent carbon fortresses, heavy-duty biological vaults absorbing roughly 0.2 petagrams of carbon …[Read More]
Dr. Marta López-Saavedra (Natural Risks Assessment and Management Service (NRAMS)) represented EGU’s Science for Policy Climate Hazard and Risk External Advisory Group at the CCEC Symposium on European and Global Wildfires, Budapest, September 2026. This blog represents Marta’s reflections of the event, of Europe’s current landscape of wildfire risk, and how research can be integrated …[Read More]
Aberfan is located in the South Wales Valleys and developed as a coal mining village during the industrial revolution in the mid-1800s. The village is much like any of the other villages scattered across the region – rows on rows of small terrace houses, nestled into the sides and bottom of steep, glacially eroded valleys. …[Read More]
Welcome to the second post in our GeoLog series on communicating uncertainty! Written by students from an interdisciplinary course at the University of Tübingen led by Dr. Solmaz Mohadjer, this series highlights how reframing the unknown as a strength can transform science communication. In this piece, Ana Isidora Ciobanu and Sarah Lind show why uncertainty …[Read More]
Using stable isotopes to uncover a hidden step in Earth’s water cycle The Indian summer monsoon transforms South Asia’s landscape. Rivers swell, reservoirs replenish, crops receive life-sustaining water, and millions await relief after months of intense heat. But what happens to a raindrop between the cloud and the ground? Not every raindrop reaches the surface …[Read More]
If we look at Mars today, we’ll see a cold, dusty desert, but peel back the surface geology, and the planet tells quite a different story! Networked river valleys, ancient deltaic fans, carved impact crater lakes, and potential palaeoshorelines all point to a warm and active past during the Noachian and early Hesperian epochs, circa …[Read More]
Hello Michael! Thankyou for agreeing to this interview. Could you briefly introduce yourself and your background? Hi, I am Michael Baidu, a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, currently working on the Developing Capacity for storms early warnings for Ghana’s energy sector (EW4Energy) project. I have also worked as a Data Scientist at the …[Read More]
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 section. For September, we are featuring Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics (EMRP),Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems (GI), and Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems (ESSI). They are represented by the …[Read More]
