GeoLog

How many transdisciplinary researchers does it take to find out how an ocean sinks?

Grace Shephard and Fabio Crameri November 27, 2020

The 14 early career (PhD students, postdocs and lecturers) members of the SZI Database team. (Photo credit CEED, University of Olso)

There is no shortage of increasingly uphill challenges in the current research landscape, especially for Early Career researchers: discouragingly long-standing science questions; minimal freedom for developing methodologies; invariably ambivalent proposal reviews; an academic grading scheme based mainly on publication productivity and impact; and enforced competition for few permanent research pos ...[Read More]

How Open Science may help us during and after the pandemic

Dasapta Erwin Irawan, David Hedding and Olivier Pourret November 25, 2020

Photograph of Formula Baby championship taken by Olivier Pourret.

As Hedding et al. (2020) indicate, it is “not business as usual” for higher education across the globe. There are many testimonies by scientists who are struggling to work while their children are stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic (Langin, 2020). Indeed, it is very complex to stay at home to raise and home-school kids and remain productive as an academic while living through a pandemic ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Great Sand Dunes Sunset

John Counts November 23, 2020

Great Sand Dunes Sunset . Credit: John Counts (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

On a late afternoon in Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes, the sun came out from behind the clouds for a brief moment before it went behind the horizon, illuminating the stoss side of an eroding dune. Sand originated from lacustrine deposits in the San Luis Valley; the Sangre de Cristo mountains, which can be seen in the background, provided a source of some of the sand. This image therefore illust ...[Read More]

Using Milankovitch Cycles to create high-resolution astrochronologies

Lon Abbott November 20, 2020

Image credit: Lon Abbott and Terri Cook

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Milutin Milankovitch’s first paper about Earth’s climate. Milankovitch argued that the amount of solar radiation Earth receives, and hence its climate, varies cyclically as its orbit changes due to gravitational tugs from the other planets. His climate theory fell into disrepute during the 1950’s but was rehabilitated in the 1970’s. Today, many peopl ...[Read More]