GeoLog

Imaggeo on Mondays: Heavy machinery

TJ Young June 27, 2016

Heavy Machinery . Credit: Tun Jan Young (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

How do you get heavy machinery, such as a drill spool onto an ice sheet? This week’s imaggeo on Mondays’ photography captures the freighting of components of a hot water drill to directly access and observe the physical and geothermal properties at the ice-bed interface. In the image, SAFIRE principal investigator Bryn Hubbard and post-doc Sam Doyle help fly in the drill spool at the start o ...[Read More]

Gender equality in the geosciences: is it a numbers game?

Hazel Gibson June 24, 2016

The Division Medallists from EGU 2016 (Credit: EGU/CNTV)

Here’s a tricky question for you. Try and name a woman in geoscience who has won an award for their studies in the last 5 years? How about a man? Chances are it is much easier to think of a male geoscientist who has won an award than a female one, but is that because more men win awards in geoscience than women (compared to the number of male and female geoscientists)? This was the question that w ...[Read More]

Finding Funding: a how to guide to applying for research grants

Laura Roberts-Artal June 22, 2016

Drafting your first grant proposal can be daunting. Our how to guide to applying for research grants is full of tips to help! Image credit: SkitterPhoto.

Drafting your first grant proposal can be daunting. Grant writing improves with experience, so how do early career scientists compete on an equal footing with those who are more established? At this year’s General Assembly we tackled this very question at the Finding Funding (SC46) short course. Grant Allen, an atmospheric scientist, who has plenty of experience in applying for funding spoke abo ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: A sunrise over Kelimutu’s three-colour lakes

Laura Roberts-Artal June 20, 2016

A Kelimutu sunrise . Credit: Danielle Su (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Volcanoes are undeniably home to some of the most beautiful landscapes on Earth. It doesn’t take much imagination to picture slopes of exceedingly fertile mineral rich soils, covered in lush vegetation; high peaks punching through cloud cover offering stunning vistas and bubbling pools of geothermally warmed waters were one can soak ones worries away. What about strikingly coloured crater lakes? Y ...[Read More]