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Imaggeo On Monday: Melt water lake on 79°N Glacier in Greenland

Ole Zeising December 19, 2022

Melt water lake on 79°N Glacier in Greenland. Credit: Ole Zeising (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Melt water lakes are an impressive and beautiful consequence of warm summer temperatures on Greenlands glaciers. This photo of such a lake with clear blue water was taken from a helicopter on the 79°N Glacier in northeast Greenland during an expedition in July 2018. Supraglacial melt water runs along the surface slope into depressions where the water is accumulating until it refreezes or drains. P ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: meet Francesco Avanzi, researcher in meltwater security!

Simon Clark December 15, 2022

Francesco Avanzi

Hi Francesco. Thanks for agreeing to this interview! To break the ice, could you tell our readers a bit about yourself and your research? Hey Simon! I’m an Italian hydrologist and earned a PhD at Politecnico di Milano with a dissertation on how snowmelt contributes to seasonal runoff. I then did a postdoc at UC Berkeley, California, where I collaborated with a major US hydropower company to improv ...[Read More]

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during December!

Hazel Gibson December 15, 2022

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 roundup. For December, the Divisions we are featuring are: Cryosphere (CR), Nonlinear Processes in Geoscience (NP) and Soil System Science (SSS). They are served by the journals: Biogeosciences (BG), Earth Surface Dynamics (ESu ...[Read More]

Imaggeo On Monday: Arctic Winter Sun in Tromsø

Maria Scheel December 12, 2022

Arctic Winter Sun in Tromsø. Credit: Maria Cheel (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

During parts of the dark Arctic winter, the sun only as much as touches the horizons, melting sunrise into sunset in a dramatic flash of red light. Photo by Maria Scheel, description from imaggeo.egu.eu. Imaggeo is the EGU’s online open access geosciences image repository. All geoscientists (and others) can submit their photographs and videos to this repository and, since it is open access, ...[Read More]