Are you attending the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco 5th-9th December? If so come and visit the EGU booth in the Exhibition Hall Tuesday, 6 December – Thursday, 8 December 0930h – 1800h and Friday, 9 December 0930h – 1330h in Booth 1428, near the AGU Marketplace. You can search a map of the exhibition hall online. In attendance will be the Executive Secretary, the current Science Communications ...[Read More]
Imaggeo on Mondays: Forest Fires
Forest Fires. Image by Sandro Makowski, distributed by EGU under a Creative Commons licence. Slash and burn activity in Southern Ecuador. The photo was the taken during field work at the San Francisco valley, a microcatchment in the province of Zamora, south-east of Ecuador. The valley is the study area of the DFG research unit FOR 816 “Biodiversity and Sustainable Management of a Megadiverse Trop ...[Read More]
Geosciences Column: Why are jet streams not good wind energy sources?
Commercial airlines know jet streams well. Planes often hitch a ride on these strong, high-altitude atmospheric winds, which blow from west to east, to fly faster, and they are the reason why long-haul easterly flights (such as those between the US and Europe) are quicker than the corresponding westerly journeys. Scientists are also familiar with these fierce and persistent winds, which occur at a ...[Read More]
GeoLog is our new blog
This week, the European Geosciences Union is re-launching its blog with a new name, web address and design. Welcome to GeoLog! As with our official twitter account (first @egu2010, recently changed from @egu2011 to @EuroGeosciences), the previous blogs, egu2010.wordpress.com and egu2011.wordpress.com, were initially created in association with the annual EGU General Assembly. Posts, mostly about t ...[Read More]