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Imaggeo on Mondays: Wildfires leave their mark on Jasper National Park

July 23, 2018
Imaggeo on Mondays: Wildfires leave their mark on Jasper National Park
A powerful story about forest resiliency and renewal. Credit: Jennifer Ziesch (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Jasper National Park is the largest national park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, spanning across nearly 11,000 square kilometres of Canadian wilderness. The park is known for its rugged landscape, extensive trails, and abundance of deer, bighorn sheep, wolves, mountain lions and bears. This region is also very susceptible to blazing wildfires, a result of human activity that began more than a ce ...[Read More]

Sending GIFT to Africa: A new collaboration between the EGU, UNESCO and ESA

November 26, 2013

For the past ten years, the EGU’s Geosciences Information for Teachers (GIFT) workshops – spreading first hand scientific research to teachers of primary and secondary schools – have been hugely successful in shortening the time that research takes to disseminate from scientist to textbook to teacher and offering usable practical activities for the classroom. GIFT workshops are usually held at the ...[Read More]