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A simultaneous public event on two Greek volcanic islands?! Must be EGU Geoscience Day 2023!

EGU Geoscience Day 2023 team February 6, 2024

In 2023, Evi Nomikou, Associate Professor in the Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and her team (Varvara Antoniou, Bejelou Konstantina, Efrosini Varotsou, Sotiria Kothri, Elisavet Nikoli, Stavroula Kazana, Areti Belk and Anna Andri), hosted the third annual EGU Geoscience Day, simultaneously on two Greek volcanic islands: Santorini and Nisyro ...[Read More]

Bringing scientists and teachers together for the Cape Town GIFT workshop

Friedrich Barnikel February 2, 2024

Hands-on action at the Two Oceans Aquarium in GIFT Cape Town, 2023

Many teachers follow path writ by a particular diction, which reads “lifelong learning”. There is no other way, actually, to keep track of all of these fast changing issues and challenges of today’s world, which, in many ways, touch geoscientific topics (climate change, food security, geopolitics, to name but a few). Consequently many teachers are eager to learn from science as much as they can in ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: meet Freija Mendrik, researcher of microplastics pollution in coral reefs!

Simon Clark June 16, 2023

Freija Mendrik

Hi Freija. Thank you for joining us today! Could you tell our readers a bit about yourself before we dive in? Hi Simon, thanks for inviting me! I’m a marine scientist based in the UK specialising in microplastic pollution but my work has taken me across many different disciplines from physical geography to ecotoxicology. Recently my research has focused on trying to understand what impacts the tra ...[Read More]

EGU23 Photo Competition finalists – who will you vote for?

Hazel Gibson April 17, 2023

This year’s Photo Competition judging panel did a fantastic job of narrowing down the outstanding photo submissions to the EGU’s Photo Competition to just 10 finalists! The finalist photos are listed below and on the Imaggeo website where you can vote for them from Sunday 23 April until Thursday, 27 April 2023 – voting closes at 18:00 CEST. The three photos with the most votes will be ...[Read More]