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From Coimbra to Mação: The multi-audience impact of EGU’s Geoscience Day in Portugal

Asmae Ourkiya and Mafalda Miranda November 4, 2025

Today I am thrilled to be chatting with Mafalda Miranda and her team about the 2025 EGU Geoscience Day. Mafalda is a Geothermal Geoscientist whose expertise spans from the University of Coimbra (Portugal) to her PhD research at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (Canada). As a co-founder of the geoenergy consulting company GRAnalytics Lda, Mafalda understands the importance of appl ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: A painted forest fire

Olivia Trani May 27, 2019

The art of Fire in soil system. Credit: Victoria Arcenegui (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

This week’s featured image may appear to be a painted landscape, but the picture is in fact a photo, taken ten years ago by Victoria Arcenegui, an associate professor at Miguel Hernández University in Spain, during a controlled forest fire in northern Portugal. The blaze is actually hot enough to distort the image, making some of the flames appear as brush strokes, beautifully blurring together th ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Small scale processes, large scale landforms

Jana Eichel November 12, 2018

Small scale processes, large scale landforms Credit: Jana Eichel (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

This picture was taken in a sea cliff gully landscape at the Portuguese coast. It shows the microrelief which small scale wash and erosional processes produce in these poorly consolidated sediments. These small scale landforms could be interpreted as initial stages of larger scale gully landforms, which can be seen in the back. This highlights the importance of regarding scales and scale linkages ...[Read More]

Imaggeo on Mondays: A volcanic point of view

Olivia Trani May 21, 2018

Sleeping volcano . Credit: Carina Fernandes and Jorge Magalhaes (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

It’s not every day that you can peer into a volcano, much less gaze out at the sky from the inside of one. The Algar do Carvão, or “the Cavern of Coal,” is one of the few places on Earth where you can explore the underground reaches of a volcanic site. The volcanic pit is found on the island of Terceira, part of the Azores archipelago. This collection of islands is an autonomous region of Portugal ...[Read More]