science communication

How to make your geoscience communication publishable: Find out at EGU25

Solmaz Mohadjer April 25, 2025

Solmaz Mohadjer is the winner of one of the first EGU Public Engagement Grants competition in 2016. Credit: Solmaz Mohadjer

A long time ago, when I walked into the Ministry of Education building in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) to inquire about offering an earthquake education workshop in a public school, I had no research agenda, let alone thinking about publishing it one day. All I wanted was to do something useful: sharing earthquake science with school children. Recognizing the value of geoscience communication, my graduat ...[Read More]

GeoCinema: coming soon to the EGU25 General Assembly!

Jane Roussak April 18, 2025

After a big success last year, GeoCinema is back for EGU25! As many of you know, doing science is very rarely just about the research, but also involves sharing that research in several forms and formats. For many talented researchers this means using films. Either working with a film-maker or creating something themselves, several of our EGU25 attendees submitted wonderful films this year, from s ...[Read More]

Are you ready to vote for your favourite Division blog of 2024?

Asmae Ourkiya February 4, 2025

Image by Manny Becerra. Source: Unsplash

Our EGU blogging team has had a fantastic 2024 posting across our official blog, GeoLog and the division blogs. Most of our readers appreciate EGU’s blogs for their informative yet accessible style, and for our bloggers ability to take complex geoscience content and make it fun and relevant to the reader. If this sounds like something you’d like to get involved in, we encourage you to get in touch ...[Read More]

The Up-Goer Five challenge: Can you explain your science using only the thousand most common English words?

Marina Dütsch and Lukas Brunner November 8, 2024

Science plays an important role in understanding and shaping the world we live in. It is the foundation for new knowledge and technologies. But due to its complexity, science is often hard to grasp especially for the broader public. To build public trust in science, it is important to make scientific findings accessible to everyone. Therefore, they need to be communicated in ways that everyone can ...[Read More]