EGU Blogs

Chloe Hill December 22, 2023

GeoPolicy: Science-Policy Pairing Schemes in Europe – a regularly updated list

Pairing schemes are a great way for researchers to learn more about policymaking processes and how science is used in political decision-making! This month’s GeoPolicy Blog post highlights various European-based science-policy pairing scheme opportunities that researchers can apply for. Science-policy pairing schemes provide researchers with the opportunity to gain a better understanding about how policymakers …[Read More]

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Geodesy

Calculating postglacial sea-level change within few seconds: a statistical emulator for GIA

Yucheng Lin, Marius Schlaak and Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma December 22, 2023

Sea-level change serves as a direct indicator of climate change with profound implications for coastal areas. Since 1900, the global mean sea level (GMSL) has risen over 20 cm, leading to beach erosion, delta inundation, and increased flooding worldwide. Over glacial cycles spanning tens of thousands of years, interactions between ocean and continental-scale ice sheets …[Read More]

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Geodynamics

The Sassy Scientist – Merry Crisis: Spark Lost, Chocolate Found

The Sassy Scientist December 22, 2023

Congratulations, you resilient academic warrior! You’ve made it through the year without evaporating like a snowflake in July. Now, brace yourself for the gift I’ve carefully curated just for you. Spoiler alert: It’s not a reset button for life, though I’m sure some folks desperately need one. Now, let’s unwrap the gift of wisdom. Leena …[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

May the year-end be Exceptional, not only hydrologically!

Bettina Schaefli December 21, 2023

What a hydrological year it has been! From the winter drought and flash floods detailed in Matano and Avanzi‘s blog post to the remarkably warm and wet November 2023, Europe has witnessed a range of extraordinary weather phenomena. In the Alpine region, the convergence of warm and wet weather resulted in numerous rain-on-snow events (see …[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during December!

Hazel Gibson December 21, 2023

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we put the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights roundup. For December, the Divisions we are featuring are: Geodynamics (GD), Geomorphology (GM) and Soil System Sciences (SSS). They are served by the journals: Biogeosciences (BG), Earth …[Read More]

GeoLog

The best Christmas gift you could ask for: how a rare solar event created a once-in-a-lifetime Martian experiment

Hazel Gibson December 20, 2023

One of the realities of studying the Earth, planetary or space sciences is that we are attempting to observe an experiment that has been in progress for billions of years, with variables that are most often far outside of our control. Many researchers try to understand these systems by recreating aspects of it, either in …[Read More]

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Geodynamics

The enigmatic tectonics of the Caribbean Large Igneous Plateau

Ángela María Gómez-García, Eline Le Breton and edited by Constanza Rodriguez Piceda December 20, 2023

As we approach the Christmas break and the end of the year, what resonates with the concept of ‘holidays’ more than the Caribbean? In this week post, Angela Gomez-Garcia, postdoc at the Geoscience Institute of Barcelona, and Eline Le Breton, professor at Freie Universität Berlin, take us on a geodynamic journey through the Caribbean Large …[Read More]

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Geodesy

Reshaping Earth: GIA and its far-reaching effects

Holger Steffen, Rebekka Steffen, Yucheng Lin and edited by Öykü Koç December 19, 2023

As the Geodesy blog team (we are growing, horaay!), we wanted to create a space for researchers to talk about their work/papers in a more simplified language. For the first post in this series, we said “Wouldn’t it be cool if we learn more about Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) models?” then we realised that we …[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Give your ears a holiday treat: our favourite polar podcasts

The Chief Editors December 18, 2023

December is a busy month, and while we are busy preparing gifts and a mindful attitude for the festive season, finishing up projects for the year, at some point, we close the laptop and take our ride of choice home. So as a little treat for your ears, we found some 8 (+1) polar podcasts …[Read More]

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Climate: Past, Present & Future

The Walker Circulation: what is it and why does it matter

Dr Georgy Falster December 18, 2023

What is the Walker Circulation? The El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ‘ENSO’, is one of the major causes of year to year variability in Earth’s climate. ENSO is characterised by: changes in the temperature of the ocean’s surface in the tropical Pacific Ocean, and by changes in atmospheric circulation in an east-west direction above the …[Read More]