North View from Railway Trail at St Georges island in Bermuda. Photo taken with a GoPro and a wide-angle lens 16-34mm, while walking on my way for groceries at St Georges from the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences. Description by Josue G Millan, after the description on imaggeo.egu.eu. Imaggeo is the EGU’s online open access …[Read More]
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Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology
Winning a modern war is much about sedimentology
Russia has invaded Ukraine. We have been reading and watching in the news how some pieces of high-tech equipment and weapons are being determinant for Ukraine to push back Russia’s invasion. Guided missiles, drones or new generation satellites heavily relie on rare-earth elements for development and production. The aggressor and the invaded country crave for …[Read More]
Tectonics and Structural Geology
Geomythology. The Sicilian Trilogy – Part II: Vulcano, Vulcan’s forge
Why is a fork actually called fork? And why are volcanoes actually called volcanoes? While I do not have any reply for the first question, I have one for the second… and with a quite interesting story. The Earth currently has around 1350 potentially active volcanoes, aside from the volcanoes along the spreading centres (USGS …[Read More]
Cryospheric Sciences
Did you know… that glaciers can sing?
Have you ever wondered what the voice of a glacier sounds like? Well, listen here! And if you want to know how the glacier makes these sounds, then let’s take a walk on the ice side… Close your eyes and think of the time you were in the middle of the mountains. On a snow …[Read More]
WaterUnderground
Visualizing the invisible through art
authored by Grant Ferguson Groundwater is often thought of as out of sight out of mind and has even been accused of being not photogenic. The typical visualization tools used by hydrogeologists include maps, cross-sections and graphs. These can be effective, especially amongst ourselves, but it is difficult to invoke the sort of emotional response …[Read More]
Solar-Terrestrial Sciences
Events organised by the ST Early-Career Scientist (ECS) Team during EGU22: We would like your feedback!
Now that EGU22 is over, it is time to gather some feedback! While you can provide your comments and suggestions on the General Assembly as a whole via the dedicated form available through the EGU22 website (see “Feedback” tab in https://www.egu22.eu/), the ST Division’s Early-Career Scientist (ECS) Team would very much appreciate getting feedback on the …[Read More]
GeoLog
EGU22: Discover your inner research poet!
A long time ago, a unique friendship formed between two researchers at a scientific conference. At first, they appeared to have one amusing thing in common: being the only two people to wear a bow tie at the EGU General Assembly. They soon also discovered their mutual appreciation for science and poetry, and before long, …[Read More]
GeoLog
EGU22: Rethinking (geo)scientific conferences today
From aiming at globally distributed, but virtually connected conference hubs to live subtitles and translations: never has the scientific conference format been on a trajectory of such abrupt change. What the new format of the coming years will be is still unclear, but it will need fewer chairs and more bandwidth, and should be sensibly …[Read More]
Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology
Can human curiosity affect dynamic risk?
In simple words, the volcanic risk (R) can be defined as R = Value × Vulnerability × Hazard. The value is a figure that varies according to the total number of population and / or infrastructures at risk during a volcanic eruption, vulnerability is the percentage of value at risk for a given volcanic event …[Read More]
GeoLog
GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during May!
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 May as we recap the General Assembly we are not highlighting any specific Division, so this month our GeoRoundup Journals will be alphabetical! …[Read More]