The last thing to finish this year is to submit your abstract to vEGU21? And you didn’t decide yet which session would be most appropriate for you? Here is our final session in the spotlight for this year! You are interested in the interaction of volcanoes and glaciers? Then todays session GMPV9.4: “Volcano-glacier interactions: Arctic, …[Read More]
November was not highlighted by a large event (> M 7). However, the TOP 3 of the largest earthquakes include a deep focus rupture on November 30th in the Tatar Strait between eastern Russia and Sakhalin Island (Figure 1). This earthquake (M 6.4) occurred at a depth of ~600 km according to different seismology agencies. …[Read More]
The vEGU21 abstract submission is now open until 13 January 2021!! Here we highlight GMPV sessions to help you navigating your way through the wild jungle of almost 700 available EGU sessions! Today we present you session GD6.2/ GMPV11: “The Arctic connection – plate tectonics, mantle dynamics and paleogeography serving paleo-climate models and modern jurisdiction”. …[Read More]
There are countless Christmas films, and almost all of them feature some form of snow, ice or cold weather. There are the classics such as Home Alone, Elf and Miracle on 34th Street, and there are the newer, shall we say ‘Netflix’ style, which feature Princes, Knights and Vanessa Hudgens. There’s just no way to …[Read More]
The Sassy Scientist has been a very good boy, slaving away at his fume cupboard and diligently hammering his keyboard. He therefore feels justified pinning his letter to Santa on the department noticeboard, putting on his favourite Christmas jumper, and hoping for more than a piece of anthracite in his stocking. What would the Sassy …[Read More]
This edition of “Beyond Tectonics” is brought to you by Dr. Derya Gürer and Luca Magri. Derya is a Lecturer in Earth Sciences at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Tasmania, and Luca is a PhD student at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia. In early 2020, …[Read More]
By Tom Gleeson and Viviana Re It has been a challenging year of a pandemic, economic collapse and an ever-increasing awareness of racism, all set against a backdrop of other global challenges including climate change and food security. We believe it is important to link groundwater with these challenges and to stay positive using our …[Read More]
Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we will be putting the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights roundup. For December, the Divisions we are featuring are: Cryospheric Sciences (CR), Climate: Past, Present & Future (CL) and Nonlinear Processes in Geoscience (NP). They …[Read More]
Please join us for GMPV ECS talks in early 2021! You can register in advance for the talks at the links below. In 2021, we’ll be running some special editions of the GMPV ECS online talks, where we focus on specific sub-disciplines of GMPV. Wednesday January 20th 11:00 CET – Volcanology special edition – speakers …[Read More]
Ahhh analogue models… Those beautiful little (or not so little) worlds inside a box, captivatingly beautiful, impossibly detailed… (sorry, getting carried away, am I?). This week, Alex Hughes gives us the insider’s report on what actually goes on in analogue modelling labs when the “Experiment running, do not disturb!!” sign is on the door. Analogue …[Read More]
