EGU Blogs

Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences

NPG Paper of the Month: “On fluctuating momentum-exchange in idealised models of air-sea interaction”

Tommaso Alberti February 3, 2020

This month the NPG Paper of the Month award is achieved by Achim Wirth for his paper “On fluctuating momentum-exchange in idealised models of air-sea interaction” (https://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/26/457/2019/). Achim tells us about the importance of the results achieved with this paper for investigating the energy coupling between the ocean and the atmosphere. Achim obtained his PhD …[Read More]

GeoLog

Imaggeo On Mondays: Contrasting Colors of Pinnacles and Mountains

Hazel Gibson February 3, 2020

Despite its rugged appearance of sandstone pinnacles and arches, the ecosystem of Arches National Park in Utah, U.S.A. is very fragile. Beyond the normal ‘high desert’ environment, this beautiful landscape is home to microbial communities in the soil called cryptobiotic crusts. These biological soil crusts are very vulnerable to damage and when harmed they can …[Read More]

GeoLog

The inaugural EGU webinar: EGU journals and Open Access publishing

Hazel Gibson January 31, 2020

Last week the EGU executive office debuted something new for our members: the EGU webinar. The first of these focused on the open access journals that EGU publishes in partnership with Copernicus.The webinar discussed the interactive public peer review system, the role of the EGU Publications Committee, how researchers can effectively publish in an EGU …[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Water plumes are tickling the Greenland Ice Sheet

Johanna Beckmann January 31, 2020

7 meters of sea-level rise – what you would get if the whole Greenland Ice Sheet melted. But the tricky question is: how much of this ice will be melted in the next decades, and how fast will it occur? This piece of information is critical in order to plan for present and future populations …[Read More]

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Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology

County Clare, Ireland: A World-Class Geological Locality

Alena Ebinghaus January 31, 2020

By John Counts and Emma Morris. Europe has a wide variety of interesting sites for geologists, including areas with scientifically interesting formations, amazing scenery, and classic outcrops, many of which are recognized for their international geological significance and are designated as UNESCO Global Geoparks. Rarely, however, do all of these factors come together in such …[Read More]

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Tectonics and Structural Geology

Beyond Tectonics: How mountain building shaped biodiversity

Lydian Boschman and Hannah Davies January 31, 2020

This edition of “Beyond Tectonics” is brought to you by Lydian Boschman. Lydian is a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich. She has a background in geology and plate tectonic reconstructions, but now works with a group of biodiversity modelers of the Landscape Ecology group at ETH, bridging the gap between geology and biology. In her …[Read More]

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