Kick ’em Jenny is a submarine volcano located 8km to the north of the Caribbean island of Grenada. It lies close to the small, uninhabited volcanic islands of Ronde, Diamond, Ill Caille and Les Tantes, though no physical evidence of the volcano is evident from land. At least twelve recorded eruptions have occurred since Kick …[Read More]
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EGU Meetings Support for 2015
The EGU welcomes further proposals for Topical Meetings, Training Schools and Workshops, as well as applications for EGU Sponsorship of External Meetings, for the year 2015. Successful proposals result in high-profile EGU events with financial support. Proposals for events in 2015 must be submitted by 31 December 2014 only via the online form on the EGU …[Read More]
Doctoral Training in Environmental Research in the UK
It is now a year since the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) announced the results of its first competition for ‘Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTP)’, and just a few weeks since each of the 15 funded DTPs welcomed their first cohorts of doctoral students. In this time, the training landscape for PhD (or DPhil) students across the environmental …[Read More]
Showcase your film at GeoCinema at the General Assembly!
Every year, we showcase a great selection of geoscience films at the EGU General Assembly and after five successful years we will again be running GeoCinema in 2015. If you’ve shadowed a scientist in the lab, filmed fantastic spectacles in the field, or have produced an educational feature on the Earth, planetary or space sciences, …[Read More]
William Dampier and the Burning Islands of Melanesia
A tweet from Jenni Barclay about a Pirate Scientist gave me an excuse to visit the newly opened reading rooms in the Bodleian’s Weston Library.. William Dampier was a seventeenth century pirate, and later maritime adventurer, whose several books of ‘Voyages and Discoveries’ make for fascinating reading. In 1699, he set sail in HMS Roebuck …[Read More]
Great news: Appeals court overturns manslaughter convictions of six earthquake scientists
Finally some sense: Appeals court overturns manslaughter convictions of six earthquake scientists. Various news portals are reporting that the top Italian scientists had their verdict over turned, hence found not guilty! Read further here: http://news.sciencemag.org/earth/2014/11/updated-appeals-court-overturns-manslaughter-convictions-six-earthquake-scientists
Imaggeo on Mondays: Painted Hills after the storm.
The geological record preserved at John Day Fossil beds, in Oregon, USA, is very special. Rarely can you study a continuous succession through changing climates quite like you can at this National Park in the USA. It is a treasure trove of some 60,000 plant and animal fossil specimens that were preserved over a period …[Read More]
#EGU15 – Natural Hazards Education, Communications and Science-Policy-Practice Interface
Below we’ve listed details of a session that will be of interest to many of you at the EGU General Assembly, in Vienna, next spring. Many postgraduates and academic staff from across the UK and beyond attend this event, sharing details of the latest research they have been doing. The convenors of this session, including …[Read More]
Images of Guatemala (5) – Lake Atitlan
Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. A picture we’ve shared on this blog before – but well worth including in our Images from Guatemala series. Taken from Panajachel, and looking across to the volcanoes of Atitlan (right) and Toliman (left). The small mound in front of Toliman is known as Cerro de Oro. The lake fills a significant …[Read More]
The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster Award
The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster Awards is awarded to Men-Andrin Meier for the poster entitled: A Filter Bank Approach to Earthquake Early Warning. Find out more in an interview with Men-Andrin on SeismoBlog.