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Ocean Sciences

From Academic Research to Start-Up: A Marine Biologist’s Algae Farming Vision

April 8, 2025
From Academic Research to Start-Up: A Marine Biologist’s Algae Farming Vision

We chatted with a marine biologist about her exciting journey from academia to becoming an entrepreneur. Discover how her algae farm start-up came to life, learn about the concept, achievements, and challenges she faced, future plans, and finally her advice as well as her take on the importance of bridging the two worlds of academia and industry.  Dr. Mar Fernández-Méndez is a marine biologist ded ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Halokinesis: the effect and importance of the most “liquid” rocks in geodynamics

and March 26, 2025
Halokinesis: the effect and importance of the most “liquid” rocks in geodynamics

Evaporitic rocks possess unique properties that enable them to form crucial structures for petroleum systems. Salt basins are globally distributed, particularly along the Atlantic margins. Their thermal and mechanical properties can influence the Earth’s crust, altering structural styles and basin architecture, with significant implications for hydrocarbon exploration and geodynamic processes. How ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 2

March 21, 2025
A group of people standing around a person holding a decorated hat in their hand.

This miniseries features the tradition of ‘PhD hat’ making in German research institutes and universities. For those of you unfamiliar with this idea (as I once was), this is one of the final milestones a graduate student has before they are officially a “Dr.”. Upon the successful defense of a thesis, the labmates of the PhD student craft a graduation hat from a mishmash of scrap cardboard and mem ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

HydroData Chronicles: Unveiling EStreams – A Comprehensive Hydro-Climatic Dataset for Europe

and March 13, 2025
HydroData Chronicles: Unveiling EStreams – A Comprehensive Hydro-Climatic Dataset for Europe

We’re back to the HydroData Chronicles, where we enter into the exceptionally wonderful world—as massive as it is—of datasets about water phenomena, such as rivers and weather. Today, we focus on ΕStreams, a comprehensive dataset and catalogue of streamflow, hydro-climatic, and landscape data for Europe. This pioneering initiative fills the hydrological data availability gap, offering an inv ...[Read More]

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Solar-Terrestrial Sciences

Meet Erika Palmerio, the 2024 Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee of the Solar-Terrestrial Division!

March 9, 2025
Meet Erika Palmerio, the 2024 Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee of the Solar-Terrestrial Division!

Congratulations on receiving the EGU 2024 ST Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award for your exceptional research in analyzing complex solar transients and their effects on space weather. What does this recognition mean to you personally, and how does it impact your work in this fascinating field? Thank you so much! Receiving an award from EGU is of particular significance to me, since ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 1

February 21, 2025
Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 1

This miniseries features the tradition of ‘PhD hat’ making in German research institutes and universities. For those of you unfamiliar with this idea (as I once was), this is one of the final milestones a graduate student has before they are officially a “Dr.”. Upon the successful defense of a thesis, the peers of the PhD student craft a graduation hat from a mishmash of scrap cardboard and memora ...[Read More]

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Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology

Broadening our Understanding of Bird Ichnology through Neoichnology

February 6, 2025
Broadening our Understanding of Bird Ichnology through Neoichnology

Introduction Bird footprints are some of the most recognizable traces in the fossil record. Yet birds exhibit a wide variety of behaviours which may be preserved as ancient traces. Records include feeding traces like probing, nesting structures and possibly coprolites, but the study of the traces left by modern birds extends their scope to courtship-related scrapes, swimming and diving traces, bir ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Between the Volcano and the Deep Blue Sea: Tales from Montserrat (Part 2)

, and January 15, 2025
Between the Volcano and the Deep Blue Sea: Tales from Montserrat (Part 2)

In 1995, the Caribbean Island of Montserrat was shaken by the beginning of one of the most significant volcanic eruptions in recent history: one that profoundly changed the natural, social and economical landscape of the country. Three decades later, Soufrière Hills Volcano and its legacy of destruction still shape the lives of Montserrat’s people. Last October, we took you on the first half of ou ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during November!

November 29, 2024
GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during November!

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 section. For November, the divisions we are featuring are Planetary and Solar System Sciences (PS), Solar-Terrestrial Sciences (ST), and Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI). They are served by the journals: Annales Geoph ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

A New Look at the Rheology of Deep Subduction Zones

and November 27, 2024
A New Look at the Rheology of Deep Subduction Zones

Subduction zones are dynamic regions where intense geological processes like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the recycling of oceanic crust are constantly at play. A key factor that influences the behavior of these zones is *interface rheology*—the strength and viscosity of the boundary (the interface) between the subducting and overriding plates. Understanding this interface is crucial for i ...[Read More]