EGU Blogs

2017 search results for "researcher"

GeoLog

GeoTalk: Meet glacial hauntologist, Elizabeth Case (you read that right, a glacial hauntologist!)

October 10, 2025
Elizabeth Case

Welcome to GeoTalk, Elizabeth! Could you introduce yourself and your background? I’m a genderfluid glaciologist living between previously glaciated, currently glaciated, and flood-prone landscapes. I am a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. I did my bachelor’s in physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and my Ph.D. in glacial geophysics at Co ...[Read More]

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Biogeosciences

Meet your BG team 2025/2026

and October 3, 2025
Meet your BG team 2025/2026

The Biogeoscience division team has changed over the last year, and in this blog post, we are delighted to introduce our new team of representatives and describe their roles and research interests so that you can get to know them better. Our division is led by a President and Deputy President, supported by two Early Career Scientist Representatives and several sub-division officers who cover vario ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Democracy from the ivory tower: A response to the Anti-autocracy Handbook from a Global South perspective

October 3, 2025
Democracy from the ivory tower: A response to the Anti-autocracy Handbook from a Global South perspective

Yet another global guide to saving democracy, this time titled The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars’ Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding, authored by an all-star cast of academics based in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Because, clearly, when it comes to understanding the creeping rise of authoritarian regimes, who better to consult than experts who live and work in societies whe ...[Read More]

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Tectonics and Structural Geology

Where earthquake faults reach the ground surface: insight from 2016 Kumamoto event

October 2, 2025
Where earthquake faults reach the ground surface: insight from 2016 Kumamoto event

What does a seismogenic fault look like? We can sometimes observe surface earthquake faults, which propagate ruptures from the hypocenter to the ground surface. In 2016, intense seismicity was observed during the Kumamoto earthquake sequence in Japan. This sequence consisted of many shallow earthquakes, including a strong foreshock and the subsequent mainshock with numerous aftershocks. The earthq ...[Read More]

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Solar-Terrestrial Sciences

ST-ECS Networking Campfire: “How to Navigate Between Academia and Industry”

September 30, 2025
ST-ECS Networking Campfire: “How to Navigate Between Academia and Industry”

For many early-career scientists, one of the big questions is whether to pursue a career in academia, move into industry, or find a path that bridges both worlds. Each sector offers unique opportunities and challenges, and learning how to navigate between them can help you make confident, informed career decisions. To shed light on this topic, the Early Career Scientists (ECS) team of the Solar-Te ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during September!

September 30, 2025
GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during September!

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. During this month, we are featuring Seismology (SM) and Climate: Past, Present & Future (CL). They are represented by the journals Geoscientific Model Development (GMD), Solid Earth (SE), Climate of the Past (CP), ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

Passing the French Concours for a Permanent Research Position: Joining an Interdisciplinary Research Unit on Water and the Global South

September 26, 2025
Passing the French Concours for a Permanent Research Position: Joining an Interdisciplinary Research Unit on Water and the Global South

For most early-career hydrologists, securing a permanent position as a researcher or assistant professor is a major aspiration. Yet, with the proliferation of short-term contracts, achieving this goal has become increasingly challenging. In France, the academic system still offers an annual opportunity for young hydrologists and hydrogeologists to obtain such positions, even though the process is ...[Read More]

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Biogeosciences

Working in industry during your PhD

and September 26, 2025
Working in industry during your PhD

A guide for early career researchers exploring opportunities beyond academia Pursuing a PhD often starts with the assumption that your next step will be a postdoc, followed by a tenure-track position. But, for a number of reasons, many early career researchers are starting to look beyond academia. Industry careers represent an appealing alternative as they offer stimulating work, competitive salar ...[Read More]

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Tectonics and Structural Geology

Geomythology. True science and/or strong communication medium ?!

September 26, 2025
Geomythology. True science and/or strong communication medium ?!

Geomythology is a relatively recent term, coined by Dorothy B. Vitaliano in 1966. It represented the birth of what will become a new multidisciplinary approach, aimed not only at explaining the geological meaning of natural phenomenon behind long-told folklore (myths and legends), but also at bridging the communication gap between scientists and non-scientists (Vitaliano, 1973). Geomythology estab ...[Read More]

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Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology

Introducing the TIMES initiative

September 24, 2025
Introducing the TIMES initiative

TIMES is the acronym of a large-scale international science initiative “Time Integrated Matrix for Earth Sciences” (Link: https://www.codd-home.net/times/). The idea is to launch a global program with the aim of synchronizing age models for particularly important geological climate records from the past 100 million years. The motivation for this program is given in a white paper published in the j ...[Read More]