This year on the EGU General Assembly blog there will be guest posts from participants about their research and their impressions of sessions. These are personal points of view not EGU corporate views. If you would like to contribute a research or session viewpoint, please email us. This perspective from the European Geosciences Union General Asembly 2011 is from Thomas Smith about how to maximise ...[Read More]
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Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology
Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Estuarine Deposits
In recent months, I had the opportunity to work on a project analysing subsurface data from a rock sequence previously interpreted as the product of an estuarine depositional environment. The client sought subsurface maps to characterize the spatial distribution of various geobodies associated with sedimentary deposits typically found in modern estuaries. In other words, the goal was to reconstruc ...[Read More]
Geodynamics
BeGEO scientists 2025: the 3rd conference of young Earth scientists in Italy
Born at the feet of active volcanoes, a group of young Earth scientists works for connecting colleagues in Italy and around the globe. One of the main challenges faced by those approaching the academic career for the first time is creating a network of known people with whom sharing scientific knowledge and maybe lay the foundations for new collaborations. Conferences are definitely the perfect pl ...[Read More]
Hydrological Sciences
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]
Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology
Granite Rocks: Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Textures, Types, Main Varieties, Uses, and More
Granite is a coarse-grained, crystalline, plutonic, felsic, and acidic igneous rock. It contains more than 66% of silica “SiO2”, and about 14.42% of alumina “Al2O3”. The quartz makes up 10% : 50% of the whole rock. The alkali feldspars range from 65% to 90% of the entire rock. It’s leucocratic “light-colored”. The equivalent volcanic rock of granite is rhyolite. The melting point of most dry grani ...[Read More]
Geodesy
The EGU mentoring programme: Experiences from mentor and mentee perspectives
The EGU mentoring programme: Experiences from mentor and mentee perspectives Each year, EGU offers a mentoring programme to pair a more experienced conference “veteran”, defined as having participated in a General Assembly (GA) at least two times, and a conference “newbie”. As we’re getting closer to the GA period, the submission deadline for the mentoring programme is on 17.03.25, and the ultimat ...[Read More]
Geodynamics
A whole mantle dynamical framework for Venus
Geodynamicists have long grappled with the complexities of Earth’s mantle dynamics—modeling Venus’ interior adds an extra layer of challenge without the benefit of plate tectonics! This week in News & Views, Madeleine Kerr, a PhD candidate from the University of California, San Diego, explores how numerical modeling can shed light on mantle dynamics and the evolution of Earth’s eni ...[Read More]
Energy, Resources and the Environment
Introduction of the ERE division
Hello and welcome to the reopened blog of the Energy, Resources and the Environment Division of the EGU! We want to use this blog in the future actively to keep you updated with what is happening in our division and to highlight various ERE related topics of interest, activities and research. But today we want to first introduce ourselves. In the ERE division, people who work to better understand ...[Read More]
Solar-Terrestrial Sciences
AGATA: Advancing Polar Science through Multi-Instrument Integration and Collaboration
Scientific research has long recognized that solar-terrestrial interactions play a crucial role in shaping the polar atmosphere, impacting both climate dynamics and atmospheric coupling across different layers. Understanding these interactions is key to unraveling their far-reaching effects on Earth’s climate, space weather, and global atmospheric processes. The recognition of these critical proce ...[Read More]
Natural Hazards
The Geography of Multi-Hazards: Exploring Landscapes Prone to Hazard Cascades
Multi-hazards are “a selection of major hazards that a country faces, and specific contexts where hazards occur simultaneously, cascadingly, and accumulatively considering the interrelationships among them”, based on the UNSDRR definition [7]. Yet, this definition raises two key questions: Where are these specific contexts located, and what characteristics make them susceptible to intersecting haz ...[Read More]