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CR
Cryospheric Sciences

Heard Island Glaciers Are Shrinking Faster Than Ever! Here’s what you need to know.

October 17, 2025
Heard Island Glaciers Are Shrinking Faster Than Ever! Here’s what you need to know.

In this blog post Dr Levan Tielidze from Monash University and Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future shares insights from a new glacier assessment of Heard Island. Although rarely visited and largely unknown, Heard Island plays an outsized role in understanding how the Southern Ocean cryosphere is responding to global warming. The island is one of the few sub-Antarctic locations with active g ...[Read More]

HS
Hydrological Sciences

Looking Back at IAHS2025 in Roorkee: Hydrologists Assemble in India

October 16, 2025
Looking Back at IAHS2025 in Roorkee: Hydrologists Assemble in India

Between October 5 – 10, 2025, the XIIth Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) took place in Roorkee, India.  Overall, more than 600 hydrologists assembled on the campus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) to share their latest progress, discuss with their colleagues, nurture connections, and celebrate hydrology as a discipline.  Here’s a ...[Read More]

TS
Tectonics and Structural Geology

Faults vs. Fractures — How to Tell Them Apart ?

October 16, 2025
A futuristic Black geologist wearing AR glasses stands in a glowing cave surrounded by four holographic screens labeled Geological Aspect, Geometry, Topology, and Kinematics & Mechanism, each displaying geological diagrams and fracture models, symbolizing modern geoscience visualization.

Faults and fractures can sometimes be confusing, especially for students taking their first geology courses. When they go hiking in the mountains and see a crack in the rock, they often wonder — is this a fracture or a fault? Even scientists sometimes mix the two terms, so it’s good to understand the difference. Since faults and fractures are important in many fields such as tunnel engineering, hy ...[Read More]

GD
Geodynamics

From Mountains to Oceans: How the memory of ancient orogens guides the rupture of continents

and October 15, 2025
Picture showing an orogen that transform in a rift

In this new blog, Dr. Kai Li (GFZ Potsdam) talk about his PhD work, where he used accordion numerical models to explore the tectonic history of the South China Sea. His PhD research focuses on the impact of orogenic inheritance on rifts and rifted margins, employing advanced geodynamic modeling techniques. Have you ever tried to fit the west coast of Africa and the east coast of South America toge ...[Read More]

GI
Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems

GI Campfire – Artificial Intelligence: Exploring New Frontiers in Geoscience

and October 14, 2025

The Geoscience Instrumentation and Data Systems (GI) Division of the EGU is opening its 2025 Campfire series with an event dedicated to Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Campfire will take place on Thursday, 30 October 2025 at 16:00 CET and will be coordinated by the Early Career Scientists (ECS) team of the GI Division. Campfires are designed to bring researchers together to learn, discuss, and n ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Letting in instead of coming out? Reflections on shifting from disclosure to self-compassion

and October 13, 2025
Letting in instead of coming out? Reflections on shifting from disclosure to self-compassion

Saturday, October 11, 2025, marked World Coming Out Day. In this blog post, my colleague, Simon Clark, and I want to take a moment to share our experiences with you. We believe in the power of relatability and how it can help others feel less alienated in their own experiences. So keep reading, because today, we’re letting you in. Asmae speaking here: Coming out has always been a complicated ...[Read More]

GM
Geomorphology

Highlighting: Electron Spin Resonance!

October 13, 2025
Highlighting: Electron Spin Resonance!

This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact Emma Lodes (GM blog editor, elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others.  Interview with Audrey Margirier, Postdoctoral fellow, University Grenoble Alpes & University of Lausanne (Switzerland). Email: audrey.margirier@unil.ch Questions by Emma Lodes. This week, we ...[Read More]

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]

CR
Cryospheric Sciences

Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 5

October 10, 2025
Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 5

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]

G
Geodesy

Climbing Through a PhD – Mental Health on the Way to the Summit

and October 10, 2025
Climbing Through a PhD – Mental Health on the Way to the Summit

Imagine you are going on a long mountain tour. Your backpack is heavy, the path is steep, and although you have been walking for hours, all you can see ahead of you is the next climb. Doing a PhD is like climbing such a mountain. It can feel exhausting, there is always the next challenge ahead and the finish line seems to never get closer. Self-doubt and the feeling of not doing enough accompanies ...[Read More]