EGU Blogs

5733 search results for "6"

G
Geodesy

Bits and Bites of Geodesy – Satellite Gravimetry: Studying Earth’s water cycle from space

February 27, 2026
Bits and Bites of Geodesy – Satellite Gravimetry: Studying Earth’s water cycle from space

During winter, mountains gain mass because of snow covering the peaks. In spring, the snow melts and flows downstream until it reaches the ocean or evaporates into the atmosphere to reach back on the surface as rain or snow. The global water cycle is very complex and essential for life on our planet. Did you know we can measure how the water is distributed by measuring its mass from space? How can ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during February!

February 27, 2026
GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during February!

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 The Cryosphere (CR) and Solar-Terrestrial Sciences (ST). They are represented by the journals Geoscientific Model Development (GMD), Annales Geophysicae (ANGEO), and The Cryosphere. ...[Read More]

GD
Geodynamics

FrenSZ workshop: a French interdisciplinary initiative around subduction zones.

and February 25, 2026
FrenSZ workshop: a French interdisciplinary initiative around subduction zones.

Since 2022, the annual FrenSZ workshop has been bringing together a vibrant and interdisciplinary community around subduction zones in France. In this week’s blog post, we dive into how FrenSZ is organized, highlight its scientific outcomes and how it is opening new connections on the international stage. A large French community. In France, a fairly large community of Earth Scientists devote thei ...[Read More]

SSP
Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology

Mass Transport Deposits – The smoking gun of submarine landslides

February 24, 2026
Mass Transport Deposits – The smoking gun of submarine landslides

When we think about landslides, we usually picture mountain slopes collapsing after heavy rain or earthquakes. Similar phenomena, often much larger, also occur beneath the sea along continental margins and across the deep ocean floor. Geologists refer to the deposits left behind by these collapses as Mass Transport Deposits, commonly abbreviated as MTDs. When several of these deposits form part of ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Are you ready to vote for your favourite Division blog of 2025?

February 23, 2026
Are you ready to vote for your favourite Division blog of 2025?

Our EGU blogging team has had a fantastic 2025 posting across our official blog, GeoLog and the division blogs. Most of our readers appreciate EGU’s blogs for their informative yet accessible style, and for our bloggers’ ability to take complex geoscience content and make it fun and relevant to the reader. If this sounds like something you’d like to get involved in, we encourage you to get i ...[Read More]

CL
Climate: Past, Present & Future

Studying societal climate impacts: why is it hard and what can we do about it

February 20, 2026
Studying societal climate impacts: why is it hard and what can we do about it

Due to the rapid rise in temperatures, it started raining on the snow and ice-covered roads, prompting the regional public transport operator to suspend all bus services. The rain also resulted in icing on the overhead lines of the main railway line coming into town. Rail traffic was also temporarily suspended. Before the adjacent highway could be salted, several tens of cars were involved in a ch ...[Read More]

GeoLog

How 40 years of Viking missions decoded the Universe’s most misbehaving matter

February 20, 2026
How 40 years of Viking missions decoded the Universe’s most misbehaving matter

In a couple of days, on 22 February, we will mark a major milestone in space history: 40 years since the launch of the first Swedish Viking satellite, when an Ariane rocket from Kourou in French-occupied Guiana launched on 22 February 1986! While the general public might hear the word Viking and picture longboats, heavy axes, and a level of beard maintenance that borders on the professional, space ...[Read More]

NH
Natural Hazards

Same hills, different rules: why urban and rural landslides should not be considered together?

February 20, 2026
Same hills, different rules: why urban and rural landslides should not be considered together?

Cities are expanding faster than ever, often onto steep and unstable terrain. As urban areas grow, landslides increasingly threaten homes, roads, and critical infrastructure. To manage this risk, scientists produce landslide susceptibility maps, which estimate where landslides are most likely to occur. These maps are widely used by planners and decision-makers. But there is a quiet assumption buil ...[Read More]

OS
Ocean Sciences

A synergy of observations: Filling the gaps in an ocean colour chlorophyll-a record

February 20, 2026
A synergy of observations: Filling the gaps in an ocean colour chlorophyll-a record

Chlorophyll-a (chl-a), as the dominant photosynthetic pigment within phytoplankton, provides an indication of the phytoplankton biomass and are essential for understanding global and regional changes in primary production in the oceans. Multiple ocean colour satellites have unlocked routine synoptical scale observations of chl-a which now extends from 1997 to the present day. Differing numbers of ...[Read More]

HS
Hydrological Sciences

HydroTalks: Prof. Sally E. Thompson on ecohydrology, vegetation, climate change and working across continents

, and February 19, 2026
HydroTalks: Prof. Sally E. Thompson on ecohydrology, vegetation, climate change and working across continents

In episode 7 of the Hydrotalks podcast, our guest was Dr. Sally Thompson (Sally Thompson – the UWA Profiles and Research Repository). She is a Professor at the University of Western Australia, and the Co-Director of the Centre for Water and Spatial Science. Her research spans ecohydrology, surface hydrology, and Critical Zone Science, exploring how vegetation and ecosystems interact with wat ...[Read More]