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Geodynamics

How Hot our Moon Can Get: Mapping Radioactive Elements and Thermal State of the Lunar Interior

and December 4, 2024
How Hot our Moon Can Get: Mapping Radioactive Elements and Thermal State of the Lunar Interior

Geochemists and geophysicists, even with their favorite tools, have often scratched their heads while probing Earth’s deep interior—one  can only imagine the challenges while applying those techniques to the Moon! This week in News & Views, Arkadeep Roy, a PhD candidate from the University of Arizona demonstrates how the intersection of experimental petrology, geochemistry, and geophysic ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoTalk: meet Georgia Moutsiana, researcher of Jupiter’s magnetosphere!

December 2, 2024
Georgia Moutsiana

Hello Georgia – welcome to GeoTalk! Could you tell our readers a little bit about yourself and your background? Thank you, Simon! I’m Georgia Moutsiana, a space scientist and PhD candidate at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. My research focuses on understanding the processes that accelerate and transport charged particles in planetary magnetospheres. My key message is th ...[Read More]

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Natural Hazards

Trans-Border Mountainous Areas: Zones of Conflict or Cooperation Amid Natural and Man-Made Hazards?

December 2, 2024
Trans-Border Mountainous Areas: Zones of Conflict or Cooperation Amid Natural and Man-Made Hazards?

Mountain ranges have long served as natural boundaries, shaping the geopolitical landscape of nations. However, these towering landmarks often straddle borders, creating zones of cooperation or, more frequently, contention. From the Mont Blanc massif in Europe to the young, fragile ranges of the Himalayas, mountainous regions are fraught with overlapping challenges, including natural hazards, clim ...[Read More]

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Geomorphology

Highlighting the Sediment Cascades workshop in Chile

November 30, 2024
Highlighting the Sediment Cascades workshop in Chile

This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact one of the GM blog editors, Emily (eb2043@cam.ac.uk) or Emma (elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others.  by Rebekah Harries, Postdoctoral researcher, Durham University, UK Email: rebekah.m.harries@durham.ac.uk With contributions from Paulina Vergara Torrejón, Eliza ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Ireland’s Geoscience Day: The success story of bridging generations over science

November 29, 2024
Ireland’s Geoscience Day: The success story of bridging generations over science

The EGU Geoscience Days connect science with society by funding innovative projects that make Earth, planetary, and space sciences accessible. This year’s spotlight is on our awardee Fergus McAuliffe’s project, Marine Geoscience for All, which used art, storytelling, and dialogue to bring marine geoscience closer to the public. I had the pleasure to interview Fergus again after the events to ...[Read More]

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Ocean Sciences

The Jinxed Scientist: The Conference Cough Symphony

November 29, 2024
The Jinxed Scientist: The Conference Cough Symphony

Bad things happen… but they make for the best stories. This blog is for all the jinxed souls out there who seem to attract bad luck in academia. As conferences are the perfect stage, almost predestined to showcase our most embarrassing moments, we will start right there. This blog post is for everyone who shivers at the thought of presenting on the conference stage. All the PhDs who just started a ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

The Sassy Scientist – the one with covid blues

November 29, 2024
The Sassy Scientist – the one with covid blues

Did I get sick again? Covid, is that you? Long time no see. It’d be better if you left me alone, but I guess we don’t have much choice here, do we? While I’m knocked out by the sedatives to stop my lungs from squeezing themselves out, I ended up thinking about one of the questions I got recently. So, today, we’re answering Ron’s question: Am I getting more stupid or is the PhD getting smarter? Dea ...[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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Geodesy

Expanding the picture: Being a female geodesist in Iran

November 29, 2024
A graphical illustration in watercolour optic with human silhouettes in different colours, and several smaller elements such as an ocean and a satellite.

Researchers working in STEM fields who also belong to a minority group face more challenges than their more privileged colleagues. Take Maryam Mirzakhani for instance; she was the first woman and the first Iranian to receive the Fields Medal. But along that path, she quietly overcame a lot of barriers on her journey- from being a child during the Iran-Iraq war to educational inequalities and the u ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

Catch the rain when it falls: a journey through water harvesting in the Anthropocene

November 28, 2024
Catch the rain when it falls: a journey through water harvesting in the Anthropocene

As an environmental engineer trained in water resources management, I have always been fascinated by the multiple uses of water, and specifically the use of water for food production. I always assumed that “the largest share of freshwater resources was used for food production”, thus I logically pursued my MSc. thesis and then my Ph.D. in agricultural sciences. How Fieldwork Shifted My Perspective ...[Read More]