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Geodesy

Bits and Bites of Geodesy – From Wobble to Wander: Tracking Earth’s Shifting Rotation Axis

June 27, 2025
Bits and Bites of Geodesy – From Wobble to Wander: Tracking Earth’s Shifting Rotation Axis

When we think of Earth’s rotation, it is tempting to imagine a perfectly smooth spin. But in reality, Earth’s rotation is irregular and dynamic, and is influenced by forces inside and outside of our planet. To describe the changing orientation of the Earth in space over time Earth Orientation Parameters (EOPs) are measured with fundamental geodetic measuring techniques, e.g., Very Long Baseline In ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 4

June 27, 2025
Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 4

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]

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Hydrological Sciences

On finding my water temperature community

June 26, 2025
On finding my water temperature community

Walking the halls of the EGU General Assembly 2025 a few weeks ago, I was full of child-like curiosity. Being surrounded by people doing fascinating, creative, and innovative research felt like a dream come true. New faces every day, big talks on small advances and complicated methodologies. I learned about mountain ecology and failing snow-models, and I was captured by graphs and animations ̵ ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Trans masculinities, embodied geographies and the River Neath

June 25, 2025
Trans masculinities, embodied geographies and the River Neath

How do our environments shape who we are? How do we shape them? Most people have a place (or places) that they know or love so deeply it feels inextricable from themselves. A place they keep coming back to over time, maybe even after years of resisting it. For me, it’s the River Neath in South Wales, which rises on the slopes of Fan Gyhirych before winding thirty-one kilometres southeast to the se ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Happy 8th blog birthday and introducing the new blog team!

and June 25, 2025
Happy 8th blog birthday and introducing the new blog team!

Hello there! It’s Constanza and Michaël your GD editors-in-chief once again. End of June marks the 8th anniversary of the blog, so happy birthday to the blog! It’s been some pretty busy weeks of preparation behind the scenes after the EGU General Assembly to bring together the new blog team for the year 2025-2026. We are a team of early career scientists who are very enthusiastic about ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Can seabed mapping help restore our blue planet?

June 20, 2025
Can seabed mapping help restore our blue planet?

Some humans are racing to map the moon, Mars, and the stars, yet the very ground beneath our oceans remains largely unknown. What does it say about us, that we can chart the craters of distant planets before we bother to understand the seafloor that feeds us, cools us, and regulates our climate? In an age of climate breakdown, ecological collapse, and blue economy buzzwords, the seabed has become ...[Read More]

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Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences

EGU NP Paper of the Month “Finite-size local dimension as a tool for extracting geometrical properties of attractors of dynamical systems”

June 19, 2025
EGU NP Paper of the Month “Finite-size local dimension as a tool for extracting geometrical properties of attractors of dynamical systems”

The original goal of this study was to understand how the local dimension of the attractor of a dynamical system could be used to estimate the predictability of the future state of the system, and apply this in the case of radar images of rain. The local dimension using Extreme Value Theory (EVT) has been introduced and used in Faranda et al. (2017) to infer the current predictability of different ...[Read More]

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Seismology

What Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) can find in the Atlantic Ocean

and June 18, 2025
What Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) can find in the Atlantic Ocean

The contribution from David Schlaphorst, the member of ECS SM division team. David is a PostDoc in Dom Luiz Institute (IDL), University of Lisbon, where he does seismology research. Introduction Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) has been used exponentially over the last decade.If you are eager to learn the basics but in song form try this link. In this blog post, we want to dive into one example ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Surf’s up and so are marine heatwaves! How AI is forewarning the Mediterranean’s ocean sizzle

June 18, 2025
Surf’s up and so are marine heatwaves! How AI is forewarning the Mediterranean’s ocean sizzle

Imagine you’re standing on a rocky Mediterranean shore, early morning sun warming the air, the sea is calm and glassy. But away from sight and beneath that serene surface, there is a silent storm brewing. Marine heatwaves are sweeping across the basin, warming the water in ways that disrupt ecosystems, hit fisheries, and threaten everything from coral reefs to coastal livelihoods. That’s whe ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

What drives the extensional deformation in the central Apennines (Italy)?

and June 18, 2025
What drives the extensional deformation in the central Apennines (Italy)?

The central Mediterranean is a geodynamically complex region shaped by the interaction of multiple active subduction zones. In Italy, the central Apennines display a distinctive pattern of surface deformation that is proposed to be linked to a slab break-off beneath the area. In this week’s blog post, Maaike, a PhD student at ISTerre in Grenoble, France, explores the key processes driving surface ...[Read More]