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Hydrological Sciences

Close the gender gap among EGU awardees: Nominate your women peers

, and April 9, 2026
Close the gender gap among EGU awardees: Nominate your women peers

Scientists are often imagined through a narrow and gendered stereotype. This matters because society’s image of scientist shape who is seen, remembered and valued as a role model. When recognition, leadership and awards are skewed towards male scientists, scientists from underrepresented genders are less likely to feel that they belong, or see a future for themselves in the field. In geosciences, ...[Read More]

GeoLog

The Neurodivergent Guide to the EGU General Assembly: Tips and tricks to improve your experience

April 8, 2026
The Neurodivergent Guide to the EGU General Assembly: Tips and tricks to improve your experience

What is neurodiversity? Neurodiversity is the concept that individuals experience the world, process information, function and communicate in diverse ways; there is no ‘default’ way of thinking. As a framework it supports the self-advocacy of people who face obstacles due to their needs not being considered in the design of environments and systems. Such individuals think and experienc ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoPolicy: Response to the new European climate resilience framework

April 3, 2026
GeoPolicy: Response to the new European climate resilience framework

Climate change is having a profound impact on the planet. According to several reports, 2023 was the warmest year on record, with the global average temperature over the 12-month period from February 2023 to January 2024 exceeding the 1.5 °C threshold above pre-industrial levels. Climate change acts as a risk multiplier, as its impacts transcend national borders and amplify existing threats and cr ...[Read More]

HS
Hydrological Sciences

Doing flood frequency hydrology in a non-stationary climate

April 3, 2026
Doing flood frequency hydrology in a non-stationary climate

A robust estimation of probabilities of extreme floods is the Holy Grail in flood hydrology in view of limited available observations, variability of climate, and complexity of flood generation processes in catchments. Flood frequency hydrology, spearheaded in the past decades by Ralf Merz and Günter Blöschl, offers a powerful toolbox to enhance the reliability of flood probability estimates by co ...[Read More]

CL
Climate: Past, Present & Future

When a major climate event goes almost unnoticed: the elusive 8.2 ka signal in southern France stalagmites

and April 2, 2026
When a major climate event goes almost unnoticed: the elusive 8.2 ka signal in southern France stalagmites

  Around 8,200 years ago, the climate of the Northern Hemisphere experienced an abrupt disturbance. In Greenland ice cores, the signal is unmistakable: a rapid drop in temperatures, followed by a gradual return to previous conditions. This episode, which lasted about 150 years, is known as the 8.2 ka event (“ka” meaning thousand years before 1950). It is often described as the most prominent ...[Read More]

TS
Tectonics and Structural Geology

Exploring Earth’s interior with analogue models: The case of slow earthquakes

April 2, 2026
Analogue experimental setup of spherical hydrogel suspension.

Have you ever heard of “analogue modelling”? In solid Earth science, directly observing the Earth’s interior is challenging, and the analogue modelling approach often overcomes this limitation by using alternative systems analogous to natural phenomena. By identifying fundamental mechanisms in these tractable systems, we can apply physical scaling laws to understand processes dee ...[Read More]

GM
Geomorphology

Unveiling Volcanic Slopes: Exploring Landslide Hazards in Santorini Island, Greece

April 1, 2026
Unveiling Volcanic Slopes: Exploring Landslide Hazards in Santorini Island, Greece

by Stratis (Efstratios) Karantanellis, Professor, Geohazards and Remote Sensing Lab, Department of Geological Sciences at California State University, Fullerton. Email: ekarantanellis@fullerton.edu, website: https://sites.google.com/view/stratiskarantanellis Santorini is one of those places that doesn’t quite feel real at first glance. White houses stacked on cliffs, blue domes, the Aegean stretch ...[Read More]

GD
Geodynamics

The sassy scientist: we regret to inform you

April 1, 2026
The sassy scientist: we regret to inform you

With the winds of change brought by a new season, I’m back to help my readers to get out from dispair. This time a reader ask: Dear Sassy scientist, How do I deal with rejection during a job hunt? Dear Sarah, I hear you writing from the edge of despair. Let’s be honest: you’ve chosen the scenic route to career purgatory. Nevermind watching your lifelong friends enjoying their permanent contr ...[Read More]

AS
Atmospheric Sciences

CLOUDLAB: Cloud research in a natural laboratory

and March 31, 2026
CLOUDLAB: Cloud research in a natural laboratory

It’s murky grey, windy, and freezing when we head out into the countryside of the Swiss pre-Alps. We are looking for low hanging clouds to serve as our natural laboratory. Wintertime low stratus clouds can cover Switzerland for days. This type of cloud is stable with temperatures below 0 ºC and it contains plenty of liquid cloud droplets, but no ice crystals. These are the perfect background condi ...[Read More]

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Seismology

Art, science, and seismic memory

and March 30, 2026
Art, science, and seismic memory

The contribution from Sergio León-Ríos, Associate Researcher at the Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC) at the University of Chile, where he does seismology research. Introduction Earthquakes and tsunamis are not only purely scientific geophysical phenomena. They are also deeply embedded in social memory, cultural narratives, and everyday life – especially in countries like Chile, where ...[Read More]