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Natural Hazards

How scientists support Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) policies: the example of a European Ultraperipheral Department (Mayotte, the 14th of December, 2024)

December 22, 2024
How scientists support Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) policies: the example of a European Ultraperipheral Department (Mayotte, the 14th of December, 2024)

Ultraperipheral European departments like Mayotte are developing regions, often disproportionately exposed to natural hazards and struggling to mitigate the impacts of climate change. The eye of cyclone Chido, the most violent storm to hit Mayotte island in 90 years, engulfed the French Department on the 14th of December 2024. The extensive destruction and massive loss of life ranks this event as ...[Read More]

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Geodesy

Inside the World of ‘Native Scientists’

and December 20, 2024
Inside the World of ‘Native Scientists’

  Are you ready to dive into the fascinating mutual symbiosis of science, culture, and education? Be ready to be inspired by the blog editor-in-chief of our division blog, Rebekka Steffen, who is a researcher at Lantmäteriet in Sweden, where she specializes on glacial isostatic adjustment—think rising land, ancient ice sheets, and Earth’s stress fields!  But there’s more to Rebekka than cutti ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

Introducing the British Hydrological Society: Stand-out for Hydrology!

, , and December 17, 2024
Introducing the British Hydrological Society: Stand-out for Hydrology!

The British Hydrological Society (BHS) is a registered charity and is almost entirely run by volunteers who have chosen to give their time to serve the hydrological community.  Founded in 1983, the BHS is a Specialist Knowledge Society of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). Its overall aim is to provide interest, good practice, and scholarship in all aspects of hydrology. It also wants to su ...[Read More]

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Ocean Sciences

Book Review: Blue Machine by Helen Czerski

December 13, 2024
Book Review: Blue Machine by Helen Czerski

The engine that is Earth’s ocean takes sunlight and converts it into giant underwater currents and waterfalls, hauling around the ingredients for life: nutrients, oxygen and trace metals like potassium and iron, shaping our coasts and transporting heat.  In her book Blue Machine – How the Ocean Shapes Our World, physicist Helen Czerski takes readers on an enlightening journey through t ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Navigating visa requirements and preparing for the EGU General Assembly in Austria

December 13, 2024
Navigating visa requirements and preparing for the EGU General Assembly in Austria

Attending the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna is an invaluable experience, where scientists, researchers, and professionals come together from all over the world to share knowledge, expand networks, and strengthen the geosciences community. However, if you’re coming from a non-EU country and require a visa, preparing for your trip may feel overwhelming. As a former visa ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

The value of failure: Learning from what didn’t work

, , , and December 12, 2024
The value of failure: Learning from what didn’t work

“What failure prepared you for later success?” Tim Ferriss often asks this question to the high-performing guests on his podcast, giving them the opportunity to reflect on how setbacks have shaped their journey. Whether the guest is a leader in business, medicine or science, their answers often share a common theme: failure is not only inevitable, but essential. These moments of strugg ...[Read More]

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Climate: Past, Present & Future

Open climate science is brave climate science

and December 6, 2024
Open climate science is brave climate science

Why are we climate scientists? For us, there is a number of reasons: we feel a strong bond to nature, we like to solve puzzles and we want to understand the mechanisms of what we see every day.  And – even if it only manifests at the end of a causal chain – we want to contribute to a just and livable world via working in climate science. Thus, due to distant and abstract state funding ...[Read More]

GeoLog

You don’t have to review alone… introducing EGU’s new co-reviewing scheme for Early Career Scientists and first time reviewers

December 6, 2024
You don’t have to review alone… introducing EGU’s new co-reviewing scheme for Early Career Scientists and first time reviewers

Any journal editor will recognize this challenge: a new manuscript arrives for review. It’s great, and you’re enthusiastic about getting it into the system, but suddenly, there’s a problem. All the suggested reviewers are unavailable! What do you do now? Across publishing fields, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find suitable reviewers for scientific manuscripts. As the number of submissio ...[Read More]

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

GMPV is looking for the new ECS Rep!!!

December 6, 2024
GMPV is looking for the new ECS Rep!!!

The Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology division of the EGU is looking for a new Early Career Scientist representative (ECS rep)! The outgoing rep (Simona Gabrielli) will be standing down officially at the EGU General Assembly 2025, so this is your opportunity to take this role! Why become an early career scientist representative? Being the ECS rep for an EGU division is a great ex ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Happy birthday to the Cryoblog!

December 6, 2024
Collage of four people with the heading

  The EGU Cryosphere Blog is now 10 years old: Happy Birthday! It all started in December 2014 with this blog post from Nanna Karlsson, and now counts 452 blog posts across 25 blog categories, including winning three Best EGU blog posts (2016, 2019 and 2021). 881 different (hash)tags were used in our blog posts, with way more counts on Antarctica and climate than the Arctic. Since the start, ...[Read More]