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🌱 Nurturing the Next Generation of Soil Scientists: Meet the SSS EGU Early Career Scientists Team

🌱 Nurturing the Next Generation of Soil Scientists: Meet the SSS EGU Early Career Scientists Team

Soil is more than just dirt beneath our feet, it’s a living, breathing system that sustains ecosystems, regulates climate, and supports agriculture. At the heart of advancing our understanding of these vital systems is a dynamic group of early career researchers working within the Soil System Sciences (SSS) Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). …[Read More]

Sixty years under the mountain: A geoscientific odyssey through the Mont Blanc tunnel

Sixty years under the mountain: A geoscientific odyssey through the Mont Blanc tunnel

On July 16, 1965, the Mont Blanc Tunnel, 11.611 km of tunnel piercing the heart of the Alps, opened to traffic, marking a triumph of engineering, geology, and international cooperation. Sixty years later, this civilian artery connecting Chamonix (France) and Courmayeur (Italy) stands not just as a testament to human inventiveness but as an ongoing marvel if viewed through …[Read More]

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Surviving the Ranking Madness: A Geoscientist’s Guide to Keeping Your Academic Soul Intact

Surviving the Ranking Madness: A Geoscientist’s Guide to Keeping Your Academic Soul Intact

The Academic Identity Crisis Ever googled yourself to check if your h-index went up? Compared your publication statistics to a peer? Published in a paywall journal while cursing the system? – Same. Welcome to the slightly neurotic world of academic evaluation—where current incentives often pull us away from the values we hold as scientists: curiosity, …[Read More]

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AI-generated Images: the fragility of visual evidence in geosciences

AI-generated Images: the fragility of visual evidence in geosciences

Recently, an increased number of visually striking “scientific” images have been found online: snapshots of turbulent flows with dreamlike structure, eerily symmetric cloud patterns, and what appeared to be global temperature fields annotated with plausible colormaps and scientific-looking labels. Many of these posts quickly go viral on social media. And yet, in many cases, the …[Read More]

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Seismology Job & Career Portal

Seismology Job & Career Portal

On this page, we regularly update open positions, workshops, schools or internships in Seismology for early career scientists. Do you have a job on offer? Would you like to advertise your workshop? Contact us at ecs-sm@egu.eu Please, note that other available research positions are displayed on the EGU Jobs Portal. We invite you to explore …[Read More]

The International SeaKeepers Society Powers NOAA’s Groundbreaking Ocean Mapping Breakthrough for Seabed 2030

The International SeaKeepers Society Powers NOAA’s Groundbreaking Ocean Mapping Breakthrough for Seabed 2030

In a bold leap toward mapping Earth’s final frontier, the seafloor, The International SeaKeepers Society (SeaKeepers), a global non-profit organisation, is proud to support a historic advancement in this effort. As part of the global Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project, SeaKeepers has been mobilising private yachts through its DISCOVERY Fleet since 2021 to collect vital …[Read More]