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Tectonics and Structural Geology

Solid Earth journal: the possibilities of open access publishing

Fabrizio Storti October 7, 2016

The third blog for TS is an invited guest blog by Fabrizio Storti, the chief executive editor of the EGU journal Solid Earth. Solid Earth publishes open access manuscripts on the composition, structure, and dynamics of the Earth from the surface to the deep interior. It is the journal for our community and we encourage everyone to see if they can contribute a manuscript and/or participate in the o ...[Read More]

GeoSphere

Pilgrimage to Pompeii

Matt Herod October 6, 2016

One of the highlights of my honeymoon in Italy was our trip to Pompeii. Both my wife and I are big classics nerds so for us a visit to Pompeii had something of a pilgrimage aspect to it. For me, as a geologist, it was doubly impactful to see the effect of Vesuvius on the town. For the record, we got in a huge discussion about what actually constitutes a pilgrimage. As a bit of background, Mount Ve ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Celebrating Earth Science Week!

Laura Roberts-Artal October 6, 2016

For those not so familiar with the Earth sciences, geosciences and all its subdisciplines might be shrouded in mystery: boring, unfathomable, out of reach and with little relevance to everyday life. Nothing could be further from the truth! Earth Science Week, an international annual celebration founded by the American Geosciences Institute in 1998, aims to change the public’s perception of the ge ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Educators: Apply now to take part in the 2017 GIFT workshop!

Laura Roberts-Artal October 5, 2016

The General Assembly is not only for researchers but for teachers and educators with an interest in the geosciences also. Every year the Geosciences Information For Teachers (GIFT) is organised by the EGU Committee on Education to bring first class science closer to primary and high school teachers. The topic of the 2017 edition of GIFT is ‘The Mediterranean’. This year’s workshop is co-organised ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Imaggeo on Mondays: The invaluable role of soil dwellers

Laura Roberts-Artal October 3, 2016

That soils are vital to secure our future supplies of water, food, as well as aiding adaptation to climate change and sustaining the planet’s biosphere is a subject we’ve featured on the blog as recently as the summer. That’s because never have humans been more out of touch with the vital importance of this natural resource. Inhabiting among soil particles thrives an even less familiar, but equall ...[Read More]

GeoLog

This calls for a celebration: GeoLog’s 1000 post!

Laura Roberts-Artal September 30, 2016

As far as blogging milestones go, today is pretty special. This is GeoLog’s 1000 post! Since the EGU’s official blog launched back in March 2010 (that’s right, there’s over 6 years of back catalogue for you to enjoy!), we’ve shared posts about research spanning almost every discipline in the Earth sciences; highlighted member’s adventures in the field and showcased the work of outstanding early ca ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Image of The Week – Prize Polar Pictures!

Emma C. Smith September 30, 2016

Last week was the Fall APECS International Polar Week, designed to promote and celebrate the great collaborative science that goes on around the world to further our understanding of the polar regions. Part of this celebration was a figure competition, to find the most “eye-catching, informative and inspiring” figures that illustrate aspects of polar science. What better, we thought, t ...[Read More]

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Seismology

Paper of the Month — Seismic anisotropy

Laura Parisi September 30, 2016

“SEISMIC ANISOTROPY AND MANTLE DEFORMATION: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED FROM SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING?” (M. K. SAVAGE, 1999) commented by Dr. Jessica Johnson Jessica Johnson from the University of East Anglia (UK) is our guest author of the PoM blog series of this month! She has chosen to comment on the paper “Seismic Anisotropy and mantle deformation: what have we learned from shear wave ...[Read More]

WaterUnderground

Socio-hydrogeology: bridging the gap between science and society

Tom Gleeson 28th September 2016

Authored by Viviana Re, Marie Curie Research Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Sustainability, integrated water resources management, climate change, groundwater governance. These are some of the currently trending topics in hydrogeology, as reflected by their widespread use as keywords in recently published literature. Indeed, hydrogeologists are at the forefront of guaranteeing t ...[Read More]

SSS

Soil System Sciences

Solid Earth, an open-access journal

Antonio Jordán September 28, 2016

Fabrizio Storti Chief Executive Editor of Solid Earth Università degli Studi di Parma The importance of publishing open access is increasing every year in Scientific Institutions worldwide and is becoming mandatory in several research funding programmes. Many funding institutions, including ERC, are financially supporting publishing in open access journals. EGU and Copernicus launched open access ...[Read More]