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Natural Hazards

Building Disaster Resilience Through Trust and Risk Awareness: Insights into Natural Hazards

February 10, 2025
Building Disaster Resilience Through Trust and Risk Awareness: Insights into Natural Hazards

Trust in institutions and scientific experts plays a pivotal role in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). This trust becomes even more critical for natural hazards—events often unpredictable and uncontrollable. Trust can shape individuals’ willingness to heed warnings, adopt precautionary measures, and participate in community preparedness initiatives. Conversely, distrust in institutions may lead to no ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Why Earth and Space Sciences need to dismantle the cis-het-white boys’ club

February 7, 2025
Why Earth and Space Sciences need to dismantle the cis-het-white boys’ club

The Earth and space sciences, like many STEM fields, have long been dominated by a narrow vision of who belongs. But the tide is turning. A 2023 workplace climate survey of Earth and space scientists highlights both the persistent barriers queer and other historically excluded scientists face and the urgent need for cultural shifts within the discipline. The data is clear: the geosciences must now ...[Read More]

SSP
Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology

Broadening our Understanding of Bird Ichnology through Neoichnology

February 6, 2025
Broadening our Understanding of Bird Ichnology through Neoichnology

Introduction Bird footprints are some of the most recognizable traces in the fossil record. Yet birds exhibit a wide variety of behaviours which may be preserved as ancient traces. Records include feeding traces like probing, nesting structures and possibly coprolites, but the study of the traces left by modern birds extends their scope to courtship-related scrapes, swimming and diving traces, bir ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Going Around Mars

February 5, 2025
Going Around Mars

One of our closest neighbors in the universe, the red planet, has long intrigued geoscientists. Mars has been the destination for multiple spacecraft missions. Two rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance, are still exploring the planet as of 2025. This week, let us go on a short tour around Mars and show a little love to this fascinating planet. We will start our tour by looking at the global topograph ...[Read More]

ST
Solar-Terrestrial Sciences

Impact of upper atmosphere and ionosphere associated with an extremely explosive eruption of the Tonga volcano

February 5, 2025
Impact of upper atmosphere and ionosphere associated with an extremely explosive eruption of the Tonga volcano

1. Introduction Severe natural phenomena of geophysical, hydrological, and meteorological origins cause natural hazards that negatively impact human activity or the environment. Many people living on the earth suffer from natural hazards every year. Although we can predict some natural hazards (e.g., typhoons) in near real-time, forecasts of the geophysical natural hazards such as large earthquake ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Are you ready to vote for your favourite Division blog of 2024?

February 4, 2025
Are you ready to vote for your favourite Division blog of 2024?

Our EGU blogging team has had a fantastic 2024 posting across our official blog, GeoLog and the division blogs. Most of our readers appreciate EGU’s blogs for their informative yet accessible style, and for our bloggers ability to take complex geoscience content and make it fun and relevant to the reader. If this sounds like something you’d like to get involved in, we encourage you to get in touch ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during January!

January 31, 2025
GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during January!

Each month we feature specific Divisions of EGU and during the monthly GeoRoundup we put the journals that publish science from those Divisions at the top of the Highlights section. For January, the divisions we are featuring are Tectonics and Structural Geology (TS), Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (GMPV), and Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics (EMRP). They are served by the ...[Read More]

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Geodesy

Expanding the Picture: Simon Tong

January 31, 2025
A graphical illustration in watercolour optic with human silhouettes in different colours, and several smaller elements such as an ocean and a satellite.

Hi Simon, thank you for sharing your story with us and the geodesy community! First, can you give us your ‘classical work intro’ so that we get an idea of where you are working and what your field of interest is? I am currently working at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)’s Earth Observation Centre (EOC) as a working student, while at the same time studying for a Master’s degree at T ...[Read More]

GM
Geomorphology

Práctica de la geomorfología centrada en las relaciones

January 30, 2025
Práctica de la geomorfología centrada en las relaciones

Esta entrada de blog forma parte de nuestra serie «Destacados», para la que aceptamos colaboraciones. Póngase en contacto con uno de los editores del blog de GM, Emily (eb2043@cam.ac.uk) o Emma (elodes@asu.edu), si desea contribuir sobre este tema u otros. Por: Rebekah Harries, investigadora postdoctoral, Universidad de Durham, Reino Unido Correo electrónico: rebekah.m.harries@durham.ac.uk Con con ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoTalk: Meet Viktor Bruckman, interdisciplinary researcher, EGU Division President, and EGU Biodiversity Task Force

January 30, 2025
GeoTalk: Meet Viktor Bruckman, interdisciplinary researcher, EGU Division President, and EGU Biodiversity Task Force

Viktor, welcome to GeoTalk! Can you tell us a bit about your current research focus? My current research is on the defossilization of our energy system with a strong focus on the roles of forests and soils in this context. I was originally trained in forestry and my research is still tightly connected with this topic, but it has widened to also include aspects of carbon sequestration, sustainable ...[Read More]