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Marine Geoscience through art and storytelling: An interview with Fergus McAuliffe, winner of the EGU Geoscience Day Award

Asmae Ourkiya August 21, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Fergus McAuliffe, the Communications and Public Engagement Manager at iCRAG, University College Dublin in Ireland, to discuss his award-winning project, “Marine Geoscience for All.” During our conversation, Fergus shed light on the innovative ways his project aims to connect the public with marine geoscience through art, dialogue, storytelling, and …[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Women of Cryo VII: Making Fieldwork More Inclusive

Florina Roana Schalamon, Maria Dance and Marjolein Gevers July 12, 2024

Women make up 50.8% of the world’s population, yet fewer than 30% of the world’s researchers are women. Of this percentage, women of colour comprise around 5%, with less than 1% represented in geoscience faculty positions. Women are published less, paid less, and do not progress as far in their careers as men. Even within our EGU community, women account …[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Science Sisters Season 2 is out now!

Hinna Shivkumar, Marina Cano Amoros and Iris van Zelst January 31, 2024

Science Sisters is a lighthearted interview series where Iris van Zelst (postdoc at the German Aerospace Center) chats with lots of different people (with a focus on – but not limited to – women in science) to make some sense of the academic world. Filled with laughter and silliness, it explores different career paths, academic life, …[Read More]

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Geodesy

Women in Geodesy: Kristel Chanard

Öykü Koç, Rebekka Steffen and Andreas Kvas May 29, 2023

I hope you are ready to be inspired because we have another exciting interview, with Kristel Chanard, our Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee of 2022. I promise that her answers will encourage you to pursue a career in science or continue to that! Her answers remind us again that we need to make geosciences more …[Read More]

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Geodesy

Women in Geodesy: Sara Bruni

Öykü Koç, Rebekka Steffen and Andreas Kvas May 22, 2023

Are you ready to hear from another woman in geodesy? We pass the mic to our Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee of 2018, someone who is currently carrying out her scientific works outside of academia. We are not going to take that much of your time and leave the stage to her. Would you like …[Read More]

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Geodesy

Women in Geodesy: Susanna Zerbini

Rebekka Steffen, Öykü Koç and Andreas Kvas May 15, 2023

In the past weeks and months, we have introduced you to famous female geodesists who won the Vening Meinesz medal of the EGU Geodesy division. This week we turn our eyes to Susanna Zerbini, who was awarded with the Vening Meinesz medal in 2009 for her important work at the interface of geodesy and geodynamics …[Read More]

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Geodesy

Women in Geodesy: Anna Kłos

Öykü Koç, Rebekka Steffen and Andreas Kvas (Editor) May 4, 2023

You guessed it right, it’s us again, the EGU Geodesy division ECS team! As you know, we have been working on a blog series called Women in Geodesy recently, and today we are turning our microphone to our current Science Officer and the Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee of 2021: Anna Kłos. We asked her …[Read More]

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Geodesy

Women in Geodesy: Rebekka Steffen

Öykü Koç and Andreas Kvas (Editor) April 20, 2023

As you might know, after our blog post on women in the history of Geodesy last month, we turned the spotlight to more recent influential women in geodesy, and this time we would like to give the spot to an early career scientist, more specifically to our co-ECS representative and the Outstanding Early Career Scientist …[Read More]

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Geodesy

Women in Geodesy: Martine Feissel-Vernier

Rebekka Steffen, Öykü Koç and Andreas Kvas March 21, 2023

We started a new series where we interview past Vening-Meinesz medalists about her view and role as a women in science. So far, we have talked with Anny Cazenave and Véronique Dehant, the first and second Vening-Meinesz medalists. Only two years after Véronique Dehant, Martine Feissel-Vernier received the prestigious Vening-Meinesz medal in recognition of …[Read More]

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Geodesy

Women in Geodesy: Veronique Dehant

Rebekka Steffen, Öykü Koç and Andreas Kvas March 15, 2023

A few weeks ago we talked with Anny Cazenave, the first Vening-Meinesz medallist, about her view on being a women in science. But, she wasn’t the only influential women in Geodesy that received the Vening-Meinesz medal from the EGU. In 2003, Véronique Dehant was awarded with the Vening-Meinesz medal in recognition of her outstanding …[Read More]