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EGU Geoscience Day 2023 team February 6, 2024

A simultaneous public event on two Greek volcanic islands?! Must be EGU Geoscience Day 2023!

In 2023, Evi Nomikou, Associate Professor in the Department of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and her team (Varvara Antoniou, Bejelou Konstantina, Efrosini Varotsou, Sotiria Kothri, Elisavet Nikoli, Stavroula Kazana, Areti Belk and Anna Andri), hosted the third annual EGU Geoscience Day, simultaneously on two Greek volcanic islands: Santorini and Nisyros. …[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

Meet the Hydrological Sciences (HS) Early Career Scientist (ECS) Team

thanosserafeim and Athanasios V. Serafeim February 6, 2024

Who Are We? At the forefront of hydrology’s fascinating world, there is a dynamic group of young scientists passionate about understanding the complexities of water in all its forms: The HS Early Career Scientists (ECS) from the European Geosciences Union (EGU). The HS ECS team is a heterogeneous, multidisicplinary and devoted group of passionate individuals …[Read More]

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Seismology

Seismology Job Portal

EGU Seismology ECS Team February 5, 2024

On this page, we regularly update open positions in Seismology for early career scientists. Do you have a job on offer? Contact us at ecs-sm@egu.eu Please, note that other available research positions are displayed on the EGU Jobs Portal. Latest open positions: Postdoctoral Fellow (Earthquake Hazards) Institute: The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) …[Read More]

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Natural Hazards

New Era of AI: How can foundation models help disaster risk reduction?

Paulo Hader February 5, 2024

In recent decades, AI-based methods have increasingly been adopted to tackle various problems in the field of natural hazards. The escalation of climate change has fuelled the complexity of tasks within the field of disaster risk reduction, such as capturing the formation of an extreme event timely to evacuate an area at risk. In this …[Read More]

GeoLog

Bringing scientists and teachers together for the Cape Town GIFT workshop

Friedrich Barnikel February 2, 2024

Many teachers follow path writ by a particular diction, which reads “lifelong learning”. There is no other way, actually, to keep track of all of these fast changing issues and challenges of today’s world, which, in many ways, touch geoscientific topics (climate change, food security, geopolitics, to name but a few). Consequently many teachers are …[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Ice-Hot News – You have a “cool” new Policy Point of Contact in the Cryosphere Division!

Marie Cavitte February 2, 2024

At the 2023 EGU General Assembly, our cryosphere division members all voted “YES!” to have a division policy point of contact! If you’re wondering how to engage in science policy at our division level, what a division policy officer does, who was named and what happened next… This blog post should answer a lot of …[Read More]

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Climate: Past, Present & Future

Spotlighting the Climate Division’s sessions for EGU24

Shalenys Bedoya-Valestt January 31, 2024

Dear community of climate enthusiasts and EGU lovers, We know that being part of the EGU is not just about staying in the loop with the latest geoscience works – especially when it comes to our all-time favorite realm of sciences: climate sciences 🤩. It is also an amazing opportunity to spark exciting collaborations and …[Read More]

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Natural Hazards

Environmental (non-)migration: Whose security is at stake?

Soheil Mohammadi January 15, 2024

Migration is commonly perceived as a strategic response to address the repercussions of environmental threats and climate change. The International Organization for Migration defines ‘environmental migrants’ as those individuals who alter their place of residence due to a sudden or progressive change in the environment that adversely affects their lives or living conditions. Conversely, those …[Read More]

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Geomorphology

A conversation with Fiona Clubb, GM Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee

Guest author January 15, 2024

Recently, EGU announced the 2024 medals and awards to be presented at the General Assembly in April, and the winner of the Geomorphology Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is Fiona Clubb, Assistant Professor in Earth Surface Processes at Durham University. Fiona is geomorphologist interested in interactions between tectonics, climate, and surface process shape …[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoTalk: meet Gino de Gelder, researcher of the link between tectonics, sea-level rise & coral reefs!

Simon Clark January 12, 2024

Hello Gino! Welcome to GeoTalk. Could you tell our readers a little bit about yourself and your background? Sure thing! My background is mostly in tectonics, geomorphology and the evolution of (active) fault systems, which I developed during my studies at Utrecht University and my PhD at the IPGP (Paris). Initially I focused on the …[Read More]