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Cryospheric Sciences

Uncovering Antarctica’s hidden subglacial lake network with satellite altimetry

December 16, 2024
Uncovering Antarctica’s hidden subglacial lake network with satellite altimetry

    Measuring ice surface elevation changes with satellite laser altimeters flying hundreds of kilometres above Earth tells us where the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are thinning or thickening and how much they contribute to sea level rise. Beyond that though, it can also reveal hidden activity of subglacial lakes filling and draining beneath the ice and meltwater rivers flowing ou ...[Read More]

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Ocean Sciences

Book Review: Blue Machine by Helen Czerski

December 13, 2024
Book Review: Blue Machine by Helen Czerski

The engine that is Earth’s ocean takes sunlight and converts it into giant underwater currents and waterfalls, hauling around the ingredients for life: nutrients, oxygen and trace metals like potassium and iron, shaping our coasts and transporting heat.  In her book Blue Machine – How the Ocean Shapes Our World, physicist Helen Czerski takes readers on an enlightening journey through t ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Navigating visa requirements and preparing for the EGU General Assembly in Austria

December 13, 2024
Navigating visa requirements and preparing for the EGU General Assembly in Austria

Attending the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna is an invaluable experience, where scientists, researchers, and professionals come together from all over the world to share knowledge, expand networks, and strengthen the geosciences community. However, if you’re coming from a non-EU country and require a visa, preparing for your trip may feel overwhelming. As a former visa ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

The value of failure: Learning from what didn’t work

, , , and December 12, 2024
The value of failure: Learning from what didn’t work

“What failure prepared you for later success?” Tim Ferriss often asks this question to the high-performing guests on his podcast, giving them the opportunity to reflect on how setbacks have shaped their journey. Whether the guest is a leader in business, medicine or science, their answers often share a common theme: failure is not only inevitable, but essential. These moments of strugg ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Queer Quarterly: Allyship in the LGBTQIA+ community – what it is, how you can help

and December 11, 2024
Queer Quarterly: Allyship in the LGBTQIA+ community – what it is, how you can help

Queer Quarterly is the blog series of the EGU pride group, a LGBTQIA+ team of geoscientists engaged to uphold and improve the rights of the community in the EGU organization. This week’s post is dedicated to allyship: how people outside of the community can support our efforts. The term LGBTQIA+ is the abbreviation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual. The addition ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Top 5 Gifts for Geoscientists (2024 edition!)

December 10, 2024
Top 5 Gifts for Geoscientists (2024 edition!)

The nights are growing darker and there is snow on the ground here in Munich as winter draws in, in the Northern Hemisphere, and at this time of year you are probably thinking about what gifts to get that special geoscientist in your life! We know sourcing appropriately nerdy and/or geology related gifts can sometimes be a challenge, so we in the EGU office are back again to help you out with our ...[Read More]

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Seismology

“State of the ECS”: EGU 24/25 and, our new members!

December 6, 2024
“State of the ECS”: EGU 24/25 and, our new members!

For this “State of the ECS”, our Seismo-team will introduce themselves and tell about their ECS experience. Happy reading! Greetings! I’m Adam and by a twist in the timestream in Vienna I ended up as an editor of blog of the Seismology ECS division. If your (or your colleague’s) research touches on any aspect of Seismology or related fields, please reach out! My background is diverse, ...[Read More]

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Climate: Past, Present & Future

Open climate science is brave climate science

and December 6, 2024
Open climate science is brave climate science

Why are we climate scientists? For us, there is a number of reasons: we feel a strong bond to nature, we like to solve puzzles and we want to understand the mechanisms of what we see every day.  And – even if it only manifests at the end of a causal chain – we want to contribute to a just and livable world via working in climate science. Thus, due to distant and abstract state funding ...[Read More]

GeoLog

You don’t have to review alone… introducing EGU’s new co-reviewing scheme for Early Career Scientists and first time reviewers

December 6, 2024
You don’t have to review alone… introducing EGU’s new co-reviewing scheme for Early Career Scientists and first time reviewers

Any journal editor will recognize this challenge: a new manuscript arrives for review. It’s great, and you’re enthusiastic about getting it into the system, but suddenly, there’s a problem. All the suggested reviewers are unavailable! What do you do now? Across publishing fields, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find suitable reviewers for scientific manuscripts. As the number of submissio ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Happy birthday to the Cryoblog!

December 6, 2024
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  The EGU Cryosphere Blog is now 10 years old: Happy Birthday! It all started in December 2014 with this blog post from Nanna Karlsson, and now counts 452 blog posts across 25 blog categories, including winning three Best EGU blog posts (2016, 2019 and 2021). 881 different (hash)tags were used in our blog posts, with way more counts on Antarctica and climate than the Arctic. Since the start, ...[Read More]