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Natural Hazards

Taking the risk personally: how perceived flood experience relates to risk perception, sensed coping appraisal, and protective behaviour

and September 16, 2024
Taking the risk personally: how perceived flood experience relates to risk perception, sensed coping appraisal, and protective behaviour

The frequency and severity of extreme weather events, such as heavy rainfall, droughts, and storms, are increasing globally, putting societies and infrastructures worldwide at risk [1]. These developments demand effective adaptation measures and ways to enhance societal resilience. Consequently, it is necessary to understand how people perceive and respond to natural hazards. Knowing that the occu ...[Read More]

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

La Soufrière de Guadeloupe: Past Eruptions and Ongoing Activity

September 13, 2024
La Soufrière de Guadeloupe: Past Eruptions and Ongoing Activity

La Soufrière de Guadeloupe is an andesitic stratovolcano located in the southern part of Basse-Terre, within the Guadeloupe archipelago (Eastern Caribbean). It towers over the towns of Sainte-Claude and Basse-Terre. Nearly 50 years ago, this region faced severe consequences from a phreatomagmatic eruption, forcing the evacuation of 80,000 people. Since then, the volcano has been regularly monitore ...[Read More]

GM
Geomorphology

Highlighting Grace Guryan: How do rocks shape rivers?

September 13, 2024
Highlighting Grace Guryan: How do rocks shape rivers?

This blog post is part of our series: “Highlights” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact one of the GM blog editors, Emily (emily.bamber@utexas.edu) or Emma (elodes@asu.edu), if you’d like to contribute on this topic or others.  by Grace Guryan, Doctoral Researcher, University of Texas at Austin, USA Email: gguryan@utexas.edu About Me My name is Grace Guryan, and I’m a fifth year ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoPolicy: Exploring the European Parliament with last year’s Science-Policy Pairing Scheme candidates

September 11, 2024
GeoPolicy: Exploring the European Parliament with last year’s Science-Policy Pairing Scheme candidates

Each year, the EGU’s Science-Policy Pairing Scheme offers selected EGU members the opportunity to experience life inside the European Parliament. This Pairing Scheme aims to promote evidence-informed policymaking, provide the scientists involved with insights about how Members of the Parliament (MEPs) use research in their decision-making, and encourage stronger science-policy partnerships! For th ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Geekology #1: Matplotlib for geosciences, tips and tricks

and September 11, 2024
Geekology #1: Matplotlib for geosciences, tips and tricks

This week inaugurates a new series of posts: Geekology, fusion of geek and geology. In this section, we will try to unravel tips and tricks of programming applied to geodynamics, from new innovative libraries to good programming practices, interviews with geologists who code and more! To kick off the series, this week’s article is written in collaboration with Baptiste Bordet, doctoral resea ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoTalk: Meet Bikem Ekberzade, conflict and photo journalist turned earth-systems science researcher and EGU Biodiversity Task Force member

September 6, 2024
GeoTalk: Meet Bikem Ekberzade, conflict and photo journalist turned earth-systems science researcher and EGU Biodiversity Task Force member

Bikem – Welcome to GeoTalk! Can you tell us a bit about your research on climate change and its impact on terrestrial ecosystems? Thank you for having me. My current research focuses on forests and the impact of changes in climatic drivers on these ecosystems in terms of species composition, range shifts, and so on. I’m also curious about the impact that changes in the frequency and se ...[Read More]

GD
Geodynamics

A journey to the centre of plate tectonics and mantle convection

and September 4, 2024
A journey to the centre of plate tectonics and mantle convection

“Dynamics of Plate Tectonics and Mantle Convection,” is edited by Dr. João C. Duarte and published by Elsevier. The book brings together contributions from more than 40 renowned authors in the fields of geology, geodynamics, tectonics, petrology and geophysics. It offers the unique authors’ perspective on the interconnected processes of plate tectonics and mantle convection and their v ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Higher Education Resource: Sandbox Modelling for Basin Development

September 3, 2024
Higher Education Resource: Sandbox Modelling for Basin Development

The European Geosciences Union (EGU) supports bringing science into the classroom at all learning levels, from schools to universities. Since the Higher Education Teaching grant programme launched in 2020, EGU has funded 24 projects to develop useful and freely available geoscience resources to university educators. This blog is part of a series of blogs highlighting the innovative and accessible ...[Read More]

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Tectonics and Structural Geology

Geology Bites: Podcast conversations about geology with researchers making key contributions to our understanding of the Earth and the Solar System

September 2, 2024

As readers of this blog know, geology is an awe-inspiring subject, dealing as it does with immensely powerful forces operating on time scales, pressures, and temperatures we can barely fathom. It is geological processes that are responsible for the continents, oceans, mountain ranges, indeed for all the landscapes we see around us. Even though many of these processes operate over deep time and dee ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Palaeoseismic crisis in the Galera Fault (southern Spain): consequences in Bronze Age settlements?

August 30, 2024
Palaeoseismic crisis in the Galera Fault (southern Spain): consequences in Bronze Age settlements?

Alright, buckle up folks for this blog post, because we’re about to explore the wild ride of plate tectonics between the Iberian Peninsula (Eurasia plate) and North Africa (Nubia plate). These two plates are moving slowly at a moderate pace of 5-7 mm per year, which might not seem like much, but it’s enough to shake things up—literally! In a recent paper, published by our journal Solid Earth ...[Read More]