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Natural Hazards

Is culture the missing link to disaster risk reduction?

The City of Kobe, Chuo Ward (photo credit: Asimina Voskaki)

Sophocles, a great tragic writer of Classical Athens, said that “success is dependent on effort”. When it comes to disaster risk reduction, are we doing enough to develop a culture of resilience and how do cultural factors affect people’s willingness to protect themselves and build an effective disaster reduction and reconstruction mechanism? In 1995 (17/01/1995), Kobe, Osaka (Ja ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoPolicy: Insights for the Green and Digital Transition

GeoPolicy: Insights for the Green and Digital Transition

This month’s GeoPolicy Blog post dives into the Science Europe publication, Science–Policy in Action: Insights for the Green and Digital Transition, which aims to contribute to the development of a framework for Science-Policy Interfaces, map the interface activities coordinated by their member organisations, and identify areas where these activities could be improved. Not only does the report pro ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Did you know there’s a (relatively new) treaty for the Central Arctic Ocean?

Did you know there’s a (relatively new) treaty for the Central Arctic Ocean?

Even as regular readers of the Cryosphere Blog , you might still be unfamiliar with the large amount of regulation that surrounds the cryosphere – and the research that’s being done on it. As effective regulation of our environment is needed, we need more scientists to understand the law and more lawyers to understand the science. So, brace yourselves and hold on tight, while we run through one of ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

Join the IAHS’ New Scientific Decade: Science for Water Solutions – HELPING

Join the IAHS’ New Scientific Decade: Science for Water Solutions – HELPING

What are the most pressing research topics in the international community of hydrologists? What are people working on? And how can you become involved?  Many hydrologists, especially early career scientists, struggle to find answers to these questions.  That is where the scientific decades of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) come in. Specifically, its latest one – ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Into the Unknown: Research Cruises and the Geologist’s Drill

View aboard the JOIDES Resolution

With love for geoscience comes a zest for exploring the natural world. What we want to explore might not always be close to us. But science finds a way, even if it means sailing to the middle of the ocean. This week, we are going to dive into the nuts and bolts of how research cruises work in this blog post by Kuan-Yu Lin from the University of Delaware. Kuan-Yu recently sailed as an igneous petro ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Can anyone engage in geoscience outreach or does it take certain skills?

Can anyone engage in geoscience outreach or does it take certain skills?

On 20 October 2023, a team of geoscientists will host EGU’s Geoscience Day in Santorini and Nisyros (Greece) with a diverse audience: 60 young students from Nisyros Elementary School, 120 students from the Vocational High School of Santorini, educators, local journalists and representatives of the tourism industry. With such a mixed group of attendees, one might expect unique challenges that ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

We are back – with 4 Arctic fieldwork stories!

We are back – with 4 Arctic fieldwork stories!

You might have missed our weekly blog posts, but we are back! This week’s post highlights four field work campaigns our cryo community conducted. Join us on a journey to Greenland, Svalbard and Alaska to learn about methane emissions, glacier flows, tundra fires and ice microbes. Chasing methane in Greenland The subglacial environment of the Greenland Ice Sheet is a relatively new discovered ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during August!

GeoRoundup: the highlights of EGU Journals published during August!

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 roundup. For August, the Divisions we are featuring are: Cryospheric Sciences (CR), Energy, Resources and the Environment (ERE) and Atmospheric Sciences (AS). They are served by the journals: Annales Geophysicae (ANGEO), Atmosp ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

Ma Terre en 180 Minutes: reducing our carbon footprint with concrete actions

Ma Terre en 180 Minutes: reducing our carbon footprint with concrete actions

As with all professional activities, one of the greatest challenges for us, geoscientists, is how to reduce our own CO2 emissions linked to our research activities over the coming decades. A collective of 57 researchers came together in 2021-2022 to promote awareness and concrete action to decarbonize scientific activities: it was the birth of Ma Terre en 180 Minutes, whose title is inspired by Ma ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Modelling CPO evolution with D-Rex

Modelling CPO evolution with D-Rex

As a result of Earth’s mantle convection, rocks in the earth’s interior flow and develop a crystallographic texture. These textures reveal the planet’s thermal and tectonic history and are responsible for the viscous anisotropy, which can be used to study the planet’s deeper recesses that are not visible through other means. This necessitates the use of models that can pred ...[Read More]