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Geomorphology

Flat but Fascinating: A New Perspective on Berlin at the 17th Annual International Young Geomorphologists’ Meeting 

August 30, 2023
Flat but Fascinating: A New Perspective on Berlin at the 17th Annual International Young Geomorphologists’ Meeting 

Emma Lodes, PhD student, GFZ-Potsdam (Germany) Twitter: @LodesEmma    |    email: lodes@gfz-potsdam.de When I consider places with exciting geomorphology, Germany’s capital does not spring to mind. Berlin is an isolated urban hub encircled by the flat, agriculturally dominated state of Brandenburg. Northeastern Germany was leveled by ice sheets during the last several glaciations, and its highest ...[Read More]

Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

Revisiting the roots of minerals’ names: A journey to mineral etymology

August 30, 2023
Revisiting the roots of minerals’ names: A journey to mineral etymology

Hello everyone!! In an earlier blog, my colleague Eliot Carter discussed the etymology of elements.  As a PhD student in geochemistry, mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology, we all regularly deal with a large number of minerals. Among them, some are very common and a few are hardly known. However, sometimes we forget the basics to deal with the complicated things. In fact, PhD students mostly face ...[Read More]

GeoLog

What is an Impact Factor and why does it matter to me?

and August 25, 2023
What is an Impact Factor and why does it matter to me?

You have put in the hours, collected the data and written a great paper, but before you take your next steps you need to choose a journal in which to publish your work and there are a lot of factors in play. One of those, often discussed, is the Impact Factor, a number that each journal can use to demonstrate its ‘value’. Often a paper, once published, can be partly assessed by some people, based ...[Read More]

GD
Geodynamics

The Sassy Scientist – Everything everywhere all at once

August 25, 2023
The Sassy Scientist – Everything everywhere all at once

Ever wondered how to manage a flurry of projects without losing your sanity? Maggie was curious if the Sassy Scientist could provide some insight into this. So she is asking: How do I manage to work on multiple projects at a time? Dear Maggie,   You simply DON’T. Let me debunk this “juggling a gazillion projects is the key to success in academia” myth faster than you can ima ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

Floods and droughts: two sides of the same hydrological coin

and August 23, 2023
Floods and droughts: two sides of the same hydrological coin

This is not (only) a flood. Inspired by Magritte’s painting: ‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe’ After an alarming dry winter, the European continent has been enduring weeks of a record-breaking heatwave across the southern regions, while coping with scattered, intense precipitation and flash floods. In Zaragoza (Spain), recent flash floods swiftly transformed the previously dry landscape into raging rivers ...[Read More]

GeoLog

Imaggeo On Monday: Iceberg A-81, Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica

August 21, 2023
Imaggeo On Monday: Iceberg A-81, Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Information from a British Antarctic Survey Press Release. A huge iceberg (1550 km²), almost the size of Greater London, has broken off the 150m thick Brunt Ice Shelf. It calved after cracks that have been developing naturally over the last few years extended across the entire ice shelf, causing the new iceberg to break free. This occurred on Sunday 22 January between 19.00 and 20.00 UTC during a ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoPolicy: Reflecting on science advice as shown in the 2019 Chernobyl series

August 18, 2023
GeoPolicy: Reflecting on science advice as shown in the 2019 Chernobyl series

The HBO and Sky UK television series Chernobyl is a historical drama that explores the events leading up to and following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Pripyat Ukraine. Not only does this series focus on one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, but also on the challenges and successes of one of the lead scientists involved in communicating the scientific evidence to key decision-mak ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Physics-Based Machine Learning – Curse or Blessing?

and August 16, 2023
Physics-Based Machine Learning – Curse or Blessing?

The advance of Artificial Intelligence is impacting all spheres of human activity, and Geosciences are no exception. In this week’s post, Denise Degen from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, gives us a glimpse of what this means for Geodynamics. Discussing the advantages and caveats of different approaches, she shows how physics-based Machine Learning may help us investigating and understanding comp ...[Read More]

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Geomorphology

A Day in the Life – Márton Pál

August 15, 2023
A Day in the Life – Márton Pál

This blog post is part of our series: “A day in the life of a geomorphologist” for which we’re accepting contributions! Please contact one of the GM blog editors, Emily or Emma, if you’d like to contribute.    Márton Pál, Cartographer, Earth Scientist, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Budapest, Hungary pal.marton@inf.elte.hu How can we visualise spat ...[Read More]