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Geology for Global Development

Event Report: UN Science, Technology and Innovation Forum 2019

August 8, 2019
Event Report: UN Science, Technology and Innovation Forum 2019

In May 2019, we led an international delegation of early-career Earth scientists to the UN Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals. Download our full event report here. The annual UN Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) aims to facilitate interactions, networks and partnerships to identify and examine needs and gaps in technologies, scientifi ...[Read More]

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Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences

NP Interviews: the Division President Stéphane Vannitsem

July 25, 2019
NP Interviews: the Division President Stéphane Vannitsem

Today’s NP Interviews hosts the Nonlinear Processes Division President Stéphane Vannitsem. Stéphane is the head of the Dynamical Meteorology and Climatology Unit of the Research division of the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, and lecturer at the Free University of Brussels. He is currently president of the Nonlinear Processes division of the European Geosciences Union and executive edit ...[Read More]

GeoLog

GeoTalk: Creative communication for science education – meet scientific artist Kelly Stanford

July 17, 2019
GeoTalk: Creative communication for science education – meet scientific artist Kelly Stanford

GeoTalk interviews usually feature the work of early career researchers, but this month we deviate from the standard format to speak to Kelly Stanford, an artist based in Manchester, UK who focuses on creating works of art that embody scientific concepts in an accessible and aesthetically pleasing manner which can be used to communicate science to the public. Here we talk to her about her career p ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

Quality through Equality – tackling gender issues in hydrology

July 3, 2019
Quality through Equality – tackling gender issues in hydrology

Quality through Equality – tackling gender issues in hydrology Results of a 1-day workshop organised by the University of Bristol’s Water Engineering Group “Science has a diversity problem” (Nature, 2019), and hydrology and the water sciences are no exception. For example, overall only 36% of all EGU medal awardees are female. With 31% of all nominations going to female researchers (Ka ...[Read More]

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Tectonics and Structural Geology

Meeting Plate Tectonics – Barbara Romanowicz

June 25, 2019
Meeting Plate Tectonics – Barbara Romanowicz

These blogposts present interviews with outstanding scientists that bloomed and shape the theory that revolutionised Earth Sciences — Plate Tectonics. Get to know them, learn from their experience, discover the pieces of advice they share and find out where the newest challenges lie! Meeting Barbara Romanowicz Barbara Romanowicz studied mathematics and applied physics and did two PhDs, one in astr ...[Read More]

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Tectonics and Structural Geology

Introducing our new blog team!

June 14, 2019
Introducing our new blog team!

After three succesful first years of the Tectonics and Structural Geology blog, it is time to bring our platform to the next level! To provide you more frequent content over a wide range of topics, we invited some new people to join our team. We are still always on the lookout for new guest authors and/or team members, so let us know if you want to contribute! So, what will you be reading on our b ...[Read More]

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Tectonics and Structural Geology

Meeting Plate Tectonics – Jean-Philippe Avouac

June 11, 2019
Meeting Plate Tectonics – Jean-Philippe Avouac

These blogposts present interviews with outstanding scientists that bloomed and shape the theory that revolutionised Earth Sciences — Plate Tectonics. Get to know them, learn from their experience, discover the pieces of advice they share and find out where the newest challenges lie! Meeting Jean-Philippe Avouac Prof. Jean-Philippe Avouac initially studied mathematics and physics during his underg ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Introducing the blog team!

May 15, 2019
Introducing the blog team!

It’s time for another proper introduction of the blog team! As you will probably know, things have been a bit silent on the blog front lately. This is because all the blog editors were very busy and also: it’s hard to upload 52 times a year. You come up with some great blog ideas! (if you do: e-mail us, please!). Luckily, we used the EGU General Assembly to find some fresh blood for th ...[Read More]

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Tectonics and Structural Geology

Meeting Plate Tectonics – Eric Calais

April 16, 2019
Meeting Plate Tectonics – Eric Calais

These blogposts present interviews with outstanding scientists that bloomed and shape the theory that revolutionised Earth Sciences — Plate Tectonics. Get to know them, learn from their experience, discover the pieces of advice they share and find out where the newest challenges lie! Meeting Eric Calais Eric Calais is Professor of Geophysics and Head of the Geosciences department at the Ecole Norm ...[Read More]