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GeoLog

AI: the good, the bad, and the forgotten

AI: the good, the bad, and the forgotten

AI is here, and when I say here, I mean e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e. For all you know, this blog may have been written by an algorithm (it wasn’t — I’m not a robot, promise. Or am I?). In what feels like the blink of an eye, AI has gone from a curiosity to a fully-fledged co-pilot in science (and out of science). It’s generating satellite imagery, helping compute paleo-climate predictions, or writing your ...[Read More]

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Ocean Sciences

From Academic Research to Start-Up: A Marine Biologist’s Algae Farming Vision

From Academic Research to Start-Up: A Marine Biologist’s Algae Farming Vision

We chatted with a marine biologist about her exciting journey from academia to becoming an entrepreneur. Discover how her algae farm start-up came to life, learn about the concept, achievements, and challenges she faced, future plans, and finally her advice as well as her take on the importance of bridging the two worlds of academia and industry.  Dr. Mar Fernández-Méndez is a marine biologist ded ...[Read More]

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Geodynamics

Halokinesis: the effect and importance of the most “liquid” rocks in geodynamics

Halokinesis: the effect and importance of the most “liquid” rocks in geodynamics

Evaporitic rocks possess unique properties that enable them to form crucial structures for petroleum systems. Salt basins are globally distributed, particularly along the Atlantic margins. Their thermal and mechanical properties can influence the Earth’s crust, altering structural styles and basin architecture, with significant implications for hydrocarbon exploration and geodynamic processes. How ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 2

A group of people standing around a person holding a decorated hat in their hand.

This miniseries features the tradition of ‘PhD hat’ making in German research institutes and universities. For those of you unfamiliar with this idea (as I once was), this is one of the final milestones a graduate student has before they are officially a “Dr.”. Upon the successful defense of a thesis, the labmates of the PhD student craft a graduation hat from a mishmash of scrap cardboard and mem ...[Read More]

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Hydrological Sciences

HydroData Chronicles: Unveiling EStreams – A Comprehensive Hydro-Climatic Dataset for Europe

HydroData Chronicles: Unveiling EStreams – A Comprehensive Hydro-Climatic Dataset for Europe

We’re back to the HydroData Chronicles, where we enter into the exceptionally wonderful world—as massive as it is—of datasets about water phenomena, such as rivers and weather. Today, we focus on ΕStreams, a comprehensive dataset and catalogue of streamflow, hydro-climatic, and landscape data for Europe. This pioneering initiative fills the hydrological data availability gap, offering an inv ...[Read More]

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Solar-Terrestrial Sciences

Meet Erika Palmerio, the 2024 Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee of the Solar-Terrestrial Division!

Meet Erika Palmerio, the 2024 Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee of the Solar-Terrestrial Division!

Congratulations on receiving the EGU 2024 ST Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award for your exceptional research in analyzing complex solar transients and their effects on space weather. What does this recognition mean to you personally, and how does it impact your work in this fascinating field? Thank you so much! Receiving an award from EGU is of particular significance to me, since ...[Read More]

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Cryospheric Sciences

Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 1

Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 1

This miniseries features the tradition of ‘PhD hat’ making in German research institutes and universities. For those of you unfamiliar with this idea (as I once was), this is one of the final milestones a graduate student has before they are officially a “Dr.”. Upon the successful defense of a thesis, the peers of the PhD student craft a graduation hat from a mishmash of scrap cardboard and memora ...[Read More]

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Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology

Broadening our Understanding of Bird Ichnology through Neoichnology

Broadening our Understanding of Bird Ichnology through Neoichnology

Introduction Bird footprints are some of the most recognizable traces in the fossil record. Yet birds exhibit a wide variety of behaviours which may be preserved as ancient traces. Records include feeding traces like probing, nesting structures and possibly coprolites, but the study of the traces left by modern birds extends their scope to courtship-related scrapes, swimming and diving traces, bir ...[Read More]