Monthly news from EGU: EGU 2020’s impressive numbers and a call for nominations for all 2021 awards and medals (May 2020)
- EGU news
- 28 May 2020
The May 2020 edition of the EGU newsletter is now available.
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New ESA–EGU award for Earth observation excellence announced
- EGU news
- 7 May 2020
The European Space Agency’s Director of Earth Observation Programmes announces the launch of a new award during EGU2020: Sharing Geoscience Online
Declaration of the Significance of Geoscience Expertise to Meet Global Societal Challenges
- EGU news
- 4 May 2020
The Earth, planetary and space science community affirms its commitment to support and promote scientific knowledge and research for the benefit of humanity.
Geoscience expertise: crucial for meeting global societal challenges
- Press release
- 4 May 2020
A global declaration endorsed by six international geoscience societies affirms the commitment of the Earth, planetary and space science community to support and promote scientific knowledge and research for the benefit of humanity.
Welcome to EGU 2020!
- EGU news
- 4 May 2020
EGU leaders welcome participants from around the globe to Sharing Geoscience Online, the largest-ever virtual geoscience meeting.
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Exploration of oxidative chemistry and secondary organic aerosol formation in the Amazon during the wet season:explicit modeling of the Manaus urban plume with GECKO-A
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
- DOI 10.5194/acp-20-5995-2020
- 2 June 2020
The GoAmazon 2014/5 field campaign took place near the city of Manaus, Brazil, isolated in the Amazon rainforest, to study the impacts of urban pollution on natural air masses. We simulated this campaign with an extremely detailed organic chemistry model to understand how the city would affect the growth and composition of natural aerosol particles. Discrepancies between the model and the measurements indicate that the chemistry of naturally emitted organic compounds is still poorly understood.
Effects of upwelling duration and phytoplankton growth regime on dissolved-oxygen levels in an idealized Iberian Peninsula upwelling system
- Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
- DOI 10.5194/npg-27-277-2020
- 2 June 2020
The oceans are losing oxygen, and future changes may worsen this problem. We performed computer simulations of an idealized Iberian Peninsula upwelling system to identify the main fine-scale processes driving dissolved oxygen variability as well as study the response of oxygen levels to changes in wind patterns and phytoplankton species. Our results suggest that oxygen levels would decrease if the wind blows for long periods of time or if phytoplankton is dominated by species that grow slowly.
Wetropolis extreme rainfall and flood demonstrator: from mathematical design to outreach
- Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
- DOI 10.5194/hess-24-2483-2020
- 28 May 2020
Wetropolis is a table-top demonstration model with extreme rainfall and flooding, including random rainfall, river flow, flood plains, an upland reservoir, a porous moor, and a city which can flood. It lets the viewer experience extreme rainfall and flood events in a physical model on reduced spatial and temporal scales with an event return period of 6.06 min rather than, say, 200 years. We disseminate its mathematical design and how it has been shown most prominently to over 500 flood victims.
Rapid collaborative knowledge building via Twitter after significantgeohazard events
- Geoscience Communication
- DOI 10.5194/gc-3-129-2020
- 28 May 2020
Among social media platforms, Twitter is valued by scholars to disseminate scientific information. Using two 2018 geohazard events as examples, we show that collaborative open data sharing and discussion on Twitter promote very rapid building of knowledge. This breaks down the traditional ivory tower of academia, making science accessible to nonacademics who can follow the discussion. It also presents the opportunity for a new type of scientific approach within global virtual teams.
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Imaggeo on Mondays: The Grid – A serpentine pseudomorph after carbonate
- GeoLog – EGU official blog
- posted 1 day ago
The structures in this photo might look three-dimensional, but they are completely flat. It is a photo of a polished thinsection of a rock, taken through a petrographic microscope under cross-polarized light. The width of the image is just 2 mm. The brownish mineral around the edges is carbonate, the white to grey mineral in the centre is serpentine, a water-bearing silicate mineral. The different shades of grey are due to different orientations of the crystals in this sample. When …
Seismology Job Portal
- Seismology
- posted 1 day ago
On this page, we regularly update open positions in Seismology for early career scientists. Do you have a job on offer? Contact us at ecs-sm@egu.eu Please, note that other available research positions are displayed on the EGU Jobs Portal. Latest open positions: Postdoctoral Position at the University of Edinburgh, U.K. : https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=052130 PostDoc opportunity, French ANR project EQTIME in collaboration with LMU Munich: https://ds.iris.edu/message-center/thread/6360/ Computational Seismologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: https://careers-llnl.ttcportals.com/jobs/5256289-computational-seismologist Associate or Senior Editor – Nature Reviews Earth …
Our team is growing … unprecedentedly!
- Soil System Sciences
- posted 3 days ago
It is my great pleasure to introduce you to our new SSS Early Career Scientist (ECS) & Outreach team. This year, apart from having a new ECS Representative – Layla San Emeterio – we realized that there’s just too much fun for one person! That’s why this year, our division has also elected two ECS Co-representatives: Mika Turunen and Dan Evans. Mika and Dan started immediately helping Layla and I with Twitter and brainstorming about blog content. And that’s not …