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Comparing Apples to Apples: Filtering Water Storage Compartments for GRACE

Have you ever heard that we can “weigh” water on Earth from space? Since 2002, the GRACE and GRACE-FO satellite missions have been mapping month-to-month variations of the Earth’s gravity field. Because gravity responds to mass, these data can reveal how water is redistributed at the surface and in the subsurface. The result is a global time series of terrestrial water storage anomalies (TWSA)—how total water storage deviates from its long-term average. Many hydrologists and water-resources researchers use GRACE/GRACE-FO to …

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More than just a cat: How Schrödinger invented modern Earth science

Did you know that yesterday, Sunday, January 4, 2026, marked 65 years since Erwin Schrödinger passed away? While the internet loves him for his cat in a box thought experiment, Geoscientists love him for something much more practical: the equation. Many of us have spent decades debating the health of a hypothetical feline in a box (I remember watching this episode of the Bing Bang Theory and thinking: Well, Erwin, your equation is useful in real-life settings too!) while completely …

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Hunting for historical Adriatic meteotsunamis

Before modern instruments, our only clues about past sea events came from written records and folklore. Along the eastern Adriatic coast, stories of sudden floods and “tidal waves” (locally called šćiga) have been passed down for generations. These waves, described as rapid rises and falls of the sea that could flood or empty harbours within minutes, were carved into Adriatic coastal life as rare but unforgettable events. Today, we know that many of them were meteotsunamis: tsunami-like waves triggered by …

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