EGU to fund 17 training schools and conferences in 2020
- EGU news
- 3 February 2020
The EGU will contribute a total of EUR 105,000 towards the organisation of geoscience conferences and training schools by EGU members in 2020.
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EGU Outreach Committee seeking new members
- EGU news
- 30 January 2020
The EGU Outreach Committee promotes the Earth, planetary and space sciences and the activities of the EGU among scientists, the public, policymakers and all other interested individuals and organisations. The Committee seeks 3–4 new members to help further its programme.
Air pollution in New York City linked to wildfires hundreds of miles away
- Press release
- 21 January 2020
A new study published in the European Geosciences Union (EGU) journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics shows that air pollutants from the smoke of fires from as far as Canada and the southeastern U.S. traveled hundreds of miles and several days to reach Connecticut and New York City, where it caused significant increases in pollution concentrations.
EGU’s first webinar: EGU journals—open access publishing, public peer review and the new EGUsphere
- EGU news
- 13 January 2020
At 12:30 pm on 21 January 2020, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) will be hosting its first-ever webinar, which will focus on the union’s open access journals.
Monthly news from EGU: Results of EGU elections, press releases and mentoring at the General Assembly (December 2019)
- EGU news
- 18 December 2019
The December 2019 edition of the EGU email newsletter, the monthly information service for Union members, is now available.
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Modal shift in North Atlantic seasonality during the last deglaciation
- Climate of the Past
- DOI 10.5194/cp-16-265-2020
- 18 February 2020
Here, mid-ocean seasonality is resolved through time, using differences in the oxygen isotope composition between individual shells of the commonly used (sub)polar planktonic foraminifera species in ocean-climate reconstruction, N. pachyderma and G. bulloides . Single-specimen isotope measurements during the deglacial period revealed a surprising bimodality, the cause of which was investigated.
Dimensions of marine phytoplankton diversity
- Biogeosciences
- DOI 10.5194/bg-17-609-2020
- 18 February 2020
Phytoplankton are an essential component of the marine food web and earth’s carbon cycle. We use observations, ecological theory and a unique trait-based ecosystem model to explain controls on patterns of marine phytoplankton biodiversity. We find that different dimensions of diversity (size classes, biogeochemical functional groups, thermal norms) are controlled by a disparate combination of mechanisms. This may explain why previous studies of phytoplankton diversity had conflicting results.
A new look at the environmental conditions favorable to secondary ice production
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
- DOI 10.5194/acp-20-1391-2020
- 13 February 2020
This study attempts identification of mechanisms of secondary ice production (SIP) based on the observation of small faceted ice crystals. It was found that in both mesoscale convective systems and frontal clouds, SIP was observed right above the melting layer and extended to the higher altitudes with colder temperatures. A principal conclusion of this work is that the freezing drop shattering mechanism is plausibly accounting for the measured ice concentrations in the observed condition.
Machine learning and soil sciences: a review aided by machine learning tools
- SOIL
- DOI 10.5194/soil-6-35-2020
- 13 February 2020
The application of machine learning (ML) has shown an accelerated adoption in soil sciences. It is a difficult task to manually review all papers on the application of ML. This paper aims to provide a review of the application of ML aided by topic modelling in order to find patterns in a large collection of publications. The objective is to gain insight into the applications and to discuss research gaps. We found 12 main topics and that ML methods usually perform better than traditional ones.
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- Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences
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- GeoLog – EGU official blog
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